Word: player
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cage one or two mornings every week. At present seventeen men are trying for the position of battery on the nine, seven of this number being catchers and ton pitchers. Of the new candidates for pitcher the man with the best reputation as an all-round ball player is undoubtedly Haughton '99, who last year pitched for Groton, but formerly played first base. He is a man with a good physique, is a fair hitter, and pitches with considerable speed, but has no control...
Champion Hovey heads the list, and is justly ranked as the leading player of the country. He is quoted as owing a quarter 15. In the second class are Larned, Chace and Howland, who are placed at evens. Ex-Champion R. D. Wrenn has dropped into the third class with Carr Neel and Hobart. They received a quarter 15. The classification of the other players, with their handicaps, is appended...
...Cambridge and vicinity, and eleven elsewhere. The first game on April 13 will be held at the South End grounds in Boston against a picked nine. The proceeds from the game are to be given as a subscription for a monument in memory of Harry Wright, the pioneer ball player. As to the other dates it will be seen that three are to be played with clubs of the New England League, three each with Pennsylvania, Cornell and Dartmouth, four with Brown and five with Princeton. The other dates are scattered among the smaller colleges. The schedule of dates...
...last four years and Walter Camp, coach of the Yale football team for the last sixteen years. The book will be by far the most complete work on football ever published. It will consist of three volumes. The first is entitled, "For the Spectator," the second "For the Player," and the third "For the Coach...
...Player. 7. A. W. Davis...