Word: player
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GRADUATE BALL PLAYER...
...very respectable sum. While realizing the fact that the Tennis Association is in need of money to pay for the new courts and to keep them in order, which last is a very considerable item in the case of the clay courts, would not the constant player be given some advantage over the man who plays perhaps half a dozen times a year? In the base-ball games a man can buy his ticket at the gate or, if he thinks it worth his while, he can purchase a season ticket which admits him to all the games at reduced...
...Both nines failed to do respectable work with the bat. Harvard won the game in the first inning, by scoring four runs on errors, aided by a base hit. The fourth inning was enlivened by a brisk discussion with the umpire regarding a close decision by which a Tufts player was declared out at the home plate. At the close of the fifth inning the game was called an account of rain. The score...
...Davis did by far the best playing. Most of the other men seemed inferior to their Harvard opponents. The game was won by the Somervilles by three goals thrown in short order by Ross during the first half, and by 1 goal in the second made by the same player. Harvard's 2 goals were mane in the 2d, Twombly, and the second by Hood. Once during the game, the ball struck the Somerville goal post, but unluckily bounded back outside the goal. Some excuse for the demoralization of the Harvard defense during the first half of the game...
...player shall be eligible for a prize, unless he has played in at least four games...