Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pitching cannot be taken as a sample of what he is able to do against a college nine, as he has been suffering lately from a strain received while practising. Tilden's umpiring was very poor throughout the game and Brown was benefitted in almost every instance by his bad judgment, the Boston papers to the contrary notwithstanding. Coolidge, Olmsted and Greene led the batting, and Lovering, Nichols and Chase did the best fielding. A very noticeable feature of the game was the base running of Olmsted and Coolidge. Following is a summary of the game...
...women I know by the window; they are talking about somebody, and if you like "feminities" you will hear something interesting from that standpoint, I am sure. One of them is a grass-widow (cause, spiritual incompatibility), and the other is a bona fide widow (cause, a few years' bad cookery with digestive powers in favor of the lady now before you). They are talking about Mrs. De Sorosis, and as I am a meek little person myself they do not mind me but continue the following conversation as though I was not present...
...Cleveland - Clevelands, 19; Allegheneys, 5. Bond being disabled with a lame shoulder and Richmond having shown up very poorly in practice games, the Worcesters have signed J. G. Clarkson of the Beacons for pitcher. Harry Wright was negotiating with him to take the place of Ward, who has a bad arm, when he was engaged by Worcester...
...York Times claims that Cotton Mather invented the marking system, and says that it "soon after came into use at Harvard College, where the Mather name was potent, and thence spread to other colleges as fast as they were founded. Whatever the vicious or bad effects of the marking system - and it is generally acknowledged that it fosters more and worse kinds of meanness than any other educational or civil law to which young men can be subjected - it must be preserved for its founder's sake...
...saying that Yale's chances are not a whit better than are those of Harvard; that, if anything, Harvard's are more promising. It is impossible, as yet, to prognosticate anything of either Dartmouth or Amherst, as the practice games of the former were the first of ball they bad had this spring, and the latter has not yet been heard from. Exciting and close games may be expected...