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Havertord won the toss, and batting first on a wicket which rather favored the bowler, put together the total of 152. C. H. Howson played a fine inning for 58, and Lester, Mifflin and J. Scattergood, with 20 and 17, all showed good form...
Harvardford secured the necessary runs without the loss of a wicket...
...Lippincott are probably the best batters, although the latter has not been doing as well this year as usual. Wells and Hastings have been showing up well, also. Clark is the strongest bowler. Hastings, du Pont and Lippincott will do the rest of the bowling. Gray is the regular wicket keeper. Duckering has only been out a short time, but is a very steady batter...
...went in first to bat, but was unable to do anything with the splendid bowling of Clark and Hastings. For Harvard, Clark batted out over half the runs, making 41. He was retired near the end of the innings by a ball coming off his pads on to the wicket...
...years ago. They are very unique in form, and are veritable curiosities today. The bats and balls were made especially for us, the former having three faces; (a section would make a triangle) and the latter were huge leather affairs, which were not thrown but were bowled at the wicket. The ball was struck not on the flat surface of the bat, but on the angle of its back...