FOREST AND STREAM. 



onting. 



All communications from Secretaries and friends should be malted no 

 later than Monday in each week. 



HIGH WATER. 



FOR THE WEEK. 





Date. 



Boston. 



New York. 



Charleston. 



Cct. 23 . 



Oct,, 29. 



H. M. 



11 4 



11 41 



morn, 



15 



59 



1 40 



2 27 



ff. M. 



7 47 



8 20 



9 3 

 9 45 



10 24 



11 16 

 11 59 



H. M. 



7 4 

 7 41 



Oct. 30 



Oct. 31 



8 15 



8 59 



9 40 



Nov. 1... 



Nov. 2 



10 27 



Nov. 3 



11 14 



—Mr. Ashbury, who will be well remembered in this 

 country as the owner of the yachts Cambria and Livonia, 

 recently met with a severe accident while driving at Lu- 

 zerne, Switzerland. Another carriage coming into colli- 

 sion with his own, he was thrown out and his knee badly 

 injured, In a few days, however, he was able to proceed, 

 to Venice en route to India. 



Nassau Boat Club.— This club held its annual Fall re- 

 gatta on the Harlem River on Saturday last. There were 

 two events, the course in each race being from Gates' dock 

 to Florence's dock, distance of one mile straightaway. The 

 first race was for pair-oars, the entries being A. B. Frost 

 and George Floyd Jones; W. Robinson and W. Ljndelhon; 

 Frank Bacon and John Guneter; J. B. Reynolds and Lind- 

 sey Watson. The first named were the winners by five 

 lengths, Reynolds and Watson second. The second race 

 was for single sculls, for which A. B. Frcst, Frank Rob- 

 erts, E. J. Foote, and J. J. Wilson entered. Foote won 

 by ten lengths; Roberts second. The prizes were elegant 

 /silver cups and medals. 



Orion Boat Club. — This club held its closing regatta 

 for the season on Saturday last, the course being on the 

 Hackensack River. Only two boats appeared for the pair- 

 oared race, distance a mile and a half with a turn, Messrs. 

 P. W. Leveringand Dr. Yarrington, white and blue, and 

 H. Adams and D. Lawrence, color brown. They were sent 

 off to an even start, and kept well together until rounding 

 the stakeboat, when Mr. Levering and companion assumed 

 the lead, and kept it to the finish, winning by six seconds 

 in 9m. 80s. The second race was for four-oars over the 

 same distance, Mr. Lawrence's crew beaiing Col. Toffey's 

 in 9m. 10s. 



— The Nemus Rowing Association, of Brooklyn, has 

 b.een amalgamated with the Brooklyn Athletic Club, an ar- 

 rangement which will probably be found of practical ben- 

 efit to both clubs. As in the case of the New York Ath- 

 letic Club, rowing can be joined to other athletic exercises 

 with much advantage. The initiation fee to the Nemns 

 Association is $5, and the monthly dues $2 instead of $2 

 per annum, as erroneously printed in our issue of Septem- 

 ber 16th. 



Schuylkill Navy. — The Schuylkill Navy was reviewed 

 on Saturday, 23d inst., on Fairmount Dam, opposite the 

 boat houses, by Commodore James M. Ferguson and Vice 

 Commodore John Hockley, Jr. The line consisted of six- 

 oared barges from the Quaker City, Pennsylvania, Phila- 

 delphia, University, Malta, College, and Undine, and four- 

 oared gigs from the Crescent and Undine. The Faugh-a- 

 Bailah, the six-oared outrigger of the Philadelphia, was 

 used by the Commodore, and the four-oared outrigger of 

 the Undine by the Vice Commodore. The drill was gone 

 through with more than usual precision. The scrub race 

 from Guard Bridge down was won by the Quaker City. 

 The weather was very fine and the attendance very large. 

 It would add much to the popularity of the navy if these 

 reviews were of more frequent occurrence. 



The Centennial Regatta Committee hold another meeting 

 on Wednesday next, Sculls. 



— The Potomac will be the scene of some very interest- 

 ing racing to-day, the occasion being a four-oared race be- 

 tween crews of the Anolastan Club, of Washington, and 

 the Nassau Club, of this city. The New York crew is 

 composed of John Gunster, stroke; F. W. Bacon,' No. 3; 

 Lindsay Watson, No. 2, and J. B. Reynolds, bow, with G. 

