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Word: closely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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ITHACA, N. Y., May 31.--Cornell defeated the University crew by a few feet of open water in an extremely close and hard-fought race this evening over the two-mile course on Lake Cayuga. The Cornell crew covered the course in 10 minutes and 41 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW DEFEATED BY CORNELL | 6/1/1909 | See Source »

...made a beautiful one-hand stop of a high bounder, which was going over second, and threw to first, retiring the side in the third inning. He also accepted seven chances without an error. Aronson made a good running catch of Caldwell's line drive in the sixth inning close to the foul line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL TEAM WON, 5 TO 2 | 6/1/1909 | See Source »

...half-mile mark Cornell was still half a length ahead. In the next half-mile Cornell kept gaining slightly, and as the crews passed by the mile mark, Cornell was one length ahead. For the next three-quarters of a mile the race was very exciting and close, neither crew being able to gain more than a few feet. Entering upon the last quarter-mile of the race Cornell raised the stroke slightly, but Harvard's work seemed rather heavy and sluggish. At the finish Cornell led by about five feet of open water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW DEFEATED BY CORNELL | 6/1/1909 | See Source »

...Reeves, held Cornell safe at all times; Ernst allowed but five scattered hits and struck out seven men. Foster, the Cornell pitcher, was ineffective, but the high score was due in part to the erratic support given him by his team. Until the seventh inning the game was fairly close. The Freshmen secured two runs in the first inning on a series of stupid errors; two more runs were made, one in the fourth and the other in the sixth, due to timely hitting. In the seventh inning the Freshmen found Foster for a number of safe hits, Including...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN SHUT OUT CORNELL | 6/1/1909 | See Source »

...first events to be run off yesterday. Beck of Pennsylvania won the first heat in the remarkable time of 1 minute, 56 4-5 seconds. French of Cornell ran a carefully planned race and finished just ahead of Kirjassoff of Yale for second place. Warren of Harvard was close to Kirjassoff at the finish, but could not quite overtake him. Pennsylvania again showed up strongly in the second heat, which was won by Paull in 1 minute, 58 4-5 seconds. Whiteley of Princeton led a great part of the way and was a good second at the finish. Spitzer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINALS OF INTERCOLLEGIATES | 5/29/1909 | See Source »

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