. St. Nicholas [serial] . 2PLlFL^¥ By Marjorie Allison. The road leading to the ball-ground was thronged on that Satur-day afternoon, for the High Schooland the Preparatory School of Sag-amore were to play the decidinggame of the series for the schoolchampionship, each having won twoof the five games that constitutedthe years contest. These two schools ranked high amongthe institutions of the country at whichboys prepared for college. The elevatedground on which the town stood pro-vided superb ball-grounds, for which nature haddone so much that art could make little im-provement. From the home
. St. Nicholas [serial] . 2PLlFL^¥ By Marjorie Allison. The road leading to the ball-ground was thronged on that Satur-day afternoon, for the High Schooland the Preparatory School of Sag-amore were to play the decidinggame of the series for the schoolchampionship, each having won twoof the five games that constitutedthe years contest. These two schools ranked high amongthe institutions of the country at whichboys prepared for college. The elevatedground on which the town stood pro-vided superb ball-grounds, for which nature haddone so much that art could make little im-provement. From the home plate to center-field the smooth turf lay as even as the top ofa table, and the diamond was without a bounds of swift grounders and re-sulting black eyes or bruised noses were un-known on the grounds of the Sagamore schoolsbase-ball clubs. Long before the hour set for the game —three oclock — the shady places under thetrees, where benches had been placed, werepacked with spectators ; for this deciding
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