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FOREST AND STREAM 
gatioiuil gii'jtimes. 
—The St. George Cricket club will open the play the 
second week in May at their inclosed grounds, foot of Ninth 
street, Hoboken. The cars from the ferry go to Ninth 
street. The club has been fortunate enough to secure the 
valuable services of an English gentleman cricketer 09 their 
professional for the season, whom the financial storm of 
the past year or two 1ms obliged to avail himself of his 
cricket knowledge and skill to eke out a livelihood. Mr. 
Giles, who will act iu the capacity for the dub this season, 
is a gentleman of education and a thorough cricketer in 
«very sense of the word. Unlike the ordinary profession- 
als, he will, of course, be treated as any other member of 
the club, as lie should be. He is a very effective bowler, a 
-strong bat, and an excellent general of an eleven, and in 
icvery respect will he strengthen the St. George club. 
—The Prospect Park Club will open the Brooklyn cricket 
season on Saturday, May 8th. 
— Tho Philadelphia nine defeated the Centennials, in an 
exhibition ten innings match, at Gloucester, April 29, by 
17 to 2. 
— The Centennials visited New York on April 30th, and 
played their first match with the Mutuals on the Union 
Grounds, and the game proved to ho very exciting, the 
contest beiDg close to the very last. The score is as fol- 
lows: 
MUTUA1.S. 
H. lD.P.O.A. K. 
Start, let b 
Holdaworth, a. 
Nclson, 2d b- . 
Boo.h, r. f 
Gerhordt, 3d b. 
Hick*, c 
McGi-e, c. f . . . . 
fiednuy, 1. f... 
Matthews, p 
Mutuals .. 
Omtcnnlala 
1 11 
1 1 0 
I 3 1 
0 0 0 
0 1 0 
0 0 14 
0 0 
...0 1 
0 0 
1 1 
Centennials. 
n. lD.P.O.A. E. 
Graver, a. s 1 - 2 
Lovett, r. f 0 0 3 
Bechtel, p 1 0 0 
Trenwlth, 3d b 1 I 1 
Trcacy, l. f 0 2 6 
Warner, r. f 0 0 1 
Somerville, 2d b . . .0 1 4 
McOinley, c 0 1 3 
0 0 4 Abadlc, let •» 0 0 7 
1 .-:... o o o o o •’ o o 2 —i 
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-3 
Umpire— Mr. Martin, of the Atlantic club. 
First base by errors- Mutuals. 6; Centennials, 2. Kims earned— Mn- 
luals, 2; Centennials, 1. Time of game— 2:05. 
— On April 26lh the Bostons defeated the Washingtons 
by a score of 8 to 2, at Washington, the new nine makiug 
a good show against the champions. 
—Tho Boston and Washington professional clubs played 
a champion match together in Richmond, Va., on April 29, 
which attracted a large assemblage of spectators, includ- 
ing quite a gathering of ladies. The field was rough and 
uneven, rendering sharp fielding difficult, but even under 
these adverse circumstances the beauty of the display on 
the part of the professionals was such as to elicit the ad- 
miration of the crowd. From the report of the Richmond 
Dispatch it would appear that the crowd in their prejudice 
against the Massachusetts “ Yanks’’— as they culled .he 
Bostons— insulted the gentlemanly umpire. This is to he 
regretted. The score gave the victory to the Bostons by 
22 to 5. It beiug the first game of the kind in the South 
we give the full score: 
Bostons. 
<Sco. Wright, s. 
McVev. . r 
Barnes, 2<1 b 
Spalding, p 
Leonard, I f 
White, r 
ii Roorko, 8d i> 
Latham. 1st b.. 
■Manuing, r. f . 
n.iB P.o.A. E- 
Washington*. 
n.In.r 
1 0 
1 2 
3 4 
4 0 
2 0 
4 7 
1 3 
3 11 
3 0 
p.o.a. E. 
1 16 0 0 
.1 2 1 0 0 
.0 2 10 2 
0 10 0 0 
.0 0 13 0 2 
.113 4 1 
0 0 0 6 3 
.112 18 
Stearns, p 1 1 1 4 1 
2 2 Barken, I. f . 
