Word: runners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that it improves the pace, second, that it gives a chance to everybody, and third, that it makes and improves every sort of athlete. That handicap races tend to improve the pace and increase record-breaking can not be doubted. Over and over again have we seen our champion runners leaving their opponents in the rear, so much that there was no interest in the race. Now if these second rate opponents had been given starts, there would have been a good race and fast time would have been made, for it is a well known fact that...
...next place, handicaps are better than limit races, for no matter how poor a runner a man may be yet he always has a chance in a handicap, while in a limit race he might really be too poor to have any chance at all. Finally handicaps are a great means of bringing out new men and improving old. New men are often encouraged by beating a scratch man, go in again and keep at it until they themselves become scratch men, while the old men have to do their best to win, and hence are often wonderfully improved...
...runner brace w'en de ball am passed...
...made. Allen and Nichols worked well together. In the second inning Allen performed the remarkable feat of striking three men out in succession, pitching but eleven balls the entire innings. Baker's play at short was accurate and brilliant, his error being due to the interference of a base-runner. Lovering and Le Moyne played a beautiful game in the field, each making some phenomenal catches...
...right field, filling the bases. Wadsworth sent a slow grounder along first base line. Smith threw home a little wild, and Shedd scored. Nichols dropped the third strike on Rhett, and touched the home plate, putting out Durfee, who was forced out by Rhett's becoming a base-runner. He then threw Rhett out at first...