Word: browne
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...over one hundred students accompanied the nine to Providence on Saturday to see them play their first championship game of the season, and returned jubilant. Seldom, if ever, has a college nine received such a defeat at the hands of another member of the league as Harvard administered to Brown. Never has such heavy batting by a college nine in a championship game been witnessed. The game was played on the college grounds which are enclosed by fences just back of left and centre field, while right field stretches up a hill to the college buildings. By the customary rule...
...Brown went first to bat and was blanked every inning except the third. In that inning Harvard went to pieces and allowed Brown to score three unearned runs. After that Harvard braced up and played a sharp game. Brown was totally unable to do anything with Smith's pitching, 11 men striking out in 7 innings. Harvard sized up Gunderson from the very first inning, and pounded him all over the field during the game. In the seventh, Harvard led off with five successive hits. With two men on bases Willard made a splendid hit to right field for four...
...Brown played miserably in the field, and was pitiably weak at the bat. The notable exception to the poor play of Brown was Clarke. He supported Gunderson as well as could be desired, and threw to bases beautifully, catching three Harvard men napping. Harvard played a good game with the exception of the third inning, when they went badly to pieces. Smith pitched a good game, and Henshaw caught him finely, and threw to bases well. He also led the nine in batting with an average of 1.000, making a hit for every time at bat. The features...
Championship ball games to-day: Yale vs. Williams, at Williamstown; Brown vs. Harvard, at Providence...
...victory for Harvard, but, because everything in base-ball is so uncertain, we can venture no prophecies. And yet the college has good reason to expect a successful outcome of to day's game. The nine has shown up well the past few days, and has already defeated Brown severely. Careful play throughout, confidence, but not over-confidence, ought to win for the crimson the first game of the championship series...