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this interval than at any other period of the year, as the 
schools and colleges have vacation, as also the clerks of 
the commercial houses, and all these rush into base ball in 
lively st 3 r le during* July and August. 
—The full record of championship contests up to June 
22d, inclusive, is as follows:— 
Club. 
Athletic. 
Atlantic. 
Baltimore 
Boston. 
j Chicago. 
Mutual. 
Hartford. 
5 
% 
1 1? ! 
| 
o' 3 
3 a’ 
• « 
Athletic. 
3 
I 2 
0 
1 
| 3 1 2 
1 4 1 
35 
Atlantic. 
0 
2 
1 
1 0 y 0 ! 
0 j 
5 
Baltimore. 
2 
1 
1 
0 j 
1 4 ! 0 1 
0 I 
. 5 
Boston. 
3 
3 
8 
2 
1 3 j 4 
4 
22 
Chicago.| 
3 ! 
0 ! 
I o 
1 
|3I0 
0 1 
7 
Hartford. 1 
1 i 
2 | 
2 
0 1 
0 
1 1 
0 i 
0 
Mutual. j 
2 | 
1 ! 
4 
o 
3 ! 
1 1 i 
0 j 
13 
Philadelphia. j 
0 ! 
1 1 
4 
0 1 
2 ! 
7 I 2 J 
|: 
10 
Games lost. j 
I 
.9 . 
1 
11 
19 
6 1 
| 
9’ I 
1 
1 
: 9 I 
• 
1 : 
8 S3 
The following are the championship-games played in the 
professional arena since our last issue:— 
Jane 16—Mataal vs. Boston at Brooklyn. 5 to P. 
Julie lti—Athletic vs. Hartford at Hartford. 11 to 4 
June 17—Boston vs. Athletic at Boston.12 to 8 
June 17—Philadelphia vs. Chicago, at Philadelphia.15 to 6 
June 18—Mutual vs. ‘Chicago at Brooklyn.38 to 1 
June 19—Athletic vs. Hartford at Hartford.11 to 6 
June 2 ^—Philadelphia vs. Baltimore at Baltimore. 9 t.:, 5 
June 20—Boston vs. Hartford at Boston .15 to 1 
June 20—Atlantic vs. Chi page at Brooklyn.10 to 3 
June 32—Athletic vs. Atlantic at Brooklyn. 5 to 4 
June 22—Chicago vs. Hartford at Hartford.14 to II 
June 22—Philadelphia vs. Baltimore at Philadelphia.13 to 7 
June 24—Athletic vs. Mutual, at Brooklyn.11 to 7 
The averages is a poor one compared to that of the first 
week in June, but two good fielding games being played, 
as the scores show. 
The local amateur contests since our last include the fol¬ 
lowing games:— 
June 18—Alert vs. Arlington at Orange. S to 6 
June 18—Jasper vs. Flyaway at Manhattauville.12 to 8 
June 18—Princeton vp* Montague.24 to 3 
Jnne 19—Chatham vs. Olympic at Melrose. 6 to 2 
June 20—Nameless vs. Washington at Prospect Park.13 to 8 
June 20—Oriental vs. Hudson at Central Park.14 to 6 
June 20—Ocean vs. Eureka at Central Park.15 to 8 
The best played amateur games thus far in June are the 
following:— 
Chatham vs. Olympic. 6 to 3 
Baltic, of Harlem, vs. Athletic, of New York. 9 to 5 
Yale vs. Knickerbocker. 9 to 5 
Leaders vs. Nassau. 8 to 3 
Princetown vs. Germantown. 8 to 1 
Excelsior vs. White Stockings, of Philadelphia.8 to 2 
Arlington vs. Montague. .. 8 to 4 
Barnes & Co. vs. Raynor & Co. 8 to 5 
Alert vs. Arlington. 8 to 0 
—The Chicago nine—known as “the $15,000 team”—put 
in an appearance in Brooklyn for the first time this season on 
June 18th, and as it was the anniversary of the battle of 
Waterloo they signalized the day by being the recipient of 
a regular Waterloo defeat at the hands of the New York 
MntJials, the score being the remarkable one of 88 to 1 
only, and that one was the result of an erroneous decision 
of the umpire. The Chicago nine was charged with thirty- 
six fielding errors, and the Mutuals earned twelve runs off 
Force’s pitching. 
