Word: championship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effect of the spring trip of the nine has been to show that if Harvard is to put a victorious team in the field in the coming championship games a great deal of hard work must be done. The work of the nine agains professionals was, to say the least, discouraging, although, when we take into consideration all the disadvantages under which the nine played, not so unsatisfactory as many seem to think. The infield is very weak and the team as a whole bat very poorly, The great advantage of these professional games is to bring out the weak...
...trip showed plainly that the work of the infield must improve greatly before the championship season opens. Willard, of course, plays his position at first for all it is worth, and Dean plays at short stop in a way that is at least encouraging; but the work of the candidates for second and third base was very weak in the three games played on the trip. All of the men however, are lively, wideawake fielders and display a willingness to work which gives encouragement that they will overcome this weakness before the season is far advanced...
...Bostons. This is the first Easter trip which the nine has ever taken, and it is likely to be productive of much good. Yale has already played two games and on the spring trip the nine will play at Philadelphia, at Washington, and twice at New York. The championship season for Harvard will open with the first game with Princeton at Princeton, May 4, and will close June 25 with the game against Yale at New Haven...
...meeting of the captains of the four class baseball nines was to have been held last night, but it was postponed on account of the absence of any representative from the sophomore class. A schedule of championship games was to be arranged, but it will have to be made out later in the season. The postponed meeting will probably be held directly after the recess...
Sherrill has so far recovered from the injury which he received at the Amateur Athletic championship games in the Fall that he is now able to run frequently...