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...better than his predecessor. Two runs were made in the 7th and two more in the eighth. In the ninth Brown made its only hit off Winslow, a high fly just over the fence at left field. Before Foster could get over the fence and field it back, the batsman, Gunderson, had made the circuit of the bases. The score at the end was thus 15 to 2 in favor of Harvard. The work of Beaman and Wiestling in the field was very fine, their stops and throws being phenomenal. Winslow led at the bat with a clean record...
...National Base Ball League, and abolished the foul bound catch. The tendency in the game of base ball during the past few years has been for the fielding and pitching to increase in a marked manner out of all proportion to the increase in the ability of the batsman to hit the ball. It is becoming quite a veriety in a well played game for a man to reach first base. Yet base running is certainly one of the most interesting and exciting features of base ball; eliminate it, and just so much is subtracted from the pleasure of witnessing...
...were urged in defense of the catch on the bound of a fair ball, and with just as much reason. If we are to help the batting, we ought to do away with a style of catch that restricts batting. It is bad enough as it is that a batsman should be put out on a catch of a foul fly ball without any compensation in running a base. To inflict a double penalty by adding the bound catch is making matters worse...
...Rule 10. Batsman's lines six feet long by four feet wide, with its nearest line six inches from the home base...
...place of seven. If the rule is adopted, it will of course give a great advantage to pitchers who have good control of the ball, and likewise be detrimental to those who have not. We strongly favor the new rule, however, for the reason that it gives the batsman a fairer show to hit the ball, and will tend to greatly raise the batting averages which were so low last year. It will also make the games more exciting and interesting than those of last year, where in some cases two or three scratch hits were all that were made...