Word: succession
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...took our seat on the well-filled benches expecting and hoping for a close and interesting game; for, although desirous of our Nine's success, we would gladly have seen Princeton make it close and exciting work for them, as they did last year. But in this we were grievously disappointed. From the very first inning our men began their heavy batting, getting two two-basers at the start, - Princeton in the mean while piling up errors in rapid succession, - until our score reached old-time figures, while Princeton's, through her inability to hit Ernst, remained severely modern...
...York Athletic Club, and contain every convenience for contestants. The apparatus necessary for every contest is now ready at the track. Arrangements are now in progress for providing seats for three thousand spectators, and every convenience can be expected by visitors. As regards prizes, although the financial success of the day will, in great measure, determine their value, yet they will, in any case, surpass in quality and workmanship anything of the kind presented outside the field of college athletics. The Committee intend to award solid gold badges to First and Second places, and in every case the prize alone...
...must be said that there are some queer stories afloat in Hartford about a little performance decidedly hurtful to Harvard's success, in which a certain Hartford sporting man, with heavy bets on Yale, some gallons of punch, and some six members of the Harvard Nine, figured prominently the night before the match...
THOUGH in the main successful during the past few weeks, our Nine has not shown such field playing as their record during the early part of the season promised. In their batting there is marked improvement, and for this reason there is great hope of their success on the 22d. But they must make fewer errors in the field! In no important game recently have they made less than ten errors, and in some many more; a fact that does not harmonize with victory, or suggest convincing arguments for success. Our base-ball article elsewhere shows a very good record...
...that Jarvis had not been in a condition for use has much to do with the poor showing in athletics Harvard makes this year; but we hope that the comparison, so unfavorable this year, may be changed next spring, and that the Athletic Association may again meet with the success which it once...