FOREST AND STREAM. 



237 



! One would call them two beams which a skilled 

 ^ nenter unites at the summit of a building, in order that 

 !f i» - ^n resist the strength of the wind. Their backs re - 



* under the frequent blows given by their sinewy 



? ; ns the perspiration rolls down upon their sides, and 

 11 mv* shoulders rise swelling red with blood. Ulysses 

 ^Sinot repel Ajax, nor Ajax overthrow Ulysses. Fearing 

 V»t this indecisive struggle would make the Greeks impa- 

 f, t nt Aiax cries, 'Son of Laertes, lift me or let thyself be 



i e d by me, and let Jupiter decide the rest 1' " 



C( With these words he lifts Ulysses, who now having re- 



Ciirse to his extraordinary skill kicks Ajax on the ham- 



( ino- and makes him bend the knee. Ajack falls upon 



3 back dragging with him his adversary. Ulysses now 



! lives to lift Ajax, but exhausts himself in vain attempts, 



l' d it is with difficulty he raises him from the earth. 



1l viev fall for the second time, and roll from one side to the 



tier covered with dust. They rise and are about to re- 



: mrnence for the third fall, when Achilles intervenes, and 



i^'aws down their arms. "It is enough," he cries, "do not 



asle y ur strength in these dangerous combats. Both 



1 ;: e worthy of victory, and he generously awards them 



%-maX prizes." 



If the modern wrestling matches were carried on with 

 e same sincerity, earnestness, and vigor as the one de- 

 ribed there would be but little fault-finding by the 

 iblic 'and probably a much greater gain to the fame, 

 June and pockets of the contestants. 

 —Lacrosse is having great success in England, since the 

 anadians made their visit, and clubs have been recently 

 iroiedat London, Glasgow, Dublin, Croydon, and other 

 laees. It is now proposed to form a Lacrosse Association 

 imewhat similar to the National Lacrosse Association of 

 anada; that it should be called Lacrosse Association of 

 Teat Britain and Ireland, having its headquarters in Lon- 

 ^u or Glasgow, and holding annual convention in Lon- 

 on Glasgow and Dublin alternately; and that the laws 

 ■■■'."■ ad' constitution of the Canadian Association, as far as 



tacticable, should be adopted. 

 ■;v"' —The annual championship match of the New York 

 tackettClub will be played this Thursday night at the 

 lourt, corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-sixth street. 



| The Hermit of Gkeenwood Lake.— On the left shore 

 -s we steam up, there is pointed out to us the spot near 

 Vhich lives the Hermit of the Lake. From all that we 

 an learn he is a kind of living tradition which no man can 

 ead . He may be either a modern St. Kevin or an unre- 

 pentant sinner. His hut is about the size of a kennel, and 

 ar less comfortable. Its architecture is, accordingly, easy 

 f description. A rock forms one wall, and two poles 

 esting upon it and connecting with posts driven into the 

 '; round are the chief timbers of its frame-work. There is 

 :|:lo door. Its occupant crawls in and out. When at home 

 ; ie is in a very circumscribed apartment, in which he can 

 Neither stand up nor lie down at full length. The cata- 

 logue of furniture consists of one item — an old gunpowder 

 afegg The fire burns on the ground, and the earthen floor 

 Serves the hermit for both bed and table. The possibility 

 Hf a visitor has no place in his scheme of domestic econo- 

 t'ift is, in fact, the very embodiment of the principle upon 

 ?v» vhich some other men and many nations act — laissez faire. 

 *ifre have here not so much the hermit of romance as his 

 i ess attractive, less studious, and less astrologically disposed 

 brother of sober fact. — Arcadian. 



' Indian Summer. — This halcyon period of our autumn 

 [will always in some way be associated with the Indian. It 

 is ied and yellow and dusky like him. The smoke of his 

 camp fire seems again in the air. The memory of him per- 

 vades tha woods. His plumes and moccasins and blanket 



-of skins form just tbe very costume the season demands. 

 It was doubtless his chosen period. The gods smiled upon 

 him then if ever. The time of the chase, the season of the 



^ buck and the doe, and of the ripening of all forest fruits; 



i the time when all men are incipient hunters, when the 

 first frosts have given pungency to the air, when to be 

 abroad on the hills or in the woods is delight that both old 

 and young feel; if the red aboriginee ever had his summer 



;. of fullness and contentment, it must have been at this sea- 

 son, and it fitly bears his name. — Scribner. 



