Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accordingly, cause much injury to themselves by overstraining. The author states that exceptions may be made in individual cases to the rules set down, but in the majority of cases they should be held to strictly. The idea is to keep the athlete from doing his best until the fifth week of training when he is expected to be in condition for the utmost exertion without injuring himself. The system of the amount of work to be done in each of the first five weeks is carefully laid down, and, if literally held to, cannot fail to keep the athlete...
Yesterday on the Exeter campus were held the annual spring tennis tournament, and the first interscholastic athletic tournament between Exeter and Andover academies. In the tennis Exeter was victorious in both singles and doubles, and by this last victory Exeter has won the doubles cup for the fifth consecutive year. Andover won the singles match last fall, and as Exeter won it yesterday, it will be necessary to play a third match to decide the championship before the schools close. The athletic meeting was a success in every way. Great interest was taken in the outcome, since...
...sides were easily disposed of. In the fourth Dean and Linn scored again on hits by Linn and Willard, a double by Henshaw which struck third base and bounded off, and a sacrifice by Howland. Both runs were earned. Pennsylvania got two men on bases in the fourth and fifth innings but careful fielding prevented them from scoring. After the fifth inning but two Pennsylvania men reached first and both were left. In the sixth Dean and Linn again scored. Both were given bases on balls. Dean came home on wild throws by catcher and centre fielder, and Linn...
...Knickerbocker got a base hit which carried Young to third. Linn canght Brokaw's long hit to right but nobody scored. King bunted the ball and got first, but Young was out at home plate, Downer to Henshaw. Durell hit short and was caught out by Hawley. Hawley made fifth strike out. Evans followed, number six, but Corning got first on balls and around to third by a wild throw to second. Downer, however, was out on a foul tip and Corning was left. Watts led off for Princeton with a bunted ball, and reached first. He soon started...
...steal second. Henshaw made a hit, stole second, and took third on Evans' hit, but both were left on bases. Princeton was blanked in the fourth inning, but Linn scored for Harvard on a base on balls, a steal, a passed ball and a wild pitch. In the fifth Brokaw made a hit, stole second and came home on two successive sacrifices. Willard put out the third man by a fine catch of a foul. Harvard was blanked in every inning after this. In the seventh the bases were full with two men out, but Corning hit weakly...