Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...facts were that Harvard, '87, was willing and anxious to decide the championship by a third game, and that it offered to play on any day named by Yale; that Yale, '87, refused to play a tie game. Under these circumstances, Harvard, '87, had a clear right to claim the third game, and having thus won two games to Yale's one, the freshman championship last year was won by Harvard...
Since writing the editorial upon the action of the Yale freshman manager which appeared in yesterday's issue, a copy of the Yale News has come to hand, containing an editorial in which the claim advaneed by the freshmen is abandoned. The editors of the News very frankly say that the card referred to was printed before the matter had been fully investigated, and wish it known that such a claim would never have been entered had the rules relating to the subject been familiar to them...
...Yale News of Monday morning contained a card signed by the manager of the Yale freshman nine, in which he claimed the game of last Saturday for his nine, basing his claim on section 4, rule 43, of the Spalding Official Rules, which says, "If the umpire calls 'Game' on account of darkness or rain at any time after five innings have been completed by both sides, the score shall be that of the last equal innings played, unless the side second at bat shall have scored one or more runs than the side first at bat, in which case...
Accustomed as we have grown by sad experience to the utter disregard of fair dealing usually shown by Yale freshman nines, we must confess that the assurance of the present demand is little less than appalling. In reply to the claim filed by the enterprising manager of the New Haven freshmen, we will simply quote the Boston Herald, which expresses our sentiments exactly. From its base-ball columns we clip the following...
...Yale freshmen claim the game played at Harvard last Saturday, according to sec. 4 of rule 43. Let these young gentlemen peruse rule 44, which says: "A drawn game shall be declared by the umpire when he terminates a game, on account of darkness or rain, after five equal innings have been played, if the score at the time is equal on the last even innings played; but, if the side that went second to bat is then at bat, and has scored the same number of runs as the other side, the umpire shall declare the game drawn, without...