Word: inning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of the rain yesterday afternoon the Pennsylvania game was played as scheduled. For the first five inning it rained continuously and good playing was very difficult. The pitchers had to put sawdust on the ball before every delivery so the game dragged somewhat. About five o'clock the rain stopped and the rest of the game was quickly played. Harvard played a very good fielding game throughout, the only errors being two wild throws which were excusable because of the slippery condition of the ball. Pennsylvania fieded rather loosely at times but made many good plays. Harvard batted freely...
...first inning Updegrove made a hit, and scored on a wild pitch and Swift's long ground hit to left field. This was Pennsylvania's only run. For Harvard, Dean made a clean hit to left field, Linn got a base on balls and both scored on a wild throw and Willard's high hit to short centre field...
...year. Mr. Garrett was captain of the eleven at Haverford college in '86, where he graduated the same year He is a member of the Germantown Cricket club, and two or three years since, in a match between Germantown and Young America, when the former made the largest one-inning score yet made in this country, 418, he went in first with G. S.Patterson and made 30 run before losing his wicket. He is a good all-round cricketer...
Yale defeated Pennsylvania last Tuesday in a six inning game by a score...
...their outs and had control of the ball while it was dry, and therefore Harvard was quickly disposed of. But when Wood received the ball it was almost impossible to control it. When Captain Brown learned the state of affairs he concluded so to delay the game that five innings could not be completed. But after three innings had been thus played, Browne was pursuaded by ontside advice that it would be better to play the game as well as possible and after the third inning this plan was followed. This, I think will explain the score to all fair...