Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were out and a chance was given for the third, Harvard piled up four runs on three base hits by Ernst, Wright, and Latham. From this point on the only interest in the game was to see if Amherst would be whitewashed every inning; and this, from the weak way in which she was batting, seemed not at all improbable. The nearest approach to a run by Amherst was made when Plimpton struck a two-baser over the centre-field's head, and got his third on a wild pitch. Here, however, he stayed; the next two men being...
...will lounge up to the table, join in a friendly conversation with somebody or other, and, in an absent sort of way, will slip into his plate tart after tart that I am vainly endeavoring to get at (I may remark, parenthetically, that I am physically small and weak), yet the man is so perfectly pleasant about it that in the present state of affairs I cannot publicly proclaim my disgust at his behavior...
...common to all mankind. The inhabitants of a city are amused by spelling-matches for a time; they get tired of these, and are amused by wrestling-matches, of which they also soon become wearied. So let us not think that our students are morally or physically weak, because they refuse to be amused by the same thing for several years together...
...hitting safe, scored the only earned run of the game, coming in on a "two bases" of Holmes's. Score 3 to 1 in favor of Harvard. From this point until the 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...
...Holmes, Schafer struck to Sawyer and was put out at first, McGinley batted to Wright, who, by a bad overthrow, let in Murnan and sent McGinley to second, where he was left. Latham got his first on three strikes and stole his second, but was left there by the weak batting of the next three strikers...