Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Entries for the scrub baseball series close tomorrow evening, and as yet but two nines have signified their intention of taking part. We can scarcely believe that after the success of last year's competition the coming series will be such a dead failure as this seems to forbode. Possibly there is some delay among teams intending to enter, or some misunderstanding as to the date when entries are closed. We sincerely hope that there is some such explanation for this seeming lack of interest. The scrub games were so generally appreciated last year, and proved such an excellent introduction...
...scrub baseball games for the Leiter cup will be played from April 26 to May 13. The class games will be played between May 16 and 28, the preliminaries in the first week and the finals in the second week of that period...
...Thursday two scrub teams will be chosen from the men now out and short practice games will be played nearly every day until the April recess, when spring practice ceases...
...crews of 'Varsity candidates kept on the river during the last two months of the year, the best months of all for rowing. If the present interest shown in the sport can be taken to mean anything, we believe that a second class race or a regatta between scrub crews, held toward the end of May, would be highly successful. The objection that such an event would be an anticlimax to the regular class race and would therefore fall flat has but little weight. There are plenty of men who enjoy rowing enough for its own sake to make...
...Freshman nine have now been practicing on Soldiers Field for two weeks. In that time the squad has been cut down from 30 to 20 men, exclusive of battery candidates. The daily routine of work has consisted almost entirely of the customary fielding and batting practice, besides short scrub games played between picked nines...