Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...crew has been considerably shaken up during the past week by the loss of Biddle and Brown. The time, especially on the starboard side, is poor. The men are rowing a short lively stroke...
...Varsity won by the score of 9 to 6. The 'Varsity again showed fatal weakness at the bat, and played a listless and erratic game in the field. No good playing was done by either side, and most of the scoring was the direct result of careless fielding and poor throwing...
...fielding of the College nine was fairly accurate throughout the game. The work of the Freshmen, however, was decidedly poor, with the exception of two neat double plays in the first and fifth innings...
...play opens in the square or the city of Boscabello, where the general is about to execute some treasure-hunters. Two young reporters, Phil Spayce and Lord Howe Poor arrive, soon followed by a yachting party of Bostonians. The general wishes to put them to death, but Spayce, whose lady-love is a member of the party, secures their release by promising to kill the bull...
...work of the crews was blowing. Both Mr. Lehmann and Mr. Willis followed the Junior and Freshman crews on the launch, and watched the '98 and 1900 crews set out from the float. The Freshman crew was first out, Mr. E. C. Storrow coaching. Their blade-work was poor, but their inboard work good, the slides being well controlled and all the men getting a sharp hard catch. Coming down river the Freshmen fell in with the '99 crew which had just come out and an impromptu race of about half a mile ensued. The Junior crew starting with...