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...fifth inning. With a man on first base a high fly was hit to Winslow who allowed the ball to fall to the ground and then threw to Whittemore who got the ball to Stevenson in time to complete the double play. The Holy Cross captain claimed that the batter was not out, and when this was not allowed he ordered his men off the field. He soon changed his mind however and the game proceeded...
...varsity nine lost yesterday in the first game of the season with Yale, or one might more properly say, in the first game of the season with Carter. The pitching of the Yale man was a hopeless puzzle to almost every Harvard batter. Whittemore and Cook were the only men who did not strike out at all. There have been few pitchers under this year's rules who have been able to run their strike-outs into the double figures. Outside of Carter, the Yale team did not show itself any better than Harvard. When the infielders were given...
...Meade also played at St. Paul's School and is not only an excellent batter, but fields in good style...
...particularly brilliant. Repeatedly he caught men off bases by his quick, accurate throwing. At one time the bases were full with none out. Hapgood allowed himself to be caught napping off first and Trafford was equally slow in being thrown out between third and home and then the batter went out and Harvard failed to score. Harvard put in a substitute team. Corbett caught and Whittemore played short stop. The batting was weak and the playing as a whole decidedly uncreditable. Exeter's run ought not to have been made. High lands, as in Saturday's game, threw...
...rather than improved. The line men did not show the slightest ability to break through, and time and time again they would allow themselves to be dragged along three or four yards by the men whom they had tackled. Whenever the Athletic Association got the ball they would batter down the Harvard guards and tackles and push the ball steadily down the field, and if Harvard did stop them on four downs it was invariably by bothering the centre when the ball was put in play. The number of times that a B. A. A. man was thrown when...