0 0 Holley, c. f.. 
1 2 Daily, 3d b. . 
3 0 Allison, r. f. 
Terry, 1st b 
Kessler, 2d b 
Say. s. s 
Gilmore, c 
6 Total 5 9 27 15 12 
0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0-5 
0 12 1 3 0 1 0 1 4—22 
Total 22 24 27 1 
Washingtons 
Bostons 
Umpire — Mr. Thomas Beals. 
Runs earned— Washingtons, 2; Bostons, 9. First base by errors — 
Washington*. 6; Bostons, 8. Total bases— Bostons, 31 ; Washingtons, 
6. Time of game — 1 honr and 55 minutes. 
— The next day they visited Petersburg, Va., and, in the 
presence of a large crowd, played the Old Dominion club 
with the appended result: — 
—On May 3d the Ilartfords defeated the strong nine of the 
Centennial club, at Hartford, by 13 to 4. The same day 
the Athletics defeated the Washington nine, at Washing 
ton, by 21 to 0. 
— The Atlantic and New Haven contest of April 26th, in 
New lluven, was tho best game of the season thus far, as 
the score shows: 
Atlantic- 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1-1 
New Haven 0000 0 200 0-2 
Runs earned— 9. Bases on errors— Atlantic, 2; NcwJIaven, 0. 
Umpire -Charles Daniels, of Hartford. 
— The second championship game of the season was 
played April 27 between the Hartford and Atlantic clubs, 
at Hartford, Ct. The Ilartfords made three errors, and 
the Atlantics fourteen. The only run made by the Atlan- 
tics was gained through a wild pitch by Cummings. The 
score was 10 to 1. In the first game the flarlfords won by 
6 to 5 only. 
—On May 1st the Athletic and Philadelphia nines played 
a close game together, as the appended score shows: 
Athletics 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 — 1 
Philadelphia 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-2 
This is their second meeting. 
—The record of the champion contests played up to 
April 30th is as follows: 
April 19— Boston vs. New Haven, at Boston 6—0 
April 21— Boston vs. New Haven, nr New Haven — 14—3 
April 21— Philadelphia vs. Centennial, at Philadelphia 7—5 
April 22— Athletic vs. Philadelphia, at Philadelphia. 6—3 
April 24— Hartford vs. Atlantic, at Hartford 6—5 
April 2a— Philadelphia vs. Centenninl, at Philadelphia. 10—7 
April 26— Boston vs. Washington, at Washington 8—2 
April 26— Atlantic vs. New Haven, at New Haven 3-2 
April 27— Hartford vs. Atlantic, at Hartford 10—1 
April 27— Athletic vs. Centennial, at Philadelphia 14-5 
April 29 — Boston vs. Washington, at Richmond, Va 22—5 
April 30— Mutual vs. Centennial, at Brooklyn 4—3 
Bostons. 
o, 
Geo. Wright, s. s .5 
McVey, o. f 4 
Barnes, 2d h ( 
Spalding, l.f 3 
Leonard, 2d b 4 
White, r. f 2 
O'Rourke, 3d b I 
Latham, 1st b 1 
H. Wright, p . 3 
Total 27 
Bostons 
Old Dominion 
Umpire — John Manning 
Ruus earned — Bostons, 7 
, Old Dominion, 
b. In. o. 
1 5|McKeuney, c 4 
4 3 iDelany, 3d b 5 
3 2 Mav, 1. f 3 
5 . 5 Nichols, 2d b 3 
6 2 McCundUh, p 2 
8 
46 39 
Lcmolne, e. 
Prichard, 1st b . 
E. Ragland, r. f 
R. Ragland, c. f 
...3 
2 
.D. 
0 
Total 27 3 9 
.16 7 4 4 2 0 3 3 7—16 
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0-3 
Imo of game— 2 hours and 10 minutes. 
— On May 1st they again played in Richmond with the 
Washingtons, and this lime they won by 24 to 0, the score 
by innings giving the Bostons 14 in their fourth inning, 
and 6 in their eighth. 
