
Rational Pastimes. 
e Athletic Clubs will please mail 
 derstimonehe tyres ie oan se week, 
oe ee 
—A Foot Ball match took place at New Haven on Saturday 
last, between eleven old Etonians from Eton School, Eng- 
land, now on avisit to this country, and one chosen from the 
Foot Ball Club of Yale College. The game was witnessed 
by a large number of people, and proved to be fully as ex- 
citing and interesting as the friends of the players expected. 
The Yale Eleven practiced hard to perfect themselves for 
the contest, and were rewarded by coming off the field as 
victors. The game was played partly according to the 
English rules and partly according to the American rules 
adopted at the late Convention, each side making some 
concessions. Among those made by Yale was one agreeing 
that there should be no lurking allowed near an opponent’s 
gaol. ‘Yale’s eleven was chosen from the twenties that 
have played against the clubs of Rutgers and Princeton col- 
leges this fall. The English eleven was made up of gradu- 
ates of the famous Eton College. The Eton game is hardly 
as rough as that played at Rugby, but requires greater skill 
and more running and dogging. The elevens were com- 
posed as follows:—Hton.—G. C. Allen, Lord Norbet, J. W. 
Balfour, R. M. Keerrell, Earl of Rosebury, E. Chaplin, C. 
W. Benson, (the famous Cambridge oarsman), E. 8. Hans- 
bury, R. Romilly, R. Russell, and H. M. Thompson. Yule, 
—E. V. Baker, C. Deming, F. L. Grinnell, H. J. McBir- 
ney, P. A. Porter, H. O. Bristol, W. S. Halsted, W. O. 
Henderson, A. Hotchkiss, J. L. Scudder, and T. T. Sher- 
man. We take this from the 7rzbwne, our correspondent’s 
letters having been mislaid.—Ep. 
—The ‘‘Main Line” nine of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Office, rank high as amateur players. We give the names 
of the nine for 1874:—B. Taylor. W. DeArmond, A. Rob- 
son, E. C. Cox, F. W. Hutchinson, M. Deshong, I. A. New- 
bern, W. H, Wright and J. Roberts. Tenth man, J. Van- 
zandt. 
—At a meeting of the Yonkers Curling Club, held last 
week, the following officers, representatives and skips were 
chosen for the approaching season:—Wm. B. Edgar, presi- 
dent; J. S. White, vice-president; Hyatt L. Garrison, sec- 
retary and treasurer; E. F. Shonnard representative to the 
royal Caledonian games; James Stewart, representative to 
the grand national games; Messrs. Edgar, Wheeler and 
Stewart, committee on pond; Messrs. Edgar, Stewart, Mac- 
far-White, Shonnard and Frazier, skips. 
—The three-ball French carom billiard tournament com- 
menced on December 3, in Boston, Mass. The first game 
was between Peck and Hickey, and was won by the latter 
by a score of 200 to 174 points. Hickey’s highest run was 
23 and Peck’s 22. The averages were—Hickey, 24; Peck, 
21-9. The second game was between Wilson and Denni- 
son, the latter winning by 25 points. The highest runs 
were—Dennison, 45; Wilson, 26; and the averages—Den- 
nison, 34-7; Wilson, 3}. The first game in the evening 
was between John Hickey and Lou Morris, Jr. The game 
was won by Hickey, whose highest run was 34 and Morris’ 
15. The averages were—Hickey, 6%; Morris, 1%. There 
was an exhibition three-ball game between Albert Garnier 
and Edward Daniels for 300 points. In the nineteenth inn- 
ing Garnier, by a run of 84, brought the game to a close. 
Daniels’ highest run was 36. Garnier’s average was 15, and 
Daniels’ 74. They then played a game of 500 points with 
four balls, Garnier making the 500 to Daniels’ 195. 
—The first competitors on December 4 were—Messrs. 
Wilson and Lou Morris, Jr. Wilson made the champion 
run of the tournament, making on his twenty-ninth inning 
51 points. Morris’ highest run was 37. Wilson won the 
game by 81 points. His average was 3} and Morris’ 3. 
