Word: slow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...error, took second on Palmer's sacrifice, and scored on Hall's second hit, a hard drive to right centre. In the ninth Delano went to first on a dead ball, and was advanced to third on singles by Foster and Brown. With the bases full, Hicks hit a slow roller towards pitcher, which forced Delano at the plate. Pond, the last man on the list, lined out a hard drive over second, scoring Foster and Brown. With Hicks on third and Pond on second, Aronson hit a hard ball to shortstop, who threw Hicks out at the plate...
...University baseball team lost a six-inning game to the Freshman nine yesterday afternoon by the score of 4 to 3. It was an off day for the first team in every department of the game, and they made seven errors in the six slow innings--more than they have made in the last three games taken together. They secured only one clean hit from Hicks, who pitched for the Freshmen. Saturday's strenuous game took all the life out of the men, and they were content to allow the Freshmen to gain a big lead which they were unable...
Yesterday afternoon the University crew had moderately hard work again. The men went downstream to within about an eighth of a mile above the Harvard bridge and returned to the University boathouse. Starting out, a slow stroke was maintained and the crew worked only in short stretches until the Longwood bridge was reached. There the second crew was waiting...
Several disadvantages occur from widely spread municipal ownership. Withdrawal of private capital would cause a great loss to the citizens. The actual working of governmental monopolies is slow and deadening, as the element of personal gain is entirely absent...
...larger, but Harvard lost several chances for runs by stupid errors on the bases. While there were several clever plays pulled off in the field, notably Harvard's three double plays, each of which spoiled good chances for runs, it was uninteresting baseball for the most part, and the slow playing of the visitors made the game drag unnecessarily...