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trained to such a degree of perfection that they reaped the 

 rewards of their labors, and have a record to show of which 

 Princeton may well be proud. Since the opening of the 

 season the Princeton nine have played nine games with 

 amateur clubs and four with professionals, of which it 

 has won nine, as follows: — 



May 5.— Princeton vs. Chelsea, Brooklyn 12 to 1 



May 21.— Princeton vs. Yale College 10 to 9 



31 ay 22.— Princeton vs. Harvard College. 3 to 1 



May 21— Princeton vs. Resolute (professional) (i lo 2 



3 unc 7.— Princeton vs. Lafayette College 2(5 to 11 



Sep. 27.— Princeton vs. Irvmgton, N. J. 31 to 7 



Oct. 1.— Princeton vs. Chelsea, Brooklyn, (11 innings) 15 to 14 



( let. 16.— Princeton vs. Trenton 47 to 3 



Oct. 18.— Princeton vs. Yale College ! 18 to 4 



168 to 52 

 Defeats, four, as follows : 



May 10.— Princeton vs. Yale College 8 to 9 



June 12.— Princeton vs. Athletic (professional) 6 to 22 



Oct. 14.— Princeton vs. Atlantic (professional) 3 to 16 



Nov. 7.— Princeton vs. Athletic (professional), 5 innings to 5 



11 to 52 

 Total runs, Princeton, 179; Opponents. 104. 

 Base hits, Princeton, 181; Opponents, 114. 



Among this list, it will be noticed, are four intercolle- 

 giate games for the college championship, of which Prince- 

 ton has achieved three victories, that over Harvard being 

 the finest amateur game on record. Time and space will 

 not admit of a critical description of all the games played, 

 yet the last is deserving of a somewhat lengthy description, 

 as showing the improvement of the Princeton nine since 

 last spring, when they met the Athletics and suffered a 

 most disastrous defeat. 



Friday, November 7, was the occasion of the second 

 meeting of the Princeton and Athletic clubs in the base 

 ball arena. The weather was very dubious, the clouds be- 

 ing dark and lowering. At twelve M. the game commenced 

 with the Princeton boys at. the bat, who \ failed to score a 

 run. The professionals began by their first man retiring at 

 first, when, by the good batting of Anson, and the poor 

 playing of the centre fielder and short stop, they placed 

 four runs to their credit. The next inning was a repetition 

 of the first as regards totals, though G. Mann, by a fine two 

 base fair foul hit, and Williamson, by a poor throw of An- 

 son, got bases. The Athletics yielded the "ash" in one, 

 two, three order, Woods making a fine one hand pick up 

 in this inning. The third inning passed with still no runs 

 for Princeton, as also the visitors were compelled to retire 

 with equal success, though two men had reached bases, 

 Jacobus catching a line ball and making a double play after 

 one hand was out. In this inning, through error, the 

 Princetons succeeded in getting the bags filled, with no 

 men out, when by poor batting and a fine display of field- 

 ing not a man succeeded in crossing the plate. The Ath- 

 letics were again served with a whitewash, making the 

 total 4 to in their favor. 



Rain began to fall at this stage of the game, but play 

 was continued until the close of the inning, which was a 

 repetition of former blanks for Princeton, while the "blue 

 stockings" added one more ran to their score. Thus, with 

 the totals at 5 to in favor of the Athletics, the game was 

 called. 



It is to be regretted that play was interrupted, as it bid 

 fair to be a good game. Though the college boys were 

 somewhat out of trim from want of practice, they need 

 not be ashamed of their exhibition of playing, and we pre- 

 dict for them an untarnished record next spring in their, 

 intercollegiate panics. The following is the score: — 

 PRINCETON. ATHLETIC. 



rLAYERS. 



Beach, c 



Woods, s. s 



VanDev enter, r. f.. . 



Bruyere, 1 b 



Paton, c. f 



G. Mann, 3 b 



Williamson, 1. f 



Jacobus, 2 b 



M. Mann, p 



Total . 



R. 



te 



P.O 



A. 











