Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard Got Ten Hits off Bowers - Only One Hit Made off Highlands - Carter Badly Hurt...
...story of Harvard's victory is told in two words, - Highlands and Mason. The Yale men got but one hit off the former, not another ball going to the Harvard outfielders, and fifteen of them struck out. Mason's catching was worthy of the pitching which he caught, and he did not have even a dropped third strike to mar his record. The infield, too, covered themselves with glory, and the only fielding error that Harvard had was made by Dickinson on a very difficult chance...
...Harvard had hard luck. The men hit the ball hard and often, only two men striking out but their hits went to the wrong places, and the wind held back their long flies, and although they made ten hits, yet only in the first could they get more than one hit in an inning...
...bases the men ran well, but in one or two cases the coachers showed poor judgment, notably when Hallowell was coached to second on his hit to Norton...
...third inning was quick, and well played on both sides. Jackson went out on a grounder to Dickinson. Hovey fielded Kedzie's sharp hit with one of his usual brilliant throws, and the man was out at first. Murphy's hit was fielded in the same way by Frothingham. For Harvard, Hovey and Cook went out on easy gronnders, and Dickinson filed out to Norton...