Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...costuming and staging was very good but the dialogue was inferior. The songs and the musical selections and the mechanical features, however, combined to make the performance fairly acceptable, while the clever work of several members of the cast, notably Frank Butterworth, the football player, and H. R. Bond, Jr., won repeated encores. The latter caught the audience in a clever song, in which he accounted for Yale's victories in athletics and defeats in debate in a line which ran, "We are men of deeds, not words...
...seniors, Reed pitched fairly well, although a little wild at times, and Bacon played a reliable game. His throwing was very poor, however, and bases were stolen off him at will. Adams and Brown made some clever stops but also made some costly errors. Bigelow assisted in a pretty double play, catching Griffin's fly in short left field and throwing out O'Malley at the plate...
...seniors went out in order in the ninth, when Dodge made their only run on his hit and steal of second base, followed by clever sacrifices by Brown and Adams...
...second half Stevens managed to tie the score by Christie's throwing a goal at the end of 12 minutes' rapid playing. The teams changed goals and it then took Stevens just 11 minutes to take the lead by scoring her third goal, through clever manipulation of the sphere by Walker. The players were still battling like Trojans when the last half terminated...
...next inning Holy Cross made two hits but got no runs. Harvard was more fortunate. Rand's hit fell safe, Stevenson advanced him by a clever sacrifice, and he scored on a very wild pitch...