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were as follows: — President. Mr. Spering; Vice President, 
Mr. Bishop; Secretary, Mr. Childs; Treasurer, Mr. Wright. 
Judiciary Committee— Messrs. Hayhurst, Trimble, Can- 
cannon, Van Delft, and Bulkley. Championship— Messrs. 
Davidson, Wright, and Bulkley. Rulea-^-Messrs. Wright, 
Arnold, and Hurlburt. The entry fee was reduced to $10,’ 
and the Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Western, and 
Centennial clubs paid their fees on the spot. No cham- 
pionship match can count unless the club playing has 
paid the entry fees. 
The changes in the rules arc but few, and the most 
important are tho«o throwing the home base anil striker’s 
position back so as to leave the home base on foul 
ground. Wides -were done away with, balls being called 
in the order of every third ball; all halls not delivered 
over the home base, and for the striker, to be regarded 
as unfair, and every third such ball to be called. The 
delivery of the ball to the bat is to bo by a swing of the 
arm, made so that it shall swing nearly perpendicular at 
—not “to," as a typographical error had it— the body, 
the hand swinging forwnrd, not to be raised higher than 
the hip. This does away with every delivery, save that 
of the legal underhand throw, such as that of McBride, 
Spalding, Cummings, Matthews, and the other regular 
pitchers. The side underhand throw was made with the 
hand above the hip. Two foul strikes put a player out 
now instead of three. Some other amendments were made 
hi the wording of the rules, but not changing the meaning. 
I'iie convention adjourned to meet in New Haven at 
three P. M. on the first Wednesday in March, 1870. After 
the adjournment the delegates were entertained at the Con- 
tinental Hotel by the Athletic club. Harry Wright was 
appointed a committee of one to confer with the Amateur 
Association, at their convention, so as to insure the prepa- 
ration of one code of playing rules as near as possible. 
The amateur convention in December adjourned to meet 
March 17th. As that is 8t. Patrick's Day, the meeting has 
been changed to March 10th, at the Revere House, Boston. 
’I lie chairman of the Committee on Rules recommends 
those attending to provide themselves with copies of the 
Professional Playing Rules of 1874, ns contained in Mr. 
Chadwick's book, published liv DeWitt. 
Yachting and §oafittg. 
AU communications from Secretaries anil friends should be mailed no 
later than Monday In each week. 
HIGH WATER. FOR TnE WEEK. 
Date. 
Mar 4 
Mar. & 
Mar. 8 . 
Mar. 7 
Mar. 8. 
Mar 9. . 
Mar 10 
Boston. 
n. m . 
0 23 
10 12 
11 r> 
1 1 4.') 
morn. 
0 26 
1 10 
New York. 
9 56 
'0 36 
Charleston. 
22 
6 
>S 
28 
10 
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Chadwick's book, published by DeWitt. 
The Wai.kino Match.— E. P. Weston and Prof. Judd 
started at 12.12 A. M. on Monday morning on their walk of 
five hundred miles. Whether the distuncc is accomplished 
or not, this mutch will settle the reputations of both men 
as walkers. Although the different athletic clubs have de- 
clined to tukc official cognizance of the match, a sufficient 
number of members have volunteered from each to permit 
of a continued watch being kept night and day. Weston 
failed in his attempt to walk 115 miles on the first day for 
the extra $1,000 offered by Mr. Bnruum, but walked 100 
miles in 22 hours, 40 minutes and 22 seconds, actual walk- 
ing time, and lmd completed 108 miles at the end of the 
first 21 hours. .Judd retired after having walked 85 miles, 
which distance lie proposes to make his average through 
out the six days. 
—More amateur clubs will enter the arena in 1875 than 
ever before known, and a brilliuut season is fully an- 
ticipated. J 
—Enclosed ball grounds will be numerous in 1875. The 
Crcgar club, of Camden, and the Gloucester, N. J. city 
club have bought a lot in Gloucester 400 feet souare for 
base ball purposes. They propose to enclose it, and fit it 
up with seats and good accommodations. It is a stock af- 
fair. This is professional business, remember. 
Mf golleges. 
Yale College, New Haveh, Febrnnry 20, 1875. 
Editor Fope*t and Sthbam:— 
All college Ia excited over our recent ill lack. By a decree of the Fac- 
ulty three of our prominent boating men have been suspended for one 
year. Shortly aRcr this, news come of Fred Wood’s Injury while const- 
, ' Wood l,a ' ro,vcd ln two university races, and Is accounted an ex- 
cellont oarsman. It Is bnt too plain now that he will bo unable to oc- 
cupy his place in the Yale crew for 1875. Rut the fate of the tuspended 
men has boen better than wc could have hoped for. They are to be al- 
lowed to remain ln town, and will practice and row with the crew as 
ns , i ,, l Although these mishaps did cast a damper upon our ardor, still 
rVii b ? ! U y pri,parod t0 do an d dare at the next regatta which is to 
be held at Saratoga. Wc hope for success this time. 
