Word: swifter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dalzell, Yale '91, is a candidate for pitcher's position on next year's nine. He is a swifter pitcher than Stagg, but is not expert with the curves. It is thought that Osborne, '88 Sheff, will catch...
...there is a Harvard nine this year it will have a battery that will be hard to equal in any college. Nichols has improved steadily during the winter, and, though his delivery is swifter than that of most professional pitchers, it has no terrors for Allen, who is holding him in fine style. [Globe...
...Swifter than hers who spurned the lingering seas...