Word: slow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This afternoon the freshman nine plays its first game out of Cambridge. During the practice games which have been played so far, the freshmen have shown that there is some good material among the candidates if it is only properly developed. The development, however, has seemed slow as yet. If anything may be judged from Thursday's game, which was the best the nine has played so far, a vast improvement must be shown within the next week or two. The men are not at all steady in the field. Worst of all, there is apparently no field captain...
There is little to say of the other class crews. They all have their faults. The seniors have poor body work but seem to keep their boat moving well. The sophomores have good body work but seem to be rather slow just at present. The juniors are very unsatisfactory. Their boat does not travel at all well, and it stops between the strokes All the crews have new oars throughout...
...crew is still in a barge, rowing a slow stroke, though they have been quickening up the last two days. Yesterday they were rowing perhaps 25 or 26 strokes a minute. The body work of the men is pretty good, though one may be reasonably surprised to see two or three men, notably number 8, kicking their slides out behind them. Very little attention has been paid to the oars. Stroke is markedly slow in catching the water, and number 6 rows his oar out of the water and gets short...
...five runs on two bases on balls, three steals, Stearns' error, Mason's and Upton's sacrlfices, a fearfully wild pitch, and hits by Howland and Trafford. In the sighth inning four more runs were secured. Mason made a hit and was advanced a base, while Spalding hit a slow grounder to the infield and reached first. Hallowell's hit advanced them both a base. A passed ball and a wlld pitch brought all three men home. Dean got his base on balls for the third time, both second and third on a wild pitch, and scored on Linn...
...Government interference alone is sufficient to meet the evil because,-(a) Competition is useless against this growing evil,- Nation, vol. 48, 108; vol. 47. p. 491. (b) The courts are too slow to be efficacious,-Nation...