Word: neat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among the many accounts of intercollegiate competition there will soon be conspicuous a neat, unpretentious folio of about sixty pages, entitled "Harvard Teams, 1898-1899." The editors, W. B. Wheelwright '01, and A. M. Goodridge '00, have dedicated their book "To the successful Harvard teams of the College year 1898-1899." The chronologically arranged accounts of the athletic, debating, chess and whist teams are supplemented by eleven cuts, with that of the 'Varsity football team as a frontispiece. Football, baseball, the track and rowing are all mentioned with some detail, and the other reading-matter is concise...
...game was due in a large measure to 1900's superior batting. Foster allowed the Freshmen only one hit throughout the game, struck out seven men, but gave ten bases on balls. The fielding of both teams was creditable, considering the heavy diamond and unfavorable weather. Cutting made a neat catch in the second inning of Kendall's fly, and in the eighth assisted Sargeant in the second double play of the game. For the Freshmen, Fincke and Putnam both played a strong fielding game...
...proved more effective. In the eighth, Coolidge relieved Bertholf, who sprained his ankle. Kendall covered first in good shape and fielded Barnwell's difficult liner very cleverly. Fincke accepted his chances at short with accuracy, and Milne played his usual steady game behind the bat. Cropley made a neat catch in the last inning of Corse's fly. By far the best play of the game, however, was made by Whittemore, Milne and Kendall in the eighth inning, when Andover had three men on bases with...
...Sophomores, Sargeant did the most effective work His rebuttal speech proved very damaging. For the Freshmen, Symonds made a neat summary of the negative case in closing the main debate and showed up several weaknesses in Sophomore arguments before finally resting the Freshman case...
...base running of the Harvard Freshmen was the feature of the game, for eleven stolen bases were secured to Yale's two. A neat double play in the last inning with men on second and third spoiled Harvard's chances of scoring...