Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Yale, Hatch knocked the ball as far as Howe, who easily threw him out. Soule dropped Jones' easy pop fly, and Howe's poor throw of Merritt's grounder gave him second A pretty steal brought a Yale man to third for the only time. Lockett and Fox struck...
Harvard 13; Hartford 19.The nine played a remarkably poor game yesterday afternoon, and was defeated by the Hartfords in the worst played contest seen on Holmes field during the year. The men ylayed with no life at all except at the bat, where they did fair work...
...whole the crew may be said to have a poor finish. Although they sit up well and do not bury their boat at the finish, they are clumsy with their oars, so that they back water and splash when they take their oars out. They also fail to get a hard, vicious shove from the stretcher at the beginning and all through the stroke, and the crew is not well together. The men and approximate weights are as follows...
...varsity played a dull and unintereresting game on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon. The work of both nines was listless. Harvard's play was marked by Cummings' effective pitching and the general poor base-running. The base runners paid no attention to the coachers at all. Lafayette played a very fair game, but her fielders made some costly errors...
...support behind the bat was admirable, but in the infield and outfield many inexcusable errors were made. Harvard, on the other hand, fielded well and batted in fine form. Yale ran bases with more spirit than Harvard, and another weak point of the latter was her coaching, which was poor, especially when a runner was on third. Downer, although deserving much praise for his steadiness in the latter part of the game, was very wild in the beginning, and gave Yale several unearned runs outright. The batting of Howland and Linn was noteworthy, and Dean's home...