Word: hit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chas. E. Farmer, in arguing the superior merits of volleying over base line play in lawn tennis, says: "I quite admit, that when you are on the backline you can hit "with all your force," and keep the ball in court, but how often in a game are you making strokes from the back-line? Perhaps not one in six. Of course, the aim of all good players is to deep their adversaries on the back-line, but how often does anyone do it in the course of a rally? I have frequently had the pleasure of witnessing Messrs. Lawford...
...Choate was the first speaker. In the course of his remarks he managed to make a hit at almost every thing connected with the university. His speech was greeted with much applause and laughter. Mr. Choate also mentioned the receipt of a proposition by Samuel J. Bridge of Boston to present a bronze statue of John Harvard to be erected at the head of the Delta. President Eliot, who spoke next, referred to the fund raised to increase the salary of the president and various other gifts of the past year. He also spoke in the highest terms...
Until the seventh inning but one hit was made off his delivery and after that but five more were added. In the eighth, Hopkins knocked a three baser over right field fence. It was a block ball and Hopkins came home on it. Harvard excelled in pitching, as the score shows. Allen did magnificent work behind the bat, Coolidge and Baker had little to do but they did that little well, while the out-field played a beautiful game throughout, Crocker doing especially good work while Lovering and Le Moyne caught some particularly difficult flies. For Yale, Camp and Hopkins...
Time of game - 2 h. 20 min. Three-base hit - Hopkins. Bases on balls - Yale, 2; Harvard, 1. Wild pitches - Camp, 1; Winslow, 1. Struck out - Yale, 4; Harvard, 3. Umpire - McLean...
Brown won her first game of the season yesterday at Providence. Brown came first to the bat and in the first inning made three runs off two hits and two errors. Six runs were added in the third and fourth off three hits aided by errors by Baker and Lovering. For Harvard, Lovering made a run in the first inning off a two base hit and errors. Two runs, one earned, were added in the seventh inning, after two men were out. Coolidge and Baker then hit safe but were left. Brown won the game by sharp fielding at critical...