Time, 1h. 45m. The next game was between Peck and 
Pulsifer and was won by Peck by 6 points. Peck’s bes} 
run was 20 and Pulsifer’s 15. Time, 2h. In the evening 
the first game was between Morris and Dennison, and was 
won by the former making 200 to Dennison’s 190. Morris’ 
- highest run was 16; Dennison’s, 19. Morris’ average, 3; 
Dennison’s, 23. Time, 2h. Hickey and Pulsifer played 
the next game, the former winning by 101 points. Hickey’s 
average, 5; Pulsifer’s, 2 2-5. Hickey’s highest run, 32. 
Time, 1h. 15m. 
—The billiard tournament was decided on December 6th 
There have been 14 regular games, all the contestants hay- 
ing twice played with each other; except Peck and Wilson, 
and they commenced the game forthe prizes. Wilson won 
by 20 points. Wilson’s average was 24; Peck’s, 24. The 
time of the game was two hours and ten minutes. Wilson 
then played the tie game with Dennison, which resulted in 
Dennison winning. Thus it will be seen that Mr. John 
Hickey wins the silver cup, $250 and the championship, 
Mr. Frank Dennison the table that has been played upon 
through the tournament and Mr. Wilson $250 in cash. 
—Messrs. Garnier, Joseph and Cyrille Dion paid a visit to 
Philadelphia last week, understanding that the benefit to 
Mr. Plunkett was then to take place. Owing to some mis- 
take, no exhibition had been-announced. The New York 
players visited Mr. Plunkett’s saloon, and afterwards, at 
Mr. Palmer’s room, a game of one hundred points, French 
caroms, was played between Garnier and Joseph Dion, the 
former winning. The Professor afterwards, at Mr. Pal- 
mer’s desire, exhibited his celebrated fancy shots. 
The championship match at the three-ball French 
carom game, between Albert Carnierand Cyrille Dion, took 
place on Tuesday of last week at Tammany Hall, 14th 
street. The game was won by Albert Garnier by a score of 
600-to Cyrille Dion’s 480. Garnier averaged 10. Dion, 8 


FOREST AND STREAM. 
8-59. Garnier’s best run was 68. Dion’s, 61. The game 
was played on a 10x5 Callender bevel table. Garnier is still 
the champion and retains the diamond cue. 
—A meeting will be held at the Astor House, N. Y., on 
December 17tk, for the purpose of reorganizing the National 
Association of Amateur Base Ballplayers. 
Princeton, N. J., Dec. 1873. 
EprtoR ForREST AND STREAM :— 
Enclosed please find an extended report of the games 
played by the Oneida Base-ball Club of Orange, N. J., one 
of the leading amateur organizations in the country, to- 
gether with the averages of its members: Bis Cavis 
RECORD OF THE ONEIDA BASE-BALL CLUB FOR 1873. 
Total number of games played........ 19 
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Defeats sn nauaccctss see eeeowsaon eres 5 
BUCA eee Aan 5 son atop AAC ALuoO ond OG i! 
Horfeits.j.epsnaee ssc tokio eee 1 
VICTORIES, 
Date. Club. Score 
PUNE Oe wtarsiottter + Oneida vs. Active, New York..............-. 21to 8 
POLY Aenea eas ce vs. Nassau, Brooklyn... 0.5. s.a0- a. 24 to 13 
daly Woo. yee ul ve. Union; Newark: ni. see ecines sins see 24 to 11 
S vs. Arlington, New York..... 
Bs vs. Staten Island, New York. 
ee vs. Silver Star, New York... 
eS vs. Frankiin, Rahway........... .. 
sf v4. Union, Newarks...) 5.2 isis cd stone 
August 23......... eS vs. Staten Island, New York.... .... 2% 
August 27.....-.... «« vs. Alpha, Roseville..... spo usHont aA 
Angust 29.2052. 000 bie vs. Empire, New Brunswick......... B0to 4 
September 6...... ee vs. Nameless, Brooklyn (6 innings)... 34to 7 
September 18... .* ‘‘ vs. Union, Newark (5 innings)........ 


















October 17. /s.55 0 4.- fe vs. Nassau, Brooklyn................ 4to 2 
Total 25 Grtestee, ere sicieteiatea hers ieisietels comers ave eins ereteyete teasers ole 279 to 139 
DEEEATS. 
