Word: smith
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...funeral took place on Tuesday. The procession left his home on North Avenue, where no service was held about 3.30 p.m., and drove to Appleton Chapel. The bearers, Messrs. Bocher, LeBoulanger, C. L. Smith, C. J. White, Levy and Gale, preceded the hearse and the mourners followed both in entering and leaving the chapel. The service was by Dr. Peabody and the music was under the charge of Mr. Locke. After the ceremony, the procession drove to Mount Auburn where the remains were placed in a tomb near the grave of Count Pourtales. At the grave a short prayer...
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...training under Ward, Goldsmith and Keefe. As if these misfortunes were not enough, at the very beginning of the season most of the best players in the nine were successively maimed and prevented from playing, so that of the men who now constitute the nine all but three, Smith, Beaman and Lovering, have been obliged to lay off one or more games. This was, of course, fatal to systematic practice, but its bad effect has not been so marked as would naturally have been expected...
...Smith, at first, has played a fair game. Although at times he has appeared careless and has made errors on comparatively easy balls, some of his plays have been brilliant and his pickups are wonderful. At the bat he has made no hits since the first Yale game, when he put two hot ones to his credit. His base-running as yet is rather listless and he is too much inclined to watch where the ball goes when it leaves his bat. All these faults, however, can be remedied with careful practice by another season...
...Smith, the new man engaged by Boston, played in the Yale team in 11 college championship games last season. His batting average was .294, with a total of .470, and his fielding average - centrefielder...