Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...programme arranged by the club for this spring is a most attractive one. Besides the regular weekly shoots, matches have been arranged with several of the gun clubs around Boston, and also with the University of Pennsylvania Gun Club. A challenge has been received from Cornell, and a match may be arranged with that club. Both these colleges have flourishing gun clubs that number among their members many good shots; especially is this true of the Cornell Club, among whose members are Mr. Whitney, the champion trap-shot of New York State, and the White brothers, the crack shots...
...followed fifteen days after by a game, and during the two weeks after the first game by two others; and knowing that, under the rule compelling amateurs to have severed their connections for one month previous with all other clubs than their last love before playing in a match game, the Harvard team would be weakened by the loss of several of its members who were playing on various amateur nines, the Lowell Club challenged Harvard for the ball in the middle of August, although they had been notified that Harvard would be unable to play till September. Harvard...
...spring of '68 then opened, with all ambition apparently dead in base-ball circles, though the nine voted to challenge the Lowell and Yale to match games. It also proposed to take a summer tour, the expenses to be lightened by the Pudding and other theatricals which had for the first time offered their services in this direction...
...season was well along in May without any practice games, except with picked nines, when a challenge was received from the Yale University nine to play a match game on regatta day, both nines to be "selected from the academic departments alone." As this was the first time Yale had shown any inclination to play Harvard, the challenge was eagerly accepted, although it was really a Greek gift, the Yale nine having been meeting with great success during the spring. At this time I find the earliest mention on record of that time-honored lie: "Vassar Female College...
...Whereas, The Harvard Base-ball Club, recognizing the crippled condition of the Lowell nine to-day, caused by the sickness of three of its members, did so very generously offer and insist upon postponing the match game, and desired to play a practice game instead...