Word: bases
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Base-ball men are marked absent when they wear their uniform into recitation...
...what were the causes of this Waterloo? Dieu sait. For the numberless fielding errors only bad playing, hard luck, and general demoralization and discouragement can account for them. As to the batting - or rather the absence of batting - we must hold Carter largely responsible for the result. Not a base hit was made, - a record which Harvard has never before made, and let us hope that this will be the last she will have to mourn and Yale to rejoice over. Of course Yale was uproariously happy. Cheering, yelling, hoisting their men heavenward, fireworks, and singing inadequately expressed her wild...
Wheaton led off with a fine base hit to left. Morgan was thrown out at first by Ernst. Bigelow then batted to Sawyer, but the ball, bounding from his hands, flew out into right, where it was again mishandled by Dow. These two bad errors gave Bigelow a life and Wheaton third and home. Williams was then fielded out at first by Thayer. For Harvard, Leeds struck out, and Tyng and Tower went out at first, after hits to second and third...
...second inning resulted in a quick blank for Yale. Thayer gets his base on Wheaton's error and steals second. Ernst flies out to Brown. Thayer is thrown out by short stop to third, and Latham goes out at second in a vain attempt to steal. Brown begins the third inning with a safe hit, but is soon put out at second by a nice bound catch of Sawyer's from Tyng's low throw. Wheaton sends Dow a fly, and Morgan goes out on Thayer's pretty throw to first. Wright, Dow, and Sawyer put out at first...
...enough left so he could eat in an emergency." If the Niagara Index should see this statement, it would try to prove that higher education tends to cannibalism as well as suicide. The Montpelierian gives the following charming picture: "Our campus, out of study hours, is covered with base-ball players and croquet matches, and our reverend Professors even join in the exercise...