Word: weak
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...whole, the University team has improved in standing up at the bat, but the men are apt to hit at bad balls, and easily get discouraged. The bunting is still weak, and the base-running lacks head work; while the fielding, although fast is at times unsteady...
...cricket game between the University team and Haverford, which was played yesterday on Soldiers Field, resulted in a victory for Haverford by the score of 186 runs to 56. Harvard had the first innings. The bowling and fielding of the University team was good, but weak batting lost the game. F. C. Taylor did the best bowling for Harvard and Rothermel did the best batting, making 11 runs. For Haverford, H. H. Morris made the large score of 101 runs...
...part devoted to giving the University nine practice in base-running. As has been the case in all the games of late, the men were slow in taking advantage of their chances, and were caught repeatedly by sharp throwing on the part of the Freshmen. The batting, too, was weak and uncertain, the hits being too widely scattered to be effective...
...well together. The Newell senior crew has been hampered by a lack of good material, and the men have been unable to drive the boat along properly. They have a tendency to hold their blades too-high at the catch and a also have a weak finish...
...Last year Exeter defeated the Second nine by the score of 5 to 4, and the game today will undoubtedly be close, but the Second nine should win if Hammond pitches as well as he did in the Andover game. Exeter has this spring been batting strongly, but is weak is fielding and base-running. The Second nine has held but one practice since the Groton game on Saturday, but in that showed some improvement in batting...