Word: batting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...casual visitor to Jarvis Field sometimes wonders at a group of men on the southern end of the field, who, with their legs guarded by curious pads, stand in front of three upright stakes at the end of a smooth gravel path, and bat the balls thrown at them by the bowler. This is the cricket eleven practising...
...playing of both nines was fair, the batting being free, though resulting in a comparatively small number of base hits. Dearth and Pushor made a neat double-play in the third inning, which was duplicated by Smith and Holden in the fifth. For Dartmouth, Talbot and Donovan excelled in the field, and at the bat respectively. For Harvard, Beaman and Jones were conspicious for fielding, while Tilden, Smith, and Nichols lead the batting...
...uninitiated how a base-ball score must lie ! For instance, in Saturday's game Nichols made five runs, and yet the score says that he was at the bat only four times...
...Sunday Herald said, "If the Harvards bat in championship games as they did Saturday, the result of the season will not be in doubt...
...scores in the first inning and succeeded in making one or more runs in every inning except the sixth. The Techs played weak fielding game, and, with the exception of Twombly and Clark, showed themselves unable to face our pitching. Nichols and Smith did the best work at the bat, the former making two and the latter one home run. Our base running is better than it was last year, but there is still room for improvement...