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RECRUITS to the ranks of the cyclists are multiplying rapidly, and with the completion of the boulevard, Norwood will be a great magnet for riders of the steeds of steel. The Norwood Wheelmen, organized during March, 1894, with W. S. Gwynn, president; John Douglass, secretary and treasurer; Clarence Evans, captain; Walter Stewart, lieutenant; W. C. Hattersley, John Franklin and Robert E. Edmondson, board of governors. There are enough ladies who ride the cycle to form a club of their own, if they so elected. There are plans afoot for a new athletic club and gymnasium. Norwood's fields are dotted with diamonds, for the youth of the village can turn out as many ball players as any other town of its size. There are several teams among the young swatters of the pigskin. Norwood had a berth in the old Highland League a few years ago, and the Norwoods of 1893, managed by "Pic" Cross, created something of a stir in the world of amateur base-ball players. There is a regiment of the genus "fans" in the borough, and "Norwood Day," a festival at League Park in compliment to Ashley Lloyd, the treasurer of the Cincinnati Base-Ball Club—a Norwood man—was a novel event, in 1893, that created no little comment all through the circuit. There is no other village in the State that can surpass Norwood in its rural possessions and advantages for out-of-door amusements. Its broad, level fields are inviting to all seekers of pleasure.
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