Word: inning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...match last Tuesday between the married and the single members of the Longwood Cricket Club, R. D. Brown played an excellent inning for 36 runs...
Harvard's battery was weak, allowing seven men first on called balls and seven Williams men to steal bases. Hawley struck out four men. According to the now established rule Harvard went all to pieces after the first inning, both in batting and fielding. Harvard got four runs in the first inning and only one more during the entire game and that in the fifth. In the third Williams got five. Williams was first at the bat. Hawley struck out the first man, Wilson; Brown got a hit and by stealing bases and a base hit of Hotchkiss, got home...
Dartmouth came first to the bat, but made no runs until the fourth inning. Harvard lead off with two runs owing to fielding errors and a one-base hit. In the second, Dean's three-base hit and two other base hits brought in four runs. Schroll, Dean and Linn were left on bases in the third. In the fourth Willard made his two-base hit; this was followed by another two-base hit by Henshaw which gave Willard an earned run. In the fifth and sixth, Harvard went out in almost one, two, three order, and got no more...
...practice which the nine was to gain from play with professionals this year seems to have resulted in little good so far. The work of the team in the first inning of yesterday's game was simply abominable; no excuse can be given for most of the errors which were made. Almost every man on the team seemed half asleep, and before they became awake again the game was lost. Even as it was there might have been some hopes of retrieving the poor work of the first inning, if the batting had not been atrocious. When a record...
After the first inning, however, the team played well together. The infield showed much improvement over the work in the last game, and the men backed each other up well. As long however, as the nine continues to go to pieces at the beginning of every game there is little chance for a creditable showing to be made...