Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1877, Page 7

2588 || £ - L L - Sl A 24 o | EG3F Eapenifedifl THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES s 7 PASTIMES. A Cheerful Exposition of Phil- adelphia Crookedness. How Spalding Was Bribed with a Forgery. That the Boston People Think of the Chicago Manager. : and McCormick Engaged Bghs e incinnati Clab e Hall Employed as Left morgFielder by Louisville. The June Running and Trotting Meeting at Dexter Park. Fhy the Becently-Organized Breeders’ Associstion Will Be a Failure, Jsplanation of Budd Doble’s Eminent Soceess as a Driver. BASE-BALL. THE STORY OF SOME FORGERTEY. Syme time ago one of the attaches of Tme Carcaco TRIBUNE cam into possession of a cople of docurments, which be *“placed on file s« jooper subje :ts for investization when an op- pruzity shoutd 6ffer. In the present strait {rrvews and developments in base-ball, it seemns sdever chance to tell the story of the papers re- 1erred to, and sccordingly the narrative will be {7and below: Inthe year of Our Lord 1573, onc of the offi- wref the Chicazo Bull Club went East and pede an agreement with Messrs. Spalding, White, Barnes, and McVey, then of the Boston (ioh, to play ball with the Chicago Clud in &6 The fact of this engagement was shortly pade known all over the country. Sept. 2, 1875, the Boston Club were in Phila- Gelphua waiting to play & game with the Phila- &iphia Club on the afternoon of that day. Toes were stopping at the Colonnade Hotel, 124 after the manner of bell-players, were fn the {rencon takine o long rest preparatory to the iones of the afternoon. It happened that wo or three of the coming Chicagoans were étinz together when there appeared to them 1 Americsn District Telegraph errand-boy ¥iha telegraphic message addressed “ For A. Spnlding, of Boston Club, Collonade Hotel, Fecnth and Chestnut streets, city."” Spalding opened the envelope and drew forth adispateh, of which the following is a copy: [Zecetred at Philadelnhla, 10:30 8. m. ] To 4. Speuliing. Fnitadelphia, P Ceicaco, Sept. 2 1875.—Do not win in two in- Uhiladelphia Club: there is for voureelf, Larmes, Mc- Ter. and White if you don't. Will send you check s#00n as hear from gume. Do mot inintwo: we lave our cash out here tat way. Strictly coufidential between you GEONGE W. GaoE, W, A. Houseur, Presicent and Secretary Chicazo Club. Tndonbtediy Spalding’s first finpression was tousr up the document, but he changed his rad avd ran out on thestreet to catch the mes- sger who had brought the stiff, but the soonzster had too much start. Then lLe went tothe uffice of the American District Telegraph (ompany and to the telezraph office to trace, if ssible. the scheme to its author, but without fess, his ocly information being that the Mwkon which the message was written had kasiolea from the Company, and that none ctheclerks or receivers had written the mes- e Untis return to the hotel Spalding showed 2 torzery to the other members of the Boston mewho were referred to in it, and the thing moked considerable laughter. It was zlso ten 1o Addr, then of the Philadelphias, and the other members of the latter nine, and was tadethe subject of much fun and bandying. Th same evening, Mr. Spalding, writing to ¥r. Holbert on other busfuess, inclosed the tdezram, and referred to it as fotlows: “In- tixed I send you a forged, telegram, which was fven me this morning. It seems rather a ey affair.? President Hulbert, not being dtobaving hisname taken in vain by the tamon forger, did not dismiss the matter so edlyg¢ @id Spalding. e took the telegram 4 ttheofice of the Western Union Telegraph Coxpary, and asked Mr. Catlin, onc of the at- des, 10 Jook into the whole matter. An in- Tliestion was had, and Mr. Catlin reported 3§ Stthe my e bad never been sent from Chi- § vnd never received in Philadelphia. That Z;shrnfihe could 0. Thus ends the first er, 4 Plen Tue Temoxe reporter caught sight of ] Extclezram he borruwed 1t he had use for 4 2 be wented to examine it. - He took it to his 4 &Xand exiracted from one of his files a letter q Al H. Wright beezing for ctaployment as inespondent. ' He had been struck with tie { ialvity in the bandwriting; that was all. Lter in'the season of 1570, the same reporter 3¢ in possession of a short letter on business JHttuby © Alfred H. Wright, Manazer A. B. 4 2C" Then be compared the three togothe~; § 5 frally, 0 put the question as far as po'si- § Sterond a doubt, tius reporter borrow.da $3rof considersble length written by Al H. L_:“EL and compared it with the forzed tele- A four of the documents were so singularly L that there couldn't be a shadow of dunbt SRrbody’s mind that thes were all written by § <ame haud. Bur this .was Lardly enougli. tence of kandwriting is not an casy thing to $hure on, and there might be those who would E.r that one man’s testimony was hardly “&gh. Therefore, the reporter put the let~ iuto_bis packet and took themto Mr. renan, who las handled toe city's @l 257 under O'Hara and Briges, and who has %10 an atmosplicre of cheks, drafts, vouch- £ 30d warmate uutil be s probably the best gt in writing in the city. ~ Mr. Brenan care- o examined the letters and telearain, and - B them written by the same nan. §.07¢ Were 100 mauy pecaliarities which it be diagulsed, such us the cavital P and t1d more particularly the method of crossing ‘gflamng. e A Moody, Assistant City Clerk, and ager of the business of that oifice, was also 8 ;" tsopmion. He had no aoubt about the farat the teleerag was written by the same T that penned the etters. . 0nler o extend his rescarches into another - of the reporter dropped in on the zeller of tiie Fidelity Savings Bauk, and ipe Bt Several ottier banks. There was tads, shalow of a doubt apparentlyin the ¥sof auyof the oflicers about the close - D ¥ of “the writing, or that the telegramn i en by the same hand s the letters. i dfimtubluax!. meTcawful comvarison 'AE TRIBUNE reporter is 4 L proot thar 2 UNE Fepo they were all written by the ‘:x:n“’ Bor that the testimonv of a number : P et experts to the same effect absolute- B M:‘E! Altred H. Wright of being a forzer § 1y hles. 1t would take a verdict of a jury ies JUlsment of acourt to do that. But lag, ¢ Other tribunals than those of the oy athier Judges of character and repu- Youlay thote elected for long terms by 2 kthe ot There is always an innate desire e Public mind to see fxir play and to accord Vi g A0 What his deeds deserve, and not oy claims for himself. The public must i lh:'hflhtxlhe attempt to bribe without pay Emfiun to forzery and scoundrelism to igh .0 Writing bears snch & remarkable re- 0ce 40 that of the forger. n;l Passiug on this subject just now, Yiet e p % 25kS, What are the probabilities [ sionay been tiestatus of the leaders of pro- T ball in Philadelphin? Answer L o] 1B Presidents of a leading ka1 L‘Ilm of that city was tried. convict, hes Penitertiary for onc of the dirtiest ey 1 the code. “Auswer 2.—Ope of the fetyes the Athletie Club made affidavit to mfl: avother officer was a thicf, and if Biee e ufilluever been proved, it bas been o of Loy that 0o one in the West lins ever i ¢ Answer 3.—Another ofticer of the i ug‘“’ was in 1875 dGetected by James tiog ball-player, in stealing tickéts from Mgy Py weAy o that endare characteristic of the. place, and was compelled by White gg;ge and refund. Answer 4.—The Philadel- phia Club was proven, as clearly as 2oything can Le proven ut of court, to have won and lost Just as the managers’ interest in the pool-box dem:ms]cd. Answer 5.—The Athletic Club was composed of men who entered into a legal con- ract with players, and then refused to pay the ggu_:s sgrced upon. Answer B.