Word: wiggin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following men went to New Haven: Whittemore, Cook, Dickinson, Wiggin, Winslow, O'Malley, Corbett, Highlands, Paine, Stevenson, Scannell, Hayes, Ames and C. Paine...
...other hand, if Captain Mackenzie insisted on regarding the game as flnished, Captain Wiggin had a perfect right to decline to commence a new game on the spot, if, in his discretion, the circumstances were unfavorable to his nine. Harvard's nine is better adapted to play nine innings than twelve, and, besides, nearly all of Harvard's supporters would have had to leave in order to catch the special train before two more innings could have been played and this would have given Princeton a decided advantage in the matter of support. While Captain Wiggin was willing to play...
...cheer when umpire Hartley shouted "foul" and sent Cook back. Then Trenchard broke his finger and time was called. Before play was resumed the rain came down in torrents and the players all got under cover. After waiting the required 30 minutes the umpire called the game off. Wiggin told the Harvard men to leave the field and the whole team hurried over to the little training house in left field where the barges were waiting to carry the players back to the New Haven House. Meanwhile very few of the spectators had found out that the game had been...
...ball. Dickinson was in the way of a throw when he started for first and Cook got to second safely. Dickinson was, however, called out. Then Scannel was hit by a pitched ball and immediately after both he and Cook were advanced a base on Bradley's wild pitch. Wiggin went out on a fly to Mackenzie...
...play the game of their lives; they threw all their power into their work from the moment play was begun, and astonished the spectators by the game they showed themselves capable of playing. It was the most gratifying victory won by Harvard this year, and to Captain Wiggin and every man on the nine we extend our warmest congratulations...