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\ntional jj§a$times. 



Secretaries of University and College Athletic Clubs will please mail 

 their reports not later than Monday in each toeek. 



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—A Foot Ball match took place at New Haven on Saturday 

 last, between eleven old Etonians from Eton School, Eng- 

 land, now on a visit to this country, and one chosen from the 

 Foot Ball Club of Yale College. The game was witnessed 

 by a large number of people, and proved to be fully as ex- 

 citing and interesting as the friends of the players expected. 

 The Yale Eleven practiced hard to perfect themselves for 

 the contest, and were rewarded by coming off the field as 

 victors. The game was played partly according to the 

 English rules and partly according to the American rules 

 adopted at the late Convention, each side making some 

 concessions. Among those made by Yale was one agreeing 

 that there should be no lurking allowed near an opponent's 

 gaol. Yale's eleven was chosen from the twenties that 

 have played against the clubs, of Rutgers and Princeton col- 

 leges this fall. The English eleven was made up of gradu- 

 ates of the famous Eton College. The Eton game is hardly 

 as rough as that played at Rugby, but requires greater skill 

 and more running and dogging. The elevens were com- 

 posed as follows: — Eton. — G. C. Allen, Lord Norbet, J. W. 

 Balfour, R. M. Keerrell, Earl of Rosebury, E. Chaplin, C. 

 W. Benson, (the famous Cambridge oarsman), E. S. Hans- 

 bury, R. Romilly, R. Russell, and H. M. Thompson. Yah. 

 — E. V. Baker, C. Deming, F. L. Grinnell, H. J. McBir- 

 ney, P. A. Porter, H. O. Bristol, W. S. Halsted, W. 0. 

 Henderson, A. Hotchkiss, J. L. Scudder, and T. T. Sher- 

 man. We take this from the Tribune, our correspondent's 

 letters having been mislaid. — Ed. 



—The ' ' Main Line " nine of the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 Office, rank high as amateur players. We give the names 

 of the nine for 1874:— B. Taylor. W. DeArmond, A. Rob- 

 son, E. C. Cox, F. W. Hutchinson, M. Deshong, I. A. New- 

 bern, W. H. Wright and J. Roberts. Tenth man, J. Vau- 

 zandt. 



— At a meeting of the Yonkers Curling Club, held last 

 week, the following officers, representatives and skips were 

 chosen for the approaching season: — Wm. B. Edgar, presi- 

 dent; J. S. White, vice-president; Hyatt L. Garrison, sec- 

 retary and treasurer; E. F. Shonnard representative to the 

 royal Caledonian games ; James Stewart, representative to 

 the grand national games; Messrs. Edgar, Wheeler and 

 Stewart, committee on pond; Messrs. Edgar, Stewart, Mac- 

 far- White, Shonnard and Frazier, skips. 



— The three-ball French carom billiard tournament com- 

 menced on December 3, in Boston, Mass. The first game 

 was between Peck and Hickey, and was won by the latter 

 by a score of 200 to 174 points. Hickey's highest run was 

 23 and Peck's 22. The averages were— Hickey, 2i; Peck, 

 2 1-9. The second game was between Wilson and Denni- 

 son, the latter winning by 25 points. The highest runs 

 were — Dennison, 45; Wilson, 26; and the averages — Den- 

 nison, 3 4-7; Wilson, 3£. The first game in the evening 

 was between John Hickey and Lou Morris, Jr. The game 

 was won by Hickey, whose highest run was 34 and Morris' 

 15. The averages were— Hickey, 6|; Morris, If. There 

 was an exhibition three-ball game between Albert Garnier 

 and Edward Daniels for 300 points. In the nineteenth inn- 

 ing Gamier, by a run of 84. brought the game to a close. 

 Daniels' highest run was 36. Garnier's average was 15, and 

 Daniels' 7|. They then played a game of 500 points with 

 four balls, Garnier making the 500 to Daniels' 195. 



The first competitors on December 4 were— Messrs. 



Wilson and Lou Morris, Jr. Wilson made the champion 

 run of the tournament, making on his twenty-ninth inning 

 51 points. Morris' highest run was 37. Wilson won the 

 game by 31 points. His average was 3^ and Morris' 3. 

 Time Hi. 45m. The next game was between Peck and 

 Pulsifer and was won by Peck by 6 points. Peck's besj 

 run was 20 and Pulsifer's 15. Time, 2h. In the evening 

 the first game was between Morris and Dennison, and was 

 won by the former making 200 to Dennison's 190. Morris' 

 highest run was 16; Dennison's, 19. Morris' average, 3; 

 Dennison's, 2$. Time, 2h. Hickey and Pulsifer played 

 the next game, the former winning by 101 points. Hickey's 

 average, 5; Pulsifer's, 2 2-5. Hickey's highest run, 32. 

