Word: well-fought
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...good enough to give the 'Varsity sharp practice, and that "Harvard indifference" will cause a failure of candidates to appear for this nine. To this latter objection we can only instance the scrub games that have gone on for many years behind the hospital, where many really well-fought contests have daily taken place every spring between volunteer nines, among whom have appeared some very good players. Very many men like to play ball but are deterred from appearing as candidates for the 'Varsity for various reasons. From among these men, who will be sure enough to appear...
...pretty well convinced that they will get a prize; in other words, they are afraid of failing. Cases are common at every meeting where men withdraw at the last moment because some one whom they did not expect, has entered. To win one race at Harvard has been sufficient, in the past, to scare all other competitors out of the field for that event, and the result has been continual "walk-overs" for the lucky few. No doubt, it is unpleasant to lose in a contest, but there is almost as much satisfaction in losing pluckily a well-fought race...