Word: striking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perseverance, instead of tit for-tat kicks and blows. Just here the writer urges the spectator uninformed as to the game not confound running tactics such as 'warding off' with blows. 'Warding off' never hurts the player, warded off, since by the rules the runner is not allowed to strike with closed fists. Professor Johnston remarks that the chief evil of the game is betting and urges the undergraduates 'to put down betting on the purely material side of the game-partly from the fact that, if the game becomes a mere medium for betting, it will be a public...
...been published. It has the sort of merit that is usually found in the comments of a competent foreign observer upon the institutions of any country. Things that attract little attention, and so are often not at all remarked or understood by those who live under a given system, strike a stranger with the charm of novelty; they are tacitly compared with other institutions, and their true character is often more keenly perceived and brought out by such observers than by any others. De Tocqueville's book, parts of Prof. Dicey on 'The Law of the Constitution,' and such...
...eighth, Piper and Bates got bases on errors but were left there. Day got first on a missed third strike and came in on a wild throw. Strait got his base on balls, stole second, and came in on a wild throw. Morrison got his base on balls, and came in on a wild throw. Wilson struck out. McClintock made a hit, stole second, and got in on Wurtenburg's hit. Wurtenburg got in on Howard's hit. Calhoun filed out to Bates, and Traver to Slade...
...plate, threw to Spencer to cut off Henshaw. Spencer stood as one dazed at seeing Harvard score, and the result was, Harvard one run and Henshaw on first; a base on balls advanced the latter one base. Bingham flied out. Mumford reached first on a missed third strike, and Linn's two base hit with the bases full, netted Harvard three runs, none earned. This closed the run getting as Wiestling and Foster both flied out. For Yale, Hunt led off with a two base hit, was advanced a base by Spencer's sacrifice, and came in on an attempt...
...juniors were first at the bat. Gallivan led off with a hit but the next three men retired at first. In the second they scored three runs on Foss's three-bagger, a muffed third strike, two put outs and Crocker's single. Three more were added in the third on singles by Stetson and Bailey, a base on balls...