Word: balle
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...worked hard and conscientiously the whole year and deserve the hearty encouragement and support of the whole University. This encouragement and support must be given them and the only way in which it can be shown is by having every man march down to the boat house after the ball game and there cheer them...
...playing on the home grounds. Strange to say, however, the team has not done so well this year in Cambridge as it has done elsewhere, with the exception of the Princeton game. The former game with Pennsylvania and the two games with Brown were characterized by the excellent ball playing, yet so far Holmes Field has seen but one really good match and that went against Harvard. Today the University is anxious to see a good, snappy exhibition of ball playing and to see the Harvard team win. The students are confident in the strength of the 'Varsity Nine...
...making a hit. The pitching by Paine was as steady as it was effective from the beginning to the end of the game. In five innings only three men came to the bat in each inning, in three other innings only four men had a chance to hit the ball, and in the seventh when Brown's only run was made, but five men had a chance...
Harvard made her first run in the second. After Clarkson had gone out on a grounder, Haughton got his base on balls. Rand advanced him with a single to left and Lauder's error on Stevenson's grounder filled the bases. Paine then hit to centre field but Sedgwick muffed, allowing Haughton to score. Stevenson, however, was caught at second and shortly afterwards Rand was cut off at the plate in trying to score when the ball was thrown to second on Paine's attempt to steal...
...second half of the inning Brown made her only run. Robinson got his base on balls and scored when Lauder sent the ball among the carriages in centre field for three bases. The next six men went out in succession. Brown did not succeed in getting any more men to first, but Harvard got two men on base in each of the last two innings...