Word: wildness
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...amateur base-ball arena, as best represented by the college nines, has really done nothing to make the game interesting this season, and as a result small figure and pitching contests may be expected. Their rules encourage wild pitching as much as ever and handicap the batsman, and were adopted, apparently, without a thorough study or acquaintance with the principles of the game or the innovations made by the professional organizations. It is a fact that at the meeting held in this city to form a new college league, there was scarcely a representative who had any positive information about...
...regards class feeling in the early part of the course, it is proper and necessary to speak of hazing; and a very few words will suffice. The wild reports that have been circulated through the newspaper world within a few years have had only the barest foundation in fact. The unparalleled atrocities and so on have consisted in a quiet call upon some unwary freshman, a reading of some Greek or Latin author to the company by their unwilling host. probably from a recumbent position upon the table, and, finally, an invitation given him to retire to his couch...
...freshmen rose en masse and shouted like wild Indians. They waved their hats and pounded with their "bangers" until the rest of the audience became timid. The flag remained in full view of the audience for about ten minutes. But this could not last long. The sophomores began to get wind of the affair and they came from all directions and tried to move on the flag. But the faithful supe had secured the flag and made himself very scarce. The sophs could not approach through the barricade on the front seats. They tried to get in at the rear...
...customs of running foot-races, playing marbles in front of Holworthy, and other irregular practices which the seniors used to indulge in." Every class had a nine, nearly all of which had inter collegiate matches. The Law School had a nine. Scientific School had a nine. Everybody was wild over base-ball and 10,000 people it is estimated, stood on Boston Common at the Harvard-Lowell game...
...beaten by "Atlantics," "Eurekas," "Excelsiors" and "Actives," 37-15, 42-39, 46-28 54 15. In these games the Harvard catcher, Flagg, catches pluckily although his hands are badly bunged up. The Eureka game was interrupted by a "fat 'Jersey' pig, making full trot for the pitcher's stand." Wild pitching and weariness of the nine is Harvard's explanation of the defeats. After returning home, without going to Hartford, the nine slaughtered the Beacon's in a finely played game, 77 to 11. Hunnewell, Harvard's third base, made the pleasing score of 12 runs...