Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard had no trouble in defeating Williams on Saturday at Williamstown. The game was rather a poor exhibition of ball playing, for the home nine had changed the positions of several of their men and errors were numerous in consequence. Corey, their substitute pitcher, did as well as could be expected considering the support that he received. For Harvard, Paine pitched steadily for seven innings, when Highlands took his place. Buckman caught him well and his throwing to bases was very accurate. Wrenn and Whittemore both made good stops and Stevenson took everything that came his way without an error...
...yards dash was very closely contested. Bigelow was said before the running to be in poor condition and the result justified this statement, for he was unplaced in the finals. Prado was also beaten in his preliminary heat. Redpath showed up in fine form and succeeded in beating Gonterman by about a foot after a hard struggle...
...Saturday before a large crowd. Carter and White were the pitchers and the former was batted for fourteen hits while Yale made only five. Carter was steady at critical points, however, and kept the hits well scattered. The fielding of Brown was unsteady and their team work was poor...
...went to second on a wild pitch, and to third on an error. Anderson got his base on balls and stole second. A passed ball then let Stevens home and Anderson to third. The latter scored on Gregory's hit. This was all the scoring done this inning. Poor base-running lost the freshmen a chance to score. In the third inning two bases on balls and erratic fielding on Hall's part brought in one more run for '97. The freshmen made both their runs in this inning. With one man out, Cozzens reached first on a wild throw...
Captain Rustin of the Yale nine has made three important changes in his team. The most remarkable is the addition of Frank Butterworth, the football player, to the team as pitcher. Speer, left field, has been laid off for poor all-round work and S. Quinby will take his place. Fincke, third base...