Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...race the crew which won was made up of Williams, Morton, Percival and Curtis; cox, Baker. This crew got the lead at the start and held it all the way down the course. The crew of which Lund, '90, was captain, came in second; the other crew was a bad third...
...scored. In her half Harvard made three runs. Upton got his base on Bliss' error and stole second; Stone got his base on a missed third strike and Upton took third; Stone stole second and took third on Dolan's sacrifice, which sent Upton home; first base made a bad muff and Dolan reached second on the error; Soule made a fine sacrifice; Stone scored, and before the Yale men woke up Dolan also crossed the plate...
...appears to have been practically unadvertised, either publicly or privately. As a result the audience numbered not more than a hundred people. In addition to this there were no programs, and no ushers-until, indeed, some members of the Glee Club kindly volunteered to act as such. It is bad enough that the clubs in question should be forced to sing and play to empty seats; but when an audience, small though it may be, is not accorded by the management the ordinary civilities of an entertainment, it is high time for all concerned to complain. The Glee and Banjo...
...yesterday afternoon on Holmes Field by a score of nine to four. Bates was in the box for Harvard. He gave a great many bases on balls, but pitched a fairly good game, nevertheless. Soule was back at short stop and fielded his position very cleanly. Alward made two bad muffs but they were partially excusable considering the state of his hands, two fingers having been knocked out of joint in the first of the game...
...cold and sleet made the weather so bad for rowing yesterday that with in five minutes of starting the judges were undecided whether the race should be rowed. The boats took their position about ten minutes after four, and had to wait in the cold ten minutes before the signal was given. Ninety-two caught the water first, then ninety and ninety-three, and ninety-one last...