Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play a second game with the University of Vermont nine. The first game with this team, which was played several weeks ago, resulted in a victory for Harvard, but since then the Vermont team has improved wonderfully. In this first game Abbey pitched the most of the game, the crack pitcher, O'Connor, only going in for the last three or four innings. Harvard did not secure a single hit off the latter while he was in the box. Today he will pitch the whole game, and a rattling contest may be expected. The University of Vermont defeated the strong...
Jack Horner, the crack pitcher of last season's New Haven League base ball team, has signed an agreement to coach the Yale ball team. He will begin his duties about the middle of January...
...Berkeley Athletic Club, of New York City, will hold its first annual spring meeting at the Berkeley Oval on May 17. The committee having charge of the games, with Wendell Baker, '86, chairman, has sent invitations to the crack athletes of the I. C. A. A. N. A. and of the A. A. U., and judging from the large number of entries already received the games will be very successful. The track is in excellent; condition; at the intercollegiate meeting in May, 1889, eight records were broken in the fifteen events: since then the track has been improved a good...