Clipping:Harvard's trophy ball case
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| Date | Saturday, March 8, 1879 |
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| Text | In the steward’s office of Memorial Hall a very handsome case is built across part of one side of the room, extending perpendicularly about five feet, containing 195 base base balls, each painted and inscribed with the name of the vanquished club, date and place of game, and the score. Each ball is impaled on an iron needle, and the whole are very cleverly arranged in order of sequence. In the bottom of the case rests a mammoth ball, commemorating the great game between Hard and the Manchesters, played May11, 1877, at the end of which, after a series of 24 innings, the score stood 0 to 0, not a run having been scored on either side. The case also contained an elegant gold medal, won by the University nine from the Lowells, in the autumn of 1868, Harvard having won the best two games out of three played. The scores of these games will be of interest in this connection: First game, Harvard 27, Lowells 24; second game Harvard 30, Lowells 33; third game, Harvard 28, Lowells 15. The names of the victors are engraved on the reverse side of the medal, as follows: Smith ‘69, Willard ‘69, Shaw ‘69, Rawle ‘69, Peabody ‘69, Soule ‘70, Bush ‘71, Austin ‘71, Wells ‘71, Eustis ‘71, Wells ‘71. |
| Source | Boston Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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