Word: catching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard team, with the one exception of Winslow, played a good fielding game. Cook picked the ball up beautifully. His two errors were due evidently to his ambitiousness to get the ball over to first quickly. Whittemore played his usual steady game and distinguished himself by his catch of Stephenson's liner in the first inning. Wiggin played a great game in centre; a prettier throw than that by which he caught Reddington at the plate has not been seen on Holmes field for some time. Highlands pitched a fine game but made one wretched throw in the third inning...
...contest, although not close, was interesting on account of the brilliant fielding of both nines. The work of the 'varsity, both in the field and at the bat, was encouraging. Four of the seven runs were earned and sharp fielding prevented Exeter from scoring oftener. Wiggin made two phenomenal catches in center field and Paine and Whittemore also fielded well. C. J. Paine was in the box for six innings and pitched well. Highlands pitched the last inning. The game was called at the end of the seventh inning in order to enable the Harvard nine to catch the train...
...flies and let a grounder slip by him. The features of the game were the heavy batting of Brown and three double plays made by Harvard in the first, fifth and sixth innings. In the first, with Tenney and Steere on second and first bases Corbett made a beautiful catch of Cook's high foul. Both base runners tried to advance a base and Corbett threw to third to catch Tenney there, but he ran back to second and Cook threw to Dickinson, catching Steere at first...
...game in detail: Princeton was first at bat. Highlands hit Payne with the first ball pitched and the latter stole second a moment later. It looked like a run, but Winslow made a beautiful catch of King's liner, Paine gathered in Ward's fly, and Whittemore disposed of Mackenzie's grounder...
Owing to the unfortunate accident to Scannell, he will be unable to play today. However, he went with the nine to watch the game. O'Malley will catch and either R. Paine or Stevenson will play in right field. It was not decided which would fill the position before the team left...