Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard suffered another crushing defeat yesterday afternoon at the hands of the Holy Cross nine, the score being even to one in favor of the latter. The fielding of Harvard was slovenly and poor and the batting weak; in fact the playing, as a whole, was poorer than one would expect to see in a class game. The team went to pieces at critical moments and failed to pull together at all. Rand and Burgess were the only men who seemed to know how to play ball. The former played a good all-round game, while the latter, although making...
...Holy Cross came to the bat first. Kelley, the first man up, got his base on balls, went to second on a wild pitch, and reached third on a passed ball. For a few minutes it looked as if a man would come in, but Highlands settled down. Curley struck out. Maroney went out on a grounder to Stevenson, and Powers flied out to Adams, Harvard made her only run this inning, and after this but two men succeeded in getting past first base. Whittemore came to the bat first and bunted to third, who threw him out at first...
...fourth inning brought Holy Cross four more runs, due to two hits and four errors by Harvard. Curley came to the bat first and knocked a safe hit to right field. Maroney then knocked a fly between Rand and Burgess, which the latter muffed, and Curley went to second. Powers made a single to right, which went through Hayes, who. after he had captured the ball, made a poor throw and two runs came in, while Powers reached third. Sockalexis fouled out. W. J. Fox hit to Whittemore, who tried to catch Powers at home plate, but Scannell muffed...
...only other scoring was done in the sixth, when two hits and wretched fielding on Harvard's part allowed Holy Cross to score three times. After this inning neither side got a man to first base...
...HOLY CROSS...