Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next Monday and Tuesday the third and fourth games of base-ball between Princeton and Harvard will be played on Holmes Field...
...left on second, the succeeding batsmen striking out. Wright made a base-hit, and scored on damaging errors by Hunt; Alger also scored on an error by Hunt, Latham's base-hit, and a wild pitch. Errors by Tyng and Ernst allowed Hamill to make third in the fourth inning. Neither side reached a base after this until the seventh inning, when base-hits by Thayer, Ernst, and Wright, aided by errors of Hunt and Cutts, gave two runs. Wigton reached second on a failure of Tyng to put him out on three strikes. Dodge struck to Nunn, who made...
...stole second and third; Alger went out on a foul fly to Karge; Thayer hit hard to right field; Wigton made a good jump, and caught the ball in his left hand, and by quick fielding threw-Nunn out at home base; Alger missed Wigton's fly in the fourth, but Tyng and Latham disposed of the runner on second; Latham made another fine catch; Alger took his base on balls; Thayer flied to Wigton; Alger reached third on a wild pitch; Tyng went to first on balls; Fessenden flied to Hamill; Tyng stole second; Ernst flied to Wigton...
...following is the order of events of the H. A. A. next Friday: 1. half-mile run; 2. mile walk; 3. one hundred yards' dash; 4. running broad jump; 5. one mile run; 6. hurdle race (120 yards); 7. one fourth mile run; 8. potato race; 9. three-legged race; 10. bicycle race (three miles). Contestants are reminded that if they do not appear within five minutes after the bell is rung, they will positively be excluded...
PRIZES have been offered by private gentlemen for the following events, conditional on the appended time being equalled or beaten: One fourth mile run, 56 s.; one hundred yards' dash, 10 1/2 s.; one mile run, 4 m. 55 s.; one mile walk, 8 m. The prize for the bicycle race is made conditional on five men starting; the H. A. A. will add a handsome second prize if five men finish the race...