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...only Harvard's first victory over the "Reds," but also their first defeat at the hands of an amateur organization, and the result will no doubt be of great benefit to both, encouraging Harvard, while, if nothing more, impressing Boston with a sense of the "glorious uncertainty" of Base Ball. The day was cold, the attendance slight, and yet the game was one of unusual interest; the presence of the "veterans" Bush, Wells, and McKim in the field adding not a little to the pleasure of both spectators and players as well as to the success of Harvard. The game...
Harvard was successful in but three innings after this, yet in them she made a most remarkable display of batting, earning no less than nineteen base hits...
...fielding was marked by a fine throw of Bush to second, putting out O'Rourke; an equally fine throw of Hodges to Bush, catching George Wright; good catches by McKim and Tower; a double by Tyler and Hodges; and the excellent base playing of Kent, he having but one error credited to him, and that an overthrow to third. Hooper pitched finely, as usual. At the close of the seventh inning the score stood 13 to 21, in favor of Harvard, and at this point the game should, without question, have been called; but it was allowed to continue, Boston...
...BASE BALL. - Boston, November 1. Bostons 19, Harvard...
...management of the paper, which places it more in the hands of graduates. The little Record is thus left the sole undergraduate organ. The best article in the Courant is the one on the Iconoclast. It demolishes that crazy sheet pretty thoroughly. We give a specimen: "The article on base ball is marvellously weak. The author has been so kind as to sum up his argument in syllogistic form, as follows: 'All men want to go to Skull and Bones; playing ball will not take them; hence, men will not play ball to get there.' Now there are only three...