Word: catch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cricket team played a practice game with the Fall River club on Saturday afternoon. Crowninshield made a good catch at cover point and Frost bowled well. Next Saturday the eleven plays Longwood...
...Princeton infield. Willard was put out, however, by Durell who caught a long and difficult fly remarkably well. Princeton started the fifth with hits by Watts and Durell. Payne was out-Mumford to Willard. Dana knocked a long fly away over the head of Linn, who made a beautiful catch after a long run backwards; but Watts scored. Howland's failure to throw out Knickerbocker immediately afterwards, allowed Durell to score Princeton's second run. King ended the inning by striking...
Amherst has the reputation of being the best team in the regular intercollegiate league, but her play yesterday was not at all steady, and at times it was even careless. Allen started in to catch, but after the second inning, he changed places with Walbridge at short-stop, who caught the rest of the game. Sexton pitched only a fair game and the home players did not find great trouble in hitting...
...fourth inning Schroll got first on a muffed third strike, reached second on Evan's second hit, third on a steal, and home on Hoyt's muff of Linn's fly. After this Harvard failed to score. Dean's base running deserves mention and Howland's beautiful running catch in the last inning saved two runs. Appended is the score...
Staten Island came first to the bat but made no runs. Harvard followed with five runs in succession, owing to an opportune base hit of Dean's, but Staten Island made six runs in the second inning and Harvard did not catch up again. The features of the game were the home run by Howland, the batting of Willard and Henshaw, the double play by the Staten Islands, and a pick up by Wood in the fourth inning. The game occupied three hours and was so void of interest that nearly everyone had left the field before its finish. Only...