Word: throws
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other colleges have also lost valuable men. Sherrill and Carey, the great sprinters, are gone, and so have Mapes and Williams, the crack hurdlers. This leaves Harvard an excellent chance to figure prominently in the dashes and low hurdles. Then there is a first class man to throw the hammer, and there are several excellent middle distance men and some good milers. There are more candidates this year than ever before, and the freshman class has some good material. The team is now divided into four squads, which meet every day and go through weight-pulling, dumb-bells, and those...
...harm him. But they had neglected a little plant which grew on the mountains, the mistletoe, which was so small that they thought it could do no harm. Loci heard of this, and possessing himself of a branch, repaired to an assemblage of the gods, when they were throwing things at Balda and sceing them avoid him. Loci gave the mistletoe to Balda's blind brother and directed him to throw it at Balda, - when he was killed...
...centre and came in on Sullivan's two begger. Sullivan got to third on McKie's sacrifice, but was left there. Harvard made a run in the third on a base on balls and Hovey's two begger, and another in the fifth on a very wild throw by short stop to first base. But the great scoring for the home team was made in the ninth. Then Hallowell, Hovey, Alward and Cobb each got base hits. The Clydes seemed to lose their control over the ball, and four errors in rapid succession, aided by these hits, brought the score...
More scoring was done in the fifth inning, when Dean led off with a hit, took second on Hallowell's sacrifice and came home on a wild throw by the Vermont first baseman. Hovey and Trafford made hits, and Frothingham was hit by a pitched ball. This filled the bases. Alward came to the bat and knocked out a hit which brought in Hovey and Trafford, and advanced Frothingham to third. Cook hit to short stop and Frothingham started for home like a shot; the ball followed him, but he made a magnificent slide and saved...
...only run for Vermont was made by O'Connor in the fourth inning. He reached first on Dean's error, second on a wild pitch, third on an attempt to put out Stewart, and home on Upton's poor throw to second...