Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After two innings and a half of clean, sharp playing the Harvard-Princeton game on Saturday was stopped by rain. Neither side had scored. In the third Princeton had been retired in one, two three order. Harvard had Cook on third with two men out. Scannell hit a ball which struck inside the diamond and bounded squarely over third base. Cook came in. The Harvard men were just beginning to cheer when umpire Hartley shouted "foul" and sent Cook back. Then Trenchard broke his finger and time was called. Before play was resumed the rain came down in torrents...
...half of the inning. Whittemore fouled out. Cook got his base on balls. Dickinson struck out but Trenchard dropped the ball. Dickinson was in the way of a throw when he started for first and Cook got to second safely. Dickinson was, however, called out. Then Scannel was hit by a pitched ball and immediately after both he and Cook were advanced a base on Bradley's wild pitch. Wiggin went out on a fly to Mackenzie...
...eighth, Trenchard hit safely and reached second owing to Whittemore's muff of Corbett's throw. Ward then knocked a hot liner to Winslow, who made a beautiful catch and, running to second, reached there before Trenchard, who had started for third, could return...
Princeton made one more run in the ninth inning. Brooks reached first on a hit. Williams hit to Highlands, who threw him out at first, and Brooks reached second on the play and came home on Gunster's hit...
Earned runs-Harvard 3; two-base hit, Wiggin; three-base hits-Corbett, Otto; sacrifice hits-Cook, Scannell; stolen bases-Whittemore, Cook 2, Scannell, Corbett, Highlands 2, Mackenzie; first base on balls-Cook, Dickinson, Whittemore, Winslow, O'Malley 2, Gunster, Altman, Otto; first base on errors-Harvard 1, Princeton 2; struck out-by Highlands 4, by Altman 1, by Bradley 2; double plays-Whittemore and Dickinson, Winslow; passed balls-Scannell 1, Williams 5; wild pitch-Altman. Time-2h. 15m. Umpire-Stage...