—The Atlantics beat the Chicago White Stockings on the 
Union grounds on Saturday—10 to 8. 
—Tiie use of a lively, elastic ball in base ball contests is 
this season falling into bad odor among the best players of 
the amateur fraternity, and very properly so, too, as these 
elastic balls are death to good fielding, and fertile as sources 
of severe injuries in the practice of the game. None but 
the “muffer” brotherhood use them now in the eastern 
States. 
_The New York Aldingtons visited-South Orange on 
June 18th, and at the Setou Hall ball grounds they played 
a very pretty game with the Alert nine, and after a close 
contest were defeated by the small score of 8 to 6 only. A 
dead ball was used. 
—The Yale college nine have this season played all their 
games under the professional code of playing rales, simply 
for the sensible reason that they have had none other to go 
by there being none but the professional rules in print. 
The Yale games have been quoted as samples of fine play 
under the amateur code, and yet the author of the state¬ 
ment knew that Yale had refused to play the Prineetori 
match simply because they desired to play under “regular” 
rules, and there being no regular playing rules in existence 
save those of the professional association, they properiy 
declincd to play under an unwritten code. 
_qq ie professional clubs are in search of a reliable, non- 
elastic, or “dead” ball; one which is not lively, and yet 
not too soft, Mahn “S” ball is found to be too elastic at 
times as it was in the Mutual and Boston game of June 
13tli when the score was marked by the heavy hitting fig- 
uresof 19 to 11, and in favor of the Mutuals. The “Iioss” 
dead ball, which was played with in the 2 to 0 game, was 
a o-rand one, but a similar one used in the Boston and At¬ 
lantic ^ame of June 15tli was rather lively in the ninth 
innings. The “Reach” ball, too, used in the Philadelphia 
wames is too lively, as the scores' of the games recently 
played there show. An elastic ball, wound tight with fine 
yarn and made too hard, is not only death to good fielding, 
but it leads to serious injuries, and it ought to be ruled out. 
No clubs which justly pride themselves upon their fielding 
skill now use lively balls. The elastic sphere, however, is 
still popular with the muffin class of city players, and with 
country nines, who erroneously imagine that heavy hitting 
is skilful batting. 
_The remarkable feat of Dan Carr, at Green Bay , Wis¬ 
consin is the talk of principal walkists in various parts of 
the State. This was no less than the task of walking one 
hundred consecutive hours. Towards the close he offered 
to bet from $500 to $1,000 that he could continue six hours 
longer, but no one accepted it. 
_The Manhattan club opened play for the season at Ho¬ 
boken on June 10th, when a good practice game was had, in 
which the members of thy metropolitan clubs participated. 
_The Boston Globe says that “to the challenge that was 
sent by the Princeton nine to play the Harvards a series of 
matches in Boston, New York, or Saratoga, Captain Tyler 
lias accepted it on condition of Princeton playing the games 
according to professional rules, by which the games be¬ 
tween Yale and Harvard will be governed.” So that if the 
Princetons desire to enter for the college championship 
they must play under the regular printed code of rules. 
—The Easton club nine—called amateurs, though they 
pay some of their men—visited Philadelphia on the 18th 
instant, and signalized the day’s play by defeating file 
Philadelphia professional team by 11 to 2. This is tlie 
second defeat sustained by a professional nine at the hands 
of amateurs this season. 
New Haven, June 20tli, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
For the first time in five years the Athletics, of Phila¬ 
delphia, and the Yales crossed bats in this city this after¬ 
noon.. The game was sharply played until Urn end of the 
sixth inning, the score then standing 4 to 2 in favor of the 
Athletics, after winch the visitors began to punish the 
Yale’s pitching, and they added seven runs to their score, 
the Yales drawing blanks in all but one inning. At the 
end of the game score was Athletic 11, Yale 8. The Yale 
nine visits Hartford on the 27th instant, to play four games 
with the “Nutmeg” professionals, on June 27tli, 29th, and 
30th, and July 1st. On July 3d and 4th games are to take 
place at Baltimore between tlie “Canaries” and the “Blues.” 
