Word: sodded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...diamond has again been improved. Once more sod has been removed and loam packed firmly in its place, until there is a broad path some fifteen or twenty feet wide running from first base all the way around to third base. There is hardly any possibility of bad bounds on balls to the infield...
...Cricket Club is now practising every afternoon on the upper end of Holmes Field, and, as the Tennis Association has given up the courts there, the Cricket Club will use that ground the rest of the season. It was originally intended to sod a crease on Norton's Field, but the plan was abandoned as impracticable...
...afternoon's trial was enough to convince the cricketers that Norton's field is utterly unfit for their purposes. As it is impossible to sod it, the candidates will practice on the upper ends of Holmes and Jarvis, as they did last year...
Capt. Rhodes of the Yale eleven and Capt. Poe of the Princeton, have been in New York together, looking over the grounds at Brotherhood Park. The manager of the grounds has promised to sod them well, and it is probable that the Yale-Princeton game will be played there...