Word: highly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University baseball practice yesterday consisted of the usual amount of work in batting and fielding, in neither of which was there any considerable improvement apparent. In batting, the men showed the old faults of knocking high flies and easy infield grounders, and in fielding the work was rather unsteady. No base-running or bunting was tried...
...either the mile or two-mile runs, finished second, and Walsh, who was relied upon to win second failed to get a place. After a rest of only thirty minutes, Colwell started in the two-mile run, and won fourth place. After only two days' training, Kernan won the high jump in excellent form; having failed twice at 5 ft. 11 1-2 in. and 6 ft. 1 in., he cleared both heights easily on his third jump...
...finals. Converse and Behr were both handicapped in their races; the former from lack of practice, the latter from being badly spiked on Friday. Haigh ran a beautiful race in the quarter-mile, having it well in hand from the start. Bird, in the semi-finals of the high hurdles, running, up to the seventh hurdle, practically a dead heat with Clapp for first place, twisted a ligament in his leg, and so failed to qualify for what seemed a certain score in the finals...
...High jump--Won by Kernan, H., 6ft. 1 in.; second, Lowe, Syracuse, 5 ft. 11 3-4 in.; third, Alexander, Y., 5 ft. 10 3-5 in.; fourth, Serviss, Cornell...
...preliminary heats for the championship of the Interscholastic Rowing Association were rowed on the Charles River yesterday over the mile course, down-stream. There were three heats with four crews in each heat, the Boston Latin School, the Cambridge Latin School, and the Waltham High School winning the three heats. The Cambridge Latin School crew won its heat in 5m. 33s., breaking the former interscholastic record by 9s. This afternoon the race for second crews will be held and the winner of this will enter the final race on Saturday afternoon with the three crews victorious yesterday...