Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...judicious choosing would have given Harvard a better place in the base-ball contest. We are inclined to doubt the value of these mutterings, for the reason that harmony might have been destroyed if the personnel of the nine had been different. But who, may we ask, has a right to maintain private grievances when his duty lies to his college alone? If we are to regain our prestige the strong undercurrent of Harvard life, which exerts, perhaps, no positive, but a strong negative influence upon our athletics must be overcome. A little more insight into the relations...
...Yale, McConkey did some phenomenal work at second while Kellogg covered himself with glory in right field. For Harvard, Foster did the most telling work; cutting off no less than four men at the plate by his accurate throws from left field. Henshaw caught well. Appended is the score...
...they attempt to regarding their movements and performances prior to the time of the annual race. As one of these authorities says, if the young men were attempting to jockey the public, and, so to speak, inveigle innocent and unsuspecting betters into a confidence game, it would be all right for them to put forth what are, to say the least, misleading reports concerning their condition and chances of winning. If college races are to become hippodrome contests, then those engaged in them and their friends, are no doubt, under the questionable laws of sport, entitled to make...
Harvard went first to the bat, and found that Bingham's delivery was to be faced, since he had been leaned to the visitors in the absence of Richard son. The only special feature of this innings was Willard's treacherous drive to right for a home run. For the visitors this inning, as well as the next three, proved to be unfruitful, only two men reaching bases in the entire four innings. In the second the crimson showed a net earnings amounting to two runs, accruing from a single by Boyden, and a vicious four-bagger to left field...
...Then the sixth resulted in a gain of three more runs for the Beacons, on an error, a single and Richardson's clean home run. The eighth added two runs more, of which one was contributed by Richardson, who duplicated his former feat by driving to long right field for a second home...