—A.lrm H . Wright the reorescntative of basc-ball at present put forward in “The home of the ' game.” - Does it seem from this that it Is likely that Wrignt would comumit forgery or any other lowdived erime? Because, if iL docs, the proof which has been adduced tr. clug the forgery to bim is fortified by that probability. But it may be asked, Whet does the telegram proveif it be adiitted that Wright wrote it? On, nothing particularly now: only that he is the only man who ever sugwested that an at- tempt at bribery was made on this ocension; he is tae only man who claimed that there ias crookedness in the same, and he alone snowed sucha (nmllmrxl.g with the attempt at this time as would lead the detective or criminal lawyer 10 shrewdly suspe:t that he, and he alone, must have been the man to whom le himself refers as having been deg{xtlzed to attempt bribery. Inasmuch as Wright has fora lung time put himself forward as the representative of the na- tionai zame in Philadelphiy, it is right to make a certain discrimination as between the men whom he represents and those whom he does__mot. He does not repre- sent G. W, Thompson, Charles I Cragin, dJ. P. Wilkins, A, J. Reazh, Dick McBride, nor mauy others. These gentlemen, connected with the Athlctic Club at different times, have kept themselves clean; their fault has been that they allowed themselves to be led away and over- come by other men with whom they were asso- | ciated. It is threatened that the new Philadelphia or- ganization, which exists as yet only on paper, and which will never t: rank among clubs un- til some more Philadeiphia ball men of the old kind dic or are sent to the Penitent jary—that this coming ¢lub will let Chicagoalone. It any- thing that this paper can do or say will - brinz about such a consumma- tion, it sball be forthcoming. For its pa- tronage Philadelphia has_been despicable—for its patrons, damnable. Until some of the present hanzers-on of the game have been sloughed off, and until a new and different management sorings up, it is better for the game, and for every other city that supports a nine, that the rotting out should go on in the slums of Phtlalelphia. Lest this should be misunderstood as an assertion that certain Learue clubs are o posed to another entry from Philadelpiia, Y!. should be said that, so far as Tue TRIBUNE knows, tuere is nothing that would be so glad- 1y welcomed as a club” of ventlemen, managzed Uy wrentlemen, backed by gentlemen, and natronized by gentlemen and ladies In that city. Such au enterprise would pay, and would be a crudit to the game. But there should be no mistake about it. There should be no Al Wright in it. and no_Spering, or Concannon, or Porter, at the head of it. The players are plenty, the erounds are good, the patrons will tind themsclves—but where is the nead ! WHAT THEY THINK OF SPALDING 1N BOSTON. In its issue of Sunday last ‘Tne TRIBUNE published a special teleeram from Philadel- piia, giving the substance of an article which was to appear—and which did appear—in 2 paper called the Sunday Hercury, the orzan of he Athletic Ciub, 50 long as there was such an institution, and presided over, so far as news {rom the National Game is concerned, by A. H. Wright, formerly the Sccretary of the Club in question. No charges were made in the article, but there was au attempt to slur the name and reputation of A. G. Spalding. This snarl of spite would probably never have been noticed by Spalding; and the matter would havedropped to the around, had it not stirred up a little feel- ing in Boston, presumablv becase Mr. Svalding was playing with the Boston Club at the time " of the game referred to by Wright, and for the sreater reason that e many warm friends and admirers fn Boston, who bzted to sit still and see such a ruan as Wright cast mud at a gentleman. The following letter, received vesterday by Presi- dent Huluvert of the Chicazo Club, explains the course Mr. Spalding’s Boston friends took to testify their esteem for him: Feb. 14, 1877. —W. A. Hulbert, Pres- ident ano Baxe-Ball Club: 1 beg to advise you that I shall send you by this_mail two papers, which will explain them=elves. One is a commu- nication to the Chicago Club reiative to an article in the last Philadelphia Susday Mercury attacking the record of Mr. A. G, Spaldinz while he was a 1ember of tne Loston Club. and it issizned by the pergons who have keld the ofice of President during the five yearsof Mr. Spalding’s connection with it. The other paper is an open letter addressed to all interested parties. and £1rned oy all the men lately associnted with Mr. Spalding in the Boston Club who are now in this ¢ity. In the belief that many friends of the game and of Mr. Spalding will be glad to read what isthouzhtof him by those who have had abundant opportunities of knowing his character for probity, I remain yours truly, N. T."AroLroxi0. The first letter referred to from the Presidents of the Club covers sll the time frowm its organi- zation to the time that Spalding closed his sery- fee with it. It is as follows: Bostox, Feh. 13, 1877.—T0 the Chicago_ Bate- Be!! Club, Chirago. Iil.—GESTLEME that inaddressing Yo npon the mstter below it is hardly necessary forns to declare that the base-ball pablic has never vet had occasion to call upon the oston Base-Bali Club for any expla- naticn or defensc of the acts of any of its players, for whom they were properly acconntable to the patrons of the game. - We also feel a justidable pride’in the fact toat the persomal intesrity of every man hither.o emnlored by the Boston Club basbeen unassailed and ahiis ailable, At all times since the expiration of our respect- ive terms of office. we have continucd 1o note carz- 50 far a8 our opootanities have zllowed. all 3= affecting the welfare and £cod name of the ton Club. This fecling of intérest extends to layers who have ceased {o be connected with the Clab, s well as to those who are now wearing Its uniform. : i Itis, therefore, with wonder and indignation that we have read in a public journal certain charzes of aeerlons nature against the character of Mr. A. G. Spaldinzat the time when he was connected withthe Boston Club. — We hold that the Bizh reputation sustained by Mr. Spalding. a< s player whose honesty has never before been cailed in question, fs well deserved, and, 30 far as the ublicin this city is concerned, it requires no cfensc. Bnt, a3 past odicors of the Boston Club, who have for years known Mr. Spalding per- sonailv and well, we desire to convey to you and through yon. if yoa see fit. to the people in your city who look t6 yon for sn honest sport, honestly condnetedl, our sénse of his intexrity and faithful- ness. and to_ussure you thatiwe have always be- licved, and do now continae ta believe, that r. Spalding’s bonor ie clear of anythin: approaching in its character to the charres above referred to. We tender to yon and to him this indorsemont not only fromn a eense of daty to ourseives, but be- cause e estcem ft onr rizhtto make common cause with men who haso the zood of the national e at beart azainst all encmies. g Ivens W. Avaxs. President Boston Base-Dall Asesoriation, 1871. 9 RET, sociation. 1872. PoRTER. tion, 1873, President Boston B:;c-%.\h i Boston Base-Ball Assoc Presidont. Box N. T..AroLLosio., President Boston Base-Ball Association, 1874-5. The other inc ¢ referred to—the letter from the players—is as follows: Bostoy, Feb. 14.