Word: batting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...although the men have progressed fairly well in individual work, they have not developed either the team work or the confidence which can come from practice games only. So far as can be judged thus early in the season, the team fields well and is fairly good at the bat. The base running is as yet crude and undeveloped and the men are slow in getting their throws...
Carr, third baseman, is unsteady both in the field and at the bat. He fields fouls well, however, and his bunting is good...
...Morris of Haverford with a batting average of 102 was awarded the prize bat and the prize ball was awarded to F. C. Taylor '06 for the best bowling average of 6 1-2. The application of Cornell for membership was unanimously accepted. W. M. Taylor '03 and V. C. Mather '03 represented Harvard at the meeting...
Kernan's place behind the bat, will probably be filled either by B. K. Stephenson '06, who is now playing regularly in right field on the University team, or by W. A. Quigley, the catcher of the Freshman team, who has played very creditably on the University team in the Holy Cross and Pennsylvania games. Neither, however, have Kernan's powerful throw, or his agility in recovering foul files. The loss of Coolidge at second base will undoubtedly be keenly felt, for he is unquestionably the cleanest fielder on the nine, and one of the most reliable men on bases...
...good hitter at critical moments, Stillman has won on the nine an enviable position, and one which it will be hard to fill. There are several men, however, who, if not in his class at the bat show promise of developing into very excellent fielders. They are C. C. Bolton '05, third baseman of last year's Freshman team, H. V. Greenough, shortstop of the same team, and a substitute on the University team last spring, and R. Fischel '04, who played third base on his Freshman team. All these men were, with the University squad during the early part...