Word: whitewashed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...22nd, Harvard was given her first whitewash in the inter collegiate series for several years, Princeton beating her, 3 - 0. Errors, 1 - 3. The college was partially condoled by the news from Amherst that Yale had been beaten on the same day by the Amherst team. The score was 5 - 4, with 7 bases for 9 for each team. Errors, 1 - 4. At the end of the third week of the contest, this left Amherst and Princeton tied for first place, Harvard next, then Yale, Williams and Brown. Four games had been postponed...
...Yale Record complains bitterly because the Rutgers men will not play a return match with their eleven and allow Yale a chance to whitewash the Jersey...
...high board fence, with its trellis-like attachment, it is almost impossible to make a home run on the hardest hit ball. It has been proposed that the wall of the church and the side of the fence be marked off into sections by a judicious use of whitewash, and that whenever the ball strikes on the fly in one section it be called a home run; in the next lower section, a three-base hit, etc. We respectfully commend this proposition to the serious consideration of the Brown B. B. Association...