Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty of Amherst have made up the $200 deficit in the expenses of the Glee Club trip...
Again we find the nine proposing a New York trip during the "May recess," which is to include matches with the Bedford "Atlantics," the Brooklyn "Excelsiors," the New York "Mutuals." and the Hartford "Charter Oaks." Where are these nines to-day? And where are the "Elysian Fields they once played...
...object of the nine," says the Advocate, "in making the proposed trip is not to win balls and a great reputation; but simply to get practice and to let it be known that there is such a club as the Harvard in existence...
Before going on their trip the nine defeated the "Orients" of East Boston 97 to 11; "a fine exhibition in the eyes of the ladies, but which did not at all satisfy the expectations of the amateurs." Again, in the same paper we find a complaint that the second nine has in "three well-contested matches" defeated the Harvard nine. "We offer no comment," says the Advocate, "none is needed...
...York trip was not very successful, the Harvard team being beaten by "Atlantics," "Eurekas," "Excelsiors" and "Actives," 37-15, 42-39, 46-28 54 15. In these games the Harvard catcher, Flagg, catches pluckily although his hands are badly bunged up. The Eureka game was interrupted by a "fat 'Jersey' pig, making full trot for the pitcher's stand." Wild pitching and weariness of the nine is Harvard's explanation of the defeats. After returning home, without going to Hartford, the nine slaughtered the Beacon's in a finely played game, 77 to 11. Hunnewell, Harvard's third base, made...