Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opponents at every point. The batting was much stronger than usual, but the men showed a decided tendency to be caught napping when at the bat. The outfielders played well, and the work of the infielders, with the exception of Quackenboss, who had an off day, was quick and clean. Downer pitched for Harvard, and the Amherst team obtained only five scattering hits from his delivery...
...home plate, and scored on Hoyt's hit to right. Jones got first on balls. was advanced a base on Hoyt's hit, and going to third on Hoyt's put out reached the home plate on Quakenboss's muff of Baehr's fly. Hoyt made a clean base hit to right but was out for running out of the base line. Beahr stole second, and came home on Downor's wild throw to Willard. Harvard was blanked in her half of the inning. In the second inning Gault got his base on balls, stole second, reached third on Henshaw...
...team seemed half asleep, and before they became awake again the game was lost. Even as it was there might have been some hopes of retrieving the poor work of the first inning, if the batting had not been atrocious. When a record of only two clean hits is shown, there seems but little chance that Harvard will be able to rely on heavy batting to win any games for her this spring...
...last four years Harvard has been slowly but surely going down in athletics. In the face of this, and in view of bad records, our almost clean score of defeats in the last three years, the mere fast that a mass meeting of Harvard students voted even to consider the question will put Harvard in an odious and contemiuous light. Very fortunately the committee appointed will not have power to decide the matter. It will justly be brought before a meeting of students who will then have considered the matter, who will not be taken by surprise, and who, unless...
...scored three runs in this game. The redeeming feature of Harvard's work was the fielding of Mumford, who accepted seven difficult chances in centre field without an error. Linn's fielding and batting were also good. Harvard's only run was secured in the eighth inning on a clean base hit by Linn and errors of the league players. The score is as follows...