Tiffany & Co., Silversmiths, Jewelers, and 



i 



Importers, have always a large stock of sil- 

 ver articles for prizes for shooting, yachting, 

 racing and other sports, and on request they 

 prepare special designs for similar purposes. 



Their timing watches are guaranteed for ac- 

 curacy, and are now very generally used for 

 sporting and scientific requirements. Tiffany 

 & Co., are also the agents in America for 

 Messrs. Patek, Philippe & Co , of Geneva, of 

 whose celebrated watches they have a full 

 line. Their stock of Diamonds and other Pre- 

 cious Stones, General Jewelry, Bronzes and 

 Artistic Pottery is the largest in the world, 

 and the public are invited to visit their estab- 

 lishment without feeling the slightest obliga- 

 tion to purchase. Union Square/New York. 



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CRICKET. 



The English cricket season, owing to unusually fine 

 weather from May to October, was a very successful one 

 in respect to the number of clubs which took part in the 

 season's play, and the large number of games played. 

 But in regard to the general attendance at the prominent 

 matches it was not so inasmuch as there was a notable fall- 

 ing off, except at such contests as those of Eton vs. Har- 

 row and the University matches, Oxford vs. Cambridge. 

 On "Grace days," that is, days when W. G. Grace was 

 the cricket star, there was, of course, a crowd gathered to 

 witness the champion's high scoring; but this came to be 

 tedious work in view of his being in two or three days at 

 the bat for scores of from one to four hundred! The large 

 scores of the season, in fact, have shown pretty conclu- 

 sively that the batting has overpowered the bowling, and 

 some change in the rules of the game must be made to 

 equalize the powers of attack and defence or otherwise 

 cricket will lose its attraction, the heavy scoring done the 

 past season having materially lessened the attraction, it 

 having become tedious to witness matches in which the 

 scores of the innings have run up to six hundred in a single 

 inning's play. In the record of the total club scores of the 

 season we find such figures as the following: — 



Aug. 10, t M. C. C. and Ground 144. .557-701 



Canterbury ) Kent 473.. 473 



United South vs. Grimsby (one inning) 689 



Kuole Park vs. Incognito (one inning) 641 



Thombury vs. Chewton Keynsham (one inning) 502 



Middlesex vs. Oxford (one inning) 612 



Royal Ajtillefy vs. Rifle Brigade (one innirjg) ...531 



Gloucestershire vs. Yorkshire (one inning) 528 



And quite a number of matches have records of scores 

 of 400 and upwards in one inning's play. Of individual 

 scores in one inning's play the following stand out pretty 

 conspicuously : — 



W. G. Grace in United South vs. Grimsby 400 



W„ G. Grace in Kent vs. Meryleboue 344 



E . M. Grace in Thornburgh vs . Chewton 327 



W. G. Grace in Gloucester vs. Yorkshire 318 



W. Jamison in Littlebourne vs. Canterbmy 218 



F. Tovvnsendin Clifton vs. Thornburgh 917 



G. P. Grace in Knole Park vs. Incognito 213 



F. Townseud ip Chfron vs. Wells 211 



C. P. Lewi? in Jesus College vs. Queen 208 



W. Gilbert in Cambridge in England 205 



In fact the number of scores of one hundred which have 

 been recorded fill two columns of Bell's Life, it having 

 been in this respect quite a "Centennial year" in cricket in 

 England. 



BASE BALL— BATTING YS. FIELDING. 



It is only necessary to glance at the club statistics of the 

 past season to see positive proof of the superiority of skill 

 in fielding over that in batting in winning games. The 

 record of the eight League clubs in batting shows the club 

 names occupying the following relative positions: — 



BATTING AVERAGE. 



General average 



Clubs. Base hits. Club average. 



Chicago 13-82 1—48 



Athletic 10—74 1—19 



Hartford 10—40 1-16 



St. Louis 10-- 25 1—14 



Boston 10—18 1—13 



Louisville 9—06 1—01 



Mutual 8-51 0—93 



Cincinnati 8—25 0-92 



YIELDING AVERAGE. 



General average 

 of Errors. Club average. 



