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...Antrim, 2b.; J. S. Harlan, 3b.; Wilson, s.s.; Clark, l.f.; Wadleigh, c.f.; Shaw, r.f.; Edwards and Shaw change battery. It will be seen that four places were left vacant at the end of last year - catcher's and pitcher's positions, first base and second base. Harlan, who takes Schenck's place, has been substitute catcher for two years, and may be depended on to make good the loss of the veteran. Antrim played a few games at second last year in the absence of Rafferty. The most serious loss to the nine will probably be that of Ernst, although...
...Staten Island Club will present a very strong amateur nine next season, including nearly all the players of the Stock Exchange team of 1882. Tyng and Schenck, well-known college graduates, will be pitcher and catcher...
...case that a collegian, after several seasons' work in the diamond field, is graduated just when he becomes an accomplished player of the national game. The Princeton College Club will lose four of its most valuable players next season. They are Larkin, the first baseman; Ernst, the pitcher; Schenck, the catcher, and Rafferty, the second baseman. About a dozen collegians have sent in applications for membership in the nine to fill the four vacancies. It is thought that Princeton will have a good team in the field next season, as some of the applicants are good general players. Besides this...
...mistaken usage in billiards and whist, but, strangely enough, he does not mention poker, a game, as I am told, in which pre-eminently a loose use of technical terms prevails. Poker, I presume, however, is an American game, and, in spite of the patriotic efforts of Minister Schenck, is not yet received with favor in England. "The game in which this misuse of terms is most rampant, and to which I especially desire to direct attention," the writer concludes, "is lawn tennis. Players and manufacturers call 'rackets' 'bats.' Cricket is played with a bat, lawn tennis with a racket...
...other seven innings. The game after the first inning was well played throughout, and was characterized by good fielding on both sides. Wadleigh and Coolidge made two beautiful one-handed fly catches. The best fielding for Harvard was done by Coolidge, Burt and Crocker, and for Princeton by Schenck and Wadleigh...