 Time, 111, 15m. 



—The billiard tournament was decided on December 6th 

 There have been 14 regular games, all the contestants hav- 

 ing twice played with each other, except Peck and Wilson, 

 and they commenced the game for the prizes. Wilson won 

 by 20 points. Wilson's average was 2£; Peck's, 2±. The 

 time of the game was two hours and ten minutes. Wilson 

 then played the tie game with Dennison, which resulted in 

 Dennison winning. Thus it will be seen that Mr. John 

 Hickey wins the silver cup, $250 and the championship, 

 Mr. Frank Dennison the table that has been played upon 

 through the tournament and Mr. Wilson $250 in cash. 



—Messrs. Garnier, Joseph and Cyrille Dion paid a visit to 

 Philadelphia last week, understanding that the benefit to 

 Mr. Plunkett was then to take place. Owing to some mis- 

 take, no exhibition had been announced. The New York 

 players visited Mr. Plunkett's saloon, and afterwards, at 

 Mr. Palmer's room, a game of one hundred points, French 

 caroms, was played between Garnier and Joseph Dion, the 

 former winning. The Professor afterwards, at Mr. Pal- 

 mer's desire, exhibited his celebrated fancy shots. 

 |g— The championship match at the three-ball French 

 carom game, between Albert Carnierand Cyrille Dion, took 

 place on Tuesday of last week at Tammany Hall, 14th 

 street. The game was won by Albert Garnier by a score of 

 600 to Cyrille Dion's 480. Garnier averaged 10. Dion, 8 



8-59. Garnier's best run was 68. Dion's, 61. The game 

 was played on a 10x5 Callender bevel table. Garnier is still 

 the champion and retains the diamond cue. 



— A meeting will be held at the Astor House, N. Y. , on 

 December 17th, for the purpose of reorganizing the National 

 Association of Amateur Base Ballplayers. 



Princeton, N. J., Dec. 1873. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : — 



Enclosed please find an extended report of the games 

 played by the Oneida Base-ball Club of Orange, N. J., one 

 of the leading amateur organizations in the country, to- 

 gether with the averages of its members: B. C. H. 



RECORD OF THE ONEIDA BASE-BALL CLUB FOR 1873. 



Total number of games played 19 



Victories 13 



Defeats 5 



Ties 1 



Forfeits 1 



VICTORIES, 



Date. Club. 



June 28 Oneida vs. Active, New York 



July 4 



July 16 



July 19 



August 2 



August 4 



August 15 



August 19 



August 23 



August 27 



August 29 



September 6. ... .. 



September 18... . 



October 11 



Score . 

 21 to 8 



vs. Nassau, Brooklyn 24 to 13 



vs. Union, Newark 24 to 11 



vs. Arlington, New York 24 to 11 



vs. Staten Island, New York 33 to 25 



vs. Silver Star, New York 21 to 20 



vs. Frankiin, Rah way 9 to 



v4. Union, Newark 11 to 10 



vs. Staten Island, New York 22 to 13 



vs. Alpha, Roseville 18 to 13 



vs. Empire, New Brunswick 30 to 4 



vs. Nameless, Brooklyn (6 innings)... 34 to 7 



vs. Union, Newark (5 innings) 4 to 2 



vs. Nassau, Brooklyn 4 to 2 



Total 279 to 139 



DEEEATS. 



August 25 Oneida vs. Chelsea, Brooklyn 7 to 17 



August 30 " vs. Nassau, Brooklyn 11 to 21 



September 1 •' vs . Silver Star, New York 9 to 13 



September 9 " vs. Chelsea, Brooklyn 10 to 1 S 



September 27 " vs. Alpha,Roseville 6 to 13 



Total 43 to 81 



TIE. 



August 9 Oneida vs. Staten Island. . . 



Whole number runs— 337 to 235. 



AVERAGE OF EACH PLAYER. 



Name. 



5 5 



C. Smith, 2d b 



Willis, 1st b. and s. e 



Sanger, c. and r. f 



H. Beach, p. and s. s 



Williams, I. f 



W. Smith, c. and 3d b.... 



Robertson, p 



Lighthipe, r. f 



Piatt, 3d b 



D. Irving, c. f. and r. f . . 



Paiicher, 1st b 



A. Irving. 1. f 



F.Smith, 1st b. and c. f. 



