. Old Boston boys and the games they played . James DWolf Lovett. M. Mortimer Rogers John A. Lowell OLD BOSTON BOYS 187 vards gave us a touch of his quality at firstbase, which one rarely sees equaled andnever excelled by either amateur or pro-fessional. He made five fly catches andassisted in disposing of fifteen base run-ners, thus being instrumental in capturingtwenty of the twenty-seven outs, and with-out an error! On June 17 the celebrated Athletics ofPhiladelphia visited Boston, and on thatdate defeated the Eons of Portland, on theCommon, 88 to 22. The next day theHarvards gave them a sp
. Old Boston boys and the games they played . James DWolf Lovett. M. Mortimer Rogers John A. Lowell OLD BOSTON BOYS 187 vards gave us a touch of his quality at firstbase, which one rarely sees equaled andnever excelled by either amateur or pro-fessional. He made five fly catches andassisted in disposing of fifteen base run-ners, thus being instrumental in capturingtwenty of the twenty-seven outs, and with-out an error! On June 17 the celebrated Athletics ofPhiladelphia visited Boston, and on thatdate defeated the Eons of Portland, on theCommon, 88 to 22. The next day theHarvards gave them a splendid game, butwere beaten by a score of 22 to 10, theAthletics winning only by their heavy bat-ting. The fielding of Harvard was fullyequal to that of their powerful opponents,if not better. The next day we played the Philadel-phians, and a sort of dry rot seemed totake possession of the entire Lowell played like beginners and allowedthem to pile up 53 runs to our 5, in five i88 OLD BOSTON BOYS innings, when a most welcome thunder-shower put an end to
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