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...hill and then roll down into the first baseman's hands. Every one who saw our last game with Brown last year, recollects how indignant he felt when a hit ordinarily worth about two bases rolled under the fence into a pit on the other side and allowed the striker to gain home. The News aptly remarks, "it may be well enough to use such small grounds for practice, but when a championship game must be played in so small a place that three long hits into the field knock shingles out of the roof of a barn, and only...
...showed themselves valuable acquisitions. Ernst took the pitcher's position, which he maintained for four years as no other college pitcher has done, while the outfield, Latham, 1, Tyng, m, and Dow, r, was as fine as any in the country. The last introduced the system of assisting a striker out to first: before that a hit to right field had been looked upon as safe...
...good service delivered when the striker-out is not ready, counts for nothing, and does not annul a previous fault...
...only runs scored during the game. In the eighth inning Woodhead took two bases on a wild throw by Thayer, Howe muffed Snigg's fly, Cogswell hit to Nunn, who fielded Woodhead out on third, Kelly made a base hit, filling the bases, with O'Rourke, the Manchesters' best striker at the bat. O'Rourke sent a high fly between short-stop and left-field, which Nunn caught finely. Leary then struck out. This game brought out the skill and coolness of the Nine in trying circumstances better than any other game of the season. Thayer, Tyng, Nunn, and Wright...
...first game at Lynn, where on a cold snowy day they made but six errors and scored a victory satisfactory to their friends and surprising to their opponents. The pitching, too, seems to be well up to the high standard of last year, and greatly troubles even the professional striker. Batting and base-running seem to be the weak points of the Nine. There are some men who are good, reliable batters, but there are others of whom little is expected in this line. During the past week it has been the misfortune of the Nine, at several important crises...