Word: across
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...became a dead ball anyway, and he was thrown out at first; Willard reaching second, going third on Marsh's error. Foster was called out on strikes. Henshaw made a rattling hit, but Willard remained on third in order to keep the catcher up. A passed ball sent him across the plate and Henshaw to third. All hopes were centred on Edgerly, but he struck out, after having knocked six fouls to different parts of the field. The excited Yale men rushed in upon the field and bore the nine off on their shoulders...
...Hither and thither across...
...visitors opened the game briskly enough, by getting two men across the plate on two hits and three errors, one in the second, on a base on balls, a passed ball and a wild pitch, and one in the third on a base hit and two battery errors. This ended their run getting, and they only succeeded in getting one man as far as third, he being left there. Harvard scored five runs in the fifth inning, on a two-base hit by Hurley and four errors; three in the seventh on two bases on balls...
...Inter-collegiate Championship on their ability to "bang" any pitcher in the college league. All their energies are bent towards perfecting themselves in that portion of the game. "Doing the net act" is the popular means to this end. They have a net about eight feet high, stretched across a portion of the ball field, and before this the entire nine stand and endeavor to "block" the curved balls that their fellow collegians put in to them. Many men can be found in college, outside the regular team, who have very good curves and shoots...
...soon as all the crews have passed through the draw, a long whistle will be sounded from the Referee's tug as the signal for the crews to get into line. A rope will be stretched across the river, to which four tow boats will be moored, at distances of one hundred feet apart. A man in each boat will hold the stern of a shell. As soon as the shells are in line, two whistles will be sounded as a signal for the men to come out to the full reach...