Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...doing won the class base ball championship. Linnfield pitched for the freshmen and proved an easy mark for the Ninety-one batters. The freshman team played a poor game and seemed incapable of fielding or batting. The game was long and dull, and the day a bad one for base ball. The Ninety-one men, however, played well in the field and allowed but three men to reach first base on errors. In the ninth inning Captain Lowell was badly spiked and was obliged to leave the field. The umpiring was very unsatisfactory...
...nine did not follow its usual rule yesterday of playing a good game after a bad one. Such work as that of yesterday will never win a Yale game. A strong wind was blowing across the field all the time, but this only palliates, and does not excuse, the wretchedly weak and spiritless play of the whole team. With two singles, one in the third and one in the fifth, the visitors made five runs. Such a record speaks for itself. The game opened miserably, with two errors by Howe, which, together with a base on balls, gave the visitors...
...Harvard should, by any mistake, field well and bat fairly in the Yale game, her base-running would give the game to Yale ten times over. Harvard nines have been weak in base-running in previous years, but she has never given an exhibition as bad as the one on Saturday. It has been taken for granted all the year that Harvard could bat occasionally, but she gave a very decided proof to the contrary at Amherst. It remains to be seen whether or not the nine will learn by the game Saturday, that their play is weak at almost...
...eighth inning. The lack of two umpires was very much felt. There was a good deal of batting and the freshmen ran bases well. Gilmore's arm prevented him from throwing to bases, and this handicapped the sophomore nine considerably. Merriam's poor judgment added to bad coaching was rather disastrous to his team in the seventh inning. Neither of the pitchers were as effective as last time but Minton fielded his position well...
...next before it" might head the account of every game our nine has played this year. The grounds were abominable. In left field and in left centre especially the field sloped down so that the fielders were almost out of sight when they chased long hits. The bad work of the nine in the infield is partly explained by the hummocks among which the balls rolled. But the nine cannot be considered to have done its best under difficulties. In the sixth inning the men seemed to lose their heads, and four runs came in on a two base...