Word: diamond
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale is to have a new baseball diamond for practice, and eight additional tennis courts on the new campus east of North Sheffield...
...TRAFFORD.LOST.- On Jarvis Field, Wednesday, October 16, a diamond pin. Finder will be rewarded by leaving same at Leavitt and Pierces...
There were about thirty-five candidates for the nine practicing on Holmes Field yesterday. Evans of last year's team pitched to a very large squad at one of the stop nets, while eighteen of the other candidates played a short game on the diamond. Young '92, pitched and Hale L. S, caught for one side while Cummings '91 and Bell '92 formed the other battery...
...Only about six Harvard men accompanied the team from Cambridge, and the work of the nine was a disappointment. The men played under rather poor luck to be sure, but many of their errors were inexcusable, The infielders seemed bothered considerably, especially on sharp ground hits, by the dirt diamond. The backing up was poor throughout, Princeton played a game almost free from fielding errors but her work seemed to lack snap. She clearly outdid Harvard however, at every point. The men hit Downer heavily although not many times safely. King's batting and fielding were the features...
...orchestra was semi-circular in form, and was paved with diamond or rhomboidal shaped stones. The seats ascended in curves one above another, and are divided by stairways into wedge shaped divisions. The outer row of seats was about three hundred feet from the orchestra and had an actual elevation of one hundred feet above it. The front row of seats are of solid Pentelic marble and have backs. The rows immediately behind them are not cut out of the solid rock as they are higher up, but are made of limestone from the Peiraeus. The theatre must have once...