BASE-BALL. 



BASUTOLAND. 



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prevented, nearly all the attraction that draws 

 public patronage is removed ; but at the pro- 

 fessional ball-matches for championship hon- 

 ors, especially on League Club grounds where 

 pool-selling and all forms of open public bet- 

 ting are prohibited by the National League 

 lavYs thousands of spectators are attracted to 

 the grounds solely by the excitement incident 

 to the game itself. 



The Championship Records* In the amateur 

 branch of the base-ball fraternity the leading 

 exemplars of the game are the players of the 

 various college clubs, which are governed by 

 the Intercollegiate Association, and the contests 

 for college championship honors, especially be- 

 tween the clubs of Harvard, Yale, and Prince- 

 ton, are among the most attractive games. 



As a matter of reference we give below the 

 records of the championship contests of 1885, 

 in which the clubs of the National League, the 

 American League, and the Intercollegiate Asso- 

 ciations took part, these being the leading na- 

 tional associations of the two classes of the 

 fraternity, the professionals and the amateurs. 



THE COLLEGE RECORD. 



THE LEAGUE RECORD. 



THE AMERICAN RECORD. 



SUMMARY. 



By these records it will be seen that the 

 Chicago Club won the League championship, 

 the St. Louis Club the American champion- 

 ship, and the Harvard Club that of the Inter- 

 collegiate Association. During October of 1885 

 a series of best four out of seven matches be- 

 tween the Champion League Club of Chicago 

 and the Champion American Club of St. Louis 

 for the professional championship of the United 

 States resulted in each club winning three 

 games, one game being drawn ; consequently 

 the question of supremacy was still left un- 

 decided. 



Noteworthy Events, Among the noteworthy 

 events within the past twenty years may be 

 named the game played in Buffalo by the Ni- 

 agara Club of that city with a local nine, in 

 which the Niagara nine scored over two hun- 

 dred runs in nine innings play. This was in the 

 days of the lively elastic ball. The other ex- 

 treme was reached on the occasion of a match 

 between the Harvard College nine and the 

 Manchester Club a dozen years later, in which 

 twenty-four innings on each side were played 

 without a single run having been scored, a 

 dead ball being used. At the conventions of 

 the League and the American Association, 

 that were held in December, 1885, no amend- 

 ments were made to the playing rules of the 

 game, that important business being left for the 

 March meetings of the two Associations, which 

 are to be held in 1886 ; that of the League in 

 New York city, and that of the American Asso- 

 ciation in Louisville, Ky. 



BASUTOLAND, a British protectorate in South 

 Africa, formerly an appanage of Cape Colony, 

 but since 1883 under the immediate jurisdiction 

 of the Imperial Government. The country is 

 the home of the semi-civilized Basuto tribe of 

 Caffres, the eastern branch of the Chuan fam- 

 ily, who follow agriculture and grazing. The 

 district has been called the Switzerland of Af- 

 rica, from its mountainous character. The bot- 

 tom-lands are exceedingly fertile, and the up- 

 lands contain large areas of pasturage on which 

 cattle and especially horses thrive well. Basu- 

 toland is 10,290 square miles in extent, and 

 contains 128,000 inhabitants. The Basutos 

 were conquered by the Free State Boers, after 

 many years of warfare, in 1868. The British 

 Government intervened and made an arrange- 

 ment by which a portion of the territory was 

 absorbed by the Orange Free State, but the 

 main part preserved for the natives, who were 



