Word: batting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University nine has of late played lamentably poor ball. While the strength of the team at the bat has been uncertain throughout the season, it was only in the Brown game on Wednesday, that like unsteadiness in the field was noticeable. In the practice since that time no marked improvement has been shown, general nervousness having been in evidence...
...Carter 2G. has won the Francis Fisher cricket bat, having made the best batting record this season, with an average of 30.8. W.N. Taylor '08 was second best with an average of 15.5. F.C. Taylor '06 has won the Francis Fisher ball, with a bowling average of 5.5. J.Q. Tingley '05 made an average of 3.83, but is ineligible for the ball as he did not play in nine games...
...proved unavailing, since he himself made an error which let in three runs, and every other man in the infield made one or more errors, all of which were very costly. Such deplorable fielding, however, was only in part responsible for the defeat; for at the bat, the team showed a weakness which has been unparalleled this year, making only two clean singles and a scratch hit, and knocking only one fly to the outfield. No man on the team seemed able to master Lynch in the least, only two failing to strike out one or more times. R. Kernan...
...first game with Brown, which was played on May 7 at Cambridge, was won by Harvard, 5 to 0, through superior work at the bat. Both Clarkson and Lynch Pitched effectively, the former, however, showing slight superiority...
...Yale team is fairly well developed and has several good individual players both in the field and at bat. As a team, however, their batting is weak, and the work of the infield, with the exception of Carter at third base, is inaccurate. In the outfield the playing is good...