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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Willard, L. S., captain of the '87 baseball nine, was reelected captain of the nine for the ensuing year last night...
...Shooting Club holds its first regular meeting of this year at Watertown this afternoon. Three matches will be started as follows: A.- Clay pigeons, five angles; open to all. B.- Clay pigeons, straight away; prize winners handicapped. C.- Blue rocks, five angles; first prize winners barred. These matches will run for three meetings, ten birds to be shot at each time by each contestant, and his best two scores to count...
...Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Association held its annual meeting in the rooms of the University Club at New Haven on Tuesday evening last. After the usual preliminary business was concluded, Mr. G. A. Hurd of Yale '90 was elected president for the ensuing year, Mr. Q. A. Shaw of Harvard '91, vice-president, and Mr. O. S. Campbell of Columbia '91, secretary. The usual discussion as to the place of holding the tournament next year was indulged in, but it was finally decided to hold the tournament as usual, on the New Haven Tennis Club's grounds...
...considerable experience in playing before coming to college. They have been doing good work during the past week under the direction of Captain Sears, Sears, and the outlook for a strong team is by no means dubious. On the other hand, the opposing freshman eleven at Yale this year is unusually strong, and it has had the advantage of beginning practice a week earlier. These advantages can be overcome only by the hardest kind of training, and it is this earnest work which the freshman class and the whole college is expecting from Captain Brooks...
There are sixteen candidates for the freshman academic boat, six of whom were on the St. Paul's crew last year. The eight has not been definitely decided upon yet, but will probably be made up as follows: bow, Stevens, 133 lbs; 2. Schreiber, 156 lbs; 3, Jones, 143 lbs.; 4. Willard, 141 lbs.; Kidd, 167 lbs.; 6, Lyman, 156 lbs.; 7, Pyle, 165 lbs.; stroke, Wayne, 163 lbs. The crew is being coached by Thompon, coxswain of the University boat, and promises unusually well The Sheffield freshman crew is doing rather poorly and will not stand any chance...