Word: championship
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...inning. After Dean and Downer had struck out Ames was batted for four straight hits, one of them a double, and two runs, one of them earned, were scored. One of these hits was made by Willard, and It was the best hit yet made by Harvard in the championship series. The excitement during this inning was very great. Princeton got only one hit and no runs. Harvard's infield work was excellent...
Owing to a typographical error it was stated in yesterday's issue that Yale had won one game and lost one, in the intercollegiate championship series, instead of that Yale has won none, lost...
...base ball championship season opened on Saturday rather inauspiciously for Harvard. While the result of the game at Princeton was not unanticipated, the work of the nine was in many respects disappointing. It was not expected that the team would play with confidence nor was it expected that there would be such an exhibition of loose fielding, weak batting, and lack of team play. But before condemning all this it should be remembered that the conditious under which the game was played were all against Harvard. The loose work in the field and weakness at the bat can be attributed...
HARVARD LOSES HER FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.Princeton won the first championship game of the season at Princeton on Saturday, easily defeating Harvard by a score of eleven to two. The day was perfect for base ball; and a large delegation of Princeton supporters came from New York to witness the game. Only about six Harvard men accompanied the team from Cambridge, and the work of the nine was a disappointment. The men played under rather poor luck to be sure, but many of their errors were inexcusable, The infielders seemed bothered considerably, especially on sharp ground hits, by the dirt diamond...
...class series for this season. To begin the class games as late as May 18 would necessitate their extension into the period of the finals; and our experience of last year, when no one date could be arranged between the '88 and '90 teams for the question of championship, led us to conclude that the postponement of games till May 18, practically necesitated their abandonment. The vexed question has, however, been settled by a compromise acceptable to all, and a new schedule of games has been arranged which finishes the class series but a few days later than the original...