Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first inning Ninety-nine failed to score while Somerville made one run. Neither side scored in the second, but in the third the Freshmen made five runs almost entirely on errors by Somerville and a hit by Litchfield. Somerville also made two runs in this inning on two hits an error by second base and a base on balls. In the fifth Robinson got to second on errors and came in on Mains hit. In the seventh the Freshmen made another run on hits by Morse and Litchfield, and in the ninth three more on hits by Litchfield, McCall...
...played a loose game throughout and disppointed the large crowd of spectators who had come expecting to see them win. In the first four innings Paine was hit for seven singles and two doubles and gave four men bases on balls. In the last four innings Cozzens was hit almost as freely as Paine...
...branches of freshman athletics, rowing and baseball, are not in a satisfactory condition, the crew being very ragged in general work, and the nine almost wholly lacking team play...
...College Nine was defeated 13 to 3, yesterday afternoon by Brockton. The game from the very beginning was one sided and uninteresting. The college Nine at critical moments went all to pieces and showed a great need for better team play. The large score made by Brockton was due almost entirely to the errors of the Harvard team and not to the heavy batting of the Brockton Nine, for they had only one earned run to their credit...
...furnished a bright vigorous book. The plot has the merit of being substantial and connected, calling for plenty of lively situations and humorous complications, and giving the characters a wide range of acting, from serio-comic to pure burlesque, without departing from the central interest of the opera. Almost all the songs, dances, and bits of burlesque are closely allied to the development of the plot, which by the end of the first act becomes hopelessly intricate and tangled, only to unwind itself during the action of the second act and run smoothly at last...