Word: nine
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nine needs a catcher...
FIFTEEN men are training for the Nine...
...members of the Nine below...
NOTWITHSTANDING reports to the contrary, work in the Gymnasium is progressing. The netting in the Nine's practice-room has been put in place, and the base-ball men practise there every day. The bowling-alleys would have been opened for use after the Thanksgiving recess, but the men charged with their preparation did not do their work well, and portions of it must be altered before the alleys can be used. The straight smooth alleys and the handsome scoring-slates offer an agreeable contrast to the irregular uneven alleys and unsightly blackboards of the old Gymnasium...
...galleries the running and walking track, twenty-six laps to the mile, is already used by the Nine. Some of the rowing-machines are also in position. They can be used for double sculls as well as for a crew, and by a new improvement the danger of soiling the clothes with the grease on the sliding seats has been entirely removed...