Word: runner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...could easily remedy. As full back he seems to prefer to catch the ball on the bounce than on the fly, a remarkable thing to do. He tackles fairly well, but too high Austin, the quarter back, fills his position very well. He is quick and a fast runner, and makes many brilliant plays...
...Myers, the American champion runner, won the quarter and half-mile scratch and the half-mile handicap races over competitors from the London Athletic Club and the Mosely Harriers last Saturday at the meeting of the Widnes Athletic Club, near Manchester, England...
...been wretched in almost every game which it has played this year, and if it had not been for its splendid fielding and heavy batting we should have lost more than one game simply through this fault. There are doubtless, reasons why every man cannot be a good base runner, but there is no excuse for the poor coaching, which has cost us many a run this season. If there is anything which disgusts spectators it is to see a man fail to make a base when opportunity is offered, or try to run more bases than his hit will...
Still another moral benefit of college education, or, perhaps more properly, of college life, forces itself upon us. At college, the men find themselves in a world, which in its way is but a fore-runner of the world which they all have to enter later. This is the case with all institutions which bring together a large number of young men from all parts of the country. The very differences in the natures of the students are an advantageous feature of college life; the variety of human studies, which they afford, is valuable. Not only are there sectional differences...
...base, must watch the ball more closely, put more speed into their running, and slide more fearlessly. A third and most glaring defect is the lack of proper coaching. A man must be at first and at third; on the alert for every chance, and prepared to coach the runner around at every opportunity. So much for the points on which, even yet, improvement can be made. As for batting and fielding, the nine must do its best,- than that no more can be asked. It is only because we think that the freshmen have some chance for the championship...