Word: snap
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work on the whole was rather encouraging as the men played with a good deal of snap, and the rushers broke through and tackled well...
...even for a class game, and their batting, with the exception of Mackie's three-bagger, and Hapgood's clean base-hit which followed it, bringing in the only earned run of the game, was woefully weak. In one respect however, they out-played the freshmen, for they put snap and life, even into their errors, while '95, though they played a clean game, did not play with snap, except at the rarest intervals...
...Cole, Davis being 'varsity players, but this was no excuse for the exhibition of ball playing that '95 put up. It was wretchedly slow and lifeless, everyone being very deliberate in his movements. If this excessive care had made their fielding good, one could have endured the want of snap which so enlivens a game, but it did not and it never will in a game with such a team as Yale's. Whiting's muff of an easy liner, Dreyfus's ridiculous errors in left, McAdams' passed balls, Whittemore's two fumbles and Gilmore's slow...
...five nine, but taught all of us something about the game of base ball. Their base running, though, to be sure, they did not have a very strong battery to guard against, was worth watching and taking example from. But the feature which characterized the Yale playing was the snap and precision with which they played their game. If one moved, all moved, backing each other up, working rapidly and with the regularity of clock work. It was ball playing from the word...
...that the competitors do not want to stand waiting any longer than possible, we still think that more foresight and better management would have made the waits of the meeting less long. We hope that at the next meeting the Association will put things through with more snap...