Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good ground for such complaint. There has been a great deal of dissatisfaction, this year, among patrons of the Co-operative Society on account of the lack of attention shown by the management. Whether it is deliberate or not is a question which does not concern us. The fault should be remedied...
...Association before the snow on the ground is melted, never-theless it will be but a few weeks before the courts on Holmes and Jarvis will be ready for use. That great inconvenience to players, the absence of backnets, was removed last year, but there is yet one little fault which everyone would be glad to see remedied. It is well known what a bore it is to pay in cash the man who has charge of the courts, for if one does not forgot to supply himself with money when he dresses himself for tennis playing he seldom...
...locked and the boy is given the alternative of leaving the papers on the steps outside, or of not leaving them at all. In either case the subscribers do not get their papers. If they will investigate the matter themselves, they will find that it is not our fault, but that of the people with whom they lodge...
...bitter denunciation of the base-ball management. The gentlemen who form that management are doing everything in their power to get the faculty to allow our nines to play against professionals, and if it does not seem best to them to start a petition, we should not find fault with them for that and denounce them as if they were employing no other means to obtain the desired result. They are the best judges. As a matter of fact, we have been assured by the management that they have been very far from idle. And simply because they...
...first crew, as a whole, are working pretty well, but still there is a lack of energy in their rowing. The men are apt not to make the most of the coaching, and do not study their faults enough. As a crew they row short. The recover is hurried and not smooth, and there is not enough life in the catch and heave. Most of the men fail to swing well from their hips, thereby getting a weak stroke and tiring themselves. The usual tendency to contract the stomach, instead of letting it take care of itself and hang naturally...