Word: batting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman baseball team won its first game of the season with Browne and Nichols School, yesterday afternoon by the decisive score of 14 to 2. The Freshman battery far excelled that of their opponents. At the bat, however, the Freshmen, though fairly effective, were not as strong as they should have been against such week pitcher. The fielding of both teams was only fair...
Briggs was very slow during the whole game. He was not awake for Currier's throws, when two men might have been caught off first. He struck out twice at the bat, and held his base once when he should have run to second. Brennan was also slow in the field and in running g to first. The bright spot in the afternoon's work was the all-round good playing of Dana. He made three remarkable catches in left field of hard liners, one at his feet, and another by jumping up after a hard run. He secured...
...point of view, but void of excitement, the University baseball team shut out Bates yesterday 4 to 0. Lanigan throughout the game was invincible, and only one man reached second, which was the result of an error. Three scattered hits were all that Bates could boast of at the bat, and two of those were absolutely useless, as Lanigan caught both men off first by quick throws to Briggs...
...University baseball team will meet Bates this afternoon at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field in the first game in Cambridge after the Southern trip. Lanigan will pitch his first game of the season this afternoon, and with Currier behind the bat should be effective...
Little is known of the Bates team, except that it appears to be rather strong at the bat. The game last year was cancelled because of rain, and the year before Harvard won, 4 to 0. Only four of last year's players are on this year's nine...