Word: strike
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Minton and Cabot composed the battery. The pitcher had an off day and gave six bases on balls, hit three men and allowed three hits in the first inning. The catcher broke his finger at the very beginning of the game and so was unable to hold the third strike. He, however, persisted in playing through the inning and of course made several errors. Linfield and Clarke were put in at the end of the first inning...
...third Tabor was the sixth Worcester man in succession to strike out. Lynch flied out and Bird knocked a grounder to first. For Harvard Dean managed to reach third on a dead ball, a steal, and Mason's sacrifice, but failed to get home...
...yesterday's game with Boston the nine showed a marked improvement in their batting, making twelve hits and not one strike out, while their fielding compared very favorably with that of the professionals, especially in backing each other...
...question at the Intercollegiate Association meeting was significant. At Harvard, Yale and Princeton for the last two or three years there has been a growing feeling that the tug-of-war is not a true sport. For that reason an effort was made to strike it from the list of events. In general the numerous smaller colleges combined, as they always do combine against the few larger ones, and defeated the measure. This stand of the smaller colleges is inexplicable; but it simply serves to show their unwise policy. The two or three leading colleges will not long care...
...were religious, as Paul remarked in the case of the Athenians. But the Israelites pursued the theologic idea with a vigor, a persistency, and above all a rational method found in no other people. Religion was to them what philosophy was to the Greeks. This fact cannot fail to strike a scholar of both the Old Testament and the classic poets...