Word: listless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University second nine was defeated by Exeter in a poorly played game yesterday afternoon at Exeter, by a score of 22 to 11. Exeter made 22 hits off Alexander, and the fielding of the second team, with the exception of Burns at third base, was listless. T. Jones played an excellent game for Exeter, making four hits. The other men were erratic...
Last year the team defeated Exeter in a slow six-inning game by a score of 11 to 0, five of the runs being directly due to errors by Exeter's infield. This year Exeter has been very erratic, at times playing brilliantly and at other times becoming very listless. In the game with Princeton on April 20, Exeter led by a score of 6 to 1 until the seventh inning, when the team became unsteady and allowed Princeton to score 12 runs before the end of the game. Exeter made twelve hits, however, against Stevens, who pitched for Princeton...
Randall at first base has shown good improvement in both batting and throwing, and plays his position in good form. He is however, listless at critical moments...
...Building. The work has been the usual batting, fielding and battery practice and two scrub games, the second of which was played yesterday afternoon. In seven innings the first team defeated the second team by a score of 7 runs to 2. The play on both sides was extremely listless, owing to the cold weather, which has retarded the work all through the week. During the first part of the game the pitchers showed fair speed and control but the batting was poor. Throughout the game the base-running was discouraging, as the men watched the ball instead of running...
...score of 15 to 1. Carelessness, both in passing and covering, characterized the Freshman play throughout the game. Smith and Burnham played well for the Freshmen on the offense, but covered poorly when the ball changed hands. Had the basket-shooting of the High School been more accurate the listless playing of the Freshman team might have lost them the game...