Word: reaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After making eight fouls Corning took his base on balls, and came all the way home on two passed balls. Cummings hit to second base, but failed to reach first. Mason reached first on a safe hit, stole second and third, and came home on a passed ball. Knowlton took his base on balls, and stole second and third., Luce struck out. Slade took his base on balls, and was advanced to second on player's choice-Dean then hit to third, but failed to beat the ball to first, and Knowlton and Slade were left on bases...
...disastrous. In the second inning Harvard scored three more runs, and in the third two, pounding the ball unmercifiully. This finished the run-getting, as in the fourth inning Mercer was substituted for King, and his curves proved too puzzling to be hit with any frequency out of the reach of the fielders. From the fourth inning until the end of the game, both sides were unable to get a man farther than third base...
...only new men. The crew is rowing the present University stroke. They get a good firm catch, but fail to carry their oars through with an even pressure. Their body work on the whole is very good; but some of the men are short in their forward reach and almost all of them go back too far at the finish. The back work is ragged. The time is bad. The men are very strong, but they do not get in their work together. Mr. R. C. Watson and Mr. Harry Keyes have been out with the crew a few times...
...which Harvard is held by people at large who, if asked what they think of having the Harvard base-ball club going about playing ball with professionals clubs, would think it a bad thing and refuse to aid the University in any way whatever. If the institutionis to reach the standard which it has set up for itself, it must, to a certain extent cater to public opinion...
...made trouble at their class dinner, a short time before. Accordingly, by way of revenge, they formed a plot against the sophomore who had acted as judge at the trial of the three freshmen. They sent him a telegram, calling on him to meet a friend who was to reach Hanover on the midnight train. The sophomore unsuspiciously fell into the trap, and, while on his way to the railroad station, was seized by some freshman and driven seven or eight miles into the country, and there left to get back as best he could. The freshmen are elated...