Word: weakly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regatta of the Yale navy will be held at Lake Saltonstall on Saturday, May 18. The junior class has this year a very strong crew, including Harrison and Newell, substitutes on the university crew, and James, who was a substitute on last year's crew. The sophomores are very weak, so that the race will be between the juniors and freshmen. The latter crew is exceptionally heavy...
...inauspiciously for Harvard. While the result of the game at Princeton was not unanticipated, the work of the nine was in many respects disappointing. It was not expected that the team would play with confidence nor was it expected that there would be such an exhibition of loose fielding, weak batting, and lack of team play. But before condemning all this it should be remembered that the conditious under which the game was played were all against Harvard. The loose work in the field and weakness at the bat can be attributed to the very natural nervousness on the part...
...lead for seven innings. McPherson and Wood were both very effective and the batting very light. The men on both nines played well though several showed the lack of practice. The features of the game were the difficult running catches of Wood and Crosby. The batting was weak and the base running sometimes careless. Very fine playing was made difficult by the cold wind, nevertheless the game as a whole was above the average of class games. Appended is the score...
...slow ball and the opposing team hit him heavily. Bell caught well but his throwing to second was poor owing to a sore arm. Carpenter did well at first base. Wrenn at second, and Brown at third both performed creditable work. The batting of the whole team was deplorably weak. Appended is the score...
Harvard's battery was weak, allowing seven men first on called balls and seven Williams men to steal bases. Hawley struck out four men. According to the now established rule Harvard went all to pieces after the first inning, both in batting and fielding. Harvard got four runs in the first inning and only one more during the entire game and that in the fifth. In the third Williams got five. Williams was first at the bat. Hawley struck out the first man, Wilson; Brown got a hit and by stealing bases and a base hit of Hotchkiss, got home...