Word: batting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Hicks excelled at the bat with a single and a fine three-bagger to left field. Lanigan made two clean hits over second, and all the others except Harvey and MacLaughlin counted once. MacLaughlin and Simons were very fast around second base, and Dillon and Reed also covered much ground. Dana made a fine running catch of a foul fly. Briggs played a splendid game on first base in spite of a severe blow on the head in the third inning, when Myers collided with him as he stepped into the baseline to stop a wide throw from Hicks. Lanigan...
...Lanigan fielded the bunt to MacLaughlin, who made a beautiful stop and Dillon was forced at second. Ballin promptly stole, second on Currier's high throw, and Simons's wonderful catch was the only thing that prevented his taking another base. Hicks then passed Dawson, and Sides was at bat with only one out. A foul fly to Briggs, however, changed the aspect, and Princeton's hopes, were ended when Harvey made a fast play off Warwick's line...
...University baseball team will play its second championship game with Princeton, at Princeton, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The batting orders of both teams will be the same as last Saturday, with the one exception that Hicks will pitch for Harvard. Captain Currier has sufficiently recovered from the injury to his finger to resume his position behind the bat, and with his return the team should display more speed than in the Brown game. White and Dawson will again be the battery for Princeton...
...Princeton team to take the place of Captain Vaughn, who resigned in the early part of the season. Sides is completing his fourth year as third baseman, and is one of the leading college players in that position. His propensity for making long hits makes him dangerous at the bat...
...team is strong at the bat and in base-running, but the pitching staff is weak. Ferguson will probably start the game today after an absence of two weeks on account of an injury...