 T. Floyd Jones as substitute. John Biglin has been train- 

 ing the Anolastan crew, which will be composed of O. L. 

 Prescott, stroke; E. Cumberland, No. 3; S. Burns, No. 2, 

 and C. A. Brown, bow. They row in a boat built for them 

 by Elliott of Greenpoint, and the Nassaus in one of 

 Fearon's. 



Harvard. — The Advocate states that the question of Har- 

 vard's withdrawal from the Inter-collegiate Rowing Asso- 

 ciation has been decided in the negative. The considera- 

 tions inducing this decision were solely those of the pro- 

 priety of Harvard leaving an association which she had 

 taken the first steps to form, as a member of which she had 

 never won a race; by leaving which, therefore, she must 

 render herself liable to the imputation of confessing that 

 her new competitors were too strong for her, and of being 

 guilty of cowardice in wishing to regain the prestige of 

 victory at the expense of limiting the number of her op- 

 ponents to one. This would be a thoroughly satisfactory 

 conclusion of the matter, but for what must necessarily be 

 racorded with it — the action of Yale. Our decision was 

 governed by considerations affecting ourselves only, and 

 we certainly expected quite as much of Yale. Instead of 

 which, the whole policy of that college seems to have been 

 to wait and see what Harvard would do. 



Trinity. — The Tablet in discoursing on the question 

 "Does Boating Pay," assumes that as regards the colleges 

 it does, and calls upon the students to support the boat 

 club with energy. It says: — "As our new buildings rise, 

 we must make "Trinity as familiar a word in the mouth 

 of the people as Harvard, or Yale is now, and when this is 

 so, it will more readily receive the support it deserves. 

 We do not claim ' that success in a boat race will do all 

 this, but certainly it will go very far toward effecting it. 

 In this wav boating will benefit us, if in no other." The 

 unfortunate drowning of poor Camercn prevented Trinity 

 from participating in the last inter-collegiate regatta. It is 

 to be hoped that she will be worthily represented in the 

 next and her many friends will wish her success. 



A Boat Race on the Daunbe. — A boat race on this 

 river is a novelty in itself, but one over a course of over a 

 hundred and sixty miles is so decidedly unique that we 

 give the following description from Land and Water ver- 

 batim :— 



M A race of a novel and interesting description took place 



on September 15th, under the auspices of the Magyar Ath- 

 letic Club, the course being from Buda-Pesth to Comom 

 and. back, a distance of 166£ English miles. Entries 

 closed on the 12th September, and the race was open to 

 four-oared out-riggers belonging to the three rowing clubs 

 of _ Buda-Pesth. First prize, five silver medals; second 

 prize, five bronze medals given by the Magyar Athletic 

 Club. The entire distance to be completed within seventy- 

 two hours. The entries were; — 1. Four-oared out-rigger 

 Egyetertes, of the Egyetertes Rowing Club; coxswain, B. 

 Rumbold; stroke, A. Balazsovitz, Odon Baranyi, Emil 

 Novelly, M. Ferenczy. 2. Four-oared out-rigger Lidercz, 

 of the Nemzeti Rowing Club: coxswain, Ferencz Mayer; 

 stroke, M. Zsingor, Pal Varga, B. Denjanovitz, Jozsef 

 Pollak. 



^ This race was a great success, and for weeks before pub- 

 lic excitement was on the qvivive, and the chances were 

 freely discussed. Very few people believed the thing pos- 

 sible, knowing the strong current of the Danube, with 

 rapids, shoals, etc., the course up the river (eighty-three 

 miles) being an exceedingly severe one. After a good start, 

 at five P. M., which was "very numerously attended, the 

 two crews kept well together, reaching Vacz (twenty-five 

 miles) at 10:30 P. M., where one hour's rest was taken. 

 The cutting head wind and severe puli against it, and the 

 current, had very much numbed the crews, who had to 

 land to get rubbed down, and then had a run of about half 

 an hour on shore to keep themselves warm. After this 

 they settled down to their night work, Lidercz leading, 

 reaching the undermentioned stations, where they had to 

 report as follows:— 



Lidercz. -Egyetertes. 



NazyMaros (twelve milee) 12.45 A. M. 2.15 A. M. 