1 



(1 







1 



1 



1 



























6 















1 











1 



2 



1 











( 















3 



1 















s 







2 



Ifi 



6 



McGeary, c j 



Battin, 2 b 



Anson, 3 b 



Fisler, lb 



Fisher, 1. f 



Sutton, s. s 



Seusendeif er, c. f 



Peach, r. f 



McMullin, p 



Total . 



IB. 



P.O 



6 











2 



2 







1 



6 







1 











o 















1 







4 



15 





INNINGS. 





CLUBS. 



1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



TOTALS. 



Princeton 



Athletic 





 4 





 





 





 





 1 





 I) 





 







n 





 





























Umpire, Crawford, 74, of Princeton College Club. 

 Time of Game, one hour. 

 First base by errors, Princeton, 5; Athletic. 6. 

 JJuiis earned, Princeton, 0; Athletic, 0. 



Champion. 



—The Columbia and Rutgers colleges played a match 

 game of foot ball on Saturday, November 15th, on the 

 grounds of the St. George's Cricket Club at Hoboken. Co- 

 lumbia won the game. The following are the names of the 

 twenties: — Columbia — King (captain), Cornell, Adams, Hur- 

 ry, Walbridge, Bach, Radford, Leonowen, Kent, Weeks, 

 George, Simmonds, Root, Lindley, McMain, Morewood, 

 Field, Smith, Rhodes, and Price. Rutgers— Lydecker 

 (captain), Hendrickson, Fischer, Van Aken, Walser, Mar- 

 tyne, Wyckoff, Ross, Kamble, Anderson, Lyall, Davis, 

 Price, Fuller, P.Vansant, Watson, Vreeland, Stotts, Hawx- 

 hurst, and II. Fuller. The judges were Mr. Faston for 

 Rutgers, and Marshall for Columbia. Referee, Mr. John- 

 son. 



—A fool race for ^L,U00 a side and the championship of 

 America, between John AlLison, of Connecticut, and Henry 

 (,'randail, of Niles, Michigan, was run at Washington Park, 

 Providence, on November 14th, and won by five inches by 

 Allison. Distance, 1.25 yards; time, fifteen seconds. 



— The Chicago Billiard Tournament is progressing, and 

 meets with success. On November 14th Ubassy beat Sny- 

 der, the score standing 400 to 321. The winner's average 

 was 5 00-08. His highest run w r as 57. 



In this day's playing John Bessunger defeated Petei Sny- 



der in 71 innings, scoring 400 to Snyder's 831; winner's av- 

 erage 5 45-71. Largest runs — Bessunger, 45 and 44; Sny- 

 der, 40 and 36. In the second game, between Gamier and 

 Slosson, Gamier won the lead. The game was closely con- 

 tested and interesting throughout, first one and then the 

 other leading, and each doing considerable safety business 

 toward the close. Garnier finally won in Ids forty-fourth 

 inning, scoring 400 to Slosson's 390; winner's average, 

 1-11; Slossons, 9 8-43. Largest runs— Garnier, 42, 50, and 

 77; Slosson, 44, 37, and 40. 



The first game at night was between Ubassy and Joseph 

 Dion, and attracted the attention of a large audience. In 

 stringing for the lead Ubassy won, and started off with a 

 run of 3, Dion following with 12. In the ninth inning 

 Ubassy ran 5Q, and in the next 80, turning his first hundred, 

 Dion making only single counts. Ubassy turned his second 

 string in the twenty-second inning, his score standing 221 

 to Dion's 07. In the thirty-second inning Ubassy, with a 

 run of 59, turned into the homestretch, and in the forty- 

 sixth inning, with a run of 26, won the game. Dion, who 

 turned into his first hundred only in the twenty-ninth in- 

 ning, picked up toward the last, his score standing at the 

 close 230. Ubassy's average was 8 16-23. 



On November 15th the first game was between Garnier 

 and Snyder, and was easily won by the former in thirty-six 

 innings, the score standing 400 to 108. Winner's average, 

 11 i. Largest runs — Garnier, 82, 45, and 58. Snyder only 

 made three double numbers, 19 being the largest. 



The second game was between Slosson and Bessunger, 

 and was close throughout, Slosson winning by 400 to 351 ; 

 winner's average, 6 26-29. 



