Word: armes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Clevelands, 19; Allegheneys, 5. Bond being disabled with a lame shoulder and Richmond having shown up very poorly in practice games, the Worcesters have signed J. G. Clarkson of the Beacons for pitcher. Harry Wright was negotiating with him to take the place of Ward, who has a bad arm, when he was engaged by Worcester...
...seem to tire as much as his opponent. After the five minutes had expired they withdrew, and Luce, '82, and Kent, '82, entered. Neither of these handled the clubs with the ease of Hamlin or Barnes. Kent attempted more difficult feats than his opponent, and his muscular arm seemed never to tire. Toward the last of the five minutes Luce made more frequent changes. The prize was awarded to Barnes, whose swinging has seldom been equalled in the gymnasium...
...many important branches. The young man writes cheerfully about his surroundings and prospects, and frankly admits that he misses the girls more than anything else. He adds: 'When I was in Shanghai, I went to evening service with my hostess' daughter, who is a very pretty sweet sixteen, arm-in-arm, and you ought to see the people stare at us. They would stop in the middle of the street and look at us as if we were so many living curiosities. I suppose they never saw such a breach of the social etiquette before. I had the queerest kind...
...grounds of the Philadelphia Ball Club were recently completed. The grand stand will be divided into three portions. The centre portion (reserved) will be furnished with six hundred iron folding-chairs with perforated board seats. In the rear will be seven private boxes seating eight persons each. The right arm will seat seven hundred and sixty, and the left arm nine hundred and eighty persons. This gives a seating capacity in the stand for twenty-three hundred and ninety-six persons. Along the Columbia avenue side of the grounds will be first-class open seats-having foot rests-for fourteen...
Billy the postman broke his arm...