Clubs. 



Chicago 



St Louis 



Hartford 



Louisville 



Mutual „, 



Boston 



Cincinnati 



Athletic 



5-56 



0—62 



6—05 



0-67 



6-17 



0-69 



6-58 



0-73 



9-58 



0-73 



9-00 



1-60 



9-18 



1-02 



10-21 



1-43 



Athletics.— The third annual games of the Athletic 

 Association of the College of New York came off Satur- 

 day afternoon at the Athletic Club Grounds. Mr. John 

 Wood acted as referee, Messrs. Van Wyck and Jas. Wat- 

 son as timekeepers, and E. Plummer started the contest- 

 ants. The events and results were as follows: — 



One mile walk, open to all amateurs; W. M. Watson, 1. Time— 8m. 

 55s. 



One hundred yards.— First heat— C. Moritz, '77, 1. Time— 12J8. 

 Second heat— J. Knight, 76, 1. Time— l^s. The third and fourth 

 heats were walks over for V. Falkenan, '79 and E. Dove, '71. Final 

 heat— Dove, 1; Moritz, 2; Falkenan, 0; J. Knight. 0. Dove won by 

 three yards from Morits, who beat the other two by a yard. Time— 

 His. 



Half mile run.— A. Shunway, '78, 1. Time— 2m. 28s 



One mile walk.— W. M. Watson, '79, 1. Time— 7m. 45s. 



Running high jump.— E. W. .Knickerbocker, '79, cleared 4 feet It 

 inches. 



Four hundred and forty yards rnn.— S. W. Hoag, '77, 1. Time--50£s. 



Three mile walk.— W. M. Watson, '79, 1. Time— One mile, 8m. 5s.; 

 two mile?, 16m. 46s.; three miles, 25m. 37s. 



One mile run.- C. Wiggins, '79. 1. Time— 6m. 9s. 



Hurdle-race, 120 yards, ten flights.— E. W. Knickerbocker, '79, 1. 

 Time— 21*3. 



Foot Ball.— On the St. George's Ground at Hoboken, 

 Saturday afternoon, the most exciting game of foot-ball that 

 has occurred this season took place between the Stevens 

 Institute and Columbia College teams. The Columbia 

 team was considerably heavier than that of their oppon- 

 ents, but the activity of the Stevens boys amply compens- 

 ated for their want of weight. At 2 .45 p . m. the ball was 

 kicked off and quickly carried down to the Stevens goal, 

 but 23 minutes elapsed before the goal was captured by 

 Brinkeihoff for Columbia. Stevens after this played up 

 and scored the next three goals. Before the next goal was 

 secured some fine play was shown — that by Denton and 

 White for Columbia was noticeable, but the college boys 

 worked well together, and by the aid of Train and Lynch 

 scored the next two goals in 22 minutes and 34 minutes. 

 The game, now a tie, was quickly deeidedly by Stevens 

 getting two more goals, Nichols and Shippen securing 

 them in less than 15 minutes, but it led to a slight wrangle, 

 as Mr. Pricf , Columbia's Captain, protested against Shippen 

 as being a non-student, and the game is not virtually de- 

 cided, although the Columbia's umpire allowed him to 

 play. Stevens therefore won by five goals to three; 

 umpires, Messrs. Weeks and Gorge; referee, E. Stevens, of 

 Princeton. 



The Earliest Wrestling Match. — The funeral of Pa- 

 troclus says Homer was celebrated by many athletic games, 

 the most prominent of which was the wrestling match be- 

 tween the wise and crafty Ulysses, the son of Laertes and 

 Ajax, the son of Telamon. The perpendicular mode was 

 then the only one recognized, 



The heroes strip, they clasp each other by the back; 

 they struggle, they press each other tightly in their nervous 



been small on account of the dull weather, and in conse- 

 quence cod and haddock are scarce. Sales at $3.00 per 

 hundred pounds for cod, and $2 for haddock.— Cape Ann 

 Advertiser, Nov. Wth. 



