Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale, the sixth being a draw, on account of rain. The fourth game was played at New Haven on June 26th, and resulted in favor of Yale by a score of 1-0. The game was well contested throughout, and was won in the last half of the ninth inning. The July game in New York was called at the end of the fourth inning, the score standing Yale 1, Harvard 1, even innings. On July 3d the nine went to Philadelphia and on the afternoon of July 4th was dedicated by Yale by a score...
...morning, each of us, in a quarter dollar's worth of roasted almonds, to help while away the weary hours of college life. Just before ten A. M., when the chapel bell would call us from the Continental, Girard, and other neighboring billiard saloons (the university was then on Ninth street, above Chestnut,) we would proceed to Vansant's, then Ninth and Chestnut, for the almonds. One day I saw there a smooth, tempting looking fruit; I ate one of them. It was hot-house, bran new and good. The cost was $1.50. Since then I price before eating...
...third. Baker got his base on Wilson's error and LeMoyne scored. Baker stole second, but was left there as Smith went out on a fly to Wilson. In the eighth inning both sides were retired without a man reaching first. Wilson and Clark both made hits in the ninth, but were thrown out by Nichols in attempting to steal second. J. S. Harlan struck out. Crocker reached first on J. S. Harlan's error, and stole second. Beaman hit to Antrim and was thrown out at first. Crocker went to third. LeMoyne went...
...form of a solid silver horn, resting at one part of it on a bronze pedestal and steadied by two dragon's legs, the whole standing about fifteen inches high. The cup is in the general style of the old Scandinavian (and Celtic) drinking horns of the eighth and ninth centuries. The horn is about four inches in diameter at the largest part, gracefully shaped, the ornamentation being of frosted, smooth-polished, oxidized, and hammered surfaces, with a broad band of bas-relief near the top. The bas-relief represents action and attitudes of riding a race. The whole...
...last inning. Princeton made two runs in the first inning, on Wilson's hit and Nichols' errors, but were unable to score again until the third inning, when one run was made on Wadleigh's three bagger. After this Princeton was retired in one, two, three order until the ninth inning, when base hits by John and James Harlan and Wilson, assisted by a passed ball, gave them three runs. Harvard was kept from scoring until the fifth inning, when one run was scored on hits by Baker and Le Moyne and a passed ball; another run was added...