Word: close
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Eighty-eight and Ninety played a close though uninteresting game on Holmes Field yesterday. Ninety scored four runs in the first inning on hits by Slade, Sabine and McLeod. After this they could not seem to bunch their hits and so lost. Eighty-eight played a good fielding game and Austin pitched finely striking out men at critical points. Mr. Abbott, L. S., umpired the game acceptably. The score...
With the exception of a slight hitch in the second verse, the poem entitled "Lines" runs smoothly; the thought, however, will hardly bear close scrutiny...
TUG-OF-WAR.The tug-of-war contests were very close and Harvard's victory was a hard-earned one. Harvard pulled Princeton 10 inches and Columbia one-half inch. Yale pulled Swarthmore two inches. In the final heat Harvard pulled Yale three-quarters of an inch...
...third, Lee braced, playing his backhanded shots with good effect, and took the set. At the beginning of the fourth set, both players struggled hard for the lead. The first game was deuce and vantage at least a dozen times. The rest of the set was a long, close struggle, but Shaw won by pretty placing...
...match between Shaw and Tailer was an exhibition of very strong tennis. The result of the final doubles was a great surprise. Lee and Tallant beat Sears and Shaw three straight sets, 6-4, 8-6, 7-5. Lee and Tallant played very close to the net and seemed able to return everything; while Sears and Shaw tried to drive through them instead of lobbing, and getting them back first. Lee and Tallant will play an exhibition match with Tailer and Snow, the present champions, at the end of the week...