Word: almost
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...righteous we may pretend to be it cannot be denied that this cheering is calculated to unnerve the opposing nine as much as it is to support the university team. In the seventh inning when the score is very close, the applause at an error of the visitors is almost as great as at a clever play by the home nine. Such cheering is decidedly unfair and unsportsmanlike. We can only hope that no instances of it will occur this spring...
...University team stands very much in need of the experience that this game will afford, as only three others remain before the Princeton series. There has as yet been almost no opportunity to try out the infield in a game. Injury or illness has prevented its playing together in any settled order. Moreover, in the Virginia game, when it was nearest intact, there were few chances for fielding and no work with men on bases. This week the cold and rainy weather games and warm weather are badly needed during the next two weeks...
...editorial, which maintains that the present students are required to write too many theses, fails in general to strike home, and almost entirely loses points when the author commits himself to the folly that illiteracy should be corrected only in English...
Interest in the matter led us to look further into the question of mitts and gloves as used by the big teams of the present. Almost without exception we find the World's Champions, the National and American League teams, the minor leagues, semi-professional, college and amateur nines all sing mitts and gloves made by the A. J. Reach Company of Philadelphia. The name tells much, for Mr. Reach himself was one of the famous second basemen of his day, and so knows what is required in the shape of mitts and gloves...
...making is a watchword in the Reach factory. Every mitt and glove must be just right, the hollow moulded to hold the ball fast, for every Reach Mitt and Glove is fully guaranteed to give satisfaction. It's safe to say that Reach goods can be found at almost any sporting goods outfitter...