Word: playing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...anything to their score, but in the fifth Sawyer, after hitting safe, scored the only earned run of the game, coming in on a "two bases" of Holmes's. Score 3 to 1 in favor of Harvard. From this point until the eighth inning, the score was unchanged, the play of both nines being marked by sharp fielding and weak batting. In the eighth inning Joseph retired on a fly to pitcher. Parks struck an easy grounder to Sawyer, who, after fumbling it, failed to throw it to first in time. Leonard batted to Sawyer...
...have every reason to feel satisfied with the result of this game, showing as it did that our nine can play a long and trying game with professionals without becoming in the least demoralized. It will be seen by the score that while we fielded as well as the Bostons we greatly excelled them in batting. We lost the game by one or two unfortunate errors in the eighth inning...
...University Nine will play the Brown Nine on Jarvis to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Coupon tickets, admitting the holders to this game and to the other four games to be played on Jarvis before Class Day, may be obtained of members of the nine...
...whole Harvard team has not yet been chosen. The following thirteen men will play: Faucon, Lombard, Seamans, Bacon, Hall, Curtis, Austin, Keys, Russell, Whiting, Rollins, Cushing, and Blanchard...
...those who are to succeed to the places which are occupied by Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, and Holmes. America either has no young poets coming forward at the present time, or else they are keeping themselves in the dark, to burst upon us like the harlequin in the play, and startle us when we least expect them. A prize offered here for the best poem by an undergraduate, or a graduate of one or two years' standing, might not cause a refulgent light to burst upon us immediately; but, possibly, it might serve to tone down the uncivilized "Hoosiers...