— On November 17th the first game was between George 

 Slosson and Peter Snyder. Slosson Avon by a score of 400 

 to 108. The second game was between Cyrilie Dion and 

 Maurice Daly. Daly won 450 to Dion's 250. Daly's largest 

 scores — 32, 89, 34, 62, 94. Daly's average was 11 15-35, and 

 Dion's 7 1-7. The first game in the evening was between 

 Garnier and Joseph Dion. In the thirty-seventh inning, 

 with the score standing Garnier 329 and Dion 168, the latter 

 got the balls together, and, by careful nursing, made 124 

 points, the second best run of the tournament. In the 

 forty-third inning he made 27; but Garnier followed with 

 32, and ran the game out, Dion being 344. The winning 

 average was 8 24-47th; Dion's average, 7 15-47ths. The 

 largest runs were— Garniei-,'82, 50 and 48; Dion, 124. 



— The Athletic Association of the Stevens' Institute of 

 Technology of Hoboken, at a meeting held Nov. 12, elected 

 the following officers: — President, S. D. Graydon, '75; Re- 

 cording Secretary, H. A. Beckmeyer, '76; Corresponding 

 Secretary, J. M. Wallis, '76; Treasurer, II. Duane, '76; 

 Captain of the Foot Ball 20, J. E. Denton, '75; Captain of 

 the Base Ball 10, W. F. Zimmerman, '76. The Directors of 

 the Association are as follows: — Denton, '75; Vail, '76; 

 Kingsland, '76; Zimmerman, '76; Richards, '77. 



— The Foot Ball 20 of the Athletic Association of Stevens' 

 Institute on Saturday last played a match game on the 

 fields at Hoboken with a 20 from the College of the City of 

 New York, which resulted in a victory to the Stevens' men. 

 who scored three out of the five games. Time, one hour 

 and ten minutes, from 2 :30, P. M. A. M. C. 



The First Grenadier of France. — The colonel of the 

 46th of the line (French) has re-established an old tradition 

 in his regiment. On June 27th, on the heights of Ober- 

 haussen,'Lotour d'Auvergne, first Grenadier of France, was 

 killed by the lance of an Uhlan, and died with his face to 

 the foe. His loss %as deeply deplored by the army, and all 

 the soldiers subscribed a day's pay to purchase a silver urn, 

 in which was placed the heart of their deceased comrade. 

 For a long time this urn was carried at the head of the com-! 

 pany by a sergeant who answered, "Dead on the field of! 

 honor," when the name of Latour d'Auvergne was called: 

 at muster. This old custom has now been renewed. Latour! 

 d'Auvergne belonged to the house of Bouillon, as did: 

 Turenue; he joined the army in 1767, fought against the! 

 English, and first distinguished himself at the siege of Port! 

 Mahon. He accepted the revolution, and fought as a cap- 

 tain in the army of the Alps, and he afterwards commanded; 

 the "Infernal column," composed of 8,000 Grenadiers. In' 

 the year '98 he was nearly being dragged before a revolu- 

 tionary committee and executed as a noble, but his soldiers 

 saved him from the scaffold. He embarked on board a 

 Breton vessel, was captured by the English, and sent to the. 

 hulks. On returning to France he ™ as offered a pension 

 and took to study. While thus engaged he learned that the 

 only son of an old friend had been taken by the conscrip- 

 tion, and he insisted on replacing him; he joined the army 

 of the Rhine, commanded by Massena, and though fifty- 

 three years of age, distinguished himself nearly every day. 

 Bonaparte wished to make him a general of division, but he 

 refused to accept any grade, and hence the title conferred 

 upon him by Carnot, of First Grenadier of the Republic. 

 Bonaparte added a sword of honor. It was with great diffi- 

 culty that the veteran could be persuaded to accept these 

 distinctions, and Napoleon declared that, had he been king 

 of France, he would have made Latour d'Auvergne a mar- 

 shal. A week afterwards he fell. The urn containing his 

 heart was at a later date deposited in the Pantheon, but it 

 was withdrawn during the restoration, and afterwards be- 

 came a cause of litigation between two branches of the family 

 — for it was worth 60,000 francs! 



