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Litchfield is one of the catchers and is a very hard worker. He is apt to "rattle" at the critical points of the game and needs a great deal of practice ; he is a fair batter. Varick is a plucky catcher, but rather light for the position. He does not throw accurately to the bases and is weak at the bat. Baker has done most of the pitching for the nine, and does fairly well, he has good curves and very fair speed. He is very weak on "pop" flies, and also at the bat. It will take a great...
...armed with an immense telescope. "What?" says the pitcher, and he pulls out a revolver and blazes away. The umpire is just in time to dodge down behind the rampart of his observatory, and the shot whizzes harmlessly over his head. Play is resumed. "Strike!" "What?" says the batter, in his run, and he too takes a pop at the unfortunate umpire, who this time gets his hat knocked off. Suddenly an immense in-curve strikes the batter on the head and knocks it clean off. "I want you to apologise to this man," says the Yale captain...
...look upon victory as the rewards of treachery and deceit. That this is the case, anyone who has seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead of delivering the ball to the batter in an honest, straightforward way, that the latter may exert his strength to the best advantage in knocking it, now uses every effort to deceive him by curving-I think that is the word-the ball. And this is looked upon as the last triumph of athletic science and skill...
...professors at Princeton has offered a medal to the best batter on the nine...
...over Nichols' head. The umpire, however, called it a third strike on the ground that the ball struck Ayer's hand instead of the bat. The striker said immediately after that the ball did not come within six inches of his hand. If, however, the ball did strike the batter's hand, he should have been declared out for obstructing the catcher. (See Spaulding's Base-Ball Guide for 1880, p. 113). This decision gave Ayer his second and let in G. P. Merrill who was on second. Ayer was brought in on a base hit by Richardson. The next...