—To whom il may concern: The undersizmed, now meinbers of the Boston Bae-atl Ciub, were conuected with it the whole or a portion of the five seare from 1871 to 1875 (both included). It hascome to oar notice that accusations of an infamous character have been ed within u few dags directedacainst **Mr. Spalding and others of the Boston nine pul A G. T his control. e s vamital we are able to command con- sists of onr good nam:s and our playing skill. Without tae forwmer, we appreciato the fact that our abilitiea a3 players are but of limited valne. We consider any and every imputation on the in- rity of our past or present associates in the fifsxt)\% o e ashnattors of concern to. ourselves, and we owe it to Mr. Spaiding that he should be assured that at no time since our acquaintance and aesociation with him have we ever had occasion to Kuow or raspect that h‘ixs play g;{a becndnu\' but of rable and straight{orward the most hogo orsard kiad. Gronce Wriant, A. J. Losann, JixEs O'Roung, J. E. NNING. AL WRIGHT AND BECHTEL. 3 The following letter has been sent to the Clip- per by acorrespondent of that paper: A1 Wright having made another statement In re- gard to the Dechtel case. and having published it, fa this inetance in tne Clipper, I invite attention 10 the fact thatin his etatement pablished in the iladelphla Mercury of Jan. 28 he ssserted that Bechtel was not only not expelled from the Leazue. but morcorer did not play with either the 15 or Athletics last season.” m;‘l‘l“‘:’fl statement in last week's Clipper. after be- ing confronted by the record, Wrizht admits tnat Bachtel did play in two games with the 3utuals against the Athietics 1ast season, also that he had eaiTered expulsion, but cluims that ** he was after- Wards honorably reinstated and reieased from his contract with the Louisyilles, and was therefore competen: to play, in tweaty days after said date of hi< releass, with any club.™ This latter statement ¢ nos frue, and the Lousville Club had 1no power, nnder the rules of the League, lnbr:m— state Dochtel or to relieve him from the isability < t upon his expulsion. Ot refarence to the twenty-day League rule renders it impossible that he could be izmorant of fwo Important stipnlations in the very section of fhe Leasuc constitution In which that rale was prescribed (Leagoe buok for 1876, Art. XI., Sec. B nd which are as follows: ** A player who has been released from his contract without impatation may encaze with any other club within twenty dave thereafter: but such other club, before en- geging him, shall satisfy itself, by apphication to {55 Sretaiy, that such rolese us been given withoat imputation on the plaver’ e 4 - r who has been dismissed or expelle o " Noplayer who has Beet Cany time thereafter, to dis- , beallowdd to play with any League club (either her), unless, upon 1ssal or expul- the one expelling him or Ing ot| is appeal to the Board, such _di &elon shall have been sct aside.” Wright says that ke vouched to the manager of the Mutualy for the truth of the state- ment that Bechtel had received a release, ctc. The rule plainly says that information of this kind must be obtained ** by application to the Secre- tary.” Moreover, the Secretary had, sume_time usly, notified ofticially {both - the Athletic Mutual Clubs of Bechtel's ineligibility. Wright states that, by;the subsequent action of the Louisville Cluh, Bechtel was made eligible to play with any club. The rule plainly says he shall nut be allowed to play with any League club unless his expulsion shall have been set aside by the Blom‘d. The Bourd never has set aside the expul- sion. Itis true, and the fact has never been denied, that the Lonisville Club nndertook to rescind their action in expelling HBechtel, and wrote to the Léazue Scerctary to recall their notice of his ex- pulsion, and it”is equally true that they were promptiy notified that the matter had passed be- yond their jnnsdiction—a fact which the rule quoted plainiy enows, It is not true, as stated by Wricht, that Bechtel ** was expelled on ex parte evidence, ™ aud., so tar from Louisville's subsequent action being a com- pliance with Bechtel's ** demand.™ a prominent Oofficer of that club Las admitted to the writer that they yielded too casily to his importuniry. The maturer judgment of the Loulsville Club on the Bechtel case is found in the fact that they would not ask for o reversal of the expulsion when the League Boarld was in seszion in Cleveluni. Wright concludes his statement by suying: *¢ The mere playinz of Bechtel In these two rames did not <constitute himn a memberof the Mutuals. even if he had been expelled.” In view of Wright's famil- farity with tie League rules, he could not fail to know that the two gumes in which Bechtel played were *‘rerular mitch games,” as he reported them, and that the rule on the point, printed in the same League Book fur 1878, before referred to, on page 28, is exactly the reverse of this assertion, Ttauys: **Every player taking partin a rexular match game, 10 matter wiat numoer of mnings muy be played, shall be considered « member of the club” with chich he plays.™ SI KECK'S MENAGERIE. A letter received here last week intimates that Mr. Keek, of the Cincinnati Club, Las clused engagements with Dick Higham and with McCormick, The former §8 well known for one of the best players in the country, and it i3 greatly to be hoped that the news of his engage- wment 1s truc. He will make the Western Red Stockings strong behind the bat, and will add to their ability with the stick. The other name is one on which the best-posted man is likely to £o_wrong, inasmuch as there are two of him quite promiuent as pitchers,—ove who was with the Syracuse Stars last year, the other ~ a New Jersey player. h of these Mr. Keck has contracted for, if either, is bard to sav, but the balance of prob- ability is in favor of the Syracu: n. If heis a3 roou as bis reputation, he and Higham will be pitching and catching by the middle of June, and Hicks will be assisting Mathews to tend the patent turnstiles. Toe TRIBUNE wouldu’t for the world predict anything but goud, but it suegests that Mr. Keck has gotten tuzether a “menagerie " if there ever was one in the business; further, that if they all pull to~ ward the centre they will win many more games than they lose; and, furthest, that'if there ever was a man calenlated by nature to manage such an assortinent, J. L. Keek is that man. Three of the tean will learn this year for the first time in their lives what discipline is, This completes the team, and gives the following players, if the last report be true: Highamn and Hicks, c.; Mathews and McCermick, p.; Jones, 1 b.; Hult linan, 2 b.; : Pike, c. £.5 Bootl, 8. 5.3 Foley, 3 b. 5 with the extra pitcher, and catcher, ssler to make another fielder out of. A proper apology is submitted for this suzgestion about placing the team, but no offense is meant. LATEST FROM LOUISVILLE. The Louisville team has now filled its posi- tlons, excepting only one. The Secretary of the League has sent notifications of contracts with ‘W. M. Crowley, Frauk B. Lafferty, and last, but not least. ot Georae W. Hall. The two former were suggested suine timeazo,—the latter came yesterday, and was a genuine surprise, to the writer at least. TuE TRiCNE does not con- sider Hall a wonderful ficlder, but does call him a great help to a nine on account of his oatting. He adds considerably to the Lonisville strengt] where they seem to be most in need, and the engagement is a good thine for both him and the club. The team will very likely be as fol- lows: Snyder and Crowley, ¢.; Devlin and Laf- ferty, p.; Latham, 1 b.; Gerhardt, 2 b.; Hazue, 8 b.; Ryan, Hall, Shaffer, and the change pitch- erand cateher in’ the field. A good sliort-stop is all that is needed, and it fs still likely that Fuliner may come back. This will make eleven men in tue team, and will give plenty of chance for experimenting. Thereis one thingthat is proper toaud as a sort of warning to Louisville people. Last year Hall stood second among all the bat- ters of the country, but he was largely aided in that by the well-known fact that the scores were too often twisted in his