Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yard of all the stateliness and beauty of the days before the late elms began to fail. What it has, to supplant the lumbering scenes of the past week, are a great many ridiculous young shoots, interspersed among some more promising ones and a few saplings which have almost attained treehood. Of course there was a stateliness and beauty about the old Yard akin to the beauty of the English lawns that the gardener said required only three hundred years of care to procure. But there is a possibility, with sufficient funds, of giving the present Yard a more immediate...
...Home Run Almost Fatal...
...bases, he gave the recently reclaimed ground between left and centre field its first taste of an intercollegiate baseball, and added four more to the ever increasing total. In the fourth, with Osborn, Fripp, and Coolidge holding down the stopping places, Nash did a Ty Cobb in almost the same place. Thus these two men were directly responsible for 12 of the University's 18 runs. Besides his home run, Nash had a clean batting average for the day, securing four safe bingles out of as many visits to the rubber...
...Daubert fashion. Veterans Smith, Brown, and Morris will form the slugging outfield trio. "Steamship" Hall, the peerless arterial twirler, will appear on the slab with Reynolds, another old timer, at the receiving end. Manager Henderson intends to try out all his new material, and substitutions will be made almost...
...other hand, Frye was at his best and had the visitors at his mercy throughout the entire game. He allowed but two hits and his control was almost perfect, only one base on balls being given. Waterman caught his first game on the University team in gilt-edged manner and to him and Frye go the greatest credit for yesterday's victory. The two other new men Nash and Fripp gave abundant evidence that the two po- sitions made vacant by graduation last year will be well taken care of this season...