Word: error
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first on balls; Edgerly flied out; Winslow hit for two bases, sending Foster to third, where he was held by a neat trick of Blossom's; Beaman hit to short, and reached first on the attempt to put Foster out at the plate; Winslow scored on Cooper's error, and Tilden, after getting his first on an attempted put out, followed Beaman over the plate, assisted by an error of Taylor, and a second attempted putout; Nichols struck out, and Willard, after going to first on balls, was forced out at second by Allen. For Princeton, Reynolds was sent...
...fifth opened well for Harvard. Nichols hit for two bases just inside the left field foul line, and came home on Willard's two bagger; Willard came home from second on Blossom's error; Smith bad got his base on balls, and stolen second when the game...
...play; Smith got his base on balls, but Foster went out, Cooper to Toler, closing the inning with two men on bases. Princeton scored two runs in this inning. Cooper got his base on balls, and came in on Clark's drive for three bases; Clark scored on the error by Edgerly which allowed Taylor to reach first; Van Ausdal struck out; Taylor was thrown out at second by Allen, and Edwards fouled out. Score, 9 to 2 for Harvard...
...balls; Willard hit safely and stole second. Allen made a hit, sending in Nichols and Willard, and went to second and third on passed balls; Smith made a clean hit, bringing in Allen, but was himself caught napping at first by Cooper; Foster went to first on an error, and came home by the aid of errors and a successful steal; Edgerly went to first on an attempted put out, but was thrown out at second; Winslow struck out. Princeton scored two runs in the last half of the inning on a couple of singles, a put-out, Edgerly...
...tendency to make too many pauses in a sentence, as if the young speakers felt the need of a certain start before making an emphasis, on the reculer pour mieux sauter principle. The lack of by-play was striking, albeit natural, and almost all the participants fell into the error, common to all American -born amateurs, of looking preternaturally solemn-as if the destinies of the stellar system weighed upon their shoulder-when they had nothing to say. Yet there was no sign of carelessness; every movement and position seem to have been well studied out beforehand. The thing that...