Word: lax
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rain. The battery work of Harvard was magnificent, Nichols only having one wild pitch, while Allen was not credited with a single passed balls. Willard's batting was terrific, while his fielding was perfect. The main points of crificism against the home team were the careless base running, and lax coaching. For Princeton, Clark led at the bat, and Toler and Shaw excelled in fielding. The features of the game were the stop and throw by Edgerly in the third, Allen's foul catch in the sixth, Willard's batting, and the double play by Shaw and Toler...
...poor condition at this season of the year. was put into fair shape for running, and the athletes were not bothered quite as much by that as formerly. But although the track was in a better condition than last year, the general management of the games was very lax, some of the officials being so incompetent or prejudiced that Harvard suffered the loss of at least two events...
Below is given a resume of the scores made in the tennis tournament which have been given before as they were played. The tournament, despite the lax method in which it was conducted has been moderately successful. The number of players engaged was large and some of the play excellent. Unfortunately, Mr. Taylor was unable to contest on account of the accident which he met with at Hartford. Before another tournament is held we all hope that the number and quality of the courts will be better...
...freshman lacrosse twelve on Saturday went to New Haven and played the first freshman game against Yale. The team arrived in New Haven considerably tired, and had to eat dinner at once and rush out to the park. For these reasons their play at first, was lax, and the men failed to cover properly, letlay at first, was lax, and the men failed to cover properly, letting the Yale men run around them. In consequence the ball was kept dangerously near to the Harvard goal, and after about fifteen minutes play, the first goal for Yale was thrown by Pennell...