Word: slow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Last year the team defeated Exeter in a slow six-inning game by a score of 11 to 0, five of the runs being directly due to errors by Exeter's infield. This year Exeter has been very erratic, at times playing brilliantly and at other times becoming very listless. In the game with Princeton on April 20, Exeter led by a score of 6 to 1 until the seventh inning, when the team became unsteady and allowed Princeton to score 12 runs before the end of the game. Exeter made twelve hits, however, against Stevens, who pitched for Princeton...
...either the team work or the confidence which can come from practice games only. So far as can be judged thus early in the season, the team fields well and is fairly good at the bat. The base running is as yet crude and undeveloped and the men are slow in getting their throws...
...week, and partly to the general listlessness among the men. The infielders, with the exception of the battery candidates, are careless in their fielding and their throwing is extremely inaccurate. Although the outfielders are doing good work in judging fly balls, they have not enough spirit and are especially slow in starting after the ball. Several of the battery candidates show promise of fair ability, yet they have not developed as satisfactorily as those in former years. The batting, as evidenced in the practice games of the last two days, is improving very slowly, since the men still have...
...crew races on the Charles River yesterday the class championship was won by the Senior crew, and the final interclub class race resulted in a victory for the Weld Sophomores. A strong head wind, making the water in the lower basin very rough, caused slow time...
...class crew has suffered from continual changes forced by sickness, and from lack of coaching. Its development has been slow, but it is in the opinion of its captain and coach the best combination that can be put together from the men available, and has so demonstrated itself. HUGH BANCROFT...