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...Brewster, '81, has presented the cricket club with a handsome bat to be given to the player who gets the highest batting average this year...
...spite of the patriotic efforts of Minister Schenck, is not yet received with favor in England. "The game in which this misuse of terms is most rampant, and to which I especially desire to direct attention," the writer concludes, "is lawn tennis. Players and manufacturers call 'rackets' 'bats.' Cricket is played with a bat, lawn tennis with a racket. 'Strokes' are often called 'points' and 'aces;' a 'service' is called a 'serve;' a 'rest' is known as a 'rally;' the 'sides' (of the net) become 'ends;' the 'striker out' is transformed into the 'non-server,' and the 'server' into...
...term "block" ball is restricted so that no block can occur except from a batted or thrown ball, no pitched or passed ball being open to a "block." In other words, a ball delivered by the pitcher to the bat cannot become a blocked ball if stopped by an outsider...
...first game in the class series resulted in an easy victory for '84 over '83. The latter nine showed very clearly lack of practice, most of the men not having played to any extent since their freshman year. '84 excelled both at the bat and in the field, Baker and Hamlin playing particularly well, while Bean pitched very effectively. For '83 Nichols, Ranney and Edwards did the best work, the last-mentioned player making a fine catch of a difficult ball, and putting a man out at third. The batting, on the whole, was weak, although Baker and Nichols each...
Coolidge, the ex-captain of the Harvard nine, while playing with the Beacons against the Hyde Park club recently, went to the bat six times and made two singles, two double-basers, and a triple-bagger. - [News...