— The first championship match between the Boston and 
Mutual clubs took place at Brooklyn on May 3d, over 2,000 
people being witnesses of the contest. It proved to be 
almost a waJk over for the Reds, they winning by 11 to 1. 
— The games arranged to be played in Brooklyn the next 
three weeks iuclude the following champion contests: 
May II— Athletic v*. Atlantic, nt Brooklyn. 
May 12— Athletic vs. Mutnnl. nt Brooklyn 
May 13— Philadelphia vs. A'lanlic, at Brooklyn. 
May 14 — Philadelphia vs. Mutual, at Brooklyn. 
May 18— Athletic vs. Atlantic, at Brooklyn. 
May 19— Athletic vs. Mutual, at Brooklyn. 
— The Bosloas have arranged for the appended games up 
to J uly 5 : 
May 3— Mutuals, at Williamsbnrgh. 
May 4— Centennials, at Boston. 
May 8— Mutuals, at Boston. 
May 10— Mutunl*, nt Boston. 
May 11— Philadelphia, at Boston 
May 12— Washingtons, at Boston. 
May 13— Washingtons, at Bos on. 
May 14— Washingtons, lit Springfield 
May 15 — Athletics, at Boston. 
May 17— Athletics, at Boston. 
May 18— Harlfords, at Hartford. 
May 19— Harifords. at Boston 
May 24— Centenuiuls, at Philadelphia 
May 24 — Centennials, ut Philadelphia 
May 25 — Athletics, nt Philadelphia. 
Muy 25— Philadelphian, nt Philadelphia. 
May 27 — Alhleiics, at Philadelphia. 
May 29 — Mutuals, at Boston. 
June 1 , at Cincinnati 
June 2— St. Louis, at St. Louis. 
June 3— Red Stockings, 8l. Louis. 
Juue 4— Red Stocking*, at St. Louis. 
June 5— St. Louis, at St. Louis. 
Juue 7 - St. Louis, ut St. Louis. 
June 9— Chicago*, nt Chicago. 
JaDe 10 — Westerns, at Keokuk. 
Jnne II— Westerns, at Keokuk. 
June 12— Westerns, at Keokuk 
June 14 — Chicagos, at Chicago. 
June 17— Harlfords, Boston. 
July 3— Hurtfords, at Boston. 
July 5— Harttords, at Hartford. 
—The opening game between the Athletic and Centen- 
nial clubs was played at Philadelphia, April 27, upon the 
latter's ground. The score was 14 to 5 in favor of tho 
Athletics, they making nine runs in their eighth inning. 
Before the score was 5 to 5 only. 
— On May 1st the Centennials — on their tour Eastward — 
defeated the New Haveus by 12 to 6. and at Hartford the 
professionals of that city polished off the Yale College 
teim to the tune of the - Cliicugo" score of 9 to 0. The 
\ ales did not expect ibis after having previously defeated 
their only professionals of New Uavenb y 23 to 7. But 
th; liarllords went for them all the more*on this account, 
tor feu r they might got too conceited, you know. 
The champion Boston nine, it will be seen, start off with 
a good lead. 
—On April 28th the St. Louis regulars played the ama- 
teur Niagaras, and won by a score of 22 to 2. 
— Rain stopped several matches arranged for Tuesday, 
May 4th. 
— Ou April 27th a model game was played by the ama- 
teur nines of the Archer ana John N. Wood clubs, of Phil- 
adelphia, as the appended score shows: 
J. N. Wood 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 
Archer 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0-2 
Umpire— Mr. Michencr. 
— The same day the Harvest nine of Philadelphia de- 
feated the Delanco club, at Delanco, N. J., by 8 to 5. 
— The seventh annual meeting of the Columbia College 
Association will be held next Saturday, May 8, on the 
grounds of the New York Athletic Club. The programme 
includes running, jumping, and throwing base ball. 
—The University club, of Clarkeville, Tenn., have the 
following nine to sustain the credit of the club on the field 
for 1875: Crosby, c. ; Atchison, p. ; McElroy, 1st b. ; Muir, 
2d b. ; Elder, 3d b. ; Allen, s. s. ; Burton, 1. f. ; Hendiicks, 
c. f., and Richardson, r. f. They played their opening 
game April 23d against a field nine, the score being marked 
by the muffin figures of 44 to 44. 
