Word: drives
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tendency to be late at the catch, and the whole crew rowed lifelessly. The time made was slow, and at no time was the stroke raised above 32 to the minute. On the way back to the boathouse, however, the men rowed better together and with more life and drive...
...Second was creditable, the base-running showed improvement over the last two or three games played, and the bunting was the best of the season. Neither team made many hits, but the Exeter nine bunched their five hits well and scored two runs on a hard line drive between centre and right field. Hutchinson pitched well for the Second nine, giving but two bases on balls. Carpenter's difficult catch of a centre-field fly was a feature of the game...
...last year's Freshman crew. Sanger, who has been dropped from the University squad, has been put in at 6, but the men do not row well together. The Newell senior crew has been hampered by a lack of good material, and the men have been unable to drive the boat along properly. They have a tendency to hold their blades too-high at the catch and a also have a weak finish...
...only one man had reached second base. In the sixth, however, Carr got his base on an error, and, reaching second on a single by Coolidge, scored on Matthews's two-base hit, which advanced Coolidge to third. Clarkson then cleared the bases with a powerful home-run drive to deep centre field. The other two runs were made in the ninth inning, Clarkson reached first on a pitcher's baulk and, after getting to second on Stephenson's single, and to third on H. Kernan's sacrifice hit, came home on a double steal with Stephenson, who was advanced...
...been held with the Stone's School crew has been cancelled. The crew is being coached regularly by J. F. Perkins 3L., and is gradually improving in form, although many faults are noticeable. Both eights, especially the first are unsteady in the water, and both lack a good leg drive and the clean, hard catch which is so necessary. These faults, however, are being gradually overcome by careful individual coaching. The most encouraging part of the work of the Freshmen has been their brushes with the University crews, in which they have held their own remarkably well...