Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...country, is laid up at present with a sprained ankle and may not be able to play for a week or more. Watkinson's play at half-back is sadly missed, and it is doubtful if those long low, wicked punts of his will ever be duplicated by any player. Morrison, who was one of last year's half-backs, kicks fairly well, but the ball goes too high in the air. Graves, the full back of last season's Andover eleven is playing half-back with Morrison at present. He is a stout, well built man and a tolerably...
...catcher for the Beacons to-day is an old Andover man, and is an excellent all round player. He enters the Harvard Medical School next year...
Longman's Magazine gives the following account of some English cricketers who watched a game of base-ball at Philadelphia recently, and then proceeded to form a somewhat poor opinion of the batting qualities of the base-ball players. Cricketers are apt to despise what is called a full-pitched ball - that is, one which does not touch the ground before it reaches the bat. The cricketer can have but a poor eye, in fact, he must be but a poor player, who cannot hit such a ball; and though if he is careless about it, he may readily...
Linn, the right fielder of the Harvard nine, is a clever little player, but he should remember than an outfielder must throw the ball in the instant he gets his hands on it, when there is a man on a base...
...game was lost for Exeter by the inability of their pitcher to get any control over the ball. Although in the Beacon game, Dillon, the pitcher. proved himself a good player, keeping the Beacons down to four hits, he seemed utterly unable to do anything in the Andover game. He gave seventeen men bases on balls, several times when the bases were full, and let in many more runs by his wild pitches. Exeter played a good game at first, until the nine became thoroughly discouraged at the poor playing of their pitcher and lost all life. Andover evidently went...