The Princeton and Yale nines being unable to agree upon 
a code of rules to play under, the Princetons preferring 
those made by the Amateur Base Ball Association, and the 
Yales those made by the Professional Base Ball Associa¬ 
tion, the match was declared oiT. Since then, however, 
negotiations have been resumed, and it is now announced 
that a series of games will be played between the two 
nines. The first game is at Hartford July 2d, the second 
game to be played at Brooklyn July 7th. The Yales play 
the Mutuals at Brooklyn, the day before. The Freshmen 
nine left for Boston on Monday to engage in the tourna¬ 
ment between the different freshmen clubs, which com¬ 
mence on that day at the “Hub.” 
Cornell University, Ithaca, June 18th, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Quite a time has elapsed since my last communication, 
yet it must not be inferred because few things worthy of 
being chronicled have occurred that we have been inactive 
in regard to athletics. We have been at work during the 
last two terms, and we trust to some purpose. The first 
event was a game of football, May 23d, between the Class 
forties of ’76 and’77; a ivell contested game throughout, 
showing some very fine playing on both sides, but ’76 was 
a little too skilled for ’77, and proved its right to the title 
of “champion” by winning in three straight goals. Time: 
854, 304, an d 64 minutes respectively. Friday, the 29th of 
May, the base ball club played a game of base ball at Ge¬ 
neva with the Hobart college boys, and were beaten by a 
score of 43 to 16. There was some fair playing, but the 
great uneveness of the field was detrimental to good play¬ 
ing on either side. The last regatta of the Cornell navy, 
Saturday, June 6th, was the best which has taken place 
since the organization of the navy. In the morning there 
were two six-oared races for the Cluck and Tom Hughes 
cups; the former was won by the ’74 crew in 14 min., the 
latter by ’76 in 13 min. The distance was a little under 
two miles; ’74 was started about 100 yards nearer the two 
mile point than in the other race, and the crew ceased row¬ 
ing before the signal, which accounts for the difference in 
time of the two races in favor of the younger crew. In 
the afternoon the principal event was the two mile running 
race, for which there were three entries. The contestants 
were Copeland, ’75; Earned, ’76; Simmonds, ’77, and they 
came in in the order named, Copeland winning easily. The 
time of Simmons was 11 min., 4 sec. 
—Mr. Barnum proposes to add to his perform tines cer¬ 
tain athletic games, in which professionals and amateurs 
will join. Some $2,000 worth of prizes are offered. The 
sports are to take place at the hippodrome. 
huhting mid 
All communications from Secretaries and friends should be mailed no 
later than Monday in each week. 
HIGH WATER. FOR THE WEEK. 
DATE. 
BOSTON. 
NEW YORK. 
CHARL’ST’N 
h. m. 
h. m. 
h. m. 
Jnne 25 .. 
7 51 
4 35 
3 51 
June 26. 
8 42 
5 28 
4 42 
June 27.. .- .. 
9 ’ 33 
6 19 
5 53 
June 28. 
10 24 
7 9 
6 24 
June 29. 
11 25 
7 57 
7 25 
June 30. 
eve 3 
8 48 
8 3 
July 1. 
0 31 
9 37 
8 31 
—The annual regatta of the Alcyone Boat Club- of 
Brooklyn, which took place on June 20th in Gowanus 
Bay, was one of the most successful aquatic entertain¬ 
ments known in the club annuals. This organization con¬ 
fine their regattas to contests among their club members, 
the object of the club being merely recreative exercise, 
and their annual regattas have become the fashionable 
aquatic events of tlie season in Brooklyn. The arrange¬ 
ment for Saturday’s regatta included two contests and an 
excursion, the races being between two six-oared and two 
four-oared gigs, the contesting crews being as follows : 
Six-Oared Gig Race—The “Blonde,” Colors Blue : Harry 
T. Frost, stroke; Wm. J. Oliver, Win. Tryon, Thomas 
G. Wells, C. T. Ulrich, Wm. T. Lawrence, Wm. B. Crom¬ 
well, coxwain. The “Brunette,” Colors Red : Samuel P. 
Pope, stroke; Frank IE. Howland, Abram Allen, Jr., F. 
D. Green, Wm, Humphrey, E. C. Lockwood, Richard C. 
Field, coxwain. 
