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IIFOREST AND STREAM. 



Record of the Professional Championship Contests for 1874. 



Atlantic. 



Hartford. 



Baltimore. 



let 16— 5 lo 

 Oct 20—14 to 

 Oct 25— 10 to i 



8 games— 81 to 41 



June 13.. 1 



June 1H. 5 to 2 



Sept. 22.. 



" Ot 21.. 6 



9.. 8 to 

 : 12.. 1 to 



Sept 15.. li to 

 Oct c. 9 to 



■1 games— 30 to 11 



games— 76 to 33 



Oct. 11 .. 12 to 1 1 



Oct 27- 



S grimes 



-l r ) to 3. Sept 16— 

 garnafl 



May 15— 8 to ■:. May 13—25 t 



May 22- 6 to S.lMny 13— 8 t 



June 13-15 to 4. Millie 20-15 1 



July ii-llto D. JTrme 35-14 ti 



Jet l-2'.l to II. 'Oct. 3—13 t 



Oct SM— 11 lo 3 Oct 5— : ti 



l»games-83 to 13 1( 



May 8-11 to I). 



. I May 11-28 to 7. 



May 19- 3 to 2. 



, Sept 25— 9 to 1. 



Sept as— ltt< ' 

 . Bept 88— M ti 



Oct 12— r t( 



..11 to 101 May 30 

 . 9 to 4 July 15. 

 ..38 to llJuly 13 



8BPt 9. .15 to 1 



117 games— 48 to 19,- 



8 games— 75 to 23 8 games— 88 to 26 



7 to 2: May 8.. 5 t. 



July 4.. 

 July 11.. 



Sept 53.. 



6 games— 17 to 16 1 



2 games.. 15 to 10 



S.. 8 

 „ 4.. 3 to 

 June 25.. 13 to 12 

 July 8.. 6 

 Oct 80.. 11 



i..40to 28 



Oct 21.. 12 to a 



, 8.. 8lo 3 

 July 4..17tol6 

 Sept it.. io too 



3 games.. 35 to 19 



May 13.. 



Sept 28.. 7 to 6 



Sept 21.. i to i 



Sept 30.. 10* ' 



4 games.. 25 to 17 



Inly 15.. 10 



-Inly 18.. 3 mj i 

 Oct 10..15tol3 



3 games.. 28 to 17 



May 23.. 9 



May 26.. 6 to 2 



Sept 30. . 9 to 8 



Oct 21.. 8 to 6 



4 games.. 32 to 19 



July 4.3 to 2 Oct 



Oct 17.. 9 to 2 



Oct 20.. 5 to 



3 games.. 17 to 4 



July 1.. 5 to 3 

 Jnly 8. .11 to 5 

 Oct 29.. 9 to 5 



3 games.. 25 to 13 



1..10to OlMay 21.. 



July 20.. 

 Sept 3.. 

 "3pt 5.. 



July (i..14to 2 



Aug 15.. 11 



Aug 17.. 24 



Aug 19.. 14 to 6 



Aug 26. .83 to 1(4 games. .41 to 21 



__ . 6 to 5 

 12.. 23 

 Sept, 22.. 6 to 2 



Apiil 22.. 13 to 

 May 4. 24 to 8 

 June 20:. 9 to 5 

 June 22.. 13 to 7 



1 games.. 53 to 20 



7 games.. 81 to 36 



6 games.. 96 to 35 1 



June 29.. 5 



July 22.. 10 to 8 



July 25.. 17 to 4 



July 27.. 13 to 2 



May 27.. 9 to 3; June 11. .18 



- 30..14to 8 June 13.. 14 



... 12.. 14 to 10 July 8.. 9 to 1 



Sept 12. .14 to llJuly 11..17tol2 



1 July 13.. 13 to 6 



4gamcs..51to 22* tig 24.. 4 to 3 



lAug 26.. 6 



lAng 29.. 4 1. _ 



Aug 31.. 7 to 5 



20.. 10 to 3 

 Se.pt 9.. 11 to 9 

 Sept 25.. 3to 1 



9 games.. 86 to 46 



July 13.. 6 to 21 May 5.. 24 I 



Sept 7.. 7 to 3|May 13.. 8 to 3 



Sept 21.. 9 to 8 Oct 3.. 5 to 2 



Oct 14.. 9 to 6| 



Oct 16.. 3 to 213 games. .37 to 8 



5 games.. 34 to 21 



2games..23to 11 



May 5. 



