Word: plays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When the game was over, and, which is more, decided (for base-ball has at least one great advantage over cricket, it very seldom ends in a draw), the English cricketers were asked their opinion of the play, and were obliged to admit that so far as they could judge the batting seemed very weak. "That is a compliment at any rate to the pitchers," they were told. "But to say the truth," one of them replied, "the bowling - or what you call 'pitching' - seemed weak too. Every ball was full pitched, and any one can hit a full-pitched...
...that the class games are over and the examinations of many men are finished, it seems to me that there would be little difficulty encountered in organizing a nine after the plan of the Yale Consolidated Nine, which may play with the 'Varsity nine three or four times a week and give them the practice of playing in regular games, which is so much more beneficial than the ordinary fielding and batting practice they are now taking every...
...idea is a good one and should not be left to moulder. The Junior nine has shown itself a strong team. Could it not step forward and fill the gap which is so marked. Its captain might organize a consolidated nine if the '88 men cannot be persuaded to play. Such practice would be invaluable to the 'Varsity. If defeat should finally result, it may be laid to the fact that such a team was not organized. We hope that the suggestion of our correspondent will be acted upon, and that on Thursday or Friday we shall hear...
Dartmouth will play Amherst today and tomorrow. Both games will be played at Amherst...
...Nine will play Brown on Wednesday at Providence...