Word: closes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...took our seat on the well-filled benches expecting and hoping for a close and interesting game; for, although desirous of our Nine's success, we would gladly have seen Princeton make it close and exciting work for them, as they did last year. But in this we were grievously disappointed. From the very first inning our men began their heavy batting, getting two two-basers at the start, - Princeton in the mean while piling up errors in rapid succession, - until our score reached old-time figures, while Princeton's, through her inability to hit Ernst, remained severely modern...
...much is it taken as a matter of course; but when they unfortunately lose, they are followed, not with sympathy, but with fault-finding and audible imprecation. But in this case they must expect little sympathy. They went to New Haven confident themselves of making at least a close game of it, and carrying with them the unbounded confidence of the College in their complete success. Had they been beaten in a close and exciting game, we could be patient and call it hard luck; but they have not even this poor satisfaction to offer. Theirs was not a defeat...
...oars ever built. On the paper boat also the makers seem to have expended all their skill. The crew now have an opportunity of fairly testing the two shells, and deciding the much disputed question of the comparative merits of cedar and paper for boat building. Mr. W. B. Close, of the Cambridge (England) University crew, was at the boat-house last Monday...
...race between the Holworthy boat and the Matthews boat was very close, but resulted in a victory for the Holworthy crew. The time made was, Holworthy, 5 minutes 11 1/2 seconds; Matthews, 5 minutes 12 seconds; Weld, 5 minutes 23 seconds; Holyoke, 5 minutes 25 seconds...
...selected to represent us at Springfield. The crew are steadily improving, and are much farther advanced than - so far as the writer's experience goes - a Harvard crew has ever been at this season of the year; but probably no Harvard crew has had so great a gap to close up as that left before us last year...