Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...review of the work of the Harvard team before the first important game of the season, is encouraging. With a lack of sufficient practice, the team started the season, greatly handicapped, and yet after the Southern trip Dartmouth was defeated twice in succession. In these two games there was a great lack of team work and good base-running, and the team seemed to rely too much on the pitchers. These faults, coupled with indolent work at the bat, were the cause of the defeat by Williams, a much inferior team. Then there came a decided improvement, which resulted...
...Freshman nine was defeated by St. Mark's last Saturday at Southboro, by the score of 7 to 5. Although Alexander did not pitch in his usual good form, the defeat was more the result of ragged playing by the infield and ineffectual batting by the whole team...
...afternoon, the first round of matches was played, at the end of which four Harvard men were left for the second round. Curtis defeated Pyne 3 up, Lindsley won from Bates 1 up, Wadsworth from Edwards 6 up, and Richardson from Byers 3 up. The other players remaining were Myers, who defeated Hollins 2 up, Hitchcock, who beat Bonner 5 up, Wilson, who beat Averill 4 up, and Robertson, who won from Brown in a 19 hole match. This match was unusually close. With an even score at the end of the 16th hole, the last two holes were halved...
...Freshman nine lost a ten inning game to Groton last Saturday at Groton, by the score of 4 to 3. The defeat was the result of ragged fielding and weak batting at critical times. Groton won the game in the tenth because of an awkward collision between Rockwell and Carpenter, which let in two runs...
...baseball team lost to Williams on Saturday by a score of 5 to 4. Inability to bunch hits except in one inning was the principal cause of Harvard's defeat. Williams won the game in the ninth inning by making four clean base hits, which brought in two runs...