Word: seesawing
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...successive days Hotchkiss and Taft were overcome. On Saturday, however, the Freshmen met their first real opposition, finally succumbing to Choate by the narrow margin of 3 to 2. It was a well-played game, Captain Gimlich, the opposing moundsman, being the deciding factor in a thrilling seesaw contest...
PRINCETON, N. J., May 10.--The Princeton baseball team battled its way to a 15 to 14 victory over Brown today in a thrilling seesaw contest in which the ball was knocked to all corners of the diamond. The Tigers smashed out 21 hits, while their opponents made 14. The scoring beban in the second inning, when the Brown batters knocked Townsend out of the box, and almost did the same for Caldwell, scoring nine runs before the inning dragged to a close. In the third, the Tigers uncorked their slugging streak, and returned the compliment by making nine runs...
...Freshman relay was not the seesaw battle that the other was. From the very start when J. S. Murphy shot ahead of C. M. Boardman, lead-off man for M. I. T., the Crimson yearlings, though hard pressed throughout, never relinquished their lead. Murphy passed on a five-yard advantage to W. L. Chapin, who in turn started L. L. Robb three yards ahead of G. L. Bateman. T. R. Hull, anchor man for the Crimson, was eight yards away when G. J. Leness of Tech received the baton...
...recent defeat of the Ministry in England is something more than the regular political seesaw which is usually kept up by the two parties. In it we see an evidence of the steady growth, in England as well as America, of the Roman Catholic Church; though, twenty years ago, few would have expected to see two such anomalies as the Romanists supporting the conservative government in England, and leading the ultra-radical movement in New York. But it has often been the policy of that church to make the means subservient to the end; and we need feel no surprise...