Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...perpetual see-saw until the last event was finished at 7 o'clock, and when it is remembered that a difference of one first place would have tied the score, the extreme closeness of the games can be comprehended. To be sure, Yale at the end of the fourth event had 23 points while Harvard had 9 only. Yet the mile run and the mile walk evened the score and from then till the end, both Harvard and Yale men were kept on the very tiptoe of expectation...
...captured first place, Wade of Yale and R. H. Davis of Harvard being close second and third. After the shock of the fall in the first heat, Elliott was hardly in condition to do well in the finals, although he pluckily stuck to it and finished a good fourth...
...mile run, Scoville of Yale, led for the first three laps and when the fourth came, Lowell, who had kept close to Scoville up to this point, spurted easily and effectively, and together with Collamore passed the Yale runner on the final stretch. Collamore, who all the way through had run very prettily, finished second, with Scoville close behind...
Harvard failed to earn a single one of her runs, but scored a run in the second, third, fourth and sixth innings...
...first was made by Dickinson on an error by Judd. and a couple of singles. Hallowell scored in the third on a hit, a single by Frothingham and a very bad error by McMahon in right field. In the fourth Dickinson scored on a wild throw by Wise and a couple of hits. Cobb scored the last run in the sixth on an error by Hickey and two singles...