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the whole time,) when letting my flies float slowly under 
the big stump, I was immediately reminded that one fisli 
at least was left to tell the story. Taking the fly greedily, 
as if he meant business, he dashed up the stream with 
lightning speed. Checking him in his wild career by 
“giving him the butt,” I succeeded in turning his head 
towards me, when away he went backwards and forwards 
across the stream, (which is some twenty feet wide,) and 
then down into the most turbulent and rapid of the water, 
making my reel hum like, a buzz saw. Now I tried to hold 
him a little, which brought the tip of the rod at the water’s 
surface; now lie would sulk under some mossy bank or 
overhanging rock, from which I was obliged to rouse him, 
until finally he dashed for the middle of the stream, where 
he wound the line around and around an immense boulder. 
Plunging into the water up to my waist I routed him from 
his fortress, when away he started down stream around a 
curve in the river, dragging my line through the aiders and 
brush which lined the water’s edge, while over the slippery 
stones and through numerous holes I followed till he had 
exhausted over one hundred feet of my line. Then I 
finally succeeded in stopping him, but against the wild 
rushing water, which boiled around me, I could only hold 
him. The guide now hastened to my side, and held my 
rod, while following the line through the middle of the 
stream I held it firmly half way between the guide and 
trout. Guide then reeled up the line to where I stood, and 
handed me the rod, and I congratulated myself on having 
gained fifty feet. But it was only for a moment, fori 
again started the fish,and away he dashed down the stream, 
carrying with him the fifty feet of line I had just gained. I 
was now determined to net him at all hazards, and “giving 
him the butt again” I brought him to bay. My guide now 
went ashore, and with net in hand, disappeared among the 
bushes to look up his lordship’s headquarters, while I fol¬ 
lowed carefully down stream, full of anxiety and suspense. 
Some time after the slackness of the line told me I had 
either lost the prize or “William” had secured him for me; 
the line was free, at all events, and I patiently waited the 
result. Finally, to my delight, the guide appeared, trium¬ 
phantly bearing the net with my treasure safely secured in 
its meshes. He had captured him over one hundred feet 
from where he left me. The trout turned the scales at 2 7 } 
lbs., and w'as one of the finest specimens of the salmo fon- 
tinalis , as regards color and proportions, that I ever landed. 
We reached camp at 6 -£ o’clock, P. M., having been absent 
only two-and-a half hours, half an hour of which I was oc¬ 
cupied in going and returning from camp. 
Throwing back into the water a number of the smaller 
fish, we weighed the remainder, which numbered forty- 
eight, and they turned the scale at fifty-six pounds. Since 
that day I have caught my two, three and even six pound 
brook trout, and have experienced a variety of emotions 
while enjoying their capture, but I look back to the time 
when I landed with an eight-ounce rod forty-eight trout 
weighing fifty-six pounds in two hours’ fishing, as the 
most successful day in my whole experience. 
for years. It extended clear out of the woods, unroofing 
barns, &c., and trees had to be cut out to allow boats to 
pass up the river. It was a grand as. well as terrible sight, 
and a new experience to me of woods life. It also learned 
me a lesson not to camp in heavy timber again, as the trees 
in this region are, many of them, unsound and liable to fall 
from their own weight, crushing camp and sleepers at the 
same time. I think a little advice on selection of camp 
sites would form a good column for your paper; think I 
have never read much on that subject. Our set line was 
blown into the fire by the wind and burned up, so our lake 
fishing was postponed, and as we had no more line with 
us, we went back to our old camp at Albany. Here we staid 
fishing, hunting and eating pancakes till our time being out 
we packed up and sorrowfully set our faces homeward. On 
our way down we found the spring hole fishing splendid; 
took eighty-nine fine ones,some over a pound,(the fish do not 
run large on the river,) brought out forty-three packed in 
moss by our guide, wliich came ilirougk as sweet as when 
first taken. Arrived home safely and ended our summer 
trip. F. B. 