August 25) 22-2... Oneida vs. Chelsea, Brooklyn................ 7 to 17 
August 30......... Wi Vee Nassau, Brooklyn ijn e sneer cece 11 to 21 
September1...... ef vs. Silver Star, New York.......... 9 to 13 
September9...... Ay vs. Chelsea, Brooklyn........ ....... 10 to 18 
September 27..... “ vs, Alpha, Rosevillen. - acecaact cles 6 to 13 
Motel cchatiacie mets! pester sirar eee Opa noe eiseebtots = ciner hiaiseeherats 43 to 81 
TIE. 
AM OUBU DL Memccmeeme cat Oneida vs. Staten Island:%.. 2.5.0.5... «006 15 to 15 
hole number runs—337 to 235. 
AVERAGE OF EACH PLAYER. 
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MS Beach, Fife, suctiid casei eccs eae 12.1" £2.) 0 0; 0 0 
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—The Philadelphia Base Ball Club held its annual meet- 
ing last week. Ninety-two out of one hundred shares of 
stock were represented. After some discussion on finance, 
a dividend of twenty-five dollars per share or one hundred 
per cent., was ordered to be paid to the shareholders. The 
annual election for officers was then held with the follow- 
ing result:—President, George W. Young; five vice-Pre- 
sidents; Treasurer, James McColgan; Recording Secretary, 
Charles H. Tisdall; Corresponding Secretary, David L. 
Reid. William ©. Dillingham and Francis McBride were 
eleeted to fill the Board of Directors. 
Hachting and Boating. 
All communications from Secretarres and friends should be mailed not 
later than Monday in each week. 
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HIGH WATER, FOR THE WEEK. 




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—The yacht Meta, owned by G. A. Beling of the B. Y. 
C., and built by P. McGeehan of Pamrapo, is to be altered 
to a schooner this winter. The Meta has made some bril- 
liant performances the last season. We only trust she may 
meet with the same success as a schooner. Altering per- 
fection seems to be rather risky, to say the least of it. ows 
verrons. 
—In a letter from our valued correspondent, in Detroit, 
on boating matters, he says: ‘‘I have been very busily 
engaged during the past month in attending to the arrange- 
ments for a course of lectures and entertainments which 
the Excelsior Boat Club of this city is giving to our citizens 
this winter, but will forward to you without delay the rec- 
ord of boating and yachting in our waters for the season. 
—The members and friends of the Bayonne Yacht Club 
will meet together on the evening of the 23d, when the 
president will present to the successful yacht owners the 
handsome prizes won during the A: tumn Regatta. 
—Commodore Stanton Whitney, of the Eastern Yacht 
Club, is acting as referee in the Meta-Vision discussion, 
and will send to the owners of the yachts in a few days his 
final decision. 
—Invitations are out for the first annual ball of the 
Washington D. C. Yacht Club, which will be given at 
Masonic Temple, Monday evening, Dec. 15. 
ee nn ng cere see essere seen rseneeenserenseseeeseeeseeeee reer 
—The Bayonne Yacht Club held a special meeting to 
take into consideration the propriety of joining the con- 
federation and amalgamating with the New Jersey Yacht 
Clubs. Messrs. C. C. Hough, George A. Beling, T. D. 
Harrison, and Joseph Ellsworth were selected as a commit- 
tee to meet similar committees from the New Jersey Yacht 
Clubs to confer together and discuss this important matter. 
This combination would make a strong organization and © 
would doubtless add ma‘erial strength to the yachting in- 
terest. 
—The Crescent Boating Club of Philadelphia closed the 
season last week on the Schuykill. We take pleasure in 
complimenting the Crescent Club for continuing their 
favorite pastime so long into the fall of the year and trust 
to hear good accounts from them next spring. The first 
race was in four-oared shells from the Girard avenue bridge 
to the steamboat landing at Fairmount. The boats were 
manned as follows: Crescent, E. A. Thompson, stroke; 
C. D. Tatman, second; H. F. Witmer, third; W. Barnhurst, 
bow. Chamounix, C. E, Steel, stroke; A. Spering, second; 
H. K. Hinchman, third; T. B. Harper, bow. The race, 
which was marked by a foul and an accident,*was consider- 
ed as won by the Crescent, they having the lead by about. 
three quarters of a boat length. The second race was be- 
tween four singie shells, all of the same club, and was the 
best contested of the series, resulting as follows: First, H. 
F. Witmer; second, T. B. Harper; third, 0. EB. Steel; 
fourth, George Milliken. The third and last race was be- 
tween the two double shells—Owlet, stroke, H. F. Witmer, 
bow, George Milliken, and the M. K.S., stroke, OC. E. 