favor in games in Phila- delphia. While he is an excellent batsman,—one of the best,—he will not stand as high this year as lust, because he will be scored fairly. Chap- man is credited with saying that Pearce would play in Louisville, and that that would fill the nine. That seems hardly probable, however. There is such a thing asthe screand yellow leaf even in a ball playver. DACK FROM TAE BUCKETES, Tne TRIBUNE said last Sundey, on the author- ity of aletter from Columbus, U., that the bal- ance of power in the Directory of the Buckeve Club of tuat city had been changed from one end to the other of the city. It addedthat it koped Coluiebus would get” tozether a strong team. And now comes the Stcretars of the Backeye Club with reproaches becaase, as he al- leges, Tue TRIBGNE stated that “a sectional strife was in progress.” Nothiuz of the kind was said or intended, and nothing but the best of good wishes were expressed. The Sec- retary, Mr. McDermith, adds the follow- ing, which s good mbews any- wav, without going beck to the other question: “The management of the club is very nearly the same as last year. and the managers are de- termined to do everything in their power to merit the respect, contidence, and patronage of all our base-ball loving citizens. “We have se- cured the following nine: Barnie, c¢.; McCor- mick, p.; Sullivan, 1b.; Strief, 3b.; Spence, 3 b.; Burke, &. s.; Booth, 1. f.; Fleet, ¢ f.; Muguer, r. £ This is a5 it should be and a strong vine, exceptine only the pitcher, who is not kuown to the writer, and upon whose abil- ities he cannot therefore express 2n opinion. The first base_is considerably better than with Foran, but it isn’t exactly ciear whether Mansell wouldn’t have been better than Fleet. Mamuer isa very strong fielder. By the way, it is strange that the Cinciunati® Enquirer should authoritatively announce another nine for the Buckeyes cousiderably different from the one whicli the Secretary gives out, and thea walk up the tender back of all who deny that Clack is to play in Columbas. Why should Clack be wade a terror unto us?! SCATTERED SEMI-PROFESSIONALISMS, ‘The Live Oaks, of Lyun, Mass., have engaged Mason, of Philadelphia, as first-baseman and change catcher. The Fairbanks has arranged with the St. Paul nine for a series of games, three of which will be played on the zroands of each club. The San Francisco Club, which made such a disastrous trip across the Coutinent last season, proposes to reorganize and try it azain. Up to date, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Milwaukee, and Mempbis are reported as having joined the League Alliance. Three more names will be re- ceived this week. It is said that the Erle (Pa.) Club wilt be strong this vear, rallving around Knight, for- merly of the Athletics, as pitcher, und Pfiffer, 8lso of Philadelphia, a3 eateher. The statement that the St. Paul Club (“ Red Caps”) halsigned the Leazue Alliance agrec- ment {s corroborated by the notice from the See- retary of the Ceague that effect. The Convention for the formation of a new Association wiil be held Tuesday of this week at Pittsbure. Itis hard to predict what the outcome will be. but it canuot very seriously af- fect ball in the West or Northwest. The Franklins of this city are taking their ex- ercise in_a hand-ball court on North Water street. They will have about the same nine as last season, with the exception of Gillen fur pit:her, and may be Carbine at first-base. It is gaid that the latter is likely to get bis release from Milwankee. The Khode Island Club of Providence is ex- ccting to reorzanize at once, aud it is said that itterson. of last year's Atnletivs, will catch for them. Abadie, orice with the Philaelphia Cen- tennials, and ~Golbraith also expeet to play with the team. If the “ Rhodys ™ keep Critch- ley as pitcher he will drive Ritterson right through the backstop before the first game is over. The full nine of the Indianapolis Club, as sent to the Secretary of the League by the man- agers, under the League Alllance agreement, i3 as follows: Edward Nolan, p.: Fraok S. Flint, «.; Charles Houtz, 1b.; Joe Milier, 2 b.5 John B. McSorler, 3 b.; Dennis J. McGee (* Mack "), 5. 5.3 M. Golden, 1. f.; F.J. P. Warner. . £.} Ad Roeop, r. L3 J. D Julian, W. C. subs. The position which the Syracuse Stars take in the Dorgun mutter, as_appears from latest ad- vices, is that he signed a preliminary contract presented to.nim by Clapp on bebalf of St. Louis, and thatit was nota contract atall under the Leazue rules, because it had no wit- ness as demanded by See. 1 of Art. XI. While that alone aeld him to_St. Louis, he sigaed a a full contract with the Stars, atd, suill later, a full contract with St. Louis. It IS now statéd, on the best authority which can for the time be had, that Dorgan will not go to St. Louis in any case. To this THE TRIBUSE adds, mjall open- ness of heart, that it has no doubt that the next rumor will be that the same Dorgan positively promises to play with the Browns. It thererore renews its sugwestions that some measures be taken to suppress men Wilo sign contracts with two clubs on successive days. The Red Stockinz Ball Club of Memphis, Tenn., have signed the Leazue Alliance agree- ment, and sent a -copy thereof to the Secretary of the League. This is oneof the strongust clubs 1n the South, being on a professional basis and backe:d by a strony association. The list of players, as annonnced by Mr. Young, is as fol- Jows: J. N. Van Burkalow, p.; D, Keanedx, c.; Qscar Walker, 1 b.; John Shoup, 2 b,; Andrew Cummings, s.s.; Ben Brookshaw, 8 b.; Will- iam Moore, L f.; Thomas Loftus,c. f.; R. A, Maloney, r. £. The inficld has not 2 weak spot, Shoup being especially strong. It is rather discouraging work trying to get news out of these semi-professional fellows; fur instance, one of the Directors of the St. Paul Club was in the city a wlile azo and a Trisoss reporter asked about the prospeets for his club and other teamns in Minnesota, and put down what be said and published its substance. And now comes the St. Paut Press and denies every- thing, saving thatonly thrce men (Bochli, Gross, and Gault) are under contract to the Red Caps, and that things are not so *‘booming” ag Mr. Spencer aftirmed they were. Sorry to hear it. Se¢nd us down a man next time Who wou't hoax us. THE BAG. ‘The Enquirer proposcs to hyphenate Bob Fer- son’s team and call it the * Hartford-New avens.” Thomas Barlow, formerly of the Hartfords, is himself agaig after a protracted {llness, und will be able to %ield the bat awain this season. Smith, Jones, and Brown are under contract with Leagne ctubs. Robinson retired -from base-ball when the Olympics of Washington dis- banded. Out of ninety-two players who participated in more than six Leazue matches last year, six of the nine having the hirhest - batting averages were members of the Chicago Club. Barnes and McVey are putting in some time daily with a detegation of the Falrbanks Club in the Athewenm eymuasium. Within a month the whole Chicago nine will be found at work. The engagement of C. IT. Gon!d by the Cin- cinnati Club is officially announced.” It is un- derstood that he will_probably not play very much, but rather atteud to the business end of the wasp. Al Wright quotes the Globe-Denocrat as an autnority.” As that paper hus hetd up Wrizht to its readers #s a lar und swindler, it must be conceded that Wright has good reason to believe its statement St. Louis, with its usual disregard to right- cousness, chose last Sunday as a proper time to open the base-bull season.” A picked nine, con- sisting of Pearce, Pike, Croft, Seward, Dolan, Loftus, Magner, J. ana A. Blong, defeated the amateur Grand Avenues by 13 to 3. ‘The Cincinnati Enquirer says: *“The amateur clubs of Chicago are following the exawmple of the Cincinuuati and St. Lovis clus, and on the 15th of April will fortn a Local League Associa- tion.” The slight error is that Clicaro has had a flourishing association in existence for a year, the championship pennaat being held by the Franklins. Following is the Cincinnati Enquirer's theory about opening the scason: “The openinw of the Leazue scries hus not vet been arranged, but it is probavle that it will be, first of all, two eames each between the Chicagos and Cincin- nutis fn Cincinnati, and tne St. Louis Browns aud Louisvilles in Louisville, about the last of April. The Cincivunati aud Louisville zrounds arc the dryest of any in the West, and most likely tobe first in a condition to be played on.’” QUESTIONS ANSWERED. BosToN—Wright, of the Boston Juniors, is stop- ping at No. 557 Fulton strect, city. A. B. T.