Word: slow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...little interest in the game is that most of the men do not understand the fine points of the playing. Almost any game would seem dull to those who could not appreciate what the players were striving for; and many a game which in its crudeness is rather slow, becomes remarkably interesting when the more subtle plays are understood. Cricket at Harvard seems to suffer from this very ignorance among the students of the real skill of the game. By providing for a large number of games in Cambridge, the Cricket Club means to give the college better opportunities...
Reed and McAdams were the battery for Harvard, White and Cooke for Brown. Reed was hit often but not safely, holding the opponents down to five hits. McAdams stopped the ball well, but was rather slow in throwing to second...
...remaining numbers by the orchestra were the Symphonic Poem "Le Rouet D'Omphale," Saint-Saens and Schumann's 4th Symphony in D minor. The first of these represents very graphically the action of a spinning wheel, commencing with the slow whirr and gradually accelerated motion and then ending with a faint high note. The Symphony, written about fifty years ago, is a passionate work, full of poetry and nature. Mr. Nikisch's conception of this and all the rest of the numbers was masterly and the whole concert well served to carry the series off to the past, gone...
...pitched a strong, hard game, giving only two men bases on balls. Once or twice he seemed to lose control of the ball, but only once or twice. Upton failed to hold him at all, evidently being bothered by his new stiff mitten. Besides this, moreover, Upton was very slow in throwing to bases, losing several good chances just by holding the ball too long. At third Cook was not quite as good as usual making a couple of very wild throws to first...
...ninth inning was opened by Colgate who struck out, Hutchinson went out at first on a slow grounder, Greenway got his base on balls, only to be left on second by Murphy's grounder, to Wiggin...