Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Neither side scored again till the eighth inning, and the intervening innings were dull and uninteresting in the extreme, being redeemed only by the magnificent pitching of Winslow, who, although playing his first game for the season, displayed wonderful skill and coolness. In the second inning, while the ball was still slippery and hard to handle, after pitching Carpenter five poor balls, he sent in six balls in succession true over the plate, compelling Carpenter to knock fouls on three of them, and striking out on the other three...
...lower classes who play, in order that as the college is foremost in tennis now, it may remain so in the future. Under the present state of affairs any one who wishes is given a chance to play, and there seems to be no reason to prevent skill from being developed, wherever it may exist...
Moreover, lawn tennis may be watched with delight and interest, even by those whose intellects are below - or above - mastering such elementary propositions as these. The skill of the player may be appreciated by people who have not a conception what is the score; and the neatness with which a ball is "placed," or the rapidity with which it is "volleyed," need not be missed because the spectator is utterly at sea as to which side of the net is getting the best of it. - [London Standard...
...their instructions. When all the crews had made their appearance the draw was opened, and the crews came through in the order of the classes, each crew being cheered by its classmates as it passed the referee's boat. All the preliminary arrangements had been made with care and skill, so that very little delay ensued in getting the boats into their proper positions. In attempting to throw the jerseys aboard the tug boat, '84's coxswain fell out of the shell, but he pluckily held on, and pulled himself aboard, suffering no injury save a thorough wetting...
...what else he wants - eggs, marmalade, jam, potted meats. In school, as out of it, the American breakfast of fish, beefsteak, hot cakes, or what not, is unknown. The boys breakfast in small rooms, twenty or twenty-five together, each eating such breakfast as his means, his tastes, his skill in marketing, or the liberality of a wealthier friend may afford him. The school is divided into classes or 'forms.' The sixth-form boys breakfast in their own rooms, as they do afterwards when they enter the universities. . . . The boys of each house dine together in a common hall...