Word: whitewashing
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...22nd, Harvard was given her first whitewash in the inter collegiate series for several years, Princeton beating her, 3 - 0. Errors, 1 - 3. The college was partially condoled by the news from Amherst that Yale had been beaten on the same day by the Amherst team. The score was 5 - 4, with 7 bases for 9 for each team. Errors, 1 - 4. At the end of the third week of the contest, this left Amherst and Princeton tied for first place, Harvard next, then Yale, Williams and Brown. Four games had been postponed...
...Yale Record complains bitterly because the Rutgers men will not play a return match with their eleven and allow Yale a chance to whitewash the Jersey...
...high board fence, with its trellis-like attachment, it is almost impossible to make a home run on the hardest hit ball. It has been proposed that the wall of the church and the side of the fence be marked off into sections by a judicious use of whitewash, and that whenever the ball strikes on the fly in one section it be called a home run; in the next lower section, a three-base hit, etc. We respectfully commend this proposition to the serious consideration of the Brown B. B. Association...
...Freshmen a game of Base-Ball on Saturday last. The weather was most favorable, and the number of spectators was quite large. Game was called about three o'clock, our men going first to the bat. They succeeded in obtaining one run, and managed to give their opponents a whitewash. In the second inning Harvard scored 2, Yale again retiring without a run. During the next three innings neither side scored; and up to this point the game was remarkably well played, and the errors were few. In the sixth inning our Freshmen made four runs, and the Yale...
...second game was called at 11.30 on Thursday morning, the Harvards again at the bat. Mr. Hooper, '75, officiated as umpire. The first innings resulted in a whitewash for both sides. But on the second the Harvards got in 8 runs, on the third 5, and on the fourth 5, to the Browns 2, 1, and 1 in the same time. But here a change appeared. Kip seemed to lose his power of effective pitching, and Brown crept slowly up to our score; making three on the 5th, three on the 6th, and eight on the 7th. Brown went...