July 15.. 9 to OP 



Oct 27.10 



3 games.. 29 to 12 



12.. 17 to 12 Oct 5.. 4 to 2 



July 7.. 15 to 2 



July 24.. 8 to 4 



Aug 10.. 6 to 3 



Oct 28.. 9 to 4 



Sept 10.. 7 to 51'Jn 



3 games.. 51 to 12 



July 29.. 5 to 1 



Sept 2.. 5 tol 



2 games.. 16 to 14 



2 games.. 18 to 11 



May 7. .21 to 2 

 May 11.. 16 to 6 

 1..14tr • 



23 



29 



31 



34 



fatiomil gagtimes. 



Secretaries and friends of Athletic, Htm-Hall, Cricket and other 

 ,,...,• ,;,„,,, ciubsWill JaMll/ mail (Mr contributions Wit later than Monday 



in each week. 



A new athletic club was organized at Wood's Museum 



last Tuesday. 



—Professor J. Ti. Juild is now ill training for his great 

 feat of walking 500 miles in six days. 



—The T. B. F. U. S. club, of Bridgeport, Connecticut— 

 "What's in a name ?"— played in twenty-two first-class 

 matches during 1878, of which they won sixteen games, 

 with a total of 843 runs to 50, and lost six, with a total of 

 32 to 87. Their best games were their victory over the 

 •Ulantics, by 9 to 1, and their 3 to 5 defeat by the Balti- 

 more*. They "Chicagoed" four clubs, including a nine 

 from Yale College. 



—The Live Oak Club, of Lynn, played 41 games during 

 1874 of Which they won 30 and lost 11. Their total scores 

 were 353 to 801. Their best victories were their 7 to 4 

 "nines with the Chelscas ; their 8 lo 2 match with the King 

 'Phillips, and their 9 to 3 contest with the Beacons. They 

 played the Mutual— professional— with a score of 4 to 9. 



—An excellent sparring and fencing exhibition was held 

 at Wood's Gymnasium, No. East Twenty-eighth street, 

 hist Saturday. The first event was a contest with gloves 

 between Master Leavilt, aged 14, and Professor O'Neil. 

 The former showed that his training was hilly up to the 

 standard. Professor Woods and Dr. Meigs followed, and 

 these were, superseded by Professor Delwick and Mr. F. J. 

 Englehardt, who displayed their proficiency with the foils. 

 Fencing and sparring exhibitions, lifting heavy weights, 

 and single stick exercises followed. The programme 

 throughout was loudly applauded, as everything was done 

 in a quiet, gentlemanly manner. Such exercises we are 

 glad to note 'are becoming more general, so our young men 

 are learning to preserve their bodies instead of exhausting 

 them with dissipation. 



— Bicycling is now one of the most favored amusemenls 

 in England, and is participated in by many persons who 

 woultf not look at the apparently silly exercise a few years 

 •i<*o The cause for the new attachment is attributed lo the 

 improvements made in the velocipede, and the greater 

 amount of skill required to manage the latest sort, with its 

 light body and large wheels. A race came off recently in 



England between the champions, and they made some re- 

 markable time. Stanton, in the contest, rode 10(5 miles in 

 7 hours 58 minutes and 54+ seconds. There could be no 

 doubt as to the reality of this feat, for it was achieved in 

 the prcsece of some 3,000 people. His antagonist in this 

 match was Keen, the champion bicyclist, the most elegant, 

 and accomplished rider in the country. The critics re- 

 marked that he rode ''like a bit of machinery," with a 

 swift, steady, easy motion, which scarcely varied. Stanton, 

 on the other hand, is in every sense a rough rider, and owes 

 his success to his remarkable energy and sheer force. 

 Keen was borne down by the physical superiority of his 

 competitor, and gave up the race at the end of the ninety- 

 first mile, having traversed the distance in seven hours and 

 eighteen minutes. It may bo mentioned that Stanton's 

 bicycle has a driving-wheel fifty-eight inches in diameter, 

 and is under fifty pounds in weight. Keen rode with a 

 fifty-four-inch wheel, the weight of his machine being less 

 than thirty-six pounds. 



<J£ch/ publications. 



Albert Mason, of New York, who has published three 

 editions of Macatiley'8 essays, will issue them in one volume. Price 

 will be $2.50. 



Popular Science Monthly for November. New York: D. 

