Word: larkins
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nine plays fairly well together but the base running is poor. The battery is perhaps better than it was last year, but the general fielding work is not as good as that of last year's team, but there is good promise of improvement. Mercur is pitching well, and Larkin, Price and Wagenhurst are fielding well. The New Yorks seemed to terrify the infield. The outfield is very steady, however. King has been ill, but of late has been playing at second, his regular position. The team's training is noticeably lax, but the experiences of the season will doubtless...
...Princeton withdrawing from the present intercollegiate league, and uniting with Harvard and Yale in a new one. Prof. Johnson was introduced, and advocated the plan for the purpose of making a more compact league, associating the three leading universities more closely, formulating good rules and eliminating undesirable features. Capt. Larkin of the base-ball nine and others made strong speeches in favor of the proposition. R. B. Bradford, class of '87, introduced a resolution that the delegates to the convention of the intercollegiate foot-ball convention on Saturday be instructed to withdraw Princeton, and form a league with Harvard...
Harvard - President W. H. Rand, Capt. W. W. Willard, ex-Capt. S. E. Winslow; Yale - President J. Archibald, Jr., Capt. J. C. Dann and A. A. Stagg; Princeton - President H. L. Goehring and Capt. Adrian H. Larkin; Columbia - President S. C. Herriman and Manager Atherton Curtis...
...wholly informal. The original intention was that at this meeting the laws of the new league between the three colleges should be drawn up. As Yale hangs fire and refuses to join, Captain Willard and Mr. Rand from Harvard, Captain Dann and Mr. Archibald from Yale, and Captain Larkin and Mr. Sockring from Princeton, simply came together to discuss the situation. The meeting was held with closed doors, and, as far as could be learned, Yale has not reached any decided attitude in the matter. This is rather unsatisfactory news, especially as the delegates themselves are reported as being...