One of our ball men has also been snsponded. bat he has also been 
granted leave to remain hereabouts, and will play with ue in the coming 
season. In tins department wo will work hard to keep the supremacy 
! •; £»• " ol ** w'octjd— lhal Is. definitely. When It Is announced 
you shall hear of It u this connection 1 whs surprised to see In yonr 
letter from Harvard that she (Harvard) hud decided not to go to Saratora 
this year, and that the games with Yale and Princeton wonldho“ayed 
two there, one here, ono at Princeton, and two on neutral ground ” 
This statement Is surely premature, as Yale has agreed to nothing like 
it. \\ e desire to play at Saratoga, the same as last year, and we will ad- 
here to our Intention. Why Harvard, so willing last year to 1 t 
Saratoga, should wish to force this change, we cannot see Perhnpshir 
nine is not «* strong a, it might be; but this Is a mere conjecture \v« 
cannot see why this innovation should be made, it is eminently fitting 
and proper that the college, prominent In base ball should exhibit their 
E 8 :" mCt,1 “ nl ° nS Wlth th( ' b0 “ t,n K “<‘ d atblctlc sports On! ™ 
n f Hh? kcn ' "" d lnC “ n 10 llvo U ‘ ,t0lt ’■aril somegood reason^ 
put forth to rccommood the chnogo 
® b ‘ T, 1 1CJ ' ,,re t0 conduct the mngazlue for the ensuing year 
thI. Y? efS 8 T Wlth , 1 CorncUls pressing slowly. May we wish 
"h' u lb '* ftr °'‘ 8e ,h ° ‘ re OUr> n , Ptfr L7f^ n d 
TI m K ,', T° k excc P ,lon ,J *°ch un expression some time ago, 
tn Ba '° BaI1 Club i8 organised on a sound bS 
at last the eTon* oV M^W t Amo')?'" 8 8e ‘ S ° D W * 8r ° 8,8(1 th « 
fee, asau.fi thatthenllfowm Jo 
fe r red^romLt , w:^. C ”Er° ndeBt ”■ * 
— Front the election of Mr. E. Boucher as a member of 
the New York Yacht Club, it is surmised that it is bis In- 
tention to visit our waters during the coming season with 
his cutter yacht the Fiona. The advent of this craft will 
be an epocli in our yachting annals, as being the first visit 
of one of her class and rig; and some curiosity will be ex- 
cited to sec the stranger. While ranking in class witli 
our larger sloops the Fiona differs from them essentially, 
both in model and rig. The large, deep, and narrow craft, 
weighted down with ballast, is still in vogue nmong our 
English cousins, and in their eyes a centre-board is an 
abomination. We predict, however, that this visit, if 
made, and the information gained thereby, will have much 
influence in effecting some radical changes. We have not 
yet taught our cousins all we know, and the America's flnt 
board-like sails which they copied so readily, may soon be 
followed by the introduction of the despised centre-board. 
There is this to be said, however, that on the other side of 
the water a greater portion of the yachting is deep water 
sailing, where the question of draught is not of so much 
importance as with us ; still, for small craft the centre-board 
is invaluable. It renders the question of “stnj r s” one of 
almost certainty, and for our unrivalled "cat” rig, enables 
one man to handle a boat, where two or three would other- 
wise be necessary. 
Perhaps the most striking difference in rig between the 
English cutters and our sloop yachts is in the arrangement 
of the head sails. These usually consist of a stay sail, jib 
and flying jib, with the usual varieties of "balloons" and 
"spinnakers,” with as much out board gear as is carried by 
a schooner. With all this weight forward, their narrow 
beam and cargo of ballast, they are, as a rule very wet in a 
sea j’ay. The Fawn o' Fairlie (t e Fiona) is a fair speci- 
men of this class, a deep craft with heavy displacement. 
Her performances in English waters have been equal to the 
best of their yachts, but over our courses we fancy none of 
our first class sloops would have much to fear from her. 
The Fiona’s extreme length is 75 feet, her beam on deck 
15 feet 10 inches. The Gracie of the New York Yacht 
Club is 71 feet in length with 20 feet G inches beam; the 
Vision 66 feet, 8 inches, by 20 feet beam. These measure- 
ments show the disparity in the matter of beam between 
the vessels of the two countries. In smooth water our 
yachts, particularly before the wind, would probably 
walkaway from their deeply loaded antagonist, but "out- 
side, in a seaway, the "hold" of the deeper vessel would 
probably tell to her advantage. Should the Fiona contest 
for the Queen’s Cup, the present interpretation of the deed 
of gift would make it necessary for one vessel of her own 
class to meet her, and the honor would probably devolve 
on one of the sloops above named, or on the Vindex, also a 
keel vessel, and one, as regards beam, more nearly approx- 
imating the English model. 