Hartford , July 25, 1874. 
Idtioml $§x$times. 
—In the cricket match eleven of M. C. C., of London 
m. American twenty-two base ball players, which was com¬ 
menced at Lord’s grounds, London, August 3d, the Ameri¬ 
cans won the toss and sent the eleven to the bat. They 
had disposed of four wickets for forty-four—an average of 
eleven to a wicket—when “lunch” had to be attended to, 
and after that the exhibition game of base ball took place. 
This over, the cricket match was resumed, and when stumps 
were drawn, at six P. M., the* twenty-two had disposed of 
five wickets, including the best batsmen of the team, for 
eighty-eiglit runs. The next day, August4tli, the game was 
continued and finished, both parties having agreed to make 
it a match of one inning each on account of the weather. 
The Americans were victorious, scoring 107, with wickets 
to fall, to the English club’s 105 in their complete inningr. 
Six Englishmen and two Americans made no runs. The 
English club gained 14 runs from byes and wides. The 
highest individual English scores were 27 and 24. There 
was great excitement at the conclusion of the game. Over 
6,000 spectators witnessed the match, and great interest 
was taken in the proceedings. The receipts at the gate 
exceeded £250 sterling, exclusive of the extra charges for 
seats in the pavilion, grand stand, etc. 
—The following is the record, up to our going to press, 
of the base ball games played by the Boston and Atliletic 
nines in England: 
July 30—Athletic ve. Boston (ten innings), at Liverpool.14 to 11 
July 3i—Boston vs. Athletic, at Liverpool.23 to 18 
Aug. 1—Athletic vs. Boston, at Manchester.13 to 12 
Aug. 2—Boston vs. Athletic, at London.24 to 7 
Total for Boston, 70; for Athletic, 52. 
For Forest and Stream. 
TRIP TO NORTH WOODS. 
Their last game was marked by the appended score:— 
Red Stockings. 37405050 0—24 
Athletic... 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1—7 
H AVE just returned from annual trip + o the North 
Woods. For company I had my friend D., of New 
Haven, anti guide, Carl Murat Alger, of Martinsburgh, N. 
Y., a man of long experience, good judgment and the 
best cook of all the guides that I have known. Any one 
wishing a guide for this section can obtain him by ad¬ 
dressing as above. We obtained our supplies at Fenton’s 
(No. 4) and sent them into (Wardwell’s) Stillwater, where 
we take our boats. The water has been unusually high all 
the spring, but for three or four days before we arrived it 
had been steadily falling. We took a few trout on our 
way up and arrived at ^ our old camp on Albany Lake, 
tired and hungry. We found it unoccupied and took 
possession. We staid here, having delightful weather and 
plenty of fishing on the rapids at the head and foot of the 
lak ( e. What more delightful pastime than wading the 
rapids 4 , climbing over rocks in the rushing waters and tak¬ 
ing in trout at every cast of the flies. The trout on the 
rapids were small but of delicious flavor, but I thmk they 
made up for their size in quantity, as we could take all w*e 
wanted in a few minutes. This lake (Albany) is about five 
miles Lmg. At the head there are several good sites for 
•camps, and perhaps the best is the old well-known Camp 
Partridge. The lower part of the lake is low and swampy. 
Some of the bays and coves are filled with lilly-pads and 
the various grasses known to this region, affording excel¬ 
lent feeding^ground for deer; in fact this little lake is con¬ 
sidered one^of the best places for deer in the Wilderness. 
We found the flies very bad, and the ever-present mosquito 
played his horn both day and night, but 1 comfort myself 
with thinking that if these pests did not exist, perhaps 
these old solitudes would be peopled with a busy crowd, 
.and trout and venison would be no more; so let them sing 
and bite, we’ll endure the discomforts for the sake of soli¬ 
tude and trout. No hotels in this region, thank the Lord ! 
and we all hope that at least this section shall be left as 
nature designed it—wild, rugged and almost impassable. 
