Word: base
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...glad to see from the report of the Base Ball Convention that no opposition was made to the admittance of Yale into the Association. It is certainly much better to have all the prominent colleges represented in such an association, and that there be no ill-feeling toward any one in particular. We think it would be advisable to have some stated amount as a guarantee for the appearance of a club, so as to avoid any trouble like that in Amherst's case...
...Intercollegiate Base Ball Convention was held on Saturday last, at Springfield. Princeton was represented by McCune and Duffield, Brown by Thurston and Ladd, Dartmouth by Cram and Partridge, Amherst by Latimer and Williams, and Harvard by Folsom and Coolidge. Mr. Coolidge called the meeting to order, and the following officers were elected: President, Duffield; Vice-Presidents, Cram and Ladd; Secretary and Treasurer, Coolidge. The Judiciary Committee, consisting of Folsom, Chairman, Cram, Thurston, McCune, and Latimer, decided that the championship of 1880 be awarded to Princeton, and that Amherst had forfeited her membership by failing to play Princeton on June...
...highly censured. It is foreign to the very purpose of an open meeting, and to the present spirit of Harvard, where fair play is deemed the first principle of action; and that it should have succeeded in the case of the election of officers for the Boating and Base Ball Associations, shows it an abuse that must be corrected before it gains more ground. We say this in no spirit of hostility to the officers who were elected, for we think that most of them would probably have been quite as successful had the election been open; but we cannot...
...clock of the day of the match that their team could not play us at the appointed time. When games are arranged for in this manner, and either team disappoints the other, it seems to us some penalty ought to be inflicted. We would suggest that, as in base ball, the Football Team play for the ball, and that these balls, with the names of the defeated teams and scores painted upon them, be given a place in the Gymnasium; so also, if we are disappointed by any team as we were this year, that the game be forfeited...
...thus that the world, base and cruel...