Fish Baptists.— Apropos of the Baptist camp meeting 

 recently held at iMartha's Vineyard, the Methodists tell a 

 good story of some of the brethren who arrived early, and 

 sought to while away the time by fishing. Several kinds 

 of fish were caught, and on the return, one of the fisher- 

 men, with a laudable desire for information, inquired of 

 the skipper the names of the different specimens. "This," 

 said he, "is a blackfish, that is a bluefish, the next is a scup^ 

 and that is a Baptist." "A Baptist!" exclaimed the good 

 brother; "why do you call those fish Baptists?" "Because 

 they spoil so soon on being taken out of the water," was 

 the satisfactory explanation. 



r ttrs nnd Strapping. 



An Effective Trap for Rats.— In W.H. Gibson's "Com- 

 plete American Trapper," recently published, we find the 

 following simple method of catching rats, which we can 

 vouch for as being very effective, and free from objections 

 which usually attach to other methods, especially that of 

 poisoning, which often leaves premises offensive:^ 



"The barrel trap device possesses great advantages in 

 its capabilities for securing an almost unlimited number of 

 the vermin in quick succession. It also takes care of it- 

 self, requiring no re-baiting or setting after once put in 

 working order, and is sure death to its prisoners. A water- 

 tight barrel is the first thing required. Into this pour wa- 

 ter to the depth of a foot. Next dampen a piece of very 

 thick paper, and stretch it over the top of the barrel [like 

 a drum-head], tying it securely below the upper hoops. 



When the paper dries it will become thorougely flat and 

 tightened. It surface should then be strewn with bits of 

 cheese, etc., and the barrel so placed that the rats may 

 jump upon it from neighboring smrface. As soon as the 

 bait is gone a fresh supply should be spread on the paper, 

 and the same operation repeated for several days, until the 

 rats get accustomed to visit the place for their regular ra- 

 tions, fearlessly and without suspicion. This is half the 

 battle, and the capture of the greedy victims of misplaced 

 confidence is now an easy matter. The bait should again 

 be spread as before, and a few pieces of cheese should be 

 attached to the paper with gum. It is a good plan to smear 

 parts of the paper with gum Arabic, sprinkling the bait 

 upon it. When dry, cut a cross in the middle of the paper, 

 as seen in the illustration, and leave the barrel to take care 

 of itself and the rats. The first one comes along, spies the 

 tempting morsels, and with his accustomed confidence 

 jumps upon the paper. He suddenly finds himself in the 

 water at the bottom of the barrel, and the paper is closed 

 and ready for the next comer. There is not long to wait. 

 A second victim soon tumbles in to keep company with the 

 first. A third and a fourth soon follow, and a dozen or 

 more are sometimes thus entrapped in a very short space 

 of time." 



— Muffs are now made of the same material as the trim- 

 ming of the dress. Instead of one costly muff, as of old, 

 ladies now have several inexpensive muffs to match either 

 the dress or mantle. Black silk muffs, edged with fur, 

 will be greatly popular. 



— A California trapper will give the next president a chair 

 made of bear-skins with claws curling over the arms and 

 around the feet, and a spring concealed in the back, on 

 touching which the head of a grizzly, with fiercely glaring 

 eyes and wide-open mouth, springs out from under the 

 chair, and, after making several vicious snaps with his jaws, 

 retires as suddenly as it came. 



, «»»»» — — — 



Catching Hawks. — As the season is approaching when 

 hawks are most destructive to young poultry, a method of 

 catching and killing these marauders will be in order. It 

 is a well-know fact that a hawk will always light on some 

 conspicuous place close to the poultry yard, from which 

 to swoop down on his victims. Taking advantage of this, 

 erect a pole with a flat surface at the top just large enough 

 to hold a strong steel trap. Fasten this trap by a chain to 

 a staple in the pole, and await results. No bait will be 

 needed, for the hawk will be quite certain to light on the trap 

 and be caught. A gentleman who has tried this method 

 has succeeded in killing all the hawks in his neighborhood, 

 and now can raise poultry without loss except by accident. 

 — California Horticulturist. 



— A new solvent consists of a mixture of mythylated 

 ether and petroleum spirit — the common benzoline used 

 for burning in sponge lamps. Make a very thick solution 

 by dissolving sixty grains of India rubber iu two ounces of 

 benzoline and one Ounce of sulphuric ether. If the India 

 rubber be cut up fine, and the mixture shaken occasionally, 

 the solution will be complete in two or three hours, when 

 it may be diluted to any required strength with benzoline, 

 alone. 