—Cannot undertake to publish a colamn of statistics. Prefer that signature shall indicaie subject of question. TuRre BaLrs—Dy a change in Sec. 8, Rule VT., the player i3 out unless he run 10 first when given his base on called balls, RuN-GETTEn—The three highest averages of runs srr game in 1875 were made, in the order named, by Barnes, Addy, and Peters, of the Chi- cago Cinb, Cxrine—The object of the ruleis to compel Dbrisk play by the side atbat. It leaves yon no discre- tion; you must decide the striker out if he delays one minule 1n taking his porition at the bat. Scorer—You will find the new rules quite simg ple in thelr practical working. They arc all base on the principle of ziving every player credit for his individual work in the fcld, and for the product of his individual effort at the bat. BASE-RUNNER—A is on first when B bata to left field. A maies second, a ris for third. The ball being fielded to third., eturns to second, al- ready occupied by B. -Both are touchbed by ball while etanding on second; who is ont? Ans.—B. E. M. B., Cuicaco—How many errors were made by McVer in the game with the Iartfords on the 4th of last July? 2.—Uow many errors were made altogetner, and by whom? dine.—1. (2) White, 1; McVey, 1; Dielaski, 2; Ferguson, 1; Bond, 1; Mills, 1. Juston, Milwaukee— uniforms or supply you w you can get the same East. As between the Lwo e refuse to express any preference. So long as either s good cnough, why should it be Inquired into which Is best? MavacEr—Last year therule required applica- tion to be made to the League Secretary for all such information. As amended at Cleveland, the League constitution now. requires the Scerefary to immediately issue notices of all _contr leases, and expulsion of players. Such noti er firm will make your 2 materinls better thun sent to League and League Alliance clubs alike. E. G. F., Coicaco=1—If the pitcher delivers the ball and It etrikes the home base, is it a dead ball or is 1t an error to be charged to the —If aman is on base, can he ron er lots the ball go outof if Ans.: (1) It does not make a ball dead to hit the plate; it muost hit the bats- man, the bat (withont intent to strike at it), or the umpire, to become dexd. To hit the plate gives no error to the pitcher unless it isa ** wild pitch " or the nintn ball which gives a base. (2) A base-run- mer can rap on a ball whicn hits the plate if it be notdead. (3) If he drops it accidentally it is mot. THE TURF. TUE FIRST MEETING AT DEXTER PARE. Below will be found the programme arranged by the management for the first summer meet- ing at Dexter Park, which will begin on Satur- day, June 30, and continue through Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the following week. It will be seen that the card for each day’s sport includes a varicty of interesting events, not for- getting a trot for the benefit of those who are partial to that style of racing, and the purses in each case are so liberal that a fine ficld of start- ers in every event is assured. The three stake races cannot fail to prove extremely interesting, and the fact that the winner of the Garden City Stake will be penalized with an extra five pounds in the Dexter Park Stake will make the latter event doubly interesting. The running meetings at Dexter Park have always been a success, and that of the present year will prove no exception to the rule. The programme is as follows: itcher? 2. FINET DAY. rge $250, one mile and o guarter dash, 200 to first, $50 to second. 3 —Garden City Stake, for 3-year-olds, p.p. ; €50 cach, £300 added; second horse to receive To close June 1. No. 3.—Purse S300, mile heats, for all ages; 8250 10 first, $50 fo recond. Trotting purse 3500, mile h three in five, for horses that have never beaten $ S250 to first, $125 to second, $75 to third, 850 to fourth. SECOND DAY. No. 4,—Parse $200, one_mile and one-eighth, es: $150 to first, 350 1o second. Tiotel Stake for 2-year-olds, 3 # added: wecond horse to receive S5 shof three-quarters of a mile. To close June 1. No. §.—Purse S0, dash of two miles, for all 30 to first. $1C0 to second. Trotting purse $600, for horses that have never beaten 2:40: $300 to irst, $150 to second, $Y0 to third, SG0 to foarth. THIRD DAT. No. 7.—Parse S300, dash of & mile and three- quarters, for all ages: 3250 to frat, $50 to second. No. 8.—Dester Park Stake for 4-year-olds, $50 each, p. p.. 5300 added; dash of oneani one- half iniles, the winner of the Garden City Stake to garey five pounds penalty; second horse to receive 51\_ . o, To close June 1. . 9. —Purse §500; dash of two and thrce- quarter miles; $350 2o irst, $100 to second, $30 to third. Trotting purse. 51,007 for horses of the 2:26 class, $500 to first, 5250 to second, $150 to third, $100 to fourth. FOURTH DAT, No. 10.—Parse $500: two miles and repeat, for allages; $450 to first, 5150 to second. No. 1. Consolation Pacse of $200; horaes beat- unds, three 5J to second. en once allowed five poands, two ten times Gfteen pounds; $150 to firat, Mile and repeat. No. 12 —Pnrse $300; hurdle race. mile heats over eirht hurdles; $200 to first, $30 to gecond; weiter weights. No. 13.—Purse $150 for gentlemen riders; one mile and an cighth; welter weights; $100 to first, $30 to second. % Trotting purse for gentlemen’s roadsters, to road ‘wagons; parse $300: mile heats three in five; $150 to first, $75 to second, $45 to third, S0 to fourth. All races to be ran under Lexinzton rules. This programme subject to slight modidcatings., THE BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION. The National Association of Trotting-Horse Breeders, which was recently orzanized in New York with considerable pomp and ceremony, is in danger of being dissolved in a very summary manner from the combined effects of the inter- Dal strife which bids falr to begin before the fn- fant orzanization has passed its babyhood, and the virorous attacks of outsiders, which have alreadv begun. 