Word: base
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There is a retiring room for ladies in the base of the tower near North Harvard street...
There is a retiring room for ladies in the base of the tower near North Harvard street...
...Yale. Hicks pitched the entire game for Harvard. For the first four innings he was working well; in fact, in the fourth he struck cut three of Yale's best batters in succession. The fifth, however, proved his undoing. A single, an error, another single, and a two-base hit followed in rarid succession, giving Yale three runs. Yale added one more to the score in the seventh by means of a base on balls, a stolen base an error, and a scratch hit. The University team made seven hits off Van Vleck and Merritt, but they were spread over...
...first inning started well. Harvey singled over second base after Lanigan had gone out, pitcher to first. Murphy let the ball get by him and Harvey took an extra base. Currier advanced him to third, but was out at first himself. Simons met the ball squarely only to send it straight into Murphy's hands for the third out. For the next few innings the hits were wasted for either they came too late or the men were out trying to steal second. Lanigan opened the sixth with a clean hit to centre and Harvey's out, Logan to Jefferson...
With regard to the disappointments of the game--the base-running and the errors--it need only be said that the men were caught off bases by a trick which many umpires would have called a balk, and which came as near as possible to being a balk in the estimation of the umpire who allowed it. The errors were due to the necessity of handling slow balls with almost impossible quickness, and are not to be classed with the errors of omission which go to make stupid playing...