Word: luck
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with the Bostons. The Bostons put in Bond and Brown as pitcher and catcher, and J. White right field. The fielding was good on both sides. Leeds, Tyng, and Thayer distinguished themselves at the bat. The game would have resulted in a closer score if we had had the luck to hit a ball when these men were on the bases, but our base-hits always came in when they did the least good. The score was as follows...
Successful crews are accustomed, as the only means of securing a fast boat, to try several from the best builders, and then select the fastest; for builders universally admit that the making of a very fast boat is more a matter of luck than of science and rule. We ought to have three boats to select from, - one from England, one from Blakey, and one paper. Of these, the College will certainly get one, probably that from Blakey; for the paper boat, we can hardly hope; but the boat from England, where the building of shells has been most perfected...
...Cambridge and Oxford Undergraduates' Journal says: "With regard to the American International Regatta, the less said the better. A more disgraceful exhibition in amateur aquatic sports was never known. The first Trinity crew that went out so pluckily deserved better luck, but under all circumstances, they acquitted themselves most satisfactorily, and by no means reflected any disgrace, either on their college or the University...
...Friday, June 16, the University met the Boston Nine for the fifth time this season. Harvard had her usual luck, and went to the bat, only to retire in one, two, three order. George Wright and O'Rourke led off for the other side with base hits, but the Bostons failed to score, George Wright being caught napping at third, and prettily thrown out by Thatcher, who purposely muffed the ball at the third strike. In the second inning, Harvard again failed to score, but had two men left on bases. Schafer scored for the Bostons, the next three...
...season or to a want of interest, if the team does not show up as creditably as it did last autumn, but to the personal misfortunes of three of the best "kicks" of the old eleven. Such a condition of affairs can only be attributed to hard luck, and surely does not warrant our refusing to play if challenged, even if every game were sure of resulting in a defeat. We quite agree with the Advocate, that men should play one game alone in a season; but we believe in connection with this view that the Rugby game will soon...