1n the early part of the winter a few of the upper-crust class of trotting-horse breeders met in New York and organized an association, the object of which was to unite the breeders of the country on all essential points apper- taining to their business. The few gen- tlemen who attended this meeting, after fonning themselves into an organization for mutual bencfit and protection, should have stopped rizht there, sent the proceedings of their mecting to all the respectable brecders in the country, and invited thent to join the move- ment. When sutlicient tite had elapsed for all to have considered the wvroposition, u general wmecting should have been called, letting those Jbreeders in_each Stete who could not attend pessonally, designate some member to repre- sent their views and interests. By the adoption ofsome such plan as this, everybody would have been satisfied, aad, to say the feast, the Associa- tion would bave started under more auspicious circumstances than it has thus far been favored with. Buat nothinx of the Kind was done. The thirty gentlemen who were pres- ent apparently labored under the pieas- ant delusion that they composed the entire breedinz interests of the country, and proceeded to adopt a coustitution and by- laws, which provide for about every question that can possibly arise. And this was where the trouble began. ~Other breeders could see no ad- vantage in connecting ‘themselves with an insti- tution, remarding the organization of which they had not been consulted, and whose regulations werein some eases unjust and operessive, and they have naturally thrown cold water on the enterprise whenever an opportunity offered. Take, for instance, the case of Mr. Alden Goldsmith, than whom no breeder in the coun- try is better known or more respected. -Not having been invited to take part i the organiza- tion of the new Association, it is not likely that ke will care to have his name presented for membership when two negative votes are suf- licient to cause its rejection. As the conmsti- tution provides that “in the annual trotting meetings to be held under the auspices of the Association eotries shall be countined to colts_owned- or Lred by members, or the get of stallions owned by members, none of the Vulunteer family, which comprises such horses as Bodine, record 2:194, Huntress, 2:20%, Amy, St. Julien, 2:33¢, Trio, 2:33%, and W, Allen, 2:231(, arc elizible to these riees, so long as Mr. Goldsmith remains outside the Association, and the public will be inclined to frown down any arrangement which is so one-sided in its nature. In fact, on account of this two-ballots-to-reject clause in the constitu- tion, it is not likely that the membership of the Association will largely increase, as the well- known jeatousies of horsemen, and especially breeders, are so deeply rooted in their systems that there is hardly one of the fraternity in the country who would run the risk of having his pride wounded by the rejection of his name when proposed for membership, on the basis of two negative votes belng suflicient to accomplish that result. Another weak point in the constitution i3 the section relative to public sales of stock by num- bevs. It provides, among other things, that “ Every head of stock offered shall be sold, if any bid whatever be made.” As a previous sec- tion prohibits the owner of stock from bidding on it, the rule places the breeder, in case of bad weather and a small attendance on thie day of sule, entirely at the merey of the few sharpers who are sure to be on band, and, if but two of them were present, they could compel the un- fortunate proprietor to vlace the most valuable animals tu the catalogue on sale, and if one bid were made he would be forced to accept it. Such a provision as this is simply absurd, and should be moditied at once. In rezard to the objects of the Associa- tion, nothing derogatory can be said. The careful serutiny “of pedigrees is a matter that has become doubly im- portant since blood is the standard by which young_stock is bouzht and sold, and the work of the breeders in this direction caunot fail to be of great benefit to all interested in the im- provement of the trotting borse. The mistake of doing too much at once was made by the pro- jectors of the orzanization, but carly fauits are not ditlicult to correct, and if Mr. Backman and his fellow breeders will make their Assoviation less of a close-corporation concern, and remodel its constitutiou, it cannot fail of success. EARLY SPRING EVENTS. Although in this section of the country the horsemen are still encircling the cheerful stove in the down-towu bar-rooms, and devoting their encrgies to tae consumption of tobacco and the relativn of yarns that would make even Dan Mace pause in respectful silence, their brethren in the South, and_espeeially the running-horse fraternity, are inthe midst of active preparations for the coming camyaign, and the thoroughbreds arereceiving walking exercise, with an ocrasional *‘breeze” for a quarter or balf-mile, to expand the lungs and reduce the surplus fat. Horses that arc entered in the ecarly fixed events ot the coming sprinz are of course further ad- vanced in their rreparation. The only race- horses of merit owned {n Chicazo are Aramis and The Nipper; both of these are now at New Orleans in charge of Mike Welch. and will take partin the Lousville meeting, The Nipper be- ing in the cup, where Ten Broe.k and Aristides will strugele for the supremacy. ‘The earliest sprinz event of consequence’will be the mecting at Baltimore under the auspices of the Maryland Jockey Club, which begins May 22, and coutinues three days. The amount bung up in purses and additions to stakes reazhes $10,000, and the entirc programme embraces eighteen - races. Tue most notable events will be the Chesa- peake stake for three-year-old fillies, which closed last August with’ thirteen nomiua- tions, and wiich were those notable two-year olds of last scason, Zoo-Zoo, Idolia, and Oriole. ‘The Baltimore Cup, $30 each, h. f., which closes Mareh 1; the Preakness Stake, which closed last August with _seventecen nominations, among which were Bombast, Oriole, Lottery, and Lounger, all good ones; and the Grand Steeple Chase Post Stakes, of $30 each, h. 1., to close March 1. The Dixie Stakes for1875, and the Breckenridge Stakes for 1877, are now open, and will close March 1. ABOUT BUDD DOBLE. Probably no driver in the country has been the recipient of more praise and_tattery from the press and public than Budd Doble. ~When Uoldsmith Maid placed berself at the head of the Awmerican trotting turf, by putting in turee heats below 2:20, and’ wiping _ont Dexter's record, she took Budd Doble along with her, and the Foung man who had previous- Iv been regarded as merely an average haudler of trotters was, inthe mindsof the public, transformed into a second Hiram Woodrufl, a man who could make any horsc trot. It is-an old saying amoig horsemen that it you have one good trotter you can get all the others,” and this was_never better exemplified than inthe caseof Doble. When the Maid Jowered the time standard, the great majority of people imagined that Doble did it all, and from that time his_success was assured. Bvery maun owning a good horse was anxious to place it in Doble’s stable, and it is a fact that Budd has been extremely successful with these horses. But this1s not at all strange. Iu the first place, since the Maid establisbed his repu- tation, he has not taken a bhorse that had not shown great speed, either in public contests or private trials, before passing into his hands. horndale and Clementine ml%ht be cited by some ns exceptions to this rule, but, in the case of the former, he won a colt race in fast time, aud had frequently shown half-mile heats fn 1:12, while being used for stad purposes at. Mr. Thorn’s breeding-furm, and Clementine was Known to possess a World of_speed, and to be a dead-zame trotter, when in the hands of Graves omis, of this city. &x{‘x:lhtr thing that bas attracted the attention of horsemen, and which the geueral publicover- looks, s that the horses in Doble’s string are al- ways in the flower of condition, and fit to trot for a man’s life. To havea horse in trotting form during the cntire campaln is half the vic- tory, especially when the contests are close, and the heats divided. Everybody who witnessed the race at the Cleveland meeting In 1575 be- tween Clementine and May Queen, one driven by Doble, the other by Charlie Green, saw that aithough the former was suffering from bad feet, she finished every mile of that six-heat contest in 2 manner that showed her to be inthe prime of coudition, and ft was the opinion of any good judges that it was to this