Word: score
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sonnets," this same Parker has a "great deal of enthusiasm wasted on him;" for "besides performing his usual course of circus-feats to amuse the spectators and the 'muckers,' and turning over the fence on his head, he made four stunning home runs, and played his base perfectly." The score in this match, 56-4, led the Lowells who had only defeated this same club, 47-29, to reconsider the remark of their captain, - that the "Lowells didn't believe thay would enter the New England tournament, as no club would care to try them...
...24th saw the rivals meet again, this time on Jarvis field. After "endless preliminaries" Lowell took the bat, a little after three o'clock, in the presence of an enormous crowd." The Harvard nine, although batting steadily, fielded miserably during the first three innings, the score standing 15 to 9 against them. Lowell is blanked in the fourth, and Harvard tallies one. Lowell piles up four in runs in the fifth, but Harvard makes eight, on heavy hitting; score, 19 to 18 in favor of Lowell. Lowell finds a goose-egg in the sixth, and Harvard scores two runs amid...
...fight unknown, ditto, result." All this, though, had the effect of heightening the excitement of the Harvard contingent, when they saw the Lowell audience making every effort to bully them out of the game. Their enthusiasm at the end was boundless, and when they finally realized that the score, Harvard, 39, Lowell, 28, meant victory and the Silver Ball, there...
...spin on the river, hot and cold water and a warm room in which to dress are furnished. No hardships have to be undergone, no privations suffered, and, in fact, nothing remains to add attraction to this deservedly proper branch of athletics. But how different things were a score and a half years ago! Then boating was in its infancy at Harvard, and only a few men took any interest...
...trot for the pitcher's stand." Wild pitching and weariness of the nine is Harvard's explanation of the defeats. After returning home, without going to Hartford, the nine slaughtered the Beacon's in a finely played game, 77 to 11. Hunnewell, Harvard's third base, made the pleasing score of 12 runs...