Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Maybe we are listless and our ardor is too tame...
...territory for the rest of the half. In the second half, Harvard took the ball to Dartmouth's five -- yard line, but was held for downs. There was much punting which was to Hallowell's advantage, in spite of the splendid tackling of Boyle. Fincke was slow and listless in this half...
After the first defeat at Princeton it was expected that the men would brace up and play good ball, but a Harvard team has seldom shown poorer form in a big game than the nine last Saturday. Not only was the batting and fielding weak, but the men were listless and on several occasions showed the poorest kind of judgment in the handling of hits and in backing up the bases...
Then an eight inning game was played with the College nine, which the 'Varsity won by the score of 9 to 6. The 'Varsity again showed fatal weakness at the bat, and played a listless and erratic game in the field. No good playing was done by either side, and most of the scoring was the direct result of careless fielding and poor throwing...
...College nine easily defeated the Freshmen Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field in a listless nine-inning game by the score of 12 to 2. Both teams were rather weak in the box, but Galbraith's delivery, although slow, seemed to puzzle the Freshmen. The College nine secured a total of twelve hits, of which Farrington made four singles, Lewis three, Bertholf two, and Maguire, Ewer and Lane one apiece. For the Freshmen, Milne secured one two-base hit besides a single, Coolidge a double, while Fincke and Quincy each made a single...