Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thayer, '89, has not returned to college on account of ill health, and H. O. Poor, '90, has been elected secretary...
...third on a base on balls and and a three-base hit by Cahill, who was allowed to reach the plate by an error of Mumford. In the fifth, Cahill made a hit after two men were out, stole second and third, and came home on a poor throw by Henshaw. Harvard scored in the fourth on an error of Kelley, followed by a two baser by Willard. They made two more runs in the sixth on a base on balls, and a hit by Campbell, a fumble by Harkins, and two in the eighth on hits by Foster, Willard...
...this year, and Princeton will lose only one man, so that we will have to exert ourselves to the utmost to retain our position at the head of the league. It is impossible to get much valuable practice during the first week of the term on account of the poor physical condition of the men, and it therefore becomes necessary to be some what easy in the work until they be come somewhat used to it. We would therefore suggest and urge the men who were on the team, and all those who are intending...
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...
That the 'break' at cricket is fully-as hard to meet as the 'curve' at base-ball, was shown at Philadelphia on the very same occasion when our cricketers made such poor play with Fothergill's curves. For Mr. Buckland's bowling proved altogether too much for the best of the base-ball batsmen. Again and again did these players, keen to track the ball curving through the air, fail to follow the break of the ball from the ground, nearly every ball going past the bat, though it had seemed to them that with such...