Word: behind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mile safety, solid tires, was an exciting race between Tyler, H. B. C., Pratt and Olmstead, H. U. C. A. Pratt made a plucky spurt in the last lap, coming in but a few feet behind Tyler, who won in 2 min, 56 3-5 sec.; Olmstead third...
...third inning Sexton strained his arm and went to centre field; Woodcock took his place in the box and Thurston relieved Tenney behind the bat. In the fourth Upton and Dean each got a single and Hovey lined the ball over the back fence but was given only two bases in accordance with the ground rules. Bates who was on third scored on the hit. In the fifth Brown made three of her seven hits and scored for the last time until the ninth. In the seventh Harvard batted Woodcock for five runs, making three doubles, a singie...
...chance of scoring after the first inning. In the ninth Cotter got his base on balls and stole second. It was the last chance of Morrill's men to score, and all eyes were turned towards the runner. He kept close to his base, but Hovey got in behind him very quickly, Bates threw with remarkable speed, and the man was out. It was a beautiful play. Dean also played a very pretty game. Morrill's nine fielded strongly except in the seventh inning, when they went to pieces and made seven errors in rapid succession. Their pitcher was also...
...made, rowing forty strokes to the minute, a spurt so effective that her lead was fully two lengths, five hundred feet below the bridge, and it was at about this place that the accident of the race occurred. Ninety-one and Ninety-three (a half a length behind the seniors) were both spurting, when unfortunately the senior boat-whose coxswain ever since the bridge had been steering on Ninety-three's course-fouled the sophomore boat. In the foul, the oars became slightly entangled, and stroke's oar was chipped off several inches at the tip. But the boats kept...
...crew directly in front of them, their prow touching the rudder of the Ninety-one boat. The result was that the actual finish of the crews was Ninety-two first by a lead of three lenghts over Ninety-one who were second; Ninety-four third, a good length behind the seniors, and a few feet only ahead of Ninety three, whose actual finish was fourth...