Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAUEN, CONN., Oct. 1.- The members of the Ivy Committee of Yale's class of '96, have made public what will undoubtedly prove a happy solution of the trouble engendered by the planting of the slip of ivy from the grave of Robert Lee on the Yale campus and its subsequent theft during the summer...
...play an uphill game for eight innings, and because for twelve successive innings she kept Harvard from scoring. The defeat for Harvard was a disappointment, not only because the recent playing of the nine made victory possible and probable, but more because the nine let the game slip away on account of their inability to hit the ball at critical moments. There were any number of times when a hit would have given the game to Harvard and every time, except in the fourteenth when Haughton made a three base hit which scored Clarkson, the men failed to accept...
...victory of Princeton over the 'Varsity Nine was a deep disappointment, which was increased by the fact that at least twice in the game our Nine had the victory in their hands and then let it slip away by their careless playing. Yet, while every Harvard man is disappointed because the Nine was defeated, there is no reason for feeling discouraged on account of the result of Saturday's game...
Tennis players must not overlook the fact that entries close this evening. As usual, many men seem to have postponed entering until the last moment, and they must be careful not to let even that slip by. The tournament is to be begun on Monday, so that the time for receiving entries can not be extended. There should be many more names in the blue book at Leavitt & Peirce's before today is over...
...sixth and then the runs began to come in. With one man out Whittemore started the trouble by fumbling Lang's grounder and then making a wild throw over Stevenson's head, letting Lang get to second. Summersgill knocked an easy fly to Highlands who let the ball slip through his fingers. Both men advanced a base on Donovan's single but Lang was thrown out while trying to reach home. Robinson got his base on balls. filling the bases. Bustard then knocked a three-bagger and three runs came...