The flies used by us were white miller, brown and red 
hackle, mostly, but.my guide advised me to bring some 
red or some other flies of more gaudy colors, as some dark 
days they are more taking. 
vVe took a run up to {Smith’s Lake, five miles above here, 
with a mile carry to reach it, and four miles by boat. Found 
no one on the lake, which, by-the-by, is a gem of the Wil¬ 
derness; here we staid two nights, calculating to do a little 
fishing for lake trout, but we got fooled, as you shall hear. 
Instead of staying at Syracuse Camp we concluded to try 
Towanda Camp, named after the party who built it from 
that place. It is a fine camp, consisting of kitchen and 
sleeping camp, perhaps ten feet apart. Large trees sur¬ 
round the camp in every direction, making it cool and nice 
in a hot day. My guide, after a survey, says: “Boys, 
there are some trees unsafe around this camp,and some one 
will wake in the night too late to escape being crushed to 
death, perhaps; trees as heavy as these ought to be cut 
away before a camp is built—that’s my opinion.” Noth¬ 
ing more was said at the time, but alter supper a storm 
•came up, and almost without warning a tremendous wind 
with rain struck us, and trees came crashing down in every 
direction. So^n, amidst the roar of the elements, I heard 
Carl cry: “Ruuj boys there comes that big hemlock,” and 
run we did. for dear life, barely escaping being crushed. 
As luck would have it, the tree fell directly between the 
two camps, injuring neither. The storm lasted full twenty 
minutes, and was one of the worst storms in that region 
—O 11 July 29tli the second match between the selected 
American eleven, who are to represent the States in the 
Halifax tourney, and a picked eleven of the Philadelphia 
clubs, was played at G-ermantown, and the result was the 
defeat of the city team in one innings by a score of 199 
against 44 and 100. Bob NewliaH’s 88, not out, was the 
feature of the Halifax team’s batting, Caldwell’s 34 and 
Magee’s 21 being the other good scores, Dan Newliall get¬ 
ting 12 only. On the city eleven’s side Lange scored 40, 
George Newliall 34, Davis 13, not out, Newbold 12, and 
Hopkinson 10. Brewster and R. Ashbridge were absent 
on Halifax side, so only nine men went to the bat. Davis 
took the majority of wickets on the city side, and Meade 
on that of the representative eleven. This eleven will play 
the base ball twenty-two, now in England, on the return 
of the latter to the States in September. 
—The Germantown nine—chiefly cricketers—defeated the 
Bivertons at Riverton on August 1st by 12 to 2, in a seven 
innings game. Sharp bore off the palm both in the field 
and at the bat* 
—The Manhattan Cricket Club play matches at Hoboken 
with the Staten Island Club on August 11th and 18th. 
Their second eleven defeated the St. George second eleven 
July 30th, by 101 to 71 at Hoboken. 
—The American base ball tourists dulv arrived in 
England on July 26th, landing at Liverpool on Sunday and 
putting up at the Washington Hotel of that commercial 
city. On the 30th of July they played their first base ball 
match in Eugland at Liverpool, and the weather being fine 
there was a numerous attendance of spectators present and 
considerable interest was manifested in the proceedings, 
loud applause greeting the fine displays in the field. The 
contest proved to be close, and quite exciting to those ac¬ 
quainted with the game, the result being the success of the 
Athletic Blue Stockings by a score of 14 to 11 in a ten in¬ 
nings game. On July 31st they played their second exhi¬ 
bition game, and this time the Boston Bed Stockings won 
by a score of 23 to 18. The weather was unfavorable for a 
large attendance, rain twice interrupting the progress of 
the game, which lasted over three hours. On August 1st 
they were named to play base ball in Manchester. The 
following is the revised programme of their tour as published 
in the London Sporting Life of July 18th. 
July 20th—At Liverpool, base ball exhibitions. 
August 1st—At Manchester, base ball exhibitions. 
August 3d, 4th-At Lord’s, M. C. C. vs. Twenty-two of America. 