Szobb ........ 4.40 " 4.3) " 



E 8Z ,er g on,(Grao) {«|-» '« « '/, 



After this the Egyetertes retained the lead, pulling hard, 

 with but one stoppage (of about one hour), reaching 

 Comom (83 1-5 English miles from Pesth), at 5:30 P. M.", 

 having thus accomplished their up-journey of 83 odd miles 

 in the incredibly short time of 24h. 30m. The Lidercz, 

 owing to some oversight in the "catering department," 

 reached Comorn one hour and a half later, rather the 

 worse for wear, but struggling on gamely. On various 

 points of the river from Pesth to Comron refreshments had 

 been provided for the competing crews, of which, however, 

 they availed themselves but sparingly, the crew of the 

 Egyetertes chiefly supporting themselves on a little red 

 wine, some oranges, concentrated food, and black coffee, 

 and declining any mere substantial refreshments. A 

 special steamer preceded the race, with umpires, reporters^ 

 friends, and a fashionable array of ladies on board. All 

 the piers of the Danube Navigation Company throughout 

 the course were beflagged and decorated, and all the ar- 

 rangements were excellent. 



The reception at Comorn was most enthusiastic, a special 

 committee having charge of the arrangements. The Egye- 

 tertes left Comorn on their down journey, after a stay" of 

 about ten minutes, starting September 16th, at 5:40 P.M., 

 the Lidercz not being in'sight then. After a fine run of 

 14h. 52m. the Egyetertes reached the winning post at 

 Buda-Pesth on the following morning at 8 32 A. M., hav- 

 ing accomplished the whole journey of 166 2-5 miles in 

 39h. 22m., pulling up fresh and well. 



The Lidercz pulled in 11£ hours later, viz., at 8:5 P. M., 

 having had to give up racing at Comorn, but being still en- 

 titled to take second honors, having done the distance in 

 51h. 5m. The finishing time was — 1st, Egyetertes; time, 

 39h. 22m.; 2d, Lidercz ; v time, 51 h. 5m. 



The following gentlemen kindly took the management: — 

 Umpire, Mr. Sarkany Janos, M. A. C. ; starter, Mr. Ohe- 

 nolly Janos, M .A. C. ; Secretary, Mr. Csaszar Ferencz, 

 sec, M. A. C. The winning crew pulled on an average 

 38-40 strokes a minute the whole distance. The crews 

 were entertained at a banquet last Saturday week, given by 

 the rowing clubs and M. A. Club, at the Grand Hotel in 

 Pesth, which was a very brilliant affair." 



Blood Drinkers. — Upon inquiry at slaughter houses it 

 is found that there are nearly 2u0 persons in the city of 

 New York who are in the habit of drinking blood flowing 

 warmly from oxen for strengthening purposes and for the 

 cure of certain diseases . A lady is reported to have spoken 

 to an inquirer as follows: — 



"Prof. Nalpeau, of Paris, prescribed blood for me. I 

 was consumptive and hastening to the grave. It has pro- 

 longed my life fifteen years. I had the utmost repugnance 

 for it at first, but now a half pint of hot blood from a well- 

 conditioned ox is the greatest luxury of my life. My 

 sister's baby, so far, has been preserved and nourished with 

 little else but blood. I know twenty person who drink it 

 in my neighborhood to whom I recommended it. It has 

 extraordinary effect on some people, especially women, but 

 should not be resorted to unless there is absolute weakness 

 of the system.' 1 



On a visit of the inquirer to a slaughter house in Tenth 

 avenue, near Forty-second street, he found a delicate look- 

 ing woman with a sickly boy holding a glass to the blood 

 which ran from an ox with its throat cut. Both drank two 

 or three glasses in turn, and departed with an appearance 

 of added vigor. One of the butchers was asked if he ever 

 drank blood, and is reported to have replied to the follow- 

 ing effect: — 



"Shure an' I do, now; why not, now? faith, an' ye 

 couldn't tell the differ betwixt it an' milk. 'Tis just as 

 swate, shure, an' in the Winther 'tis warrum an' foine. 

 Bedad, but 'tis stringthinen' shure! Hould an an' I'll get 

 ye a dhrap. 'Tis best warrum — runnin' right from the 

 baste." 



The proprietor said: — "All last Winter we had men, wo- 

 men and children every morning to drink blood. They 

 always imbibe beasts' blood; never the blood of sheep. 

 Some of them wince a bit at first; but when you close your 

 eyes, blood warm from the beast's neck has just the same 

 taste as warm milk from the cow. We don't charge for 

 the blood, except when we sell it to sugar refiners." 