— The Magnolia Base Ball club, of Newburgh, (an ama- 
teur club), have reorganized for the season with E. Brewer 
as President; J. Nested, Vice President; James Tole, Re- 
cording Secretary; J. Fowler, Corresponding Secretary. 
D. Ii. Ward will captain the nine. They have now one of 
the best amateur nines ever raised in the city, and are de- 
termined to give all the crack clubs along the Hudson a 
“crush” this season. All communications addressed to 
John Fowler, Secretary, or D. H. Ward, will be promptly 
attended to. Would like to hear from amateur clubs ^of 
New- York, Brooklyn, and towns along the Hudson. 
—The New York Flyaway nine for 1875 will consist of 
the following well known amateur players: Purroy, pitcher; 
Chandler, catcher; Moore, first base; Loughlin, second 
base; C. Fallon, short stop; Tracy, third base; T. Fallon, 
left field; Shandley, centre field; Buchanan, right field. 
The club played their opening game April 22d at Melrose, 
their opponents being the club’s junior nine. The big fel- 
lows were short five of their best players, and they had all 
they could do to defeat the youngsters. The score was 12 
to 11 in favor of the nine. 
— TLe Knickerbocker club will this season take part in a 
series of invitation contests with the college club nines of 
Yale, Princeton, Harvard, etc., something they should 
have done seasons ago. The Knickerbockers will play on 
the same grounds at Hoboken as last year, and, as hitherto, 
will decline to participate in any professional or semi-pro- 
fessional matches. They very properly ignore the gate 
money business in connection with amateur playing, the 
club never having countenanced in any way any phase of 
professionalism, not that they regard the system, under 
honest auspices, as objectionable, but that it does not ac- 
cord with their idea of amateur playing to participate in 
the gate money business. For this reason, while playing 
with college nines on enclosed grounds, they of course will 
have nothing to do with the receipts at the gate, which 
the leading college clubs arc in the habit of availing them- 
selves of to support the incidental expenses of their organ- 
ization, just as they are obliged to do with their boat clubs. 
There is a Base Ball Club at Columbia, Teonesse, whose 
members are all six fee t high or over. Jt is called the Gi- 
raffe Club. a 
—The Yale Nine have made arrangements for playing 
ten games with professional clubs. 
— Mr. D. O’Leary, who it will be remembered beat Nel- 
son Reid in this city in a twenty mile match, has succeeded 
in accomplishing the feat of walking 115 miles in less than 
24 hours. The walk took place at the Chestnut Street 
Rink, Philadelphia, and the actual time was 22 hours, 59 
minutes, Weston’s time at Newark being 23 hours, 59 min- 
utes. 44 seconds. It is reported now that Weston will try 
one better, and attempt 120 miles in 24 hours. 
—Messrs. J. B. Livingston and Wni. Marston, of tlje Union 
Club, walked a match on Saturday last from the Windsor 
Hotel. Forty-sixth street and Fifth avenue, to the members’ 
gate at Jerome Park, the wager being a dinner. Mr. Liv- 
ingston won the match in lh. 53m. 4s., beating bis oppo- 
nent 6m. 19s. 
—Mr. John B. Johnson, the English champion swimmer, 
who won a match with Frantz at Long Branch last Sum- 
mer, proposes to return to Europe in June, but before 
going is anxious to make a match with Harry Gurr or any 
other swimmer in the United States. The amount to bo 
staked is a matter of indifference to Mr. Johnson, but 
$5,000 would be about the figure. He proposes on his ar- 
rival in England to attempt to swim across the Irish Chan- 
nel. 
