Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pleasure, Saturday, of witnessing a game of base-ball on Jarvis Field, in which Messrs. Thayer, Ernst, and a few others met a Nine from Brown; these latter being favored - for that occasion only, we trust - with the kind services of Messrs. Tyng and Thatcher. The odds against the Harvard men were, naturally, enormous; and the game terminated in our defeat by a score of eight to seven. The second innings was marked by a fine double play by Ernst, and in the following innings a splendid hit by Thayer gave three runs. In the fifth, a double...
...First base on errors, Harvard, 5: Boston...
...taken down, in accordance with a vote of the Corporation, and all athletic associations were at the same time forbidden to sell tickets to any matches or sports which might take place upon the field. It was of course necessary to dispose of the seats at once, and the Base-Ball Club, to which they belonged, was obliged to part with them for $25, - less than a quarter, if we are not mistaken, of their original cost...
When a College Nine comes to Cambridge to play with our own, it is of course necessary to pay their expenses and to entertain them as well as possible. In the old days of gate-money, this was not a difficult task; but the Base-Ball Club, now that its income is entirely confined to subscriptions, finds great difficulty in meeting its expenses. It is, in fact, in debt...
There is probably not a single student who, if he desired to see a game, would be unwilling to pay fifty cents on the spot. Receiving immediate returns for his expenditure, he would appreciate its full value. And if the Base-Ball Nine and the Athletic Association were allowed, when anything of interest was going on, to charge a fee for the use of seats, and if the seats were allowed to remain on the field during term time, - being taken down at the end of the college year, - our sporting interests would be far more prosperous, and subscription lists...