Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Brown defeated Harvard for the second time yesterday afternoon by the score of 4 to 0, in a game that was peculiarly uninteresting, considering the smallness of the score. The great trouble seemed to be that Harvard played as if the result was a foregone conclusion after Brown had scored three runs in the first inning. The men fielded listlessly and came to the bat as if they were anxious to get it over with as soon as possible...
...that deserved a better end. Aside from his let-up in the first inning his work could hardly have been better. He struck out eight men and allowed but two hits in the last eight innings. Even the slump in the first inning was less his fault than the score would indicate, as Gammons' home run would hardly have been made more than a base hit but for slow work by Beale and Burgess...
...spite of their inability to hit Paine, the Brown men played a sharp, aggressive game. Their fielding was remarkably clean and sure, and at the bat they made the most of every chance to score. It is a suggestive fact that Brown made four runs on four hits, and Harvard no runs on five hits. The best work for Brown was done by Lauder, who fielded very sharply. Brady pitched an extremely effective game and kept the hits well scattered...
Harvard's best chance to score was lost in the eighth on a sharp triple play with two men on bases and none out. Haughton contributed a studpid piece of baserunning to this play...
...College nine played a practice game with the Freshmen yesterday afternoon, winning by a score of 6-1. Cozzens pitched the first seven innings for the College nine and scored a number of strike-outs. Jenney pitched the last two innings. The Freshmen batted fairly well but were weak in fielding. McCornick pitched effectively for them...