9 P.M.
`` For once , your riotous tumult went unheard . Say , get your traveling-bag ready , and leave that pestersome banjo behind , if you want to go with the nine ! '' Several members of the Gold and Green nine , embryo American and National League stars , roosted on the Senior Fence between the Gymnasium and the Administration Building , with , suitcases and bat-bags on the grass . In a few minutes old Dan Flannagan 's celebrated jitney-bus would appear in the offing , coming to transport the Bannister athletes downtown to the station , for the 9 P.M. express to Philadelphia . Incited by Cheer-Leaders Skeezicks McCracken and Snake Fisher , several hundred youths encouraged the nine , since , because of approaching final exams. , they were barred by Faculty order from accompanying the team to Ballard . In thunderous chorus they chanted : `` One more Job for the undertaker ! More work for the tombstone maker !