Word: scrubbings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...into the city, attended with cheering and fireworks, to attend the class supper. On their return, about daybreak, the excitement was renewed about the college grounds by yelling and cheering, and the seniors then resorted to the ball ground for the usual annual game of base-ball played between scrub nines on this occasion. Some remarkable playing and curious antics were indulged in, as may be expected, and the class then gradually dispersed to rest and quietude...
...freshmen played a scrub nine, mostly from '83 and '84, yesterday, on Holmes field...
...inauguration seem mainly to consist of the fear that this extra nine will not be good enough to give the 'Varsity sharp practice, and that "Harvard indifference" will cause a failure of candidates to appear for this nine. To this latter objection we can only instance the scrub games that have gone on for many years behind the hospital, where many really well-fought contests have daily taken place every spring between volunteer nines, among whom have appeared some very good players. Very many men like to play ball but are deterred from appearing as candidates for the 'Varsity...
...freshmen played a game with a "scrub" nine last Saturday and defeated them by a score of 13 to 10. Their playing was very loose. Winslow pitched well for the freshmen. They will probably play again with another nine picked from the college on next Saturday...
...track is in charge of J. S. Prince, who has a large stock of bicycles and tricycles in active service every afternoon for patrons to learn and practice on, and many avail themselves of so excellent an opportunity to use the best in-door track in the world. The scrub races there Wednesday afternoon were largely enjoyed by wheelmen and others. [Bicycling World...