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...Dartmouth, G. Nettleton opened with a base hit and took second on Tilden's fumble. He went to third on Nichols' balk; Springfield struck out; Hale hit a ground ball to Phillips, and G. Nettleton started home, but Phillips threw to Allen and he turned back. Allen threw back to Phillips, and after a good deal of throwing to and for Phillips threw to Nichols, who touched Nettleton out. Hale took second during this play and went to third on a wild pitch, but Chellis strike out leaving him on base. Second inning. Phillips flied out to Springfield. Tilden made...
Only one change has been made in the rules of the National Base-ball league for the ensuing year, and that is the expunging of the rule regarding the "foul balk...
...balls - Harvards, 3; Browns, 5. First base on errors -Harvards, 4; Browns. 2. Struck out-Payne (2), Bassett (2), Doron (2), Shedd, Smith, Dilts, Been (3), Burt, Hall. Double plays-Coolidge; Le Moyne, Coolidge and Burt. Passed balls-Bassett, 4; Nichols, 1. Wild pitches-Smith, 1; Bean, 1. Balk-Smith. Time-2 hours 15 minutes. Umpire-Otis Tilden...
...score in this half of the inning, nor did they get another run until the seventh, while Harvard scored two runs in the fifth, three in the sixth, and two in the seventh. In the seventh inning Brown scored one, the man being brought in on a balk by Ernst. In the next inning they seemed to get hold of our pitching, and on three base hits, aided by eight errors by our Nine, scored four unearned runs...
...time. Leonard batted to Sawyer, and was put out at first, Parks in the mean while reaching second. O'Rourke struck sharp to Thayer, who, after making a pretty stop, threw wild to Wright, letting in Parks and sending O'Rourke to third. Murnan, after purposely trying to balk the catcher, for which be should have been declared out, hit a slow bounder to short stop, who threw wild to first, giving O'Rourke his run. Manning closed the inning for the Bostons by a long fly to left field. Scorer to 3 to 3. On our side Dow reached...