Word: infield
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...field, the men showed life, and as a general rule threw accurately. Matthews was a little uncertain in recovering grounders, however, and Carr had a tendency to misstime his throw with men on bases. During the last part of the afternoon, the substitutes were put on bases, and the infield given practice in catching them between bases and at the plate. This part of the work was not encouraging, both the running and fielding being slow and crude...
...practice of the nine yesterday afternoon was fast, and there was considerable improvement over the playing shown in recent games. Special attention was given to the infield, and the work was marked by accurate fielding and fast throwing. The batting of the team showed improvement and the base-running was good...
...than in the Brown game and was characterized throughout by fast throwing and accuracy in handling grounders. Two of the three errors made, however, were very costly. In the first inning Stephenson misjudged a long fly, letting in a run, and in the fourth inning Coolidge dropped an easy infield fly, the batsman reaching first and scoring later in the inning...
...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...
...receiving meanwhile, errorless support in the field. Coburn also pitched very creditably with eleven strike-outs and only four hits against him; but his effective work in the box proved unavailing, since he himself made an error which let in three runs, and every other man in the infield made one or more errors, all of which were very costly. Such deplorable fielding, however, was only in part responsible for the defeat; for at the bat, the team showed a weakness which has been unparalleled this year, making only two clean singles and a scratch hit, and knocking only...