Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...final game in the class baseball series was played on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, and resulted in a victory for the Juniors, the score being 14 to 7. The game was a very interesting one and the issue remained in doubt until the middle of the fifth inning, when Franklin was substituted for Cochrane by '99. After that the Sophomores were unable to obtain a hit, and Foster became ineffective, allowing '99 to increase their score from 4 to 14. The Sophomores lost the game by weakness at the bat and by two rather inexcusable errors. For '99 the most...
...With only one out Franklin then went into the box for '99 and struck out the next two men. For the rest of the game, 1900 was helpless at the bat and the contest was decidedly one-sided. '99 was kept from making more than one run in the fifth by the clever work of Edmunds and Foster who caught two men off bases, but there was no chance for the fielders in the last innings, the game resolving itself into a pitcher's contest...
...brought in by Jaynes's timely hit. In the third, however, three errors by 1901, two bases on balls, a three-base hit and two singles netted 1900 a total of seven runs. This lead the Freshmen were unable to overcome, although two more runs were secured in the fifth inning, when Whittemore and Jaynes scored on a mix-up of plays between Foster and Egbert. In the seventh, Egbert was hit by a pitched ball, and took second on Cropley's fumble of Edmunds's fly. Both Egbert and Edmunds were forced by George's base on balls...
...more scoring was done till the fifth when Bouve came in on a hit by Abbott, tieing the score, which stood eight to eight. Both teams had now steadied down and were playing good ball...
Dickson started in the box for Pennsylvania, and until the fourth inning, when Harvard bunched three singles and a triple, did well. In the fifth Brown was substituted for him and Harvard made one hit during the rest of the game...