Word: bather
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...BATHER...
...inning, when they made two runs off hits by McLeod, Piper and Faulkner. At the end of the sixth inning '93 had increased her lead four runs, making the score 14 to 4. The seniors made only one more run in the eighth inning, and Ninety-three did not bather ninth inning. The freshmen carried their team off the field and marched to the gymnasium behind a brass band. The features of the game were Manley's playing at short-stop and the doubleplay by McCoy, Piper and Aiken in the fourth inning. Dolan also accepted some difficult chances...
...health resort in England they steep sea weed for an hour in boiling water, and then cooling the water slightly, admit the bather, who remains in twenty minutes, and comes out, it is alleged, greatly strengthened and refreshed. This might be an advantageous improvement over the present method of rubbing down weary athletes with whiskey...
...thence, together with a fat old gentleman, I passed to the first bath-room. The other-world feeling was at first too much for me, and I sank into a chair and gasped for breath, while the fat old gentleman smiled sarcastically. He explained that he was an old bather; had taken a bath every week for years; had got rid of several diseases already through its means, and was now trying it for baldness. He seemed not to mind the heat in the least. In fact, he soon passed on to a hotter room, and left...