The Yawl is a nondescript rig, in point of fact a sloop, 
with a “jigger,” or small mast in the stern, the sail on 
which is of service in going to windward, but adds nothing 
to the beauty of the vessel. 
Our steam yacht fleet is increasing numerically as well as 
in the size and beauty of the vessels. The finest specimen 
was taken from the fleet when the government purchased 
Mr. Smith’s America. Mr. Jacob Lorillard is now building 
one at Lenox’s ship yard, South Brooklyu, of 104 feet in 
length, beam, 13 feet 8} inches; at plank-shear, 15 feet 84- 
inches; depth of hold, 5 feet; draft of water, 4 feet 8 in 
ches. She is to have a double compound engine, dimen- 
sions not given; the cranks of this engine are not at right 
angles, but in line with each other; the boiler has water 
tubes and large heating surface. The screw is four-bladed 
4 feet 8 inches diameter by 9 feet pitch. Her speed is 
expected to be at least eighteen or twenty miles per hour. 
Kd m r from eds - 
pouters, carriers, tumblers, barbs, and Antwero^^ 8 . ° f 
nounced by fanciers to be unusually fine *250 w ia ofl> Pr< ri 
wd refused for one pair of pouters * “ ° ffered 
-The Yacht America. In our last weeks’ issue we 
sliouM have stated that Col. Jonas H. French is half owner 
Of the yacht America with General B. F. Butler. The 
America is now hauled up at Newburyport, Mass and 
her owners contemplate some important alterations and 
improvements on her to be finished before the yacltimr 
season opens. y g 
vJm CH l 8 ’ S 0 "™ Gear. -A ll the running gear of a 
yacht should be composed of three 6izes onlv of onr/ 
?Jne fa p C A? anler J° lm . ndle than ordinary three strand 
rope is. Always keep the end neatly whipped. 
timpo Decks. Dilute muriatic acid with four 
times its bulk of water and wash the deck with the oni„ 
tion. 8w.ll well afterwards with clean water 
lenTwri-; Aue ? stine (Florida) Yacht Club is under excel- 
lent headway and management, with an increaneri 
members, which now number* seventy-two. Wo give the 
names of the officers of the club:— Commodore, J. S n, 
mans; Vice Commodore, D. Edgar; Secretary, R. j\ Arm 
strong; Treasurer, O. Bronson, Jr.; Measurer, C. F. Crarv- 
House Committee, S. S. Morton, C. H. Royce, A J j ,’ 
Farge; Regatta Committee, S. E. Morse, A. J. La W r a 
C. F. Crary, R. H. Barton; Judges, J. S. Homans V 
Harvey; Starter, T. R. Glover; Time Keeper, L. It. Edgar 
Several very attractive regattas took place during tlm 
month of February. The Grand Regatta Day was February 
25th. y 
—Vice Commodore John Jeffries, Jr., of the Eastern 
Yacht Club, has advertised his schooner yacht Halcyon for 
sale. She is centre board, 121 tons o. m., 84 feet overall 
and 23 feet 10 inches beam, and is well finished in every 
respect, fore and aft. She is a boat any yachtman would 
be proud of, and has a good record, having taken prizes in 
every race in which she has entered since 4872. 
— The Brooklyn Yacht Club held their regular monthly 
meeting on Wednesday evening last at the club rooms, Court 
and Montague streets, President P. W. Ostrander in the chair. 
The new constitution and by-laws were read and adopted. 
Under the latter the stated meetings of the elub are to be 
held on the second Wednesday of the month, instead of 
the last Wednesday, us heretofore. 
The club appointed Saturday, June 19, as the day on 
which the annual regatta will be sailed. 
President Ostrander presented the prizes won last year 
during the June regatta and the club cruise. The fortu- 
nate gentlemen who received these emblems of victory are 
as follows: — 
Club Prizes , June Regatta. — Schooner Tidal Wave, Wil- 
liam Voorhis, large silver goblet; sloops Undine, Brasher 
and Fowler, two silver goblets; Schemer, Charles H. Hall 
six silver egg cups and spoons; William T. Lee, Charles a’ 
Clieever, large silver goblet. 
Flag Officers' Prizes, June Regatta.— Schooner Tidal Wave 
large size bronze card receiver; sloops Undine, holometric 
barometer; Schemer, pitcher, salver aud goblets; William 
T. Lee, large silver pitcher and cups. 
Union Prizes, June Regatta.— Schooners Comet, William 
H. Langley, clock and barometer combined; sloop T. B 
Asten, John R. Platt, marine clock; Kaiser, John B Nor- 
ris, large music box; Brooklyn, Ira Smith, lady’s gold 
watch. b 
Commodores' Prizes.— Schooner Comet, two silver goblets- 
sloop Qui Vive, Thomas Glapham, holometric barometer.’ 
