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Page, '83, will not be able to spar in the light-weight contests, owing to a serious injury of the thumb...
...skill and coolness of the Nine in trying circumstances better than any other game of the season. Thayer, Tyng, Nunn, and Wright played well in the field, and Fessenden and Holden made difficult foul catches. Thayer and Tyng led at the bat. The breaking of Tyng's thumb was not such a serious misfortune in this game as in the succeeding...
...took off his large slouch hat as he came in, and showed a head of brown ringlets. Thinking he had been taking part in some theatricals, and had wandered by mistake into my room, I offered him a chair and my jar of Lone Jack. He dipped his thumb and forefinger into the tobacco and proceeded to take it as snuff...
...fourth inning Couch, the Amherst catcher, was struck on the back of his hand by the striker's bat, and had his thumb broken. This so demoralized the Amherst men that they refused at first to continue the game; but, after a little persuasion, they yielded, and the game went on. At the end of the ninth inning the score stood eleven to nothing in favor of Harvard...
...very much embarrassment that twirling thumb recalls...