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...that it was a pickup and gave both men their base. They were both knocked in by Nichols' two-base hit. Mr. Quinn admitted after the game that his decision was wrong. The last decision was in the last inning. With two men out, G. P. Merrill tried to steal second but was thrown out prettily by Crocker and caught about two feet off the base. Quinn, however, decided not out, and Merrill made the winning run. The features of the game were the batting of Baker, the hot line catches of Baker and Beaman, the left-field play...
...Child's hit to left and stayed there as Souther flied out to Nichols at centre field. After this Yale did not reach second base until the seventh inning, when Carpenter was left on third. Griggs in the second and Jones and Hopkins in the third tried to steal second, but were promptly thrown out by Allen. Of Harvard's work at the bat there is little to be said. Smith and Crocker were the only men to make hits, Smith in the fourth and sixth innings, Crocker in the seventh. The other men who reached first were...
...first, but his base-running was hardly up to the mark. Allen played a steady game behind the bat and made a very pretty catch of a foul tip from Richardson's bat. In the seventh inning Coolidge was run into by H. B. Hall, who was trying to steal second. The result was a severe sprain of the ankle which will prevent him from playing again for three or four weeks. Lovering came in to second and Keep took Lovering's place at right. In the next inning after one run was made by the Beacons, Allen was struck...
...late Dr. Bacon, of New Haven, once said to Professor Summer of Yale College, "I do not see anything in free trade except, 'Thou shalt not steal...
...says: "A letter from a Harvard man says that their team did not exert themselves at all with the Techs. for fear that Yale would get too correct an estimate of their strength. In the newspaper reports of their games they are careful to allow few complimentary remarks to steal in. Yet all this while they are working as they never worked before; they are straining every fibre of strength that the college can boast, and when the great contest with Yale comes, their powers will be unmasked, but not till then...