Word: ball
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...baseball team was defeated by Andover, 4 to 3, at Andover, yesterday afternoon. The Freshmen were in the lead 3 runs to 1 until the eighth inning, when Felton, who had previously pitched almost air-tight ball, weakened at the critical moment, passing one man and hitting another. An error by Sears was just enough to turn the tide in Andover's favor, and the Academy succeeded in putting three men across the plate, and in maintaining the one-run margin until the end of the game...
Since the 11 to 8 defeat at the hands of Catholic University on April 20, the University team has taken nine straight games, three of which were shut-outs. Today it will have to put up its best brand of ball to keep the record clear...
...second baseball team was defeated by Phillips-Andover Academy at Andover last Saturday afternoon, by the score of 5 to 2. Wilson, Andover's pitcher, although inclined to be a bit wild at times, pitched very effective ball, holding his opponents to five hits and striking out 10 men. Andover's stick-work totalled 13 hits...
...standing quietly at the plate, each man in his turn, and allowing the opposing pitcher to hurl the ball far out of the catcher's reach, the University Scholars defeated the Yale Phi Beta Kappa team in a slashing ninth-inning victory Saturday morning by an approximate score of 23 to 22. Scholarship of the most advanced type was evident throughout the game...
...Beta Kappa ball team's preparation for yesterday's game evidently consisted chiefly in studying the wiles of Ulysses. When the CRIMSON nine appeared on Soldiers Field, it found an opposing aggregation consisting chiefly of hired thugs, with a few wise boys interspersed to give the outrageous affair an air of sanctity. Rather than forego an afternoon of quiet sport, the journalists condescended to play a few innings with their nondescript antagonists. But when more thugs appeared on the scene in the fifth inning, the game was protested. The protest was carried to the highest authority, the manager...