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...match at Cricket with Harvard. The grounds of the Long-wood club were tendered them for the game. The bowling on both sides was good, Bohlen especially doing fine work for Harvard, while Leslie carried off the honors for Pawtucket. Harvard first went to the defence, and their last wicket fell for 93 runs, of which the unusually large number of 30 were for extras, when the Pawtucket side went in and only succeeded in scouring 81, thus Harvard won the match by 12 runs, the decision being on the first inning, as two could not be played before...
...Longwoods yesterday afternoon, by a score of 82 runs to 57. The feature of the game was the remarkably fine fielding of the Harvard eleven. They lost the game only through their inferior batting. McKean, Quinby and King did the best batting, and McKean the best bowling. King's wicket keeping was excellent...
Much amusement was occasioned at one of the base-ball games last week by the appearance of an Englishman who had never seen a game before. He was heard to ask why they forgot to place "a wicket on the crease...
Harvard played its fifth game of cricket yesterday afternoon on Jarvis Field. Much difficulty was found in getting a suitable wicket, the grass being very scant. Finally a wicket was chosen right across the battery's position on the base-ball field. Though true, the wicket was "fast," hence the high score of the Harvard team. The best batting was done by Parker, Evans and McKean for Harvard, and by Sullivan for I. Zingari. In bowling, the honors were carried off by Mr. C. W. Smith, '88, who secured 7 wickets for 19 runs. As Harvard led by more than...
...bowl. The game began shortly after 11 A.M. with Longwood at the bat, and was continued until 4.30 P.M. with an intermission for lunch. The ground was soft and soggy on account of the heavy rain the day before, and there was a strong wind blowing across the wicket, so that the conditions were by no means good for fine batting and large scores. In consequence, the score on both sides was low. At one time it looked very much as if Harvard would win, Evans, and Clark being at the bat, both hitting very well, and the score being...