Tim did this but the report of the game as it appeared in the Reporter was so much of a puzzle that it created a disturbance. The principal trouble was that the members of [the faculty failed to look at the matter in the same light] that Professor Bennett had, and they decided that future games should be reported in the former style.
[“The faculty didn’t look at it in the same light.”]
[CHAPTER XVI]
THE ALUMNI GAME
Every year about this time there would be quite a gathering at the University of old Lowell graduates. They came to see the team work, in one or two games and in practice, and once each year the graduates would make up a nine of the old timers who had come, and challenge the new Varsity to a game. It was one of the traditions of the University that the old graduates’ team always won this game, notwithstanding their stiff knees, and other joints, to say nothing of their poor throwing arms. The occasion was more of a reunion than anything else, generally. Yet at the same time the old fellows were often able to give valuable pointers to the new team, and, on the whole, aside from the fun of the occasion, and the good it did the youngsters, it served to bring the sons of Lowell more closely together.
Of course, the occasion was always too good a one to be missed by the practical jokers, and the old graduates, with the aid of some of the Juniors and Seniors, always picked out the good-natured young freshmen, to play these jokes upon. In the meantime the fact that these practical jokes were played was carefully withheld from them. The evening before the game, the graduates had announced the team which would play next day.
| 1st Base | Ollie Taboo |
| 2nd Base | Johnny McGrew |
| 3rd Base | Jimmy Cullins |
| Shortstop | Bill Fahlen |
| Right Field | Mike Donil |
| Left Field | James McKleer |
| Center Field | Fielder James |
| Pitchers | Joe Maginte |
| Jack Cheeseborough | |
| Catcher | Jim Maquire |
All of them were old time stars at Lowell, and though out of the game were never forgotten by the boys at school, because they each had a sure place in the Lowell Hall of Heroes. The youngsters were all on hand to see them and hear again the stories of their remarkable playing. On this occasion there was always a “fanning bee,” as the boys call it, and reviews of Lowell victories of the past.