Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Time of game, 2 hours and 35 minutes...
HARVARD vs. BOSTON.YESTERDAY our Nine met the Bostons for the second time this season. The game was one of the closest and most exciting ever played in New England, and the Bostons were put in such a tight place that it took them eleven innings to pull out of it. The game was remarkable, not only for the number of innings required to decide it, but also for the inability of our opponents to hit Ernst's pitching. The Bostons made only three base hits, - the fewest they have earned in a full game since their organization...
...eighth inning, the score was unchanged, the play of both nines being marked by sharp fielding and weak batting. In the eighth inning Joseph retired on a fly to pitcher. Parks struck an easy grounder to Sawyer, who, after fumbling it, failed to throw it to first in time. Leonard batted to Sawyer, and was put out at first, Parks in the mean while reaching second. O'Rourke struck sharp to Thayer, who, after making a pretty stop, threw wild to Wright, letting in Parks and sending O'Rourke to third. Murnan, after purposely trying to balk the catcher...
Singing his spring-time melody...
...greatly many rising tendencies to convivial pleasures, betting and gambling, may at any time be aggravated into special activity and force by the representatives of the sporting class, that often hover sympathetically around them. What Christian father, solicitous for the highest future of his son, would not shrink with instinctive earnestness from exposing him in the dawn of his opening manhood to such untoward moral liabilities...