Word: batting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first game of the season on Holmes Field was played yesterday and resulted in an overwhelming victory for the home team. The game was the greatest farce ever seen on Holmes. The visitors were lamentably weak both in the field and at the bat. Of their four hits, two were direct gifts by the Harvard pitcher. They could hit neither swift nor slow balls. Such opponents as these do far more injury than good to the nine. A much better team could have been chosen from our own men than that which represented Bowdoin yesterday. It is conducive to careless...
Boyden pitched a good game and was well supported behind the bat. For Holy Cross, Neary, Higney and O'Neil played well...
...base-ball game yesterday afternoon between Harvard and Dartmouth, on Jarvis Field. They were rewarded by seeing one of the closest games played in Cambridge for years, in which good plays and costly errors mingled. The game was called at 3 p. m. Harvard went first to the bat...
...recently decided to take a four years' course in the Yale divinity school, consequently he will continue to pitch for victorious Yale nines for four years to come. Dann has decided to take a postgraduate course, and will therefore be on hand to take his old position behind the bat. This will be anything but pleasant information to the men of Harvard and Princeton.- Herald...
...made vacant by the withdrawal from college of Wiestling and Foster. The latter has never had his equal in the position and his loss will be severely felt this year. Knowlton is, perhaps, the man most able to fill this position acceptably. His services, however, are needed behind the bat. After him, Woods, '91, is the best...