Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Vail, 6, is unsteady in his movements, and bad in his watermanship, but he is improving...
...they left much to be desired. There seems to be no good reason why they should have fallen back into the pernicious habit of knocking balls into the air. Twenty-eight times the ball was hit, and seventeen times it went into the air. This is altogether bad and needs permanent rectifying...
...seventh with two men out, and men on third and first, they bunglingly tried to cut the man off at second, and so let in the second run. Coaching Hallowell home in the seventh seemed to be a piece of poor judgment. Such plays are exactly as bad as errors...
...shut-out by Holy Cross on our own grounds ought to mark the lowest ebb of our baseball for this year. Of course the team was all shaken up and the men were unused to their position, yet the five errors that were made, bad as they were, were not the worst feature of the game. By good pitching the Holy Cross men were held down to two runs, and, by any ordinary playing, the 'varsity would easily have beaten out this score, but their aggressive work was simply lifeless. They lost a chance to score in the first with...
...Lowell team was an aggregation of old-time professionals who had lost most of their art. They made five bad errors, and found Wiggin for three hits only. Two of the hits, however, came in the fifth, and it looked something like a score, but McCarthy spoiled their chances by striking out. Mr. Mullens did not give them full satisfaction...