Word: heading
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...around the sides of the bath room, waiting their "turn" to stand for a moment under one of the streams of alternately hot and cold water, which flow from the four spigots. Perhaps ten or a dozen fellows have enjoyed this rare (?) treat when a sulphurous epithet from the head man in line announces to the patient fellows back of him that the hot-water has given out. Which horn of the dilemma will prove least dangerous is the question which now confronts the men who have not yet bathed; whether to stand there until the hot water is again...
More than this, the nine certainly does seem to lack head. In the first inning. Murphy was at least thirty-feet from third when Highlands got the ball, and yet he threw to first. That run was a pure gift. Then in the seventh with two men out, and men on third and first, they bunglingly tried to cut the man off at second, and so let in the second run. Coaching Hallowell home in the seventh seemed to be a piece of poor judgment. Such plays are exactly as bad as errors...
...Wolf's Head - James C. Brown, A. N. C. Fowler, C. H. George, Dean Lyman. William Todd, A. S. Cleveland, N. W. Green, R. H. Worthington, W. H. Salmon, C. C. Hixon, R. H. Nichols, James E. Brown, James S. Jenkins. O. S. Seymour and H. B. Mackey...
...Amherst scored her two runs in the fourth. With no one out, Hunt and Steans on safe hits made third and second. The next two men were out on weak bunts to the infield, but Landis, after two strikes were called, placed a lucky hit safely over Abbott's head, and the two runs came...
...only accidents which marred the success of the meeting were in the two mile bicycle race, when Pratt and Glenny in some way collided, and in the hammer throwing when the head came off and struck Acton in the leg. Fortunately neither of these proved serious...