These were won in the race from Newport to Vineyard 
Haven, sailed June 29th. 
—The first yacht race of the season took place at St 
Augustine, Florida, on the 6th instant, under the auspices 
of the Yacht Club, between the Seminole, Cricket and En- 
chantress-three of the largest boats in the bay. 
Ice Yachting.— The yachtsmen of Boston had glorious 
sport on the ice last week. Dorchester Bay was frozen in- 
to one solid smooth sheet of ice. Some nine or ten boats 
entered in the regatta, and started from off Commercial 
1 oint, Dorchester, with a standing send off. The Nonpareil 
sailed the course of over five miles (nautical) in six minutes 
and fifty seconds. Hus time is almost unprecedented. 
She carried four men for a crew, namely: Mr. George Brad- 
ford, Mr. Samuel Fitzgerald, John F. P. Robie and 
Earnest Slinsky, besides the skipper. 
The English Universities Boat Race.— The training 
for this great event in the rowing world is now fairly un- 
der way, and the final selection for both crews have been 
as follows: — 
OXFORD. 
J. McD. Courtney, Pembroke, bow; 2. A. P Marriott 
Brasenose; Sinclair, Oriel; 4. J. M. Boustead, University'; 
£ Sla J r , n v’ M- Jol T \ n ’ 8; 6 - A - M - Mitel, inson, 
Pembioke; 7. J.E. Moss, Brasenose; J. P. Wav Brase- 
nose, stroke; A. H. Hall, Oriel, coxswain. ' 
CAMBRIDGE. 
J ’ , E ™ P ? abo , d X’ First Trinity, bow; 2. A. S. Charles- 
wortli. Third Trinity; 3. A. E. Phillips, Jesus; 4. W. G. 
Michel), First Trinity ; 5. G. C. Dicker, First Trinity 6 J 
THnh^T’ir R, St / ri T ily: 7 ‘ S ' A - Donaldson, Third 
Trinity; H. E. Rhodes, Jesus, stroke; G. A. Davis. Clare 
coxswain. ’ » 
—Mr. Bishop writes us from Savannah under date of 
Feb. 24th, as follows: — 
"I leave St. Augustine Creek to-day for Fernandina and the St. Mary's 
River. The sun was not seen here for twenty days during January, and 
we have rain two or three times a week, which makes it unpleasant to 
row among the marshes where but few good camping spota can bo 
found. I am yonrs aa ever. N II B 
M ew publications. 
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MAGAZINES. 
The Popular Science Monthly for March is received and 
contains much that ia Intereating to the general reader, ns well as the stu- 
dent nizgerald has an entertaining illustrated paper on the "Hab- 
its and Color Changes of the Chameleons." and Mrs. Sarah Hockett 
Stevenson, mher-Lessons In Biology for Young Beginners," dissects 
the lobster, and serves him with a scientific mayonalse. 
The Sunny South is a new weekly journal devoted to 
literature recently established at Atlanta. Ga. From the several nnm- 
iZ 6 n ? 8h0nld 8Sy ’ '" at in <yPWby and general ap- 
pearance it is unexcelled among papers or its class, and Its original con- 
, h C °TK e the ,ar *‘ jrt > ortio "- d <> credit to .he lileiary talent 
or the South. Each number contains two or three ongravlngs, which 
an ? prln ‘ ed m flm ~ ratc 8tyl0 ' and we are confident that tho 
^ be knownto our people to find a large cir- 
culation through the North. J. H. Seals, Publisher. $3 a year 
Scribner's Monthly and the St. NicJulas, from the same 
publishers, are both at hand for tho month of March. In the former the 
interesting illustrated sketch, "The Canons of the Colorado," Is contin- 
Thi’ nnhU ,,^' N ^ U>l(U j? fQl1 of entertainment for the little ones. 
featnr P e b t ° n ° f French etorie " ‘o vernacular is a good 
Le Moniteur De L'Elevage is a magazine devoted to sub- 
jects connected with the horse, and has for its aim the improvement of 
me animal. Its table of contents comprise articles on this topic, and its 
ofTrsm 0118 ^! 0 I 1 ” bC8t T de of i m P r °vement by judicious crossing 
of strains of blood, are worthy of attention. 
We have received Prof. S. B. Buckley’s First Annual 
Bepoitot hi6 Geological and AgricuUural Survey of Texas It Is a 
thorough compendnm of the geological and agricultural resources of the 
Hlmato great VS " e ,0 ,h0,,e Wh ° C00, °®P ,ate * removal ‘0 It* con- 
