Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desiring to arrange a game, and asking me for our open dates. Oct. 23 was among those given and Mr. Hare answered Sept. 28, saying, that "Oct. 23 suits us very well, but we must have some understanding of the conditions under which we play you." I made one offer which was declined, and on the day I made the second offer, - Sept. 29 I think - I wrote to Mr. Allen to see if I could arrange a game with him, in the event of my negotiations with Mr. Hare falling through...
...answer of Mr. Allen said that Harvard could give us Oct. 26, and then opened the subject of terms, asking for full expenses, or if not, h w much I was willing to offer...
...made him no offer when, having agreed on terms with Mr. Hare, I sent word to Mr. Allen Oct. 7 from Albany as I now remember, that I could not play him after all, regretting our fruitless correspondence...
...Allen could have thought we had a game arranged between Harvard and Williams when the matter of terms, which caused Mr. Hare and myself such a delay, was just opened. Would he have considered it an agreement if I had made only an insignificant offer...
...letter to Harvard of Sept. 30, was so loosely worded as to convey the impression that it was a positive offer to play on the dates mentioned, the Williams manager was careless. Carelessness is, however, a very different fault from that with which Williams was charged at the base-ball meeting...