Word: runners
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play ball. The former played a good all-round game, while the latter, although making one error, which was excusable, made some beautiful catches in center field. Hayes in right let a hit go through his legs and then made such a poor throw that the base runner reached home. He was replaced in the sixth inning by Selfridge, who had no chances. Stevenson was a little unsteady on first. Wrenn accepted his three chances without an error, but showed a great lack of judgment in running bases and allowed himself to be caught off first on a fly catch...
...second run for Yale was made in the fifth. Gunther's grounder was fumbled by Wrenn. The runner got second on Peck's sacrifice - a grounder to Whittemore, and came home on a single by Hedges...
...second inning Bent's grounder was poorly handled by Wrenn, the runner reaching first. Cassatt made a safe hit, but both men were left as Bacon flied out to Paine. The juniors were more fortunate, Ames and Selfridge were given bases on balls, and both scored on two sacrifices and O'Malley's hit. The latter also tried to come in on Brown's fumble of McCarthy's grounder, but was put out at the plate...
...annual spring tennis tournament will begin Monday, May 13th. Entries close with Leavitt & Peirce Saturday, May 11th, at 6 p. m. Entrance fee $1.00 for singles and $1.00 for each man in doubles. The prizes will consist of a first and runner's-up prize, as well as a consolation prize in both singles and doubles...
Tests of quickness of movement similar to those made by Dr. Fitz at the Lawrence Scientific School are being made by Professor Scripture of the Yale psychological department. One of the most interesting of these tests is an arrangement for measuring a runner's reaction time down to the thousandth of a second which has been contrived in the Yale Laboratory. The starter's pistol is arranged so that an electric contact is broken when the pistol goes off. A thread is attached to the right foot of the runner which thread breaks an electric contact the moment the runner...