Myopia songs & waltzes : with Winchester and Hamilton chat . The APOCRYPHA IF. HE MYOPIA CLUB of Winches-ter was organized and incorporatedin 1879. A club-house was built,and grounds were laid out in amoderate way. There was a planklawn tennis court, which was one ofthe pioneer courts in this country. The nucleus ofthe Club sport was the great national game, baseball. This was played under unusual conditions, —being supported during play by frequent wee nips of Myopia punch, our own brew. It proved a great mascot, and is responsible for many a victory andalso for the birth of the Club. At any
Myopia songs & waltzes : with Winchester and Hamilton chat . The APOCRYPHA IF. HE MYOPIA CLUB of Winches-ter was organized and incorporatedin 1879. A club-house was built,and grounds were laid out in amoderate way. There was a planklawn tennis court, which was one ofthe pioneer courts in this country. The nucleus ofthe Club sport was the great national game, baseball. This was played under unusual conditions, —being supported during play by frequent wee nips of Myopia punch, our own brew. It proved a great mascot, and is responsible for many a victory andalso for the birth of the Club. At any rate, as seenthrough the spectacles of time, it moved us to theidea of forming a Club, and no doubt the punch hadits influence in selecting the name Myopia. Eye-glasses were a badge of distinction, amounting to a de-coration. Many Myopes wore them on the ball-field. 8 The Apocrypha The annual after-dinner processions through theclub-house may be recalled, — a bath-tub for a bassdrum. Though there may have been most extraor-dinary variations in the musical time of the dr
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