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...Freshman baseball team won the first regular game of its schedule against Somerville High School yesterday afternoon by the score of 8 to 3. The game was slow and marred by errors on both sides. In batting, however, the Freshmen showed a marked improvement over practice...
Although no times were given out, the trial contests for the Freshman track team to compete against Andover, next Saturday, held on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, were very satisfactory. In the 100-yard dash two heats were run; the first was won by P.C. Cummin, with K.S. Billings and C.F. Averill, second and third, respectively. D.P. Ranney was first in the second heat, W. Oyler, second, and C.O. Pengra, third. No final heat was run. The 220-yard dash was won by K.S. Billings, with D.P. Ranney and A.R. Dupont, second and third. In the 880-yard run, W.H. Fernald...
...yesterday? Anson, Ferguson, Stovey, Rowe, White, Brouthers, Thompson, and Sunday were once the idols of the fans, yet the player on the big teams of today can show even cleaner fielding averages. Why? you ask. Just compare the 1908 scores with those of even ten years ago. Games are won on closer margins, fewer hits and less errors. Better fielding tells the story...
...members of the University will have their first opportunity of sizing up for themselves the prospects for the spring. As was shown last year it is impossible to make an accurate estimate of the team's worth until June, but is always encouraging to see the early games won by good margins. From the record made in the South last week we have been led to hope for great things from this year's nine, for it is not often that a Harvard team defeats the two best teams of the South. With such an excellent pitching staff, a veteran...
...drinking fountain was built in the main hallway of the Union towards the Periodical Room. The fountain is a memorial to Thomas Simms Bettens '74 and bears the following inscriptions: "He taught the classics with distinction for twenty-eight years in a secondary school in New York City and won the respect and affection of his pupils by his cheerful patience, justice, and hopeful sympathy. He was simple in his desires, sincere and unaffected in friendship, modest in all relations. This fountain is the gift of his boys, including graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia Universities...