Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman squad, under the direction of W. L. Stoddard '07, has been holding practice regularly for the last two months, and has developed a very fair team, especially strong on the attack. As this, however, is the Freshmen's first game, the chances favor the visiting team, which has already won four games this year...
Last year Williams was defeated at Philadelphia in a ten-inning game by a score of 5 to 3, and at Cambridge by a score of 16 to 1. The chances this afternoon favor Harvard, although the score will probably be close, for Williams has already defeated Amherst by a score of 2 to 0, when Ford, the Williams pitcher, did not allow...
Johns Hopkins has, as usual, a strong team and has already defeated the University of Pennsylvania this season by the score of 7 to 0. The chances of winning in the game today, therefore, seem to be in their favor...
...eighth inning neither side was able to gain any decided lead, errors and hits being equally numerous and scattered. When Harvard came to the bat in the first half of the eighth inning the score stood 4 to 3 in her favor, and it was already too dark to permit of accurate work by the infield. Hellmann was thrown out at first, but McCarty secured first on Peck's error at centre field. Dexter then singled, advancing McCarty one base. The latter reached third on a passed ball by Kibbey, and scored on Castle's single. Dexter...
...season with Haverford this afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Haverford College athletic field. Owing to the poor weather conditions the University team has had but five practice games, two of which were held in deep snow. For this reason the chances of victory seem to favor Haverford...