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...Brown showed no special strength until the tenth inning. An encouraging feature about Harvard's batting was that every man who reached first was advanced either by a hit or a sacrifice. Loughlin led Harvard's batting with two hits, but was put out both times through reckless base running. In the field, Coolidge and Kendall played the best game for Harvard. The feature of Brown's play was Captain Clark's batting, which was very nearly equalled by that of Detmers. Crane played well at third, accepting eight chances without an error. Until the tenth inning Stillman gave only...
...this, the effect of good coaching is especially apparent, great stress being laid upon the principle of having the fielders anticipate the play, and help each other out. The base running is rather poor, except in a few individual cases. Most of the men are inclined to be reckless, using no headwork, and lacking the quickness of decision necessary to good base-running. The batting is very weak, although the pitchers do not use great speed, nor many curves...
...that those four yards could have been covered with more certainty by Bouve than by lighter men like Cabot, Parker and Garrison. However, even with those men carrying the ball, Harvard's forwards instead of playing an up-hill game should have forced the Yale line, with the same reckless gait which had carried the ball...
...also probable that Yale considered Harvard's defensive stronger than it was. It was just this one factor that prevented Harvard from scoring. Taken by surprise on both sides, Yale showed characteristic pluck and determination, while Harvard, even though stronger than their opponents could not assume that reckless bearing and fierce determination which gains ground against a formidable opponent...
...poem entitled "At Sea," though at times grotesque in its language, has caught something of the proper swing, and a reckless exultation which faintly suggests Kipling...