Mr.Leonard, second principal of the Scranton schools under Dr.Carmack (who was also county supervisor, with dominion over the Allandale and Belleville schools), had consented to act as coach to the baseball team this season.

He was a Princeton grad.

and had gained quite some little fame as a member of the Tiger nine that swept Yale off its feet one great year.
Besides Owen Dugdale, there were "Just" Smith, Thad Stevens, Hugh Morgan, Kenneth Kinkaid and Horatio Juggins in the bunch that started off from the school grounds in company, though they would presently break away as they neared their several homes.
"Just" Smith had another name, for he had been christened Justin; but he himself, in answering to the calls for Smith, would always call out "Just Smith, that's all," and in the course of time it clung to him like a leech.
Kenneth Kinkaid, too, was known far and wide as "K.K.," which of course was only an abbreviation of his name.

Some said he was a great admirer of Lord Kitchener, who had recently lost his life on the sea when the vessel on which he had started for Russia was sunk by a German mine or submarine; and that Kenneth eagerly took advantage of his initials, being similar to those of Kitchener of Khartoum fame.
Horatio Juggins was an elongated chap whose specialty, besides capturing balloon fliers out in right field with wonderful celerity, consisted in great throwing to the home plate, and also some slugging when at bat.
Thad Stevens was the catcher, and a good one at that, everybody seemed to believe.

He, too, could take his part in a "swat-fest" when a rally was needed to pull the Scranton boys out of a bad hole.