Word: catching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...came to the bat. Williams did nothing. Neither side scored in the next two innings; in the fourth an easy double play was made by Williams, on a hit by Allen to short stop, forcing out Nichols at second. In the same inning, Smith made a beautiful catch of a hot liner from Safford's bat. In the fifth, wild throws by third base, pitcher, short stop, and first base, a hit by Choate, and Nichols' hard drive just inside of third-a home run-netted Harvard five runs. In the seventh, Eastman reached first on Foster's muff...
...Yale crew leaves for New London on the 18th. A New Haven boating man says that the general appearance of the men in the boat is careless. They splash altogether too much at the finish and catch. This will have to be overcome in order to create a favorable impression on the Thames...
...Collins did the best work in the fleld, and for eighty-eight Fargo, Jones and Holden excelled. The features of the game were the throw of Jones from centre to home which cut off Collins who attempted to run home after the fly was caught, and Gardiner's splended catch of a long fly which he captured after a long run from left field. The score would probably have been much closer had not two men of the eighty-six nine been caught napping at first in the ninth inning. Eighty-eight won the game by bunching their hits...
...scheme first proposed for the Yale-Princeton game, namely, that of having Shaw catch for the first part of the game, and Taylor during the last part, was not put into operation...
...main points of crificism against the home team were the careless base running, and lax coaching. For Princeton, Clark led at the bat, and Toler and Shaw excelled in fielding. The features of the game were the stop and throw by Edgerly in the third, Allen's foul catch in the sixth, Willard's batting, and the double play by Shaw and Toler...