Word: weak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inning game. Eighty-seven proved stronger at the bat than Ninety, making two more hits and a larger total than the latter. The battery of the former was also more steady and effective. The fielding of the freshmen however was excellent, making as they did but four errors, the weak spot of the nine, being as in all other games, its battery. Kielty pitched and Vila caught for the first six innings when Sabine and Slade took their places. The battery errors cost Ninety the game, letting in, as they did, several runs. Kielty and Sabine are both wild...
Yesterday afternoon Harvard was compelled to play her change battery and a substitute against the strongest college team outside of Yale, Princeton and Harvard. The result was fatal. The game throughout was played without snap or energy, the batting by Harvard was weak and careless, although many hits would not have been made in any event for Van Wormer pitched a fine game. Williams could not hit Bingham at all except Burden, whose batting was a feature of the game...
Bingham caught a hard fly which looked like a sure home run. His backing up was weak however Campbell caught finely...
...fielding was weak and there seemed to be a decided tendency to bunch errors...
...fielding was poor, the base-running miserable, and considering the pitching, our batting very weak...