Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Vinton and Hurd, the battery of the Philips Andover nine of last year have both entered Yale '88, but Vinton having played on the Philadelphia league team as a professional player will not play on any of the Yale nines. Still, he will be of great assistance as a coach...
...game from four till nearly seven o'clock, there being fully three-quarters of an hour when the answering cries of the boys-and some of them, too, would come under Dr. Holme's definition of "the boys"-were echoed back and forth across the field. Every time a player was put out the air was filled with college cheers, and the game was stopped for a minute...
...open handicap tennis tournament will be held on the grounds of the Longwood club next week, beginning Tuesday. The players will be divided into four classes, in both doubles and single. An entrance fee of a dollar will be charged each individual player. Several college players have already entered...
...attention to a little matter which it is in their power to remedy. We refer to the score cards now in use. We see no reason why they could not be printed in the same form as the pages of regular schoolbooks. As it is, the spaces following each player's name are so small that there is not room enough to score exactly the different points of the play. Only the crudest scoring can be readily done unless the spaces are properly marked. The slight increase in cost would still be covered if the present price of five cents...
...exception of the slight flurry in the fifth inning, played a steady and brilliant fielding game. Baker pitched splendidly, keeping his opponents down to three hits, and striking out ten men. Tilden caught extremely well. Potter did what little he had to do capitally ; he is a promising player. The nine as a whole, failed to bat Hickox's pitching to much effect, but Tilden found no difficulty in hitting the ball just where he wanted to, and Willard hit well. In the early part of the game H. Coolidge was hit on the head by a very swiftly pitched...