that she owed her victory, rather than to any advantage in spevd or skiliful driving. The creditof keep- inz Doble’s horses in such fine fix to trot, should be given to ¢ 0id Charles,” the vetcran who has charge of their stable management and exercise. It is his eye that watcies each horse in its daily jogging, and his province to say when they shall start in_a race. Oflce on the track, and while * the putt{ work? is being done, Doble is in command, but when 3 heat is finished, and the horse zoes to the sub’le"ue:n- Dbling in every limb, it is **Old Charley’s 7 skill that cools out the exhausted animal in the most approved mapner, so_that when the bell sounds for the mext heat, the horse appears on the track fit to trot. Whie Badd Doble is undoubtedly one of the bestdrivers in the coun- trr, and much of his stable’s success is dac to the skillfal hand and cool head that guides the horses in a race, it is also true that the all-essen- tial work of ** conditioning 7" these horses is In the hands of another man. While on the subject of Doble, it may be well to state that the rumors which have been in cir- calation for some time, to the effect that he in- tends abandoning the turf and assuming charge of the hotel being built in San Frencisco by his father-in-law, “Lucky” Baldwin, cannot he tracde to any reliable source, and are prohably Without fouudation. CHARTER-OAX PARK. Whencver a man is heard abusing the Se tilateral Associations for the barefaced frauis perpetrated annually under their auspices, it is noticeable thas Charter-Oak Park, at Hartford, is always excepted from the geueral anathema, Ovwners, drivers, betting men, and the gederal ublic Lave for years united {1 nccording the artiord track & meed of praise, it having al- ways been conducted on the anvicnt and sadly- neglected maxim relative to honesty being the best poticy. - As the crooked work of the linewf robbers’ roosts from Cleveland to S ringfisld has been 5o often shown up by Tae Trisuss, itis nut necessary torefer to it in this con- nection, except “as illustrating how an bonest concern suffers by association with 4 lob of scaly ones. The people of Hartfond have endeavored to give trotting meetings, con- ducted “on the square” from start to finish, but they joined hands with the gang controlled by Buffalo and Cleveland, and the resglt has been disastrous. The stockholders held their annual meeting last Tuesday, and were met by the discouraging fact that the Association was in a pad way finan- cially. The Treasurer’s report was painfully brief, and dealt largely in glittering generali- ties, striking hard pan but once, when the re- ceipts of the year were stated to be $62752.28, and the expenditures the same. The fa:t thag the Association js laboring under a debt of $52,82.50 was skipped over very lichtly, but from other sources it is learned that 350,000 of this lisbility is sccared by mortzage on the grounds and bulldings, the retmain- der being floatiug debt. From these fia- ares it will be scen that Charter Qak Park is In o bad war, and as _those Interested in its management are no doubt painfully aware of this fact, the best thinz they can do is to ac- knowledge what is apparent to every one: that the Septilateral is a failurc except so far as the first four associations in the line are concerned, and witndraw from an alliance that can only re- sult disastrously. It wus shown in this 47:\08!' some time ago that by the time the trotters reached Poughkeepsie ou their march to the Atlantic, the contests in the different classes were narrowed down to comparatively few horses; that the public, knowing this, and beiny further aware that the drivers of these tiorses would arrange the races tosuit their iuterestsand those of the pool- box, refused to attend, and the meetingsat Hart- ford and Springficld were only saved from total failure by *‘the free-for-nll dav,” when the Maid, Smuggler, and Fullerton came together, The plan to remedy the evil lately put forward g:y some who are intcrested in the tracks at the astern end of the Septilateral is a good one. ‘1t cousists simply in a new system of closing the entries, providing that the light tracks, beginning at_Cleveland and ending at Fleet: wood Park, give meetings, as usnal, on su-ces- sive weels, but that the eutries be broken every two weeks. That is, let those for Cleve- land and Buffalo close oue week before the Cleveland mecting, those for Rochester and Utica one week before the Rochester meeting, those for Poughkeepsie and Hartiord on: weck before the Poughkeepsie meeting, ete.; records obtained by horses to take effect at once, put- ting them’ in faster classes at subsequent mectings. The advantages of this plan will be appreciated by all. The old system of havine the entrles for the seven mectings closc at the same time was s sense- less as it was unjust. It tooka small fortune to pay entrauce-fees all the wav through, and the money was called for in advance. Then if a horse went lame, or at an early meeting proved too slow for its class, the unfortunate owner could cither pocket his loss and “jump his ilities and be exspelled from all National Association tracks. The working of the present system of entries as enforced by the Scotilateral, was beaatifully illustrated in the 2:36 class 1ast vear, in whichi aboutiiftcen horses were entere Among them were Gov. Sprague, Mambrino Kate, and Irene, and some member of this trio captured the purse at every polut, the others takine second and third moneys, while the balance of the horses trotted meekly in the rear, the drivers disbursing profanity at every revolution of the sulky wheels, and wishing that the earth might open and swallow the three leaders. Under the proposed system, which has been adopted, with unimportant changes, by the stewards of the Septilateral, such one-sided affairs will be obviated. If a horse in the 2:36 race at Clevland trots a heat in 2:2%, at Rochester it will be put where it belongs, in the 2:24 class. It will thus be impossible for a horse to have a walk-away at more than two meetings, and at the same time it will place the horses afliicted with *the slows in & position where they will have a chance to win. Y HORSEMAN’ TALKS BACK. 7o the Editor of The Tribune. Corcaco, Feb. 17.—My cowmaunication in Tz TRIBUNE two weeks ago relative tu the pro- pose joint session of the Board of Appeals for the Atlantic District and the Stewards of the Septilateral tracks evidently touches a _tencer spot in the hide or conscience of the editor of ‘he Spirit of the Times, and in the last issue of that paoer e respouds with the following, the italics being my own: A correspondent of THE CmicAGo 'TRIECSE ‘makes some comments on the csll for a meeting of the Board of Stewards of the Grand Circuit, to be Ield in this city next week, and seems to be much aggrieved becanse it {s simultancous with a meet- ing of the Board of Apveals for the Atlantic Dis- trict, Ilis cluef " trouble appears to that the Board of Appcals should bhave nothing to do with making arranzements for races, and also a fear that some dinners will be eaten on the occasion. The simple fact 13 that some of the Stewards are also members of the Board of Appeals, and a simnltaneous meet- ing of the two bodies relieves them from making two journeys. Mr. Bush, who makes the call, is not a member of the Board of Appeals. ZThedulies of the two bodies are enlirely distinct. AS for the dlnners, we presume the pentlemen comprising the Loard of Stewards will eat what they want and pay for it, or elsc cliurze the expense to their re- spective tracks, which 13 their vxclusive business, Barrinz a_little bad grammarand general clumsiness of construction, the above serves the purpose of those who coincide with my views