—A complete set of the best English cricketing imple- 

 ments can be had by subscribing to Forest and Streyai* 



— ' O-M* A 



Carrier Pigeons for War Communications.— The 

 AUgenidhe- MUitazeitung ', at the close of a series of articles 

 on the use of pigeons as letter-carriers and the importance 

 of their use in modern warfare, calls attention to the fact 

 that the events of the Franco-Prussian war have demon- 

 strated that even large and well armed fortifications may 

 find themselves cut off from all communication with the 

 outside world. Metz and Paris were examples of this, and 

 the absolute want of communication, which prevented a 



concurrence of action, or agreement as to the operations to 

 be made, is to be regarded as the main reason for the final 

 capitulation of the Rhine army. Had they been acquainted 

 with the value of the carrier pigeons before the war, our 

 cotemporary argues, and established a mail route between 

 these two important fortresses, the communication between 

 them would have remained unbroken, and the issue of the 

 whole campaign perhaps less unfavorable for the French. 

 In view of the important services rendered by the winged 

 letter-carriers, even in their imperfect organization, during 

 the siege of Paris, the French government, at the sugges- 

 tion of General Ragon, has determined to establish pigeon 

 stations in most of the French forts. In the Jardin d' Accli- 

 matation at Paris several thousand trained pigeons are 

 housed, the brood of which will be distributed among the 

 various forts as soon as possible. The recognition of the 

 importance of the use of pigeons as letter-carriers is not 

 confined to France. Germany lias established a central 

 depot at Berlin, under the direction of Dr. Bodinus, and 

 post-stations at Cologne, Metz, and Strasburg. > Should 

 satisfactory results follow here, pigeon stations will be es- 

 tablished at all the Prussian forts. — Army and Netty Jour- 

 nal. 



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[lie shall endeavor in this department to impart and hope to receive 

 such information as may be of service to amateur and professional sports- 

 men. We will cheerfully answer all reasonable questions that fall within 

 the scope of this paper, desig anting localities for good hunting, fak- 

 ing, and trap/ring, and giving advice and instructions as to outjits, im. 

 pigments, routes,' distances, stetsons, expenses, remedies, traits, specie** 

 gnccr a ing rules, etc. All branches of the. sportsman's craft tvill receive 

 attention. Anonymous communications not noticed.} 



M. N.— See our third and seventh •imbers. Also editorial on the sub- 

 jects. 



IT. N.— Gatlin gun entirely beyond our range Of subjects. Address 

 Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, New York. 



Meadow Lakk, Washington, P. C— We arc making up some prizes 

 for our friends. See this week's issue. 



Titos. S. Steele, Hartford, Connecticut.— No practical sportsman 

 doubts the ability of a good gunsmith to make a hard shooting breech 

 loader out of a pair of line quality muzzle loading barrels. 



X. X. — 1. Charges of breech loaders may arise from over sensitive car- 

 tridges. 2. Never heard of a. similar case. 8. From your own account 

 we regret to say your carelessness was manifest. 



Indigenous, Buffalo.— Your experiences arc novel. Ou the Pampas 

 and the banks of La Plata, some foreign European plants, notably the 

 thistle, have almost, overpowered indigenous vegetation. 



M. L. J ri., Mobile.— An excellent mounting to secure shells to a block, 

 is to make one of starch, gum and whitening, mixed into a paste with 

 alum water. 2. Sec answers to correspondents of this day. 



Duncan, Lexington, Ky.— Tied head shooting on the Chesapeake, 

 and on the bay side of Capes Henry and Charles, will not warrant any 

 one taking the journey until the month of December. 



W. Lr.OYB Jeffries, 34 Devonshire street, Boston. The Vixen galled 

 over a regular course for a prize, distance 28 miles, in 3 h, 19 min. 04 sec. 

 The Alert and the other yachts sailed over a regular course for prizes. 



D. P. K. Loring, Amherst, Mass. — The price of the beagle^ould be 

 $86 in New York. Will answer more fully in our next issue; by that 

 time we shall have received a letter from our London agent. 



W. H. S., Washington, D. C— Canvas backs are very plentiful on the 

 Susquehanna near Havre de Grace. Place no confidence in market gun- 

 ners; go to a respectable hotel and acquaint the landlord with your 

 wants. 



