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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first game of the season on Holmes Field was played yesterday and resulted in an overwhelming victory for the home team. The game was the greatest farce ever seen on Holmes. The visitors were lamentably weak both in the field and at the bat. Of their four hits, two were direct gifts by the Harvard pitcher. They could hit neither swift nor slow balls. Such opponents as these do far more injury than good to the nine. A much better team could have been chosen from our own men than that which represented Bowdoin yesterday. It is conducive to careless...
...were not in practice. No less than ten Harvard men got first on errors. Harvard failed to score only in the second inning. In the fifth, on seven hits and a series of errors, Harvard scored eight runs. This inning was noticeable for the poor base-running of the home team...
...ball. Gallivan and Howland also scored in this inning on a hit and several passed balls. Harvard did not do anything until the seventh, when Boyden led off with a clean hit to centre, took second on a wild pitch, third on Dean's sacrifice to Meade, and came home on an unsuccessful attempt by Cahill to catch him at third...
...competition is necessarily great. Those who have been fitted at the Harvard preparatory schools of the Eastern States generally have the advantage from the start. Scholarships being regarded as prizes for high marks are often eagerly sought after whether needed or not. Many a student with sufficient assistance from home is glad to supplement his funds and thus live in luxury with the added honor of having his name printed among the holders of scholarships. During my own course I never ventured to apply for a scholarship. I knew that it would be useless. My marks were not high enough...
...Harvard team was made up as follows: Goal, Drake; point, Naumberg; cover-point, Pulsifer; 1st, 2nd, 3d defence field, Griswold, Griffing, Towle; 1st home, Thorndike; 2nd home, Hughes; 1st and 2nd attack field, Kilvert and Davidson; cetre, Rourke...