Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...closely contested game of ten innings the Freshman baseball team was defeated by Groton School Saturday afternoon at Groton by a score of 7 to 6. Inability to hit at critical times, careless base-running, three costly errors, and lack of head work lost the game for the Freshmen...
...batting the University team showed improvement over the game with Vermont, making eleven hits, but most of them were short. The base-running remained poor. The fielding was fair until the seventh inning, when it became careless and erratic. Trinity's one run was directly due to the carelessness of Coburn and Stephenson...
...fielders, although at time brilliant, are erratic, the men failing to get in front of the ball properly. In throwing to bases improvement has been shown both in speed and accuracy. The work of the catchers is careless and very unsatisfactory. Although they hold the ball fairly well, they are slow in stepping out from behind the batter on a throw to bases. A number of the pitchers have developed excellent speed but have not as yet gained good control. The batting of the whole squad has fallen off, owing to a tendency to offer at bad balls...
...second half the Training School's defense materially strengthened, and owing to this improvement and to the inexcusably loose playing of the University team, only two more goals were scored. Frequently the University forwards would carry the puck down the ice only to lose it through careless stick work and listless passing in front of their opponents' goal...
...played listlessly, as a result of the effects of Saturday's game, but the team work of the forwards was in general more finished than in any previous practice this season. In stick work, passing and keeping possession of the puck, however, the men were deficient and often very careless. With the exception of Callaway the first team forwards rarely followed back after losing the puck, and until the men learn to follow back quickly and together, the effectiveness of the defense will be seriously impaired. Yesterday afternoon the defense showed fair ability in checking the second team forwards...