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Captain Whittemore at short was the chief offender. In the last half of the ninth Harvard earned runs on two hits for four bases each. Reuning had his hand badly hurt on a pick-up in the ninth inning, and foolishly continued to play. Schoenhut had to ease up and as a consequence was hit hard for the first time during the game. In every respect Schoenhut pitched a fine game, besides scoring the first run for the home team, with a slashing two-baser. Paine struck out nine men and barring his wildness pitched very strong ball. The score...
...ground before it reached Cobb, and Lyons came home. In the fifth inning the visitors nearly scored again. Doyle came first to the bat. He hit a long fly to Frothingham who caught it near the ground, The umpire, however, thought that the ball was caught on the pick-up. Doyle having reached first in this way, took second when McKeever was given a base on balls. There he was caught very prettily by Bates and Hovey. McKeever was now advanced to second by Rudderham's scratch hit. Lyons had meanwhile flied out. Connor was hit by a pitched ball...
...second; Holden made a base-hit, but was caught on second; Wright took first on Hamill's error, and second on Latham's sacrifice hit; Nunn flied to Wigton; Hunt hit for a base in the sixth, but Tyng and Latham caught him at second; Wright made a fine pick-up of a low throw by Nunn; Fessenden caught a hard fly; Tyng reached second on an error by Hunt and a stolen base, but was left by Hunt's good fly-catches. The game at this point began to look very doubtful for Harvard, the score standing Princeton...