—The manufacturers of waterproof clothing for sports- 
men seem to have been made happy by the continued de- 
mand upon their sources of supply, and write us that the 
orders they obtain through Forest and Stream alone are 
very large. (See advertisements.) Holabird has sent us 
this week a fishing coat of duck, but of much lighter ma- 
terial than his shooting coat, and with a different arrange- 
ment of pockets. There is something so comfortable in 
the feeling of these coats, that they can hardly be thought 
an encumbrance, even in hottest weather; for ordinary 
camp nr boat use they are altogether desirable; they are 
cool; they shed rain or sea-spray; they do not absorb oil 
or dirt readily; and they are invulnerable to briars and 
burrs. For office use they are most satisfactory, and we 
can safely say that we have saved the price of a cloth coat 
this winter by wearing one at our desk. They can be made 
to order of any desired cut. Henning’s fabrics are in con- 
siderable request by the bass fishers of the Potomac. 
—Mr. Blackford had on exhibition at his stand in Fulton 
Market ai enormous Jew-fish, caught at Key West, and 
the flesh of which is esteemed such a luxury by the deni- 
zens of that place. The specimen in question, which 
weighed 70 pounds, has been sent to Professor Baird at the 
Smithsonian Institute, Washington city, for a casting to be 
exhibited at the Centennial. 
—Audubon’s valuable library of Natural History of about 
800 volumes was destroyed in the house of his sister-in- 
law, Mrs. Lucy Bakewell, at the late fire in Oshkosh, Wis- 
consin. Audubon died in 1851, in the 71st years of his 
age. 
— Prof. Hayden, United States Geologist, has been elected 
as foreign correspondent of the Geological Society of Lon* 
don. 
The Velocity of a Cannon Shot. — It is difficult to 
describe the chronoscope without a diagram, but it is easy 
to indicate the general principles of its action in a few 
words, and this will be sufficient for our purpose. A gun 
having been selected for the experiment, six or eight holes 
are drilled in one side of it, penetrating to the bore, at in- 
tervals along its length from the seat of the shot to the 
muzzle. Through each of these holes an insulated wire 
enters the gun, its lower extremity being in contact with, 
but insulated from, a sharp cutting eage, so arranged in 
the bore of the gun that the passage of the shot would 
force it down upon the wire and destroy the insulation. 
Each of the wires is connected with the secondary wire of 
an induction coil. The recording apparatus consists of a 
series of disks of polished silver, coated with lamp-black, 
and made to revolve simultaneously by the action of a fall- 
ing weight and multiplying wheels at a very high velocity. 
One of these disks corresponds to each of the wires, the 
end of which is placed in a small discharger close to its 
circumference. On firing the charge, the shot cuts the in- 
sulation of wire after wire in rapid succession, and as each 
is cut a current passes, and a spark darts from the dis- 
charger to the edge of the revolving disk, striking off a 
speck of the lamp-black, and leaving the bright silver bare. 
Now, supposing the velocity of the circumference of the 
disks to be 1,000 inches per second, and the mark of the 
electric spark on the second disk to be one inch 
farther on than that upon the first, this would show 
that the shot took the one-thousandth part of a second 
to pass the dist ance between the mark from the first wire iu 
the gun to the next. Similarly, if the distance between 
the marks on the first and last disks were five inches, this 
would indicate that the time the shot took to traverse 
the whole length of the gun was five-thousandths, or 
one-two hundredth of a second. In reality, the time 
is even shorter than this. In the 10-inch gun, a 300- 
pound shot, with a charge of forty-three pounds of powder, 
passes down the bore in something less lhan the one-two 
hundredth and twentieth part of a second. So delicate is 
this apparatus that, by dividing each inch of circumference 
of the disks into thousandths with the help of the vernier, 
the one-millionth part of a second would become an 
appreciable quantity.— From Popular Science Monthly for 
April. 
— The London Army and Navy Gazette says: "Our 
American ‘grandfathers’ are always giving lessons — not 
always gratis, however— to their British grandchildren, 
and in the Army and Navy Journal of New York may be 
seen the most effective advertisement we have ever come 
across, of the shooting of a Remington breech loader, 
wherein the target is reproduced to scale with the marks 
of the shots in black and white, and a portrait of the 
marksman, Col. John Bodine, Highland, New York 
White County. Ai ©00 yards 74 points were made out 0 
a possible 7$/* 
