Word: battered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work has consisted mainly of developing form and control. Until the last few days, in fact, the men had been confined strictly to pitching straight balls. From now on, however, most of the time will be devoted to curves and in pitching to a batter. The limited space of the cage will, however, prevent any extended line of work in this direction, so that the harder and more practical training will come upon the completion of the new cage on Soldiers Field...
...three runs were made in the third inning. The first man up got his base on an error, and was advanced to third by bunts of the next two men. The next batter knocked a long fly which the right fielder misjudged, and the three men scored...
...cricket eleven plays Brockton today at Brockton. Harvard will miss P. H. Clark '96, the best batter and bowler on last year's eleven, and G. Lippincott '96, both of whom have left college. Their places, however, will be well filled by two of last season's Haverford eleven, D. H. Adams and A. G. Scattergood. They both went to England on the Haverford eleven this summer and ranked second and third respectively in the batting averages of the trip. Adams, too, had the best bowling average and Scattergood was the regular wicket-keeper. Among other new men are Webster...
...tenth inning Princeton won the game through a most remarkable piece of luck. Kelley the first batter hit a grounder to Haughton, and was out. Titus made a hit, but Altman knocked a high fly to Rand. Wilson then hit a swift bounding ball just to one side of Paine and above his head. Paine reached out his hand and partially stopped the ball, but unfortunately it grazed the arm of the umpire, who was standing near. Chandler, who picked up the ball, had plenty of time to put out Titus at second base, but under the rules any ball...
...Harvard team was almost perfect; no errors were made, almost every opportunity was accepted, every man made a hit, no one struck out, and only one hit was made off Paine. Neither catcher had a passed ball, and neither pitcher made a wild pitch or hit a batter...