Word: infielding
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...sixth inning, rolling up six runs before the bewildered Rhode Island pitcher could collect himself. Sheldon started off by driving out a long fly which the Rhode Island outfielders failed to collect until the Harvard backstop had reached third. Mays was passed, taking second when Taylor tapped out an infield grounder. Taylor himself was safe, since the visiting first sacker took his foot off the bag in attempting the putout...
...hill for Harvard, letting the Bruin players down with but five hits, while during the major part of the contest the sorrel-haired twirler forced the opposing batsmen either to pop weak flies to the outfielders or to bat out easy rollers into the hands of the greedy infielders. In addition to MacHale's stellar pitching, the entire nine turned to and gave the moundsman fine support, making several speedy infield combinations to stem the scoring efforts of the Providence team...
Three days of fair Kentucky weather had made the track at Churchill Downs hard and dusty, a strip of yellow cardboard between the high white stands and the infield where, from an immense Maypole, hundreds of small flags slanted to the green turf. Mutuel clerks in their shirt-sleeves leaned in the windows along the brick terrace behind the clubhouse. Equipoise, the winter-book favorite owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, but no longer favored since his beatings in the Chesapeake Stakes and the Preakness, had been scratched because of a blind quarter (hidden bruise) discovered in his right fore...
...might as well decree the outcome of the ball game up in the Hanover hills today. If MacHale Pitches he should add to his present record of four victories. There is no telling what the infield will do to make this decree go awry...
...Harvard triumph was due to the fact that Page on the mound kept the Wildcat batters from connecting disastrously, either passing the players absolutely, or forcing them to hit weakly into the infield or to pole easy pop flies to the outfield. While at times the Crimson hurler seemed distinctly without control, throwing wide of the plate and alternately forcing the batters to duck hastily, each time he seemed about to load the bases for New Hampshire via the base on balls route the visitors failed to make any timely bingles, allowing Page to retire the side on easy outs...