Word: speed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Fall baseball practice began yesterday, and will be continued as long as the weather permits. A continuous practice game was kept up yesterday afternoon, and all the candidates played a short time. The pitching and fielding were both done without much effort at speed, and served only to get the men limbered up. Sixty-four men were out, including Captain Wendell and Clarkson, Stillman, Murphy and Coburn of last year's team...
First. The crew is not a unit. The cars are not uniform, and the power does not go on exactly together and in the same manner. In other words the crew is not well together. This is the most serious fault any crew can have and most fatal to speed...
...infield as a whole shows better all-around form and consistency of play than it did last year. Its speed has not increased much, but the men back each other up excellently, and play their positions to the best advantage. The players have not been subjected to such severe tests last year's games with Georgetown, Princeton and Holy Cross, but in the present season they have shown no tendency to go to pieces at critical times. That there has been no decided slump in their work is no doubt due to the large number of experienced players...
...Indians were weaker than any other team which Harvard has played this season. Against easy pitching Harvard batted well. The men were more careful than usual in meeting the ball cleanly, and were not constantly trying to make long hits. On the bases the team showed its usual speed and keenness to take advantage of fielding misplays, but made occasional blunders. Harvard's fielding was fast and clean; of the two errors, Coolidge's was excusable and Reid's was made in centre field...
...Graydon have both had experience, but Eaton is too heavy to be effective. The rest are all inexperienced. Robinson and Wright present the greatest chances of development. If the former develops consistency, endurance and fight he will probably make the team. If the latter proves to have the speed and knowledge of the game which he lacked last year he also will be very valuable...