Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Captain Davidson. So far only the old members of the team and the substitutes have presented themselves, but it is to be hoped that a number of new men will also try for positions. As the game is one that requires a good deal of skill in handling the "stick," and also as much, if not more, "wind" than foot-ball, it is absolutely necessary that all new men who wish to try for the team should begin regular work immediately. Later on there will be some "stick" practice for those who have not yet learned how to handle...
...candidates, Henshaw, Mumford, Linn, Willard, Campbell and Boyden are members of last year's team. Quackenboss and Knowlton will doubtless play. Henshaw, Linn, Willard, Campbell and Boyden were all of them heavy batters last year, and Quackenboss and Knowlton have the reputation of doing good work with the stick. The number of candidates is large and practice regularly every day in the cage at handball and sliding bases; also in battery work. The prospects are not very encouraging. Captain Henshaw will do all in his power to make a winning team out of the material that...
...there usually seems to be but little effort on the part of five-minute speakers to do more than merely exercise their voices for the benefit of nobody. We trust that the eyes of the officers of the Union may become riveted on these justifiable complaints, and may stick there until there owners arrive at some satisfactory way in which to elevate the tone of the "general debate...
...mistake the office for a bear garden, nor Wadsworth for an ice-house. Let him not despise the in offensive cigarette and sicken upon the masculine bulldog. Let him not drink too much lemonade, nor think a remorse should be worn conspicuously. Let him not drag about a stick he can't carry for two consecutive minutes. Let him not play the drum at midnight, nor boast of wild feats he never attempted, nor attempt wild feats he can never perform. Little boys should be seen and not heard, and not seen too much either...
CANE LOST. - $1.00 reward. Cane dropped from carriage going between 733 Cambridge street and Blake's livery stable; cane has brown bamboo stick and crocked bone handle. Return to Foster's cigar store...