Word: damp
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Harvard won her second championship game on Saturday defeating Wesleyan at Hampden park, Springfield, by a score of sixty-seven to two. In spite of the damp day, the grounds were in good condition, but the number of spectators was comparatively small...
...Harvard and Yale freshmen played the first game of the series Saturday on Holmes Field, the game resulting in a victory for the home team. The ground was damp and soggy and the ball wet, which accounts for many of the errors. Both nines played well, yet both had one innings in which they went to pieces. The Harvard team went to bat in the first and succeeded in getting six runs, none earned, by means of some errors and three hits, all bunched. In the second, two more runs were added to the Harvard score by hits by Codman...
...damp, chilly weather and the class races was the cause of the poor attendance at the game yesterday. The few spectators sat shivering while Harvard did its heaviest batting this year. Amherst presented their change battery, Thayer and Clark. For four innings Harvard was kept down to two hits, the two runs in the first being made on a three bagger by Campbell, an error by short, and hits by Willard and Henshaw. In the fifth, with two men out and with the bases full, Bates made a timely single to left, Campbell followed with his fourth consecutive...
...other net, which was under the direction of ex-Captain Williard, were Campbell, L. S.; Quackenboss, M. S., and McKean, '90. Boyden was pitching to this net. In the field were Gallivan, '88; Linn, '90; Mason, '91, and Codman, '90. The ground was not in the best condition, being damp and soggy, but this did not interfere materially with the work of the men. The out-fielders, Linn and Codman, showed up very well. On the whole it looks as though the nine would not find it difficult to get into shape after a very little practice. Phillips, captain...
There is one trouble in regard to the Princeton cage. It was so damp the other day that it could not be used...