Word: battered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Saturday afternoon the Harvard Freshman base-ball team defeated St. Mark's School at Southboro by the score of 5 to 3. For the first four innings neither side was able to score; but in the first half of the fifth, a base on balls, a sacrifice hit, a batter hit by a pitched ball, and two singles netted four runs for the Freshmen. In the last of the sixth St. Mark's secured two runs. The Freshmen started off their half of the eighth with one run, but the side was retired before any more runs could be sent...
Sexton pitched a very good game throughout, not only getting 11 strikeouts, but pulling the team out of bad holes by striking out the batter with a man on third; he also got two good hits, one of which came at an opportune time. The College nine had several chances to score, but was unable to either because of close decisions or inability to hit safely. The best chance came in the ninth inning. Howe, the first man up, reached first on Cook's error. Bolton sacrificed, being out on a close play. Chase advanced Howe to third...
...four new batting nets near the left field foul line of the University diamond on Soldiers Field were used for the first time yesterday. The nets are arranged in alley ways so that the batter must hit the ball in a given direction to send it out of the alley, with a view towards accuracy in placing the ball. Nets of the same description were used at Brown last year...