Word: split
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Newtons by bunching their hits in opportune places. The features of the game were the pitching of Fish, the right field play of Lovering and the beautiful stop of a hot ball off Hackett's bat in the seventh inning by Baker. Bowen, the catcher of the Newtons, split his hand in the sixth inning and his place was taken by Daniels, whose play was an improvement over that of his predecessor. In the second inning, while trying to steal second, Nichols turned his ankle and was obliged to stop play. Crocker went behind the bat and Keep took Crocker...
Professor Henry A. Beers, of Yale, the author of the recent parody on "Mr. Isaacs" in Life, has written a short college story, entitled "Split Zephyr," which is characterized as "an attenuated yarn spun by the fates." It will appear in the June Century...
...making preparations for laying out a ground somewhere near the college. This will give Pennsylvania's eleven a chance to practice together, which they have never had before, and an inducement, it is to be hoped, sufficient to make them hold together as a separate team and not split up among the different local clubs. This is what I think of American college cricket...
...rather strange, this remarkable success of the Vokes. They sing and dance fairly well, to be sure; but any variety house has artistes who can do as well. Their wit is decidedly weak, breathing throughout of London Punch; but for all this, we have seen people almost split their sides, and permanently contort their faces over one of Fred or "Georgy" Vokes' puns...
...near at hand at that very moment, I might have been devoured. It was a man's voice; and, so great was my presence of mind, even in these adverse circumstances, that I thought how decollete I must look, for the creature had sadly torn my garments and had split open one of my boots. I tried in vain to rise...