Thi blood of beeves is said to be more efficacious for 

 weak lungs than cod liver oil— The Laboratory. 

 ^-*^- — ~ 



Pedestrtanism. — Dennis O'Leary recently walked one 

 hundred miles at the Chicago Rink in 18k 53m. and 40s. 

 Said to be strictly fair walking and the best time on record : 

 The walk occurred in a match with James Ennisfor $1,000. 

 Ennis, however, broke clown on his sixty-second mile. 



—On the 25tli Oct. James Mesler of Trenton, N. J., and 

 James Wheat of Pittsburg, Pa., ran a race of one hundred 

 and twenty-five yards for a stake of $1,000. Mesler won 

 by eighteen inched,. -doing the distance in 13 seconds, 



'atiannl §n$timen. 



CRICKET. 



—Mr. W. O. Grace, the celebrated English cricket* 

 made a great hit recently in a match between the Unii/i 

 South of England eleven and eighteen of Hastings o 

 measuring the distance it was found to be 118 yards' fro 

 the crease to where the ball was pitched. At the conch? 

 sion of the play the South of England had scored 35Q e™\ 

 of which Mr. W. G. Grace made 210, and Hasting win, 

 five wickets down, has scored 60. _ ' un 



BASE BALL— THE PROFESSIONAL ARENA. 



— The last week of the professional championship 



son has been reached, and in our next issue we shall h > 

 able to give our readers the official result of the contest a 

 regards the number of games won and lost, which will'b 

 counted as legally won games. The record up to Ocf 

 25th leaves Bostons first, on the list, the Athletics second' 

 and the St. Louis, third, and this is not likely to be clianV 

 ed by the result of the last week of play in the arena. TiS 

 record is as follows :— 



Boston 



Athletic | 2\ 



St. Louis j 2| 



Hartford I 0, 



Philadelphia j 0| 



Chicago • j 2\ 



Mutual 0< 



















i-3 







--) 



» 



•a B 









c 



o 



-5 



o 



3 





4-3 



53 



£ .c 



-: 



<! 



:/) H 



S 'O 



s 



8| 7] 8j 6j 8110 



..! 5| 3| 8! 7| 6 



J ...| 51 51 51 8 



41 5' J 4j 3» 8 



*| 4j 4J..I 7j i 



1 5 4 3 ..i 3 



8 



P 







5 



8 





i: 



31 

 2G 



u 



19 

 18 

 13 



15" 



Games Lost | ellQlgelselsi 183187 1" 



— The professional contests since our last issue are as 

 follows : — 



Oct. 18— Hartford vs. St. Louis, at Hartford 5 to 



Oct. 18— Philadelphia vs. Chicago, at Philadelphia 11 to 3 



Oct. 19 -Athletic vs. Chicago, at Philadelphia (8 in) 1 to 1 



Oct. 20— Boston vs. Hartford, at Hartford... 7 to 3 



Oct. 20— Chicago vs. Mutual, at Brooklvn 13 to 3 



Oct. 20— St. Louis vs. Haiti ord at Hartford 10 to 4 



Oct. 21— Philadelphia vs. Mutual, at Brooklyn (8 in.) 14 to 3 



Oct. 21— Boston vs. Chicago, at Boston n to 9 



Oct . 21— Hartford vs. St. Louis, at Hartford (8 in . ) 18 to 7 



Oct. 7— St. Louis vs. Mutu.il, at Brooklyn (10 in j 4 to 3 



Oct. 2-2— Boston, vs. Chicago, at Boston n t 3 



Oct. 23— St. Louis vs. Mutual, at Brooklyn 6 to 2 



Oct. 23— Athletic vs. Philadelphia, at Philadelphia. (7 In) 9 to 6 



But six good games out of thirteen. 



THE AMATEUR ARENA. 