August 6th, 7th—At Prince’s, P. C. C. vs. Twenty-two of America. 
August 8th—At Richmond, cricket and base ball. 
August 10th, 11th—At Crystal Palace, base ball exhibitions. 
August 13th, 14th—At Kennington Oval, Surrey Club and Ground vs. 
Twenty-two of America. 
August 15th, 17th—At Sheffield, Sheffield vs. Twenty-two of America. 
August 20th, 21st- At Manchester, Manchester vs. Twenty-two of 
America. 
August 22d, 24th, 25th—At Dublin, Dublin vs. Twenty-two of America. 
It will be seen from this that their Paris and Scotland 
matches have been left out. A telegram from London 
dated July 31st says: “The interest in the exhibitions of 
the American base ball players is increasing. The English 
public interested in field sports begin to understand the 
principles of the American national game. The Midland 
Railroad will run special excursion trains, with American 
Pullman cars, to all points on its line where the clubs 
play.” Mr. Chadwick’s English book of base ball was 
issued in London early in July, and notices of it appear in 
the London sporting papers. 
—The Mutuals defeated the Chicago nine in Chicago on 
August 1st by a score of 6 to 2, the White Stockings only 
scoring in one innings. Since the first game the Whites 
have never exceeded a score of four runs in their games 
with the Mutuals, the New Yorkers beating them every 
time. 
—The Knickerbockers—the model amateur club of the 
country—went up to Englewood, N. J., on July 30th, and 
there had a pleasant six-innings game with the Jersey vil¬ 
lagers, which ended with a score of 10 to 8 in favor of the 
“ Knicks.” They were short handed as usual. 
—The Mutuals are to play the Eagle Club of Louisville 
on August 10th at Louisville. 
—The finest display of ball playing ever seen in Chicago 
was on the occasion of the benefit match given to Jimmy 
Wood on July 29th, the match being an exhibition game 
between the Atlantics and White Stockings, played under 
the ten men and ten innings rule, Ferguson playing at right 
short for the Atlantics and Collins for the Whites. At the 
end of the tenth innings the score stood at 4 to 4 only, and 
in the eleventh innings the Whites won by one run. The 
score was as follows : 
Atlantics.0 002002000 0—4 
Chicago.1 010020000 1—5 
The new game is highly spoken of by the Chicago papers. 
—On July 19th a large crowd witnessed the match be¬ 
tween the Atlantics and the “Reds” of St. Louis at St. 
Louis, the professionals winning easily by 27 to 2. 
—The New York Fly Aways polished olf the Chelseas by 
a score of 24 to 8, on the 29th, on the Union Grounds, 
Brooklyn, the crowd present being as large as at the Mutual 
and Hartford match. 
—On the 28th the Equitable Insurance nine defeated the 
Produce Exchange team at the Capitoline Grounds by a 
score of 16 to 10. 
—The following is the amateur rule of 1871, defining 
legal amateur players: 
“ No person who shall be in arrears to any other club 
than the one he plays with, or who shall at anytime receive 
compensation for his services as a player, shall be compe¬ 
tent to play in any match game. All players who play 
base ball for money, place or emolument, shall be regarded 
as professional players, and no professional player shall 
take part in any match game between amateur nines.” 
—Some remarkably fine amateur games were played 
during July, among which may be named the following: 
July 1—Diamond vs. Russ, at Hartford. 6 to 0 
Juiy 4—Confidence vs. Harvard, at David’s Island.. 7 to 5 
July 4—Concord vs. Staten Island at Staten Isiand.. 6 to 6 
July 4—Providence vs. Woonsocket, at Woonsocket. 
