Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Haverford college in '86, where he graduated the same year He is a member of the Germantown Cricket club, and two or three years since, in a match between Germantown and Young America, when the former made the largest one-inning score yet made in this country, 418, he went in first with G. S.Patterson and made 30 run before losing his wicket. He is a good all-round cricketer...
Holmes field was rather too soft for cricket yesterday, especially after the two showers, but the scheduled championship match was played off in spite of unfavorable conditions. Haverford went to the bat first, and by steady play piled up 85 runs, Muir leading with 19. Sharper fielding by Harvard would have kept the score lower. Brown and Garrett led off in Harvard's first innings. and made 25 runs in quick succession before the first wicket fell. After that the side was retired rapidly by the puzzling balls of Martin and Baily. The game was stopped by rain after Haverford...
Great censure, I think is due to the manager of the freshman nine, who went to New Haven with so little money that he was dependent upon a Yale graduate to get his men back to Cambridge. During the few innings that were played one Harvard player was taken with the chills and was obliged to be driven immediately to the hotel...
...runs in the first inning This was the only inning in which Harvard made the slightest effort to play. In the following two innings Yale batted the ball over the field or made the circuit of the bases on Wood's wild pitches. In the fourth inning Brown went in to pitch and kept Yale down fairly well. Affairs reached such a state toward the end of the third inning that the Yale captain in order to make the defeat as easy as possible for Harvard ordered a base runner whenever he reached third base, not to come...
Entering Harvard in 1887, be at once brought the college team well in the front rank and himself made a brilliant record. He went in first in the Harvard-Longwood match, and carried his bat all through the inning for 61; duplicated this feat the following week against the Mystics for 39 runs; at the end of the spring term, had the magnificent average of 59.50, and his average for the year was: 6 inning, twice not out 149 runs, average 37.25. His bowling average the same year reads: 336 balls, 15 maidens, 23 wickets, 90 runs-average...