 Applcton&Co. This number contains a very interesting disquisition 

 upon a subject of deep interest to every student ot plant life, every bota- 

 nist, and in short to even ourgenoral readers ; all who would learn Hie great 

 contrast between the two organic worlds of plants and animals, until 

 quite recently the ground work of all scientific speculation. We would 

 be pleased to analyze ana expatiate at some length upon this very pleas- 

 ing article, as well as notice at length all the valuable papers in this num- 

 ber; but we can do our readers a true favor by recommending to their 

 perusal this article in particular, and the entire number as a whole. 



THE MAGAZINES. 



The American Naturalist is filled with its usual assort- 

 ment of matter pertaining to tho natural sciences. The metamorphosis 

 of dies is quite interesting, and its review of the English sparrows is 

 terse, and to us very appropriate. The department devoted to botany 

 seems to be unusually interesting, especially the portion devoted to a rc- 



of the 



,'oodl 



lids. 



The Oala.n/ has several readable articles, and some of 

 them are decidedly strong in argument, in its scientific miscellany it 

 has this to say of the grasshopper:— 



"Professor Humiston, of Worthington, Minn., described to the Tribune 



correspondent the grasshopDer's mode of depositing her eggs in the soil, 

 a subject which he lias h:i,l excellent nppoi ciinit v for studying this year. 

 The tail of the female hiciist consists of a hard, bonv, cone-shaped sub- 

 stance, capable of being thrust into the ground from one. naif of an inch 

 to an inch m depth. Just above this, cm the body of the insect, and at- 

 tached to it, is the egg cell. The grasshopper is able to push its conical 

 tail down into the ground and leave 11 there, with the cell containing tho 

 eggs. The warm sun in rlie Spring causes the eggs to hatch, and the field 

 is covered with millions of young grasshoppers, not as large us a kernel 

 of wheat, just when the tender shoots of -rain begin to show themselves 

 above the ground. The damage they do is immense, for they remain a 

 long time in one spot, and work upon the young shoots. Perhaps the 

 best mode of treatment is "back setting," or plowing the Held, and thus 

 turning the snifacr soil, with its store of eggs several inches under. This 

 prevents hatching, aud though not. a complete remedy, is very useful." 



The treasures paraded in Scribner's Magazine for the 

 month of December are exceedingly varied, and, on the whole, interest 

 ing, as some of the best minds of America arc represented therein, and 

 their thoughts are illustrated by some flne engravings, for which Scrib- 

 neris is so famed. Among its articles is one on Madeira as a resort for 

 invalids, from which we make the following extract:— 



"It is evident that Madeira presents to an American in search of some- 

 thing new, a resort abounding in novel aud \alunble attractions. For the 

 invalid afflicted with nervous or pulmonary complaints, its climate is 

 probably unsurpassed; the air has the rare and exquiste quality of mak- 



ing c 



Coble, 



s that tltel 





either 



while light clouds 



rand. 



n of n, 



I'lio 



mggesting .neither ... 



opy the landscape at midday, and 

 if the sun. The foliage is always 

 peculiar to itself, the bees 



mher of sic; 



g tho 



.-t. which touch at Fiinebai, on the passage between Europe, 

 Brazil, averages one a day, and, in addition, the cable has 

 1 between Portugal ami 'Funclial, thus keeping the sojourner 

 ufficiently within the tide of events to prevent mental stag- 

 es rendering a stav on the island an vthitig but a captivity 

 > umdsor long intervals of waiting; while the number of 

 Midingthe Winter there, aud the excellence of the. hoarding 

 ish ...,ci il adva-.tag.-s and cere-sue comforts at a moderate 



who seek Madeira for health sliouid go there in October, 

 veil into the Spring, but hunters after scenery and novelty 

 ;reeuble to arrive at Fiiuchal without regard to time and sea- 

 vir preference would be from March ro September, or, bet- 

 i January to December, thus avoiding tile scorching heats 

 ■ith cold storms which make a purgatory of our Summers, 



nore injurious furnace air and January thaws of our Win- 

 nate, Madeira may be well reckoned among the Isles of the 



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and the still 

 tcrs. In cli 

 Blest. 



Game of Natuiiat, Histoky. By Abby A. Denny. Phil- 

 adelphia: Claxton, Kemsen & Ilafleianger. 



In this highly interesting game are to be found ten sets, and fall in- 

 structions for playing. "We became at once aware of its value as a source 

 of Christmas amusement and New Year's fun before we had played four 

 games. The Natural History scries. alone will convey to the mind of 

 young children many important facts' not to be found iu any uthorway. 

 This is an improvement upon the Kindergarten plan, as the lad or lass 

 will learn the history of the animal drawn and see what he looks like. A 

 valuable addition to our Christmas and New Year games. 



