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...crew will take both of their new shells to Springfield...
...good lead, and all went well up to the eighth inning, when a bad muff of Wright's off a pretty throw by Dow from right field, gave the Lowells three runs and the lead. But our chances were still good until the Lowells, when about to take the field, were ordered to stop playing by their manager, who claimed there was an agreement to stop the game at five o'clock. An animated discussion revealed the fact that, for the accommodation of the Lowells, such an agreement had been made by the captains. But it also transpired that...
...proposed rifle-match with Yale will not take place, as the H. U. R. C. could not send a team to New Haven by the night train, and expect the men to be in good enough condition to shoot a rifle-match on their arrival, on which condition only the Yale club accepted our challenge; and they have finally refused to shoot at Springfield or any other intermediate place...
...That's so, it is. And I don't know how I should ever have found you if I had n't had to take this bundle to Lyon here. But he is n't in, so I think I will wait here for him, if you don't mind; as I was saying, I happened to look round and saw your great shingle on the door, and thought to myself, 'Who can have put out such an immense card?' And when I read the name, I said, 'Can this be little Morris Benson whom I used to carry...
...interrupted; "I ain't that sort. What I did was to take four or five pools on Yale before I left here; they were twenty-nine to six, you know, before the game. Then I went down to New Haven and bet the rest of my pile, and lost it, but then I raked in on the pools enough to cover my shorts...