— The Star Club of Syracuse has closed play on regular 

 matches for the season and below will be found the record 

 of their best games for 1875: — 



August 23— Star vs. Syracuse, at Syracuse 3 to 1 



October 2— Star vs. Rochester, at Rochester 5 to 3 



An gust It — Star vs. Lone Star, at Herkimer, 10 in ,,..,,, . 7 to 6 



Soptember 9— Star vs. Franklin, at Auburn. 8 to 5 



September 14— Live Oak vs. Star, at Syracuse 4 to 1 



July 28— Arlington vs. Star, at Syracuse 8 to 3 



September 2— Cricket vs. Star, at Binghampton 10 in 6 to 5 



September 3— El yaw ay vs. Star, at Syracuse. 7 to 4 



September 11— Live Oak vs. Star, at Syracuse 8 to 4 



September 14— Live Oak vs. Star, at Syracuse 9 to 5 



— The best games of the Star Club of Covington, Ky., 

 for 1875 are as follows : — 



July 10— Star vs. Ludlow of Cincinnati 2 to 



August 2— Star vs. Buckeye of Columbus 3 to .3 



August 7— Star vs. Ludlow of Cincinnati 4 to 3 



August 24 — Star vs. Eagle of Louisville 4 lo 3 



September 3— Star vs. Ludlow of Cincinnati 4 to 3 



July 15— Star vs. St. Louis Reds of St. Louis 5 to 3 



July 31— Star vs. Milford of Milf ord 5 to 3 



August 31— Star vs. Cincinnati of Cincinnati, 12 in ...5 to 5 



September 11— Star vs. Cincinnati of Cincinnati ti to .J 



June 4— Star vs. Ea°;le of Louisville 6 to 4 



June 16— Star vs. Blue Stockings of Cincinnati 8 to 5 



October 9— Star vs. Cincinnati of Cincinnati 7 to 3 



June 5— Star vs. Olympic of Louisville 8 toO 



September 28— Star vs. Amerlcus of Cincinnati 7 to 6 



July 5— Star vs. Olympic of Louisville. ...7 to 6 



September 4— Star vs. Red Stockings of St. Louis 8 to 5 



July 8— Star v*. Buckeye of Columbus 9 to 2 



July 9— Star vs. Eckford of Maysville .9 to G 



July 19— Milford vs. Star 3 to 



August 23— Blue Stockings vs. Star 4 to 



June 29— Philadelphia vs. Star 6 to 



July 13- St. Louis Beds vs. Star 7to0 



September 18— Ludlow vs. Star 7 to 5 



August 14— Boston vs. Star 8 to 1 



September 20— Hartford vs. Star 8 to 3 



August 20— Lexington vs. Star 9 to 7 



— The amateur games of the past week were as fol- 

 lows : 



October 18— Lowell vs . Live Oak, at Lowell 1 to 1 



October 19— Live Oak vs. Lowell, atLvnn..., 7 to 6 



October 14— Cincinnati vs. Blue Stockings, at Cincinnati.. 7 to 3 



October 18— New York vs. Brooklyn, at Brooklyn 8 to 



October 19— Concord vs. Chelsea, at Brooklyn 9 to 8 



October 14— Philadelphia vs. Quickstep, at Wilmington. . . .9 to 8 



Hoboken, N. J., October 19th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



A game of foot ball was played here this afternoon between the twen- 

 ties of the Stevens Institute of Technology and the College of the City 

 of N. Y., which resulted in the score of 6 to in favor of Steven?. On 

 Saturday, Oct. 23d. Stevens Institute of Technology, of Hobokeu, play 

 the Butger twenty of New Brunswick at the latter place. C. P. W 

 * 1 



Bicycling Extraordinary.— David Stanton, the famous 

 long-distance bicyclist, is about to undertake another ex- 

 traordinary feat. He has backed himself to ride 050 miles 

 within seven successive days, and was to have started on 

 Tuesday, the 26th inst. Should he succeed he will finis] 1 

 on Monday, the 1st of November. Lillie Bridge, Eoglann\ 

 has been chosen as the place for this great ride, the dis- 

 tance of which is the- same as from Vienna to Paris, the 

 match is for $500 a side. 



Greco-Roman Wrestling.— The gladiators who recently 

 contested at the Grand Opera House are preparing another 

 bout. Messrs. Andre Christol and Muller have each de- 

 posited with a stakeholder $100 as forfeit money in a wres- 

 ting match for $500 a side, to take place on or alter inu- 

 vember 9th. 



Wrestling in San Francisco.— The wrestling match 

 for the chamoionship of America between Homer Lane, 

 of New York, and Richard Whalen, of San Jose, toon 

 place on the 19th inst., and won by Lane, gaming the Bl- 

 and third falls. The stakes were $1,000 a side. 



—There will be a series of walking and running rac ^ 

 the grounds of tlie-New York Athletic Association at jhw 

 Haven on Friday. an 1 Saturday of this week. Many 01 1^ 

 prominent-professional pedestrians will compete 101 

 valuable prizes offered. 