J. D. XL, Maysvillc, California,.— Dr. Wallace, of Colchester, England, 

 is the best English authority on silkworms. He wrote a prize essay on 

 this subject, received by the Entomological society. 2. There is an oak 

 feeding silk worm, called Bombyx Yama Mai. 



Two Boys, Forty-third street.— Small paper boxes, such as are made 

 for jewellers answer very well for shells; they must be square. For very 

 small and delicate shells small glass tubes can be used. Sheets of talc, 

 neatly cut, may be used instead of glass. 



G., Baltimore. In the time of Linneus the brown rat was unknown in 

 Sweden. Its advent then dates from about 100 years ago. Something 

 very curious about the rat is that though he will devour every other 

 smaller animal he leaves the mouse untouched. Would be glad to hear 

 from you. 



A Schoolmaster.— Most English schools have a professional to give 

 instructions hi cricket. Very often the masters themselves are adepts. 

 Would take great pleasure in recommending a competent person to you 

 in the spring. Feel most gratefully the compliments you pay us. Ve 

 write for schools. 



C. F. F., Sheriff's office, Montgomery county.— The hest work on 

 training dogs, &c, is the ''Shot Gun and Sporting Rifle, 11 by "Stouc- 

 h.enge." You can procure it at Routledge's, 56 Walker street, N. Y. 

 Price about $2. 



F. A. Brown, Boston, Mass.— You ask, will a fox climb a tree? A 

 fox cannot climb a tree, unless he can run up the butt, say not more than 

 five feet, and so get on the first limb. H the first branch be ten teet from 

 the ground he could not get there even if hard pushed by hounds. The 

 sole and claws of the fox have no power of elongation or great retraction. 



E. A. Whiting, Central City, Col. Ter.— 1. From $50 to : $75 you can 

 get the gun you mention, of the very best quality. 2. Messrs. Smith & 

 Squires, 523 Broadway, are respectable and reliable dealers. 3. A $15 

 breechloader is not as good as a first-class muzzle loader. At equal 

 prices the breech loader is far preferable and more serviceable. 



This week we have received an unusual amount of questions but with- 

 out signatures to them. Some of the questions asked arc leading ones, 

 which we should only be too happy to have replied to, but under our 

 positive rule, unless all correspondence to us is duly authenticated with 

 signature and address, it shall hereafter go into the waste basket. 



W. W. S., Brooklyn. -No. 59 West Thirty-first street, and 211 Woostcr 

 street, New York, are the very best places. But go yourself for the first 

 time with your horses. Principle a sound one. Never allow a smith to 

 burn the horse's hoof to fit the shoe instead of working up the shoe to 

 fit the hoof. It is wise in anticipation of a coming frost for our readers 

 to have their horses 1 shoes pointed and caulked in time. _ 



Setter and Pointer, Fall River, Mass.— We cannot warrant or guar- 

 antee dogs; but this we will be happy to do for any of our friends: place 

 you in communication with our London agent, H. Herbert, the breeder 

 and raiser of the celebrated stock dog Tartar, who will purchase the set- 

 ters at different kennels . His opportunities and judgment are of the very 

 best. 



Water-tight.— Out of many recipes recommended, we think this 

 one perhaps the best : In a pint of best winter-strained lard oil, dis- 

 solve a piece of paraffine the size of a hickory nut, aiding the solution 

 with a gentle heat, say 100 or 140 degs. F. The readiest way to get pure 

 paraffine is to take a piece of paraffine candle. Rub this solution on 

 your boots about once a month; they can be blackened in the meantime 

 If the oil should make the leather too stiff, decrease the proportion of 

 paraffine, and vice versa. Another composition for leather is: Melt 

 together 1 lb. tallow, $ ounce ueatsfoot oil, 1 oz. of rosin, i ounce lamp- 

 black, a; table-spoonful of linseed oil. Should be rubbed in repeatedly 

 the boots or other articles to be warmed. It is said to be perfectly 

 water-proof and not injurious to the leather. 



—Boys' single and double barrel guns can be had by sub- 

 scribing to Forest and Stream. See advertisement 



