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...Freshman nine met the Seniors on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon and were defeated in a contest which was characterized by very loose playing by both teams. The seniors took a lead in the first and second innings which the freshmen could not overcome, although they played a good uphill game for seven innings. In the eighth inning the '89 team bunched their hits and with the assistance of some loose work by '92, managed to score five runs. The freshmen played without life after that...
Earned runs-Ninety-two 2; two base hits-McPherson; three base hits-Clarke; first base on balls-Rankin 10, McPherson 5: first base on errors-Eighty-nine 1; struck out-Curtis Wrenn (2), Brown, Neff (2), Cummin (2), Allen, Rankin (3), Smith, Clarke; stolen bases-Eighty-nine 12; Ninety-two 9; passed balls-Bell 3, Smith 2; wild pitches-Rankin 2, McPherson 1; left on bases-Eighty-nine 9, Ninety-two 9; time-2 hours, 30 minutes; umpire-Crosby...
Best general references: Atlantic Monthly, vol. 57, p. 180; Morrill's Speech, forty-sixth congress, first session...
...took the lead with Brown only a few feet behind. The same relative positions were maintained until the home stretch was reached, when Brown made a desperate effort to overtake Davis, but did not succeed, and Davis won in 6 minutes, 47 3-5 seconds. Davis' time for the first mile was 3 minutes, 32 seconds...
Ninety-two: Two-mile bicycle race-The entries were W. B. Greenleaf and R. W. Holmes. Green leaf took the lead from the start, made the first mile in 3 minutes, 4 seconds, and won by about three-quarters of a lap in 6 minutes, 13 3-5 seconds...