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...this very reason that Captain Trafford, Dr. Conant, Mr. Lathrop, Cumnock, Cranston and the rest of the coaches decided that the game would have to be cancelled. The experience with the Chicago team shows that after a big game the work of the eleven is slow and lifeless. The nerves of the men seem to get wrought up to meet the crisis and when this is passed, there comes the relaxation. Now Monday and Tuesday of the final week are the most important days of the whole season and it would not do to have the men in the condition...
...Cambridge Latin School defeated the fresmen by a score of 9 to 3 yesterday afternoon. Though on the whole the freshmen did not play badly, their work was loose and usually lifeless, while their batting and base-running were very weak. The Cambridge team played a strong steady game taking the lead from the first and holding it easily. They out-played the freshmen in every point, fielding, batting and base-running. The following is the score...
Harvard defeated Murray and Irwin's nine yesterday afternoon in a very loosely played game, by a score of 4 to 3. Scarcely anything can be said in the way of criticism. The whole game was lifeless, and devoid of interest, and whenever an opportunity was presented to make an error, it was accepted unhesitatingly. Highlands and Bates, on the contrary, pitched well for the greater part of the game, and between them struck out fourteen men. Mason caught Highlands, and for the first time this year, Trafford caught behind the bat. He did not distinguish himself yesterday...
There is no doubt that the Yale men put in every way a stronger team into the field than Harvard, Rustin, Carter, Cole, Davis being 'varsity players, but this was no excuse for the exhibition of ball playing that '95 put up. It was wretchedly slow and lifeless, everyone being very deliberate in his movements. If this excessive care had made their fielding good, one could have endured the want of snap which so enlivens a game, but it did not and it never will in a game with such a team as Yale's. Whiting's muff...
...Chadwick began the second half with a selection not very interesting. His delivery was a little monotonous and lifeless, but he held the attention of the audience...