Word: bunt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...than the rest of the squad and are showing up well. Some of the squad practice batting every morning, and, as a net has been hung down the length of the cage, two men are enabled to bat at the same time. The candidates are trying to learn to bunt and are paying more attention to style than to hard hitting...
...infielders played a steady gme, and behind the bat Scannell gave Paine the best of support. His error was a wild throw of a bunt near the plate. The finest play of the game was a running catch by Burgess in deep left field of a long hit by Altman, which looked good for three bases. Rand made an almost equally good catch of a fly which dropped through the branches of the willows. Burgess, however, misjudged, and then muffed another fly, and both he and Clarkson fumbled badly on Smith's hit in the tenth inning...
Harvard scored her second run. Rustin fumbled Scannell's sharp grounder and Hayes was presented with a base on balls. Highalnd's effort to bunt resulted in a pop fly to Carter, and Paine flied out to Stephenson. Stevenson made a timely single to centre field, bringing Scannell in. Hayes tried to take third on the throw to the plate, but was an easy out, Greenway to Quinby...
Blakely opened the second inning by hitting safely to left, and Gorman's pretty sacrifice bunt moved him up to second. He could not advance, however, as Tracy struck out and Hollister put up a foul which Highlands caught easily...
...were made in the third, but in the fourth O'Malley got his base on balls, then scored on Corbett's three base hit to centre field. Corbett then scored on a wild pitch. Highland's reached first on an eror by short, got second on Whittemore's safe bunt, went to third on Cook's sacrifice and scored on Scannell's hit which also brought Whittemore in from second...