Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale men went first to the bat and when they took the field they had three runs to their credit. Harvard was blanked in the first two innings, out in the third McPherson got first on a missed third strike, second on a passed ball, and scored on a scratch hit. In the fourth, Morgan made a run on errors. In the fifth Harvard was blanked. Yale was blanked in the second inning, made one run in the third, and failed to score again until the eighth, when she made one more run. In the sixth inning, Harvard made three...
Quarter-mile run (handicap). - Wells, '86; (scratch); Porter, '88, (20 yards...
...MILE WALK. (Handicap).1, H. H. Bemis, '87, (scratch); 2, Rupert Norton, '88, (20 seconds); 3, E. C. Wright, '86, (scratch); 4, F. E. Zinkeisen, '89, (20 seconds). This proved to be the best race of the afternoon. Both scratch men were inside the previous inter-collegiate record, 7 m. 4 4-5 sec., made by Eldredge, of Columbia, in 1877. Norton and Zinkeisen were caught and passed by the other two at the half mile. From that time until on the back stretch of the last quarter Bemis led, closely followed by Wright, who then passed...
...mile walk (handicap). - 1, H. H. Bemis, '87, (scratch); 2, Rupert Norton, '88, (20 sec.); 3, E. C. Wright, '86, (scratch); 4, F. E. Zinkeisen...
...that the class races are over, the members of the various crews should not throw aside their boating suits and oars, but should set to work to form scratch crews, in order to bring out new men as future candidates for the 'varsity. There are plenty of men in college who, if properly coached, would make very strong oarsmen, but who, through diffidence or laziness, decline to put themselves forward. The boat-house contains several eight oared barges which might as well be put to some use; so there is no reason why three or four crews should...