Word: lose
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Word has been received from Brown that the game which was provisionally postponed from last Wednesday until next Thursday cannot be played. Brown has two hard games next week as it is, and in another game with Harvard has nothing to gain but much to lose. HARVARD. COLUMBIA. McCall, 2b. l.f., Shafer Briggs, 1b. 2b., Schmidt Currier, c. 1b., Miltenberger Dexter, l.f. c., Young Simons, s.s. r.f., Tonking Harvey, c.f. s.s., Zimber Dana, r.f. c.f., Elson Pritchett, 3b. 3b., Hayes Brennan, p. p., Lee or Bradtke
...passed only 3 men to first base on balls, that the Freshmen won. For their batting is still as weak as it has been throughout the season. The men have not proven themselves able to hit the ball, but have the habit of letting their pitcher win or lose the game for them...
...equally effective today, while Heyniger can always be relied upon to pitch good ball. With the two teams so evenly matched, as shown in the first game, and with very little choice between the pitchers it will be the finer points of inside baseball that will win or lose the game this afternoon...
...order named. All four crews caught the water together and kept even for some distance. The Senior crew then drew ahead and the Freshmen dropped back a length, leaving the Juniors and Sophomores together. They kept this relative position until below the Harvard bridge, when the Freshmen began to lose more and more, and the Seniors gained continually. The race between the Sophomore and Junior crews was extremely close and was undecided until the Juniors, who were slightly in the lead, struck their oars against a buoy near the end and finished a quarter of a length behind the Sophomores...
...President and the members of his Cabinet, we do not stop to think, Enthusiasm for a good cause is an ennobling thing and the more of it we have the better, but we must also remember that as representatives of the University we must be careful not to lose our heads. In the eyes of the world we are not Smiths and Joneses, but members of Harvard College...