Word: harding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...glorious one, a lively breeze being the only objectionable feature. The Nines were promptly on the field, each presenting its full strength, and all showing by their preliminary practice the results of careful work, and vigorous determination to win or die hard. But great are the uncertainties of base-ball! Yale entered the contest confident of victory; a confidence theoretically well founded, but practically disastrous to reputation and pocket. Harvard, on the other hand, had learned by bitter experience the danger of excessive confidence, and knew that the game could alone be won by steady, persistent work. This feeling, with...
Tuesday's game with the Live Oaks was one of those occasional occurrences which result from a combination of superior playing on the part of your opponents, and the hard luck arising from inopportune base-hits, and errors made when they would be productive of most disastrous results. Leeds's beautiful, one-hand, jumping catch was the marked feature of the game. The score tells the rest...
...little sympathy. They went to New Haven confident themselves of making at least a close game of it, and carrying with them the unbounded confidence of the College in their complete success. Had they been beaten in a close and exciting game, we could be patient and call it hard luck; but they have not even this poor satisfaction to offer. Theirs was not a defeat, it was a rout, which can only be wiped out by a corresponding victory next time. But what were the causes of this Waterloo? Dieu sait. For the numberless fielding errors only bad playing...
...gracefully retire in one, two, three order. The ninth inning results in Carter striking out, Brown batting to second, Wheaton getting a base hit, and Morgan retiring on a good catch by Dow. Wright is evidently in a hurry, and goes out quickly at first. Dow then hits a hard one to the pitcher, who touches it with his hand just enough to turn it into the short-stop's hands. Sawyer then completes the symmetry of the score card by going out as the twenty-seventh...
...tried to get some points for my electives, but he fought shy of them. He said that he 'd been cheated right through. They d said the courses he took were soft, but he found every deuced ore of them deuced hard. Then we veered back to sporting news again, and got on that awful Yale game...