Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cricket team was badly defeated by Haverford on Saturday by the score of 354, not out, to 74. The defeat was due to the much superior batting and bowling of the Haverford team, which showed far more experience and steadiness. Bevan and Wood of Haverford were especially effective in bowling, and Wood, who made a century, and C. C. Morris were the strongest in batting. For Harvard, A. Tyng did the best bowling and Pasea scored the most runs. Only three men were able to make double figures. The fielding on both sides was excellent...
...Second nine defeated Andover on Saturday in a rather uninteresting game, by the score of 11 to 3. The Harvard team was unexpectedly superior in every department of the game to a nine which had held down the University team to two runs. The feature of the game was Hutchinson's masterly pitching. He had almost perfect control, allowed only three hits and gave but two bases on balls. Brown made a poor showing in the box for Andover and had ragged support...
...first eight is clearly superior in form as well as speed to the second, and in every brush between the crews, the first gains rapidly. On Saturday the two eights went over the two-mile course, starting with the race of the lower graded crews. When the graded crews finished at the mile and a half mark, the first Freshman and the first Weld graded, which started with them, were over five lengths ahead of the lower graded crews; and at the end of the two miles, the first Freshman led the first Weld graded by a length of open...
...first two sets in the finals were fairly interesting. Although Plympton braced up after the first set and won the second by steady volleying along the side lines, he weakened in the last two sets and was easily defeated by Whitman's superior net play and driving. Plympton made a number of difficult cross court drives and lobbed well, but with the exception of in the second set, played unsteadily...
...University lacrosse team lost to Cornell yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field in a closely contested game by the score of 6 to 3. A strong wind down the field made accurate shooting impossible, and in the scrimmages that followed Cornell was able to get the advantage owing to superior weight...