Four-Oared Gig Race—the “ Firt,” Colors Red and 
White : Daniel Chauncey, Jr., stroke; Wm. W. Richards, 
Alfred Stillman, F. P. Pike, L. G. Dalby, coxwain. The 
“Coquette,” Colors Blue and White : Wm. C. Howard, 
stroke; Wm. D. Steele, George Mackay, Wm. T. Sliarpe, 
A. H. Tupper, coxwain. 
Two steamers were engaged by the club, one for the use 
of the judges and one for the guests of the club. The 
course was from foot of Court street straight away two 
miles to a stake boat at Bay Ridge. The Weather was cool 
and windy, but both wind and tide were in lAvor of course. 
Tlie races" began at 4-.20 P. M. , at which time the crews of 
the “Blonde” and “Brunette” were started by Judge W. 
Y. Tupper, and the six-oared gig race began. The “Bru¬ 
nette” secured a slight lead, starting off with a stroke of 
nearly forty to the minute, but they soon fell down to 
thirty-eight and less, and as the “Blondes” steadily ad¬ 
hered to a thirty-eight stroke, they gradually wenc to the 
front, and, maintaining their lead, came in victors in 12 
min. 21 sec., the “Brunette's” time being 12 min. 24 sec. 
At five o’clock the four-oared gigs started, the “Flirt” tak¬ 
ing a leading position at the start with a thirty-eight stroke, 
v> ua.ii, 
-cihv, mo u- tu miruv-six nl 
keeping stroke very creditably. But the “Coquette” soon 
began to close the,gap between them and to lap the stm. 
of the “Flirt,” the race at this time being exciting When 
about two-tliirds of the course had been rowed the stroke 
of the “Flirt,” as plucky a rowist as ever handled an oar^ 
showed signs of distress, and the stroke fell off to an ex’ 
tent which gave the “Coquette” easy work to win and 
the latter passed the line on 1.2 min. 51 sec., the “Flirt’’ 
following in 13 min. 2 sec. The moment the latter passed 
the line, Young Chauncey lay down, suffering f rom 
severe attack of vomiting. He recovered, however and 
on the excursion afterwards participated in the dancincr 
The committee of the da}* were as follows : 
Floor Committee, Blue Badge—Geo. R. Read Chair- 
man; Edward 8. Sanford, Ji' Wrn. T. Lawrence FPm-J 
P. Bartow, E. C. Lockwood. ’ lly 
Executive Committee, White Badge—Charles H. Hun¬ 
ter, Chairman; Geo. R. Read, Henry W. Maxwell Frank 
EL Howland, Edward Arnold. ’ K 
Judges—At Start, Wm. Y. Tupper; at Home Stake 
Boat, Richard Oliver. 
— On Monday the second annual regatta of the Rowing 
Association was held. For the $300 diamond challenge 
badge, the first heat was won by Frank Yates, the second 
by W. B. Curtis. The pair-oars race lor the ladies 
challenge cup, resulted in a dead heat between the New 
York and Nassau Rowing Clubs. It was rowed over a^ain 
Tuesday. The four-oar race between tlie Gramercy 
New York Athletic and New York Rowing Club, was won 
by the latter, distance two miles. 
East Boston Yacht Club Regatta.— The new organ¬ 
ization had their first regatta off Long Island, Boston liar* 
bor, on the afternoon of June 17th. Two prizes were offered 
for competion in each class, for keel and centre-board 
boats. There were nine entries in each class. The course 
of the first-class was fourteen miles in length and the prize 
for centre boards was taken by the Mabel.—Time 1 4h, 
lm. 85s., and for keels by Gull, 4h. 15m. 52s. The course 
for second-class was nine miles long. The Lidie was 
awarded the prize for keel boats, and the Sunbeam took 
the centreboard prize.—Time, 5h. 22m. 45s. 
The officers of tlie club are:—Commodore, E. P. Cur¬ 
rant; Yiee. Commodore, Henry T. Wheeler; Fleet Captain 
Ambrose Martin; Secretary, P. W. Golliff; Treasurer, Geo! 
E\ Crane; Measurers, J. H. Caldwell and Geo. Morrison* 
Trustees, M. Callahan, H. T. Wheeler, W. II. Litchfield,’ 
Championship Regatta op the South Boston Yacht 
Club. —The first of the series of championship races given 
by the South Boston yacht club came off Thursday P. M. 
