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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first race was started at 4 o'clock and was open to any member of the club in any canoe, double blades. W. Stickney, '91, and G. A. Batchelder, '92, were the only entries. After a close race Stickney won by half a length in 8 minutes, 1 2-5 second. The second race admitted only tandem brich canoes; Crowninshield and Fessenden, Harding and VanSchaick, were the contestants. The latter pair won through the misfortune of the former, who upset directly in front of the boat house. The third race was an open canoe contest, single blades. Herrick...
...unanimouly elected temporary captain until the regular election. The report of the committee on the meet was received and accepted. The report announced all the arrangements completed and also that the meet had been extensively advertised by various methods. The club voted to give cups to Holmes, '92, who won the hare and hounds run on Tuesday, and to the winners of the Harvard-Tech. road race. A committee of three, Messrs. Rogers, Rourke and Bailey were appointed to revise the constitution...
...cricket club began the season yesterday by playing a practice game with the Shamrock club of East Cambridge. Shamrock won after a most exciting finish by the narrow margin of three runs, the score being 70 to 73 in their favor. Ellis's bowling was sadly missed. There were four or five new men most of whom had played little or no cricket in the eleven that did duty for the college yesterday. For Harvard Brown did the best work at the bat, though the other men as a rule kept up their wickets pretty well. The fielding...
...played. In the fifth inning. McLeod was replaced by Hawley in the pitcher's box. Each side made seventeen errors. The umpire was incompetent; he was not in the game and his decisions were unjust to both sides. Harvard played Staten Island last year on May 4; Staten Island won 10 to 3 in seven innings. Appended is the score of Satterday...
...annual three mile class races at University of Penn. were won by '91 in 17 minutes and 18 seconds. One of the freshman crew broke his oar and jumped overboard...