Word: winds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University tennis team won from Dartmouth by the score of 5 to 1 on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon. The playing was somewhat slow due to the wind and dust. As a rule the matches were closely contested and in only two cases did the winner gain straight sets...
...Freshman baseball team was defeated by Worcester Academy on Saturday by the score of t to 2 in a game made hard to play by the very strong wind. The weakness of the Freshmen in hitting was the chief cause of the defeat, Worcester Academy hitting safely 13 times to the Freshmen's twice. The team was somewhat handicapped by the loss of Mahan, the latter having gone to Andover with the track team. The score by innings: Innings, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R. H. E. Freshmen...
...first and second crews rowed down-stream together to below the Cottage Farm Bridge. They then tried two racing starts, one against and one with the wind. The water was rough, but both times the University crew seemed to go well, and rowing about 36 strokes a minute drew a half a length ahead of the second in a short spurt. Another start was tried above the bridge, but here the crew did not seem to go as well as before. The boat did not space quite as far between strokes, the fault seeming to be in the catch...
Philadelphia, Pa., May 7.--After a promising work-out in a high wind this afternoon, the Pennsylvania crew left here for Cambridge at 7.09 o'clock tonight. The men headed a great parade of undergraduates who cheered all the way to the station. Before the crew's departure, a monster mass meeting was held, at which the members of the rowing committee and cheer leaders made rousing speeches to the undergraduate body. The oarsmen left amid an outburst of wild enthusiasm. The shell was packed for the trip at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The crew will take the midnight...
...Cornell 4 to 0. A muddy field slowed up the play, but the team showed decided improvement over the few spring practice games. Harvard did not score in the first half, although it had an excellent opportunity, Barron failing to score on a penalty kick, due to the heavy wind. All four points were made in the second half...