Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1878, Page 7

w Words with the Anti-Leaguers The Sitnation in Provi- dence, AFe seraps of Ball News from Syra- cuse, St. Louis, and Other Cities. gy Fhiladelphis and Brooklyn Grounds Dismantiled and S catUp. - ) Yaried aud Inierestivg Assoriment of News Pertaining to the Turf. n,g_filass—Ball Match Between: the Audubon and Chi- ., eago Clubs. . The Billiard Tournament---Notes from *""" Other Kinds of Sports. BASE-BALL. TAE TRIDUNE'S REGISTER. The following-described players are open to en- ents: - R AXD CHANGE CATCHER-A PLAYER D boen in Lex t becn in Leagus and, Ioicrnacional teauts record a4 bater and_felder. wants an B Rt for 1574, Would prefer the \Wests conid (At team, Address ONE, care Sporting Depart- S CricAGO TEIBUNE. & Western Club fast year would Iike an ‘offer for Das permlesion to refer 10 niy iate Cluh. Address L st Sporting Department Cuicauo THLIUNE. s:wsm BA PLAYER WHO WAS WITH ¥ ITCHER-A SUCCESSFUL PITCHER IN A P eacue Alltance Clublast vear wonld lik Boatis contracs for 1678, Docs not. drink, FHKEE. care Sporiing Department CuICAGH “A chort description similar 10 the above will be faserted in thisicolumn every Sunday until the siyergets an- engagement or until the scason opens, Jor onc payment of §3, which must accom- pny. the application to this paver. Applications by dubs may be made on the same terms. Letters seieised for plasers or clubs will ‘be forwarded to them promptly. g THE WAR ON THE LEAGUE. Justat present the papers in non-League citics sreendesvoring by eheer weight of clamor and resonsnee of din to persuade people that the Lesgue his oppressed them, and, one paper eays, has Kicked” them. The papers making tms clamor e well €ituated 80 to do. Perhaps the loudest spdmost vindictive is the St. Louis organ, which contributed materially by its advice and assistance 1kill the #ed Sox and Brown Stockings in succes- tion, 20d_paturally coneiders itself competent to wirite other clubs how to reach bankruptcy and rin. The Pitteburg papers slso spesk from a vast fmowledge ot how 10 ruina club. Buffalo papers are well intentioned, but oh how swectly fresh! SIX MONTHS' EXPERIENCE of Gtlvin, Dolan, Force, and Fulmer will pat pore zew idessinto them than they can et any etberway. The Syracuse Couricr has astonished such of its readers as ore ball-men, by flonrishing the red rag in the kope that some of the balls will jumpatit. Dntthey won't jurcp, it may cepend. e ioue made by.all shese papers is entircly 3 fudse ome; they claim to be indignant ve. cnse the' Leazue has oppressed the clubs ot membera of its orzunization, and aitemoted to toerce thens: but not one instance bas Leen ad- Jzoed to indicatc any such atiempt or intention. The Leazue was forined to correct ewvils which were hurtinz the same. By its formation it killed of he vorst club that ever diszraced ths country— the Philadelphia, Atthe eadof ayear it Kicked out 1wo other concerns., and they =t once died. Daring the year 1870 the managers had found a et deal of revolving, and oue vear ago it loznded aa ortside orpanization called TAE LEAGUE ALLIANCE, which was larvely joied und did msch good. So fer this Lesgue bus carried straght throush the gorEwhich it commenced, und from what is known of hs oficers and members it is safe to say that it will continu The idea of from 1 marked out bas orodably never occarred to them, aud the twaddle about *‘forcing the League to back down "' is the wildest lauacy. The Leaga Totsuit fcs hem clubs and it voted 10 dis- isnot at a1l worthy of “The question of guzrante therow. that 15 wade 2bozt it The clubs have d 1) 4 proszered in so domg. e prizciple is enouiu: if the Bufalo Clzb cznaut draw cnodzh of an_avdicnce on the TeColo crounes (o vive a visiting club $100, then itcsmaot pay expenser, and bss no busindss to i1 way be well to call to the minds of the un- thinkin people who arc Jikely to he carried awav by toe clamor of the outsiders, tuat it is rezular thing eyery winter. Thiere w: load 1alk on.ochelf of tie Phiiadelphia Clnd the Leaguo wus formec, A Year azo now there ¥as ten times as much League, bot nothinz happened. and the ni camved before a bali Itis our winter entertainmien +-hall W nuther like 1. Jt.does no barm and a clildren. MATTERS IN PROVIDENCE. 