on ks subject very well. ‘The man who wrote it no doubt imagined that he was dis- posing of the grumbling Westerners and their arguments very effectively. But in a moment of fnspired trutiulness he says “The duties of the two bodies are estirely distinet,” thereby ad- mitting the truth of my former statement and indirectly justifying my criticisms. It was pre- cisely this fact that I took for my text in the former coinmunication, and endeavored to elab- orate to tie satisfaction of seusible men. The duties of the two bodies are entirely distinct, aud it was the ignoring of this fact by Mr. Bush wien be published his call that provoked com- ment. The fact that some of the gentlemen are members of both Boards has nothinz ac all to do with the matter. A policeman might be & Presbyterian, buc that tact should not prevent him from arresting a fellow church-member it lic caugnt him violating a city ordinance. Just so with the gentlemen who are members of the Board of Appeals and of the Board or Stewards; the Uolding of one official position should not intlueuce them in the fulfillwent of duties apertaining to anothier, but such inlluencing was exactly what was contemplated when the joint meeting of Stesrards and tie Appeal Board was called. It is gratilving to Jearn that the parties di- rectly interested appreciatea the situation bet- ter than did the editor of the Spirit, as the pro- posed joint mecting was abandoned, the Board of Appeals holdiug its session lust Tuesday and the Stewards putting up their jobs oo the fol- lowing day. HORSEMAN. TRACK TALK. The well-known rupuing wmare, Emma Lee, has been sent to the Speedwell Stoek Farm, in Penusylvania, to breed trotters. An effort i3 being made to establish a trotting track at Indianapolis, but the project does ot meet with much encouragement. Lady McFatridge, amare that created quite a sensation by her perfurmances in the illinois Circuit two years a%o, is_befng jogwed i this city preparatory to the spring campuign. An effort is being made to trace the breeding of the dam of Goldswmith Matd. As Miss Gold~ smith is a goy und artless creature of 20 years, it is proper that her family connections be looked into. Col. J. H. Cailee, of Louisville, has purchased of Mr. Linck, at Nushville, the young trotting mare Mina Linck, for $1,200. Miua is 7 years old, has arecord of 2:33, and Is said to be able to beat 2:30. ‘Webber, owned by W. 8. Wheelock, of Mo- line; and o horse of unusual promise, has been withdrawn from sale, and will make the cam- F;lgnflnen year under the guidance of W. W. amilton. Pedigree sharps are considerably exercised over the breeding of the dam of Alexander's Abdallah, the sire of Lulu, Thorudale, and oth- ergood ones. From present appearances, it would seem to be 2 matter susceptible of con- siderable investigation. Albermarle, the horse that became notorious thronzn the machiuations of the ace-Vanness eang in the 2:32 race at Buifalo last summer, ts wintering in New York, not having gone to Cali- fornia, a3 reported. It not probable that Budd Doble will handle him next season, as his record and Bodine’s are 80 nearly alike that they will probably be in the same ::)Y.hs. 5 Afterthe trotting marec Amy B. acquired a record of 2:19}?, which was subsequently re- moved by the vbliging judges at Buffalo, an at- tempt was made to supply her with a pedigree, and she was stated to be by Winnebazo, he by imp. Glencoe. The only foundation for this is the fact that Glencoe had 2 son called Winne- bago, it out of imp. Delight by Reveller. The sire of Amy B. was no doubt called Winnebagu, :fi" }lut he was a son of imp. Glencoe is not at clear. The Stuart District Agricultural Society of Stuart, Ta., are already out with thelr full pro- gramme for July 3, 3, and 4 next. The sum of the money offered is $1,500, and the purses are for trotters in 3-vear-old, +-vear-old, 2:30, free for all, and 8:00 classes, runners in 3¢ mile anl mile beats, and pacers in 2:30 and “tree for ail clesses. Stuart stands on record as the first of the Western tracks to show up definitely even before the snow is off. Therg is some prospect that St. Julien, the noted horse that Orrin ITickok took to California in the winter of 1875-'6, will come East next summer and take part in the Septilateral razes. S:. Julien is a horse of great speed, and can trot all day. He came out fn 1575 as a green horse, captured every race in whi he was entered, n:.}uxmld 3 record of 2:223¢, and trotted the last Dbalf mile of the Hartford trackin 1:08, in a pub- Tic race. The Stewards of tho Michigan_Circait met 1ast Taesday and arranged the spring campaiza as follows: Muskegon, June 5, 6. and 7; Kala- mazoq, June 13, 13, 4, and 15; Grand Rapids, June 19, 20, 21, and 32; Jaclson, June 23, 27, 23, - and 23’ Ddtroit, July B 45 aml 5. _Entrics 10 ¢lose as Tollows: Maskezon and lamazoo, May 30; Grand Raptds, Jackson, and Detroit, .l!’unc 4. Sazinaw has undertaken to vlay smart Py dnimhlf.!_c!ncm:a’s days,—July 13 and on. erhaps it will help them, and thea again— OTHER SPORTS! SUOOTING. A larze number of Chicago sportine men’ went down Calumet-way after ducks Fy 2nd another squad departed yesterday. News s that mallards are plenty down there, and thac the failities for “gun-wad™ are excelient. No wonder that the joining of two such induce. ments has nearly depopulated the business part of Chicago: Aa entertaloment is announced for Tharsday of this week at the Tolleston Club-House for the benefit of the Superintendent. The only Lint anywhere given as to the character of the entertainment Iu the invitation is the following myitical line on the ticket: « 14 oz shot, powder unlimited.” A special car for members and their friends witl leave the Michigun Central deublullan \\'L'tdul.;sd.:li'I at 3:50p. m.” The team will also meet the Michi; Central train at 8:30 a. m.. Thursday. s The Audubon Clab’s shoot for its diamond medal was concluded yesterdav, havinz been adjourned from the previous Saturday becanse darkness came on before the birds could all be. shotat. The conditions were fift.en birds at thirty yards rise from five ground-traps. There were twenty-thrce cotries. When the contestants " went upon the sround yesterdav ,Tom Stage was fn the lead, with - ten killed out of thirteen shot at. He killed one and lost one of the rematn- ing two, while Sheriff Kern killed both his re- maining birds. making his score a tle with Stage’s. In the shoot-off at five birds Stagy killed four and Kern three, aud the former took. the emblem. There were three entries foru silver casket, which was won by C. E. Felton. A twenty-five-pound kes of powder was then pat up and four catries were had. G. W. Barnard won by killing five pirds straizht at the usual conditivns, * A line case of stuffed birds was then put up for ten entries. Of these Tay- lor, Morris, and Barnard killed their five straight, and in the tic Morris won. WRESTLING. - The wrestling mat:h heretofore announmeed . to take place between Horace Brinkand Pat Brennan for $30) has been set for Saturday next at MeCormick’s Hall, and the stae money bas all been deposited with Thomas Hayden. The contest betyeen these athletes will be an. interestingz on2, as both of them are excellent wrestlers at the collar-and-clbow style. Brink cla‘med the championship of Ilinois upon de- {feating Becker. but_he will have to stragele to keep it away from Breanan. ROCKSTS. A game of rockets for 3100 will be plaved at 2 o'clock this alternoon at Carmody & O'Mal- ley’s court, on Chicago avenue, between Thomas Terzus and Huch® Herrity against Thomas O’Malley 2ad John Langan. ——— Help for the weak, nervous, and debilitated; chronic and vainful diseases cured without medi- cine. 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