Word: leade
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been seen on Holmes Field for several years. The worst part of this defeat was that it was absolutely unnecessary, and was due entirely to the most childish of playing at critical points. For seven innings both nines played a brilliant game, and during this time Harvard held the lead by one run. In the eighth inning the team gave an exhibition of the most atrocious playing that has been seen in Cambridge this year, and seven runs were allowed principally on misplays by Clarkson. Lauder, the first man at bat knocked a fly to Dean, and then Robinson struck...
Harvard took the lead at the start of game. Dean was given a base on balls and Scannell hit a sharp grounder to Lauder who, with plenty of time, threw far over Rodman's head, allowing both men to score. Burgess followed with a fine three-base hit, but was left on third...
...inning on a base on balls to Robinson and Chandler's muff of Rodman's long fly. In the fifth inning Paine gave three bases on balls in succession but no runs resulted. In the seventh inning Gammont's home run tied the score, but Harvard again took the lead on hits by R. Stevenson, Haughton and Scannell. Haughton was declared out at the plate on a close decision, on Gammont's throw to catch him there...
...drop the final ballot. It had been decided by the head delegates of the different states to cast an informal ballot after the two parties had each nominated their man to determine which of the two men was the choice of the majority. It was thought that this would lead to too much wire pulling and might finally impair the success of the convention...
...loyal graduates, did a little really good cheering. The cheering gave the nearly-discouraged players new life, but it came too late. There probably would have been no cheering at all if a few graduates had not for very shame at the apathy of the Harvard men offered to lead...