McGall, 1st b 



Persch, r.f 



Harrison, 1st b 



Woody, c 



Bingham, c 



F. Beach, r. f 



O. Smith, r. f 



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47 

 54 

 30 

 36 



7 



7 

 12 



4 

 50 



4 

 10 

 47 

 

 35 

 8 

 1 

 

 



15 to 15 



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4.1 

 2.7 

 3.1 

 1.8 



.8 



.6 

 1. 



.6 

 10. 



.8 

 8.5 

 11.7 





 11.6 

 8 

 1. 

 

 



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— The Philadelphia Base Ball Club held its annual meet- 

 ing last week. Ninety-two out of one hundred shares of 

 stock were represented. After some discussion on finance, 

 a dividend of twenty-five dollars per share or one hundred 

 per cent., was ordered to be paid to the shareholders. The 

 annual election for officers was then held with the follow- 

 ing result: — President, George W. Young; five vice-Pre- 

 sidents; Treasurer, James McColgan; Recording Secretary, 

 Charles H. Tisdall; Corresponding Secretary, David L. 

 Reid. William C. Dillingham and Francis McBride were 

 eleeted to fill the Board of Directors. 



§tachtitiQ mtd Routing. 



— * — 



All communications from Secretaries and friends slwtdd be mailed not 

 later than Monday in each week. 



HIGH WATER, FOR THE WEEK. 





DATE. 



BOSTON. 



NEW YORK. 



CHARI/ST'N 





h. m. 



h. m. 



h. ffi. 



Dec. 11 



5 37 



1 47 



1 



Dec. 12 



6 36 



2 23 



1 37 



Dec. 13 



7 23 



3 22 



2 36 



Dec. 14 



8 13 



4 8 



3 23 



Dec. 15 



9 3 



4 57 



4 13 



Dec. 16 



9 52 



5 48 



5 3 



Dec. 17 



10 43 



6 38 



5 52 



—The yacht Meta, owned by G. A. Beling of the B. Y. 

 C. , and built by P. McGeehan of Pamrapo, is to be altered 

 to a schooner this winter. The Meta has made some bril- 

 liant performances the last season. We only trust she may 

 meet with the same success as a schooner. Altering per- 

 fection seems to be rather risky, to say the least of it. Nous 

 verrons. 



— In a letter from our valued correspondent, in Detroit, 

 on boating matters, he says : "I have been very busily 

 engaged during the past month in attending to the arrange- 

 ments for a course of lectures and entertainments which 

 the Excelsior Boat Club of this city is giving to our citizens 

 this winter, but will forward to you without delay the rec- 

 ord of boating and yachting in our waters for the season. 



— The members and friends of the Bayonne Yacht Club 

 will meet together on the evening of the 23d, when the 

 president will present to the successful yacht owners the 

 handsome prizes won during the A; tumn Regatta. 



—Commodore Stanton Whitney, of the Eastern Yacht 

 Club, is acting as referee in the Meta- Vision discussion, 

 and will send to the owners of the yachts in a few days his 

 final decision. 



— Invitations are out for the first annual ball of the 

 Washington D. C. Yacht Club, which will be given at 

 Masonic Temple, Monday evening, Dec. 15. 



— The Bayonne Yacht Club held a special meeting to 

 take into consideration the propriety of joining the con- 

 federation and amalgamating with the New Jersey Yacht 

 Clubs. Messrs. C. C. Hough, George A. Beling, T. D. 

 Harrison, and Joseph Ellsworth were selected as a commit- 

 tee to meet similar committees from the New Jersey Yacht 

 Clubs to confer together and discuss this important matter. 

 This combination would make a strong organization and 

 would doubtless add ma- 1 erial strength to the yachting in- 

 terest. 



— The Crescent Boating Club of Philadelphia closed the 

 season last week on the Schuykill. We take pleasure in 

 complimenting the Crescent Club for continuing their 

 favorite pastime so long into the fall of the year and trust 

 to hear good accounts from them next spring. The first 

 race was in four-oared shells from the Girard avenue bridge 

 to the steamboat landing at Fairmount. The boats were 

 manned as follows: Crescent, E. A. Thompson, stroke; 

 C. D. Tatman, second; H. F. Witmer, third; W. Barnhurst, 

 bow. Chamounix, C. E, Steel, stroke; A. Spering, second; 

 H. K. Hinchman, third; T. B. Harper, bow. The race, 

 which was marked by a foul and an accident, ^was consider- 

 ed as won by the Crescent, they having the lead by about 

 three quarters of a boat length. The second race was be- 

 tween four single shells, all of the same club, and was the 

 best contested of the series, resulting as follows : First, H. 

