Word: longwoods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cricket team played its first game yesterday afternoon with the Longwood Cricket Club, and were defeated by an innings and 37 runs...
There will be some interesting tennis matches at Longwood on Saturday, beginning at 2 p. m. The first game will be a single between Dwight and Bennett, after which Dwight and P. S. Sears will play Mansfield and Pettitt...
...Longwood batted first, and began the innings with Bixby and L. Mansfield at the bat, Ellis and Barrow doing the trundling. Barrow begun well by bowling L. Mansfield on his first ball, but when Wright joined Bixby the trouble began. Wright batted with even more than his usual skill, and succeeded in obtaining the highest score of the day, a well earned 43. Dutton supplemented this score by a careful twenty, and Bixby and and Hubbard aided towards making the creditable total of 96. The bowling of the Harvard team was on the whole not up to last year...
Harvard being more than forty per cent behind her opponents, was forced to follow on, and by rather careful play succeeded in obtaining 40 runs, though there was again only one contribution of double figures. So the match was concluded with Longwood as victors by an inning and 37 runs. The Longwood bowlers were Wright, Dutton, and Hubbard: the Harvard bowlers were Ellis, Barrow, Brown and Balch...
...Cricket Club will begin the season's games at Longwood this afternoon at two o'clock. They will play a match with the Longwoods, which will be continued on Thursday...