_Week II_
_Monday_--(a) Review past errors. Queries.
(b) Assign work on Sections
II and III of this chapter.
_Tuesday_--Program on Section II. Queries.
_Wednesday_--Program on Section III. Oral Composition
_Thursday_--Dictation of Models. Written Composition
and Reviews.
_Friday_--Dictation of Models. Public Speaking.
VIII. Suggested Reading
Thomas Hughes's _Tom Brown at Rugby_; Homer's _Iliad_, Book XXIII;
Virgil's _AEneid_, Book V.
IX. Model II.
NEW YORK, October 9, 1913.--Cornelius McGillicuddy's Murder
Association, incorporated, convened at the Polo grounds this
afternoon, transacted routine business, and adjourned.
On motion of Brother Edward Collins, supported by Brother J.
Franklin Baker, and carried by acclamation, it was voted to
resume the task of tearing the hide off the Giants. Messrs.
Collins and Baker were appointed a special committee of two to
carry out the work and seven others were assigned to assist
them.
After the meeting refreshments consisting of singles, doubles,
triples, and home runs were served; and a good time was had by all,
excepting John J. McGraw and his employes and friends numbering
upward of 25,000. The latter class was unanimous in declaring the
Mackmen a bunch of vulgar, common persons who play professional
baseball for a living and thus are not entitled to associate with
amateurs, such as some of the New York players.
To get to the point of things, Philadelphia had what some of the
fans called "one of them afternoons." There is no use trying to
describe all the details of this so-called contest, for it is
demoralizing to the young to see such things in print. Many
criminals have confessed on the scaffold that they got their
start watching the Athletics assault some honest young pitcher
who was trying to support his aged mother. They say that, if the
Macks can get away with their rough work, anything ought to go.
Eight to two was the score to-day, if anybody cares. We can't
just figure out where New York got the two, but it was there on
the score board and must have happened. Also there is a
well-grounded belief that McGraw has subsidized the scoreboard
boy so that he chea
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