1t isnot ‘clear that matters are jnst ex smooth with Dozglas” project in Providence. I Sunday Drpetcliof that ety has the following mzzestion: Ttbse beca nctmated by 8 ceriafn parts who saw 1hescbscrintion pupar that was o By M Iouziass for signasurns 1o 12 560 3 ‘Uatthe aflalr lovked = litde craviced to him. ¢ hig reason (hat 10y signatures were Wri fameband-writing. The question then arises, € such the Lase, whether or not it wa3 a_ pui-up job, e arport of which was ty secure the names of those who oild mther arefer to see tho. cavy aud responsi- Bemeninseribed thercon peiol adfled thelss. chances arc thaz whed the seasoa opeas there wilj Deaoiger demand made for subscripuons *because *ome of the parties have falled to come forward and The Dispetch thinks thut another team, under te mdvazeraent of Gen. Dennis. 1# quite likeiy 1o #ipear. 1t adds that Corv. & noted local piteher, 11520t elgmea with Douziass, 2§ was reparted, ‘The DonglsssAssociation Beld 'a meeting Monday fvening, tnd clected the foijowinz otficers: John . Thurston, President: Benjumin Doulass, Cor- Teeponding Secretary and Mavazer: Fhilip Case, Treaturer. The Doard of Directors was also elected uz follows: H. A. Church. L. & Blooa- 1L T. Reot, 3. B. Meade, and Joun C. wles. “Abont'$2.000 of the §3.000 of stock fubscnbed was represenicd. The meetiug ad- m& after agreeing to increase the stock to ite the TRAPS AND GALAMITIES. The Pacific Coast ball cluos have united in the fomation of a league which takes in eizht clabs. A Philsdelphia paper says that Jim White is just fow repenting, bat it omiits fo say what troudles hit conscience, e Clipper axe that the Tnion Grounds in ooklyn are 1o be torn up in March nest. This eads the prospect of a ball club in that city. W. A Hulbert, President of the Chicagn Club &daf the Leacue, has been confined 10 his house l"*-fly 21l the weck by a severe attack of rhenma- The oficial announcements for the week are of Begnpieecient of Peters and release of Morgan 7 e Milwaukees. It also appears from anotaer Rurce thae the Mifwaukees lave made up their Minds 10 retain Ellick, after all. bl extraordinary ramor is afloat tnat Drattle- M. V., is to have a semi-professional club. ¥l have tronble to zut the eecond grade of Rolessionals to go uto that State when they learn Hata surict Maine taiw 1s in force. b #0ek company s, savs n correspondent at gteld, Sasts Toeia “orsuniced 10 suppare & feesiona] (Leazne Addiance) team for the com- wogteseon. W. S, Arnold, the well-known man- ;z}r:nm:e Rhode Isiands of 1876 und Auburns of 47Ul manaze the Club, and is at present g the playere. — Clinper. B¢ Oonsercator, of this city, says that it is ’l*;gmt the Unigue Clud: (cotored)” will be put macer for the coming sesson. Ipasmuch a8 no Ton otk Plased in tiiis country produced half the The Dniqnes Siven by the zreat contest between uacmfi"},’m'“{h Stockings. of St Louis, for o nshi; \ ¢t i 13 Tilaags pigystip of the Weet, the liope is that the + The second jee. g v : sawe of the season inthe West was Hedat the Well Side Rink Wedncstay of 1ast Faley, (e Picked nine, composed of Rel o, i L2Eham, 1 b.; Spalding, 2 b, 2«1:0 Gardner.'s. &. 3" Lavwler, 1. 1. ; Cone. ¢ x,,!;&:-‘k&m;hc{ Franklins by 21 to 1&1. ice <8 s the 1ce is SO0 "'@'."“Ptefercnmcg? asgoonas the ice 3 P bEserball clob im e s i sueinz orzanized to represent P““’”{g:pnlhe feld nest summer. " Sullizun, ate t e Leafe. of Canads; Phillips. who Bi§hed for the Eric Club; Luno, of the Standards, o “Deacon *'Tlozan, 22d Sam Walkin- for s OEaNizing on tae co-operative principle the gyocTt season. The Club is to be known 25 s Mleghenles.— fercury. P alug bas been acsigmed. the work of publish- AF the Leammo Hoak for Tora. "Get 1 ot soon. Tules wepp “oppnC boys have a chance to stady the Eiengy Thes all need to.~Clipper. This s et ot %‘Na misprint. What was meant was, Yok mu'x.fifi';“fi’;i‘” !nox;. £0 that w‘euI\'cva' have s chance to stealit ant ,’f";‘"‘;flx books befure the teason opens. " Derhas had oceaci » sttent d occasion before this to_esll iswagion o the trick of aunouncing that a player simply” Baplace, andhas an offer from there. fablic | py’ EO v-3 Gilles- wag 8 desirsble man. in- My 5,2t and " e Paviadelpala + Qisagen. ve Egcler is wanted by the A and tuat ** he .gion under the 70,000 innabitants rule, and yet al- *of tweniy kuots o second? How could an able-bodled before t‘hc § ela™ ¥ coming “Besson, T b et will.be scen St e o from s fiopeslon, | Eggler h d cepted. and has ot becn remsaton | o The grounds which the Athletic Clab usedto oc- | ® il accept. THE ‘CHICAGO “TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 20 187E—SIXTEEN PAGES. the mstter was 'of conrse referred to .the judges, who promptly ruled him ont. Mr..Mansur-then gavewWaddle half an hour. in which tosecure an- other rider, and .as he- falled to do. ko Crockford nd Bannockburn were started, Renfro being de- Supy have been nbandoned, the fence torn down, | clared distanced by the judees, and'a street run through the playi