Word: nine
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nine are to play Brown, at Providence, on Saturday afternoon...
...game on Saturday last between the University Nine and the Live Oaks proved quite an interesting one. The fielding of both Nines was very good, but the batting, owing to effective pitching on both sides, was quite weak; the so-called weak strikers came to our rescue, however, in the fifth inning, and saved the situation. While all played well, a beautiful one-hand stop by Leeds, and several excellent pick-ups by Wright, are worthy of special mention. Below is the full score...
...College mind will be relieved to learn that the Freshmen, in their game with the Adams Academy Nine, made only eighteen errors, instead of forty-one, as currently reported...
...Nine have been wisely improving all their opportunities during the past two weeks in getting that best of all practice, game playing; and, with one exception, they have met with unbroken success. They showed a perhaps unnecessary devotion to the cause by arranging a game for Saturday last, which, in a measure, conflicted with the football game; but their enthusiasm augurs continued success. The college games will soon begin. The first will be played to-morrow with Brown at Providence; a week later, the 12th inst., comes a game with Amherst at Amherst; and on the 26th inst. the first...
...pretty girl, and Mr. Wright an imposing queen. Darnley's part was played gracefully and well, and that of the rollicking King of the French admirably taken; and in fact, all did so well that to particularize would be unjust. The airs were a little old; but, altogether, Seventy-nine may congratulate themselves on having successfully presented a bright and amusing play before an audience even fuller and more "swell" than these theatricals generally have. We notice that Mr. Grant did not appear, his part being left out. The play last evening was "The Field of the Cloth of Gold...