Word: rand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game. Scannell led off with a two-base hit and Burgess advanced him by a sacrifice. Clarkson had two strikes called, but then hit a sharp single to right field and Scannell scored. Haughton followed with another good hit and both runners advanced a base on Rand's sacrifice. A hit would then have won the game, but Stevenson could only hit a grounder to Smith. Again in the seventh inning another excellent chance was lost. Paine and Chandler both hit safely and Dean sacrificed, but neither Scannell nor Burgess could bring them...
...tenth inning Princeton won the game through a most remarkable piece of luck. Kelley the first batter hit a grounder to Haughton, and was out. Titus made a hit, but Altman knocked a high fly to Rand. Wilson then hit a swift bounding ball just to one side of Paine and above his head. Paine reached out his hand and partially stopped the ball, but unfortunately it grazed the arm of the umpire, who was standing near. Chandler, who picked up the ball, had plenty of time to put out Titus at second base, but under the rules any ball...
...Scannell gave Paine the best of support. His error was a wild throw of a bunt near the plate. The finest play of the game was a running catch by Burgess in deep left field of a long hit by Altman, which looked good for three bases. Rand made an almost equally good catch of a fly which dropped through the branches of the willows. Burgess, however, misjudged, and then muffed another fly, and both he and Clarkson fumbled badly on Smith's hit in the tenth inning...
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