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ON Friday the Nine played with the professional Manchesters, and, after a game of twenty-four innings, decided to call the game a draw, the score standing zero to zero. This is by far the most remarkable game on record; and the inability to score was due not only to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

Tyng caught extremely well, and had no passed balls The number of men (36) he put out behind the bat, as also the strikes (74), fully attest the effectiveness of Ernst's delivery. Wright played his base to perfection, although he shows an aversion to slow grounders. Thayer's sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

The most noticeable and dangerous fault at present is the universal tendency to slight the end of the stroke. Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 particularly fail to bring their hands clear in to their bodies before dropping them. No. 6 is inclined to turn his oar before it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREW. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

THE present number of the Packer Quarterly resembles its predecessors in matter and manner, with one exception; for even in its most sublime childishness, Packer never before equalled in atrocity the title of its opening essay (or review), "Charles Lamb (Lamb Hash)."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

"The moral standard of the College is lower than ever before in its history, and Harvard is now acknowledged to be the most immoral, extravagant, and unchristian educational institution in the land."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »