The following records have been made in other events:

125 Yards Dash 12 3-5s. W. Baker, ’86.
180 Yards Dash 18s. W. Baker, ’86.
Two-Mile Walk 15m. 10½s. H. H. Bemis, ’87.
Three-Mile Walk 24m. 24 2-5s. H. H. Bemis, ’87.
Seven-Mile Walk 58m. 52s. H. H. Bemis, ’87.
Standing High Jump 5 ft. 1¼ in. W. Soren, ’83.

Two days after Baker had graduated he made a record of 8s. in the 80-yard dash, 10s. in the 100-yard dash, and 473⁄4s. in the 440-yard dash, all three of them counting as best amateur American records; but, unfortunately, since he had received his degree, the Harvard Athletic Association cannot claim these records. W. H. Goodwin, ’84, while he was in college, also made a record of 1m. 565⁄8s. in the half-mile run, but as he did not make it in college games, this record was also lost to the Harvard Athletic Association.

The tug-of-war is another event in which the Harvard Athletic Association can hold no record, but in which it has had no rival. The veteran anchor of the team, Easton, did more toward introducing science into this seemingly unskilful sport than any other collegian in the country. The amount of skill and team work cultivated in this contest at Cambridge is shown by the fact that at the last intercollegiate games, Harvard presented the class tug-of-war team of the senior class, because the men had had long experience in pulling together; and this class team defeated successively Princeton, Columbia, and Yale.

BASEBALL.

The game of baseball was first introduced into Cambridge in 1862. Until that year no ball club had existed in the college, and no record can be found of any games previously played. Baseball was brought to Cambridge from Phillips Exeter Academy, by the class which entered college from that school in 1862. “In December of that year,[3] George A. Flagg and Frank Wright, members of the then Freshmen class, and great enthusiasts over the game, established the ’66 Baseball Club. During the spring of 1863 the interest in the new game and class organization became very great, and the Cambridge city government granted a petition for leave to use that part of the Common near the Washington Elm for a practice-ground. Invitations to play were sent to many of the colleges, and among the first to the Yale class of ’66; but the latter replied that the game was not played by them, although they hoped soon to be able to meet a Harvard nine on the ball field.” A match was then arranged with the Sophomores of Brown University, and was played on June 23, 1863. This was the first intercollegiate baseball game ever played by Harvard, and resulted in the first of a long line of victories. Following is the official score of the game, a very different looking affair from our present complicated score card:

Harvard, ’66. Pos. Outs. Runs. Brown, ’65. Pos. Outs. Runs.
Banker, H.  3  3 Witter, P.  1  4
Wright, P.  1  5 Finney, H.  4  2
Flagg, S.  5  2 Brown, S.  2  1
Irons, A.  2  4 Rees, A.  4  1
Fisher, B.  2  4 Spink, B.  2  3
Greenleaf, C.  4  2 Deming, C.  4  1
Nelson, L.  4  2 Brayton, L.  2  3
Abercrombie, M.  2  3 Judson, M.  4  1
Tiffany, R.  4  2 Field, R.  4  1
27 27 27 17

Umpire:—Miller, Lowell Club. Scorers, Harvard—J. J. Mason; Brown—H. S. Hammond.

There were but few other college clubs at this time, and in order to keep alive the interest in the game it was necessary to play an annual championship series with the strongest local amateur nine that could be found. The Lowell Club, of Boston, was then the best amateur club in that part of the country, and the Harvards chose them for their regular opponents. The games played on the Boston Common for the championship and the possession of the silver ball offered as a trophy attracted immense crowds, sometimes as many as ten thousand people; and not only was college interest aroused, but also the worthy inhabitants of Boston and Cambridge became eager and enthusiastic partisans of their respective nines.