Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Aside from Paine the best work was done by Beale, who batted well and made two pretty catches. The work of the infield was decidedly weak. Stevenson played a very poor game and seemed not only unable to handle the ball but to take it quite as a matter of course. Twice, after fumbling the ball, he made no effort at all to recover for a throw. Dean also made two bad errors, one of which let in a run. Chandler played steadily, but was altogether too slow in getting the ball across to first...
Brown scored three runs in the first on Lauder's hit, Rodman's base on balls and Gammons' home run. In the fifth, Phillips went to first on balls, to second on Stevenson's error off Fultz, and scored on Dean's poor throw to complete a double play...
...cynicism of the author. In a sarcastic manner she sneers at the existing social system, and in a covert way advances the ideas of socialism. Like much else that has been written, it treats the world as being all wrong, all employers being grinding oppressors and all poor men injured and down-trodden. The general impression left by the book is one of gloom and foreboding...
...Millard, 6, tends to meet his oar at the finish of the stroke. Wood, 5, settles at the finish and tends to drop over at the full reach. McBurney (captain) 4, rolls his head, but rows long and smoothly. Butler, 3, rows around his oar and his time is poor. Richards, 2, is very short on body reach and slow on the recover. Robinson, bow, forgets to bevel his oar sufficiently and tends to clip...
...late in getting his leg drive on. His body work is good. Bigelow, 3, has a tendency to catch with his arms, hunches his shoulders and rows around his oar. Burnham, 2, tends to clip and carries his feather too far. Huntington, bow, blade work and time poor. Rows in with his arms...