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...spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off. They gave me a pair of her 'wings,' which I keep still. There is no appearance of a membrane about them...
Loose fielding allowed the B. U. nine to assume a two run lead in the first. Two were out when Todd dropped Higginbotham's Texas leaguer after a long run. Moulton walked after DeRham's muff of a foul had given him a life; Barbee, after handling Jenkins carefully, made the mistake of grooving what was to have been the third strike, and the Terrier backstop promptly plastered the ball along the left-field foul line for two bases...
Cotter's three base muff of a long fly gave Wentworth a score in the eighth, and the visitors filled the bases in the ninth, but failed to tally...
...muff by Amsden paved the way for two Wentworth scores in the first inning, but Harvard came right back with four tallies on a hit by Rice a pass to Keene, a safe bunt by Field, and singles by Maher and Amsden. Brown immediately settled down and pitched good ball, allowing but two more hits in the six innings he worked, Field's double in the third and Keene's homer in the fifth, each of which produced a run. Thoran pitched the last two innings and his wildness cost...
Yale had been playing for 12 and 9-10 yrs. on the slocum of don't tackle a man when he catches a punt lest you make him muff it. Those tactics worked for 12 yrs. like a wolf trying to crawl through a bathroom window but finely they turned around and bit them. Will Elihu Yale try those tactics again? Only as an adverb...