R. I.. 8 to 2 
July 7--Amherst vs. Star, at Amherst, Mass. 5 to 4 
July 10—Una vs. Star, at Northampton, Mass. 4 to 2 
July 10—Neptune vs. Onward, at Boston."8 to 0 
July 10—National vs. Mystic, at Brooklyn. 8 to 7 
July 16—Confidence vs. Staten Island, at Staten I_8 to 4 
July 18—Salas vs. Rattler, at Central Park. 9 to 8 
July 18—Robt E. Lee vs. Lone Star, at New Orleans. 3 to 0 
July 18—Commercial vs. Pastime, at Baltimore. 4 to 2 
July 22—Grafton vs. Harvard, at Boston. 8 to 7 
July 23—Chapman vs. Atlantic, at Baltimore.7 to 6 
July 24—Tecumseh vs. Club nine, at London, Ont_4 to 3 
July 25—Waverly vs. Wm. Kinsely, at Hoboken . 7 to 5 
July 27—Empire vs. Alpha, at Newarx.7 to 6 
This shows a decided improvement in amateur playing 
since May. 
—On July 30tli, the Quoddy Club of Eastport, Maine, 
were visited by a party of players from Boston, including 
several of the Harvards, and in a match game the Quoddys 
won by 22 to 9. 
—On July 31st the Chelsea Club of Boston defeated the 
Lowells by il to 5. 
—The Graftons astonished the Live Oaks at Lynn last 
week by defeating them by a score of 12 to 1. 
—The Maine State Tournament of Senior Base Ball 
Clubs comes off at Deering September 1st. There will be 
thirty-one games, ten clubs being entered—the Kennebecs 
of Hallowell, Rivals of Saco, Androscoggins of Lewiston, 
Cumberland Mills nine, Deering nine, Bowdoin College 
nine, White Stockings, Sebascons of Gorham, and one 
other. The first, prize is $100; second, $50. An additional 
prize of $30 or $40 will be offered to be played for by the 
Resolutes of Portland and the winning nine of the tour¬ 
nament. 
—On July 19th the Robert E. Le# nine defeated the 
champion Lone Stars at New Orleans by the small score of 
3 to 0 in a n’ne-innings game. This is the best amateur 
game of the season thus far, the Southerners bearing off 
the palm over the Northern nines. 
—The Louisville Eagle Club whipped the Probasco nine 
of Cincinnati July 17th at Louisville by a score of 11 to 2. 
—The games thus far played by the Atlantics on their 
Western tour, so far as heard from, are as follows: 
July 20—Atlantic vs. Maple Leaf, at Guelph.15 to 1 
July 21—Atlantic vs. Red Stockings, at St. Louis.27 to 2 
July 22—Atlantic vs. Chicago, at Chicago. 8 to 10 
July 25—Atlantic vs. Chicago, at Chicago. 4 to 17 
July 27—Atlantic vs. Chicago, at Chicago. 2 to 13 
Juiy 29- Atlantic vs. Chicago, at Chicago. 4 to 5 
July 30—Atlantic vs. South Bend, at South Bend.31 to 6 
They are to visit Louisville, Ky., this week, and they 
will return home by Saturday. 
—The croquet match played at Fairmount Park on July 
28th was won by the Philadelphia party, who defeated 
their WesI Philadelphia opponents in two games out of 
three. m 
—A base bail match will be played next Saturday at 
Prospect Park between the Wyncoop & Hallenbeck nine 
and the Harper Bros, nine, Last Saturday the base ball 
nine of the World, and the Journal of Commerce nine, had 
a contest at Hoboken, the latter winning by a score of 32 
to 18. 
—In a match of base ball play ed at Boston October, 
1868, between eight of the English professional cricketers— 
with George Wright to captain and help them—and an 
amateur nine, the amateurs won by the appended, score:— 
American nine.3 2 0 0 1 6 3 5 0—20 
Cricketer’s nine_4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0— 4 
In the latter nine there were Jupp, Shaw, Tarrant, Hum¬ 
phrey, Pooley, Charlwood, Rowbottom, and Smith. This 
P a sample of what the English professional cricketers did 
in base ball. 
—The Maple Leaf Club of Guelph, champions of Cana¬ 
da, have this season defeated every amateur nine they have 
played with, both in the States and Canada. 