18th inst., off City Point. Tlie wind blew almost a gale, 
and but few boats ventured out. The Mabel, Commodore 
Roberts, fouled her peak halyard, and the Posey, Yice 
Commodore McKee, carried away her mast. She was towed 
in by the Mabel. The Naiad Queen, Ripple and Posey 
entered in tlie first-class centre-boards. The course was 
over nine miles, and was won by the Ripple, Captain Ma- 
comber. The Maud, the Mabefand the Unique entered in 
the second-class centre-hoards, Maud, owned by Capt. E. 
C. Fuller, won. The Fearless and the Uncle Moses entered 
in the second-class keels. The Fearless, owned by Capt. 
J. A. Woodard, won. The course for the second classes 
was over tix miles. The judges were:—Messrs. T. Chris¬ 
tian, J. G. Chambers, P. P. McDonald, E. W. Hawes and 
A. K. Roberts, who were stationed on the Commodore’s 
yacht “Mercury.” 
Dorchester Yacht Club Regatta.— The second re¬ 
gatta of the Dorchester Yacht Club for the champion prize, 
took place in Dorchester Bay on Saturday afternoon, 20tli 
inst., and was one of the most successful of the season. 
The new rule of the club, which allows yachts to shift 
ballast while on a run, was in vogue for the first time, and 
but little if any of it was indulged in. This being the 
second regatta of the series, it was the final one as regards 
the prizes, with the exception of one, that for the third 
class. The rule was, the yacht winning two out of three 
regattas should have the prize awarded for its class. There 
were seven classes and a prize for each class, all being of 
equal value, and all solid silver goblets. In the first regatta, 
the winners were the Nimbus, Mabel, Maud, Tulip, 
Phantom, Fearless and Sunbeam. All these were victori¬ 
ous again on Saturday, except the Maud. The courses 
sailed were No. 2 of the regular courses for all hut the 
fourth class centre-boards, that class sailing course No. 3. 
The first is about, nine and a half miles, and the second 
(No. 3) is about five and a half miles. The judges of the 
regatta were ex-Commodore Coolidge Barnard, William A. 
Gilbert and W. H. Say ward, and Fleet Captain Park-man 
Dexter tendered for their use his new and beautiful sloop 
the Mari quit a. 
The following is the winners’ sailing time, as nrffie out 
by the judges : 
FIRST CLASS KEEL SCHOONERS. 
Time. 
Name. 
Phantom. 
Commander. 
.T. V. Clark. 
H. M. 8. 
. 1 58 
41 
Sunbeam. 
FIRST CLASS KEEL SLOOPS. 
..... W. S. Nickerson. 
. 1 
32 
12 
Fearless.. 
SECOND CLASS KEEL SLOOPS. 
. J. A. Woodward.. 
•J 
. . X 
30 
01 
Nimbus.., 
FIRST CLASS CENTRE-BOARDS. 
.. 1 
27 
21 
Mabel.... 
SECOND CLASS CENTRE-BOARDS. 
.. 1 
17 
43 
Maud. 
THIRD CLASS CENTRE -BOARDS . 
....C. E. Fuller. 
.. 1 
23 
27 
Tulip. 
FOURTH CLASS CENTRE-BOARDS. 
.Walter Burgess. 
.. 1 
07 
24 
Le prize 
for the third-class centre boards 
now 
between the Maud and the Water W itch, and will have to 
be sailed for in the regatta on July 18. 
The Lynn Yacht Club. —Their first regatta of this 
season, took place June 17th, in Lynn Harbor, Mass. The 
following are the names of the winning boats and tlieir 
corrected time : 
FIRST CLASS. 
Corrected Time. 
Name and Owner. H. it. 8. 
Magic—E. C. Neal. 1 53 35 
Lillie—G. L. Babb. 1 54 24 
SECOND CLASS. 
Expert—N. T. Davidson.. 1 42 52 
Kate-W. E. Neal. 1 41 21 
THIRD CLASS. 
Mabel—J. N. Roberts... 1 33 'A 
Lizzie Taylor. 1 40 10 
The distance sailed by the first class was eleven miles, 
and of the second and third classes, nine miles. The prizes 