Steel, bow, T B. Harper, and resulted in a victory for the 
former. 
—The following men have been selected to make up the 
Freshman boat-crew:—W. 8. M. Ryder and C. 8S. Ryder, of 
Sing Sing, New York; J. S. 8. Tidd, of Westboro’; W. O. 
Weeden, of Providence, R. I; A. M. Chadwick, of St. 
Johnsbury, Vermont; F. E. Sibley, of Warren; and J. A. 
Sanders, of Jaffna, Ceylon. These men will practice dur- 
ing the winter at the Gymnasium. 
At a meeting of the Boating Association held - after 
rhetoricals on the 19th, F. W. Whitridge of the Senior 
class, and H. §. Knight of the Junior class were elected 
delegates to the Boating Convention to be held this fall.— 
Amherst Student, Dec. 6. 
—The new yacth La Belle, recently added to the Jersey 
City Yacht Club, is thirty feet long, and was built by Wm. 
Force for Col. Rucker, who is a member of that club. 
[We have received this rolicking sketch of a jolly yachts- 
man which he entitles ‘‘Yachting Reminiscenses.” It de- 
scribes the pleasures of a cruise to Martha’s Vineyard, the 
perusal of which we doubt not will be enjoyed with zest 
y many a one who has been there. | 
DITOR FOREST AND STREAM :— 
The announcement of the annual cruise of your club! 
What a host of pleasant memories associate themselves 
-with those words! What brushing up of uniforms, and 
burnishing of gilt on cap and coat, with the view ot sundry 
bright eyes ‘‘down east” along the coast to be pleased. 
Don’t deny it, my brave skipper, that half the pleasure of 
the yacht trip, and being a member of “‘the club,” is in 
the jaunty uniform and the many conquests made on 
the ‘‘annual trip.” To the landsman, who at that season, is 
looked upon with as much commiseration as the ‘‘cit” is at 
West Point in the camping season, these moments of excite- 
ment and anticipation are unknown. The yachts must be 
“hauled out,” the stores be hauled in; ah! what hidden 
mysteries are in these same ‘‘stores.”” The boxes, bundles, 
packages, cans, barrels, so accumulate, till the mind scarce 
comprehends where on the little vessel the steward finds 
the room for them all, but he does, and let the vessel ‘‘roll 
out” ever so much, not a glass jingles, nor a bottle breaks. 
See the boxes with the mysterious ‘‘P” or ‘‘Q” on each end, 
branded “‘mum;” well, all the ‘‘boys” manage to keep 
“mum” until fairly under weigh, then the fusilade com- 
mences, and ‘‘dead marines” mark our track. 
Lucky the yacht owners on such an occasion; lucky too 
those who are on terms of intimacy sufficient to secure 
them the invitation to go with them. There is nothing 
promising and realizing so much pleasure as the two weeks 
secured for the trip. Ready for the start and the rendez- 
vous, the very yachts themselves seem to enter into the 
spirit of the occasion and plunge along careering, fill- 
ing away, and jauntily throwing the spray with a saucy, 
“catch me if you can” manner, If the wind is good, what 
rivalry there is, what ‘“‘hauling aft,” and ‘‘trimming down,” 
and the passing of a rival if possible to windward is a mo- 
ment of proud and serene satisfaction. 
One word as to the sailing of the yacht. Now don’t be 
alarmed, I am not going into a long disquisition of tech- 
nical terms, nor do I intend to discuss of the midship 
section, the run, the water line, the hips, knees, overhang, 
&c. Iam a ‘‘devoted yachtsman” itis true, but it is in my 
devotion for the blue water and the white caps, the gentle, 
easy roll of old Neptune, and the bold, gallant dash of the 
vessel ‘‘on the wind,” with everything drawing, or at night 
with everything furled and safely anchored in some quiet, 
land-locked and hill-girted harbor, tu be lulled asleep by 
the gentle rippling gurgle of the water outside; to wake in 
the early morning with everything so quiet, fresh and clear, 
to take the health inspiring plunge off the rail, which by 
the way is the best remedy I ever saw for a ‘‘don’t-feel- 
very-well-this-morning” condition. It is for all these that 
Tam a devoted yachtsman. 
But I was going to say a word on thesailing of the yacht, 
and it is just this, that in nine times out of ten as much if 
not more depends upon the crew and sailing master than 

