Word: tyng
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tyng, '77, will captain and pitch on the Staten Island nine this year...
...Tyng the former pitcher of the Harvard nine is now a member of the Staten Island club...
...comment. One journal in this city sagely says that probably no Harvard student ever thought seriously of becoming a professional baseball player or oarsmen. That may be true to a certain extent, but some Harvard men, nevertheless, have accepted money for their services as ball-players or boating men. Tyng, the famous catcher of Harvard, several years ago played a number of games with the Bostons, and Mr. Bancroft, the ex-captain of the Cambridge crew, a young lawyer at the "Hub." receives pay for coaching every spring the wearers of the crimson at New London, in the annual race...
...statements made by the N. Y. Times, contained in an article on the first page. we are not preapred to vouch for. As for Mr. Tyng's rocord we know that he is not now considered a professional ball player, he having been a member of a New York Amateur club of good standing last season. Such being the case, it is impossible that he should ever have received money for services on the ball field. Therefore, in the case of Mr. Tyng we think that the N. Y. Times is seriously at fault...
...when Harvard began to bat, the prospects changed at once, and Princeton lost by three clear runs. Mann had only one curve, and he did not even vary it by straight balls, so it failed of success against the straight pitching and fine head-work of Ernst and Tyng. Avery, at Yale, came out with his curve the same year, and many of the college nines of that time remember yet how he promised something new for the Harvard batters as the result of his winter's practice in the gymnasium. He did succeed in defeating them, and next year...