Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Litchfield is one of the catchers and is a very hard worker. He is apt to "rattle" at the critical points of the game and needs a great deal of practice ; he is a fair batter. Varick is a plucky catcher, but rather light for the position. He does not throw accurately to the bases and is weak at the bat. Baker has done most of the pitching for the nine, and does fairly well, he has good curves and very fair speed. He is very weak on "pop" flies, and also at the bat. It will take a great...
...game played by the offence is particularly strong, some of their throws at goal from the side being very accurate. Henry is playing a brilliant game, takes the ball out of a crowd easily and throws well, but is apt to "play" with the ball on his crosse too long before throwing. Hood has an effective throw for goal, but should vary it, and try to insure greater accuracy. Woods plays an effective game close in goal, but should be a little more careful not to miss easy "swipes." Noyes dodges and runs well, and throws a hard line shot...
...greatest of all, viz: the fact that it is the best possible exercise for the upper part of the body, developing the arms and the stomach and back muscles, and expanding the chest. Such exercise is all the more to be encouraged because its value is apt to be overlooked now, many people thinking that they have exercised as much as is necessary when they have taken a long walk...
...natural that men who are about to select a list of names which whey consider of most worth, should be more or less influenced by personal preferences. The only offset to this tendency is, that as the prejudices of the reading public of New York are apt to differ from those of the reading public of Boston, the errors made by a New Yorker will naturally be counter-balanced by those made by a Bostonian. But in the case of the recent vote, the number of votes was entirely too small to permit this influence to have much force...
...Then individual interests are forgotten, individual self-consciousness is lost, and all the workers are for the one ideal of the movement, so that they all become one body. Such a condition Paul pictures in his ideal of a church organism, I. Cor. XII. But such a condition is apt to endure but for a short time...