 F. Witmer; second, T. B. Harper; third, C. E. Steel; 

 fourth, George Milliken. The third and last race was be- 

 tween the two double shells — Owlet, stroke, H. F. Witmer, 

 bow, George Milliken, and the M. K. S., stroke, C. E. 

 Steel, bow, T B. Harper, and resulted in a victory for the 

 former. 



— The following men have been selected to make up the 

 Freshman boat-crew: — W. S. M. Ryder and C. S. Ryder, of 

 Sing Sing, New York; J. S. S. Thld, of Westboro'; W. O. 

 Weeden, of Providence, R. I ; A. M. Chadwick, of St. 

 Johnsbury, Vermont; F. E. Sibley, of Warren; and J. A. 

 Sanders, of Jaffna, Ceylon. These men will practice dur- 

 ing the winter at the Gymnasium. 



At a meeting of the Boating Association held after 

 rhetoricals on the 19th, F. W. Whitridge of the Senior 

 class, and H. S. Knight of the Junior class were elected 

 delegates to the Boating Convention tO'-fre- held this fall. — 

 Amherst Student, Dec. 6. 



—The new yacth La Belle, recently added to the Jersey 

 City Yacht Club, is thirty feet long, and was built by Wm 

 Force for Col. Rucker, who is a member of that club. 



[We have received this rolicking sketch of a jolly yachts- 

 man which he entitles "Yachting Reminiscenses." It de- 

 scribes the pleasures of a cruise to Martha's Vineyard, the 

 perusal of which we doubt not will be enjoj^ed with zest 

 by many a one who has been there.] 

 Editor Forest and Stream : — 



The announcement of the annual cruise of your club! 

 What a host of pleasant memories associate themselves 

 with those words! What brushing up of uniforms, and 

 burnishing of gilt on cap and coat, with the view ot sundry 

 bright eyes "down east" along the coast to , be pleased. 

 Don't deny it, my brave skipper, that half the pleasure of 

 the yacht trip, and being a member of "the club," is in 

 the jaunty uniform and the many conquests made on 

 the "annual trip." To the landsman, who at that season, is 

 looked upon with as much commiseration as the "cit" is at 

 West Point in the camping season, these moments of excite- 

 ment and anticipation are unknown. The yachts must be 

 "hauled out," the stores be hauled in; ah! what hidden 

 mysteries are in these same "stores." The boxes, bundles, 

 packages, cans, barrels, so accumulate, till the mind scarce 

 comprehends where on the little vessel the steward finds 

 the room for them all, but he does, and let the vessel "roll 

 out" ever so much, not a glass jingles, nor a bottle breaks. 

 See the boxes with the mysterious "P* or "Q" on each end, 

 branded "mum;" well, all the "boys" manage to keep 

 "mum" until fairly under weigh, then the fusilade com- 

 mences, and "dead marines" mark our track. 



Lucky the yacht owners on such an occasion ; lucky too 

 those who are on terms of intimacy sufficient to secure 

 them the invitation to go with them. There is nothing 

 promising and realizing so much pleasure as the two weeks 

 secured for the trip. Ready for the start and the rendez- 

 vous, the very yachts themselves seem to enter into the 

 spirit of the occasion and plunge along careering, fill- 

 ing away, and jauntily throwing the spray with a saucy, 

 "catch me if you can" manner. If the wind is good, what 

 rivalry there is, what "hauling aft," and "trimming down," 

 and the passing of a rival if possible to windward is a mo- 

 ment of proud and serene satisfaction. 



One word as to the sailing of the yacht. Now don't be 

 alarmed, I am not going into a long disquisition of tech- 

 nical terms, nor do I intend to discuss of the midship 

 section, the run, the water line, the hips, knees, overhang, 

 &c. I am a "devoted yachtsman" it is true, but it is in my 

 devotion for the blue water and the white caps, the gentle, 

 easy roll of old Neptune, and the bold, gallant dash of the 

 vessel "on the wind," with everything drawing, or at night 

 with everything furled and safely anchored in some quiet, 

 land-locked and hill-girted harbor, to be lulled asleep by 

 the gentle rippling gurgle of the water outside; to wake in 

 the early morning with everything so quiet, fresh and clear, 

 to take the health inspiring plunge off the rail, which by 

 the way is the best remedy I ever saw for a "don't-feel- 

 very-well-this-morning" condition. It is for all these that 

 I am a devoted yachtsman. 



But I was going to say a word on the sailing of the yacht, 

 and it is just this, that in nine times out of ten as much if 

 not more depends upon the crew and sailing master than 



