Word: error
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Base-hits by Smith and Downer and an error by Latham gave Yale...
...present at the Freshman match, and heard the hearty applause with which good plays on either side were received, knows how entirely untrue any charge of bullying is. We do think that it is hardly necessary to clap a player who gets his first-base on an error; but it is perfectly evident to the unprejudiced mind that the applause is meant to show the gratification of the spectators at the successful run, not pleasure at the error of the opposing nine...
...next game is lost before giving up the hope of winning the series, and the championship. The match with Amherst on Wednesday has strengthened our hopes. Ernst's pitching in the fourth and fifth innings was particularly fine. Howe's catching throughout the game was marred by one error only, and that one gained the other side no advantage. Tyng's return to the field seemed to add new vigor to the Nine. The fielding everywhere was fine. With such a game before us, and the prospect of ten days' more practice, we have every reason to be encouraged. There...
...Yale Nine who failed to get in a base-hit; the excellence of his pitching, however, fully atoned for his poor success at the bat. Hutchison made a good stop and caught a hot liner. Clark caught a difficult fly. Parker and Downer played their positions without error...
...four games played by our Nine with the Manchesters, the record stands eleven to eleven. Unfortunately for him, according to his own figures, which by the way are incorrect, the sum total amounts to twelve to eleven in their favor. But in addition to his careless mathematical error, he seems to have forgotten entirely that the score of the second game was ten to four in our favor; and that the sum total as corrected stands fourteen to eleven, in favor of our Nine, who have made 0, 10, 3, 1, to their...