Word: line
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...prize racket given by the editor of this column will be played for under the auspices of the Athletic Association. The conditions are as follows: net and boundary line, 27 feet; service court, 22 feet; net 3 feet in middle and 4 feet at side; the English regulation ball; entrance fee, 50 cents. The first game will probably be played next Tuesday...
...Well, yes, it did furnish a good deal of sport to my host's pretty daughter. I now think that the taste for this amusement must be cultivated, and somebody else will have to cultivate mine considerably before I again allow it to make of me a walking clothes-line and unabridged dictionary of profanity combined. Simple Simon was a young Solomon when he chose his mother's pail for his fish-pond. The rest of my visit was more pleasantly devoted to the hammock, the pretty daughter, and the sketch of a new Inferno in which old Izaak Walton...
...base-running was simply execrable; out of thirteen men who reached first only five being able to score. Clarke and Olmstead made fine fly-catches, and Parker made a double play on a hot line fly to third...
...clock Shore Line train from the Providence Station reaches New London at four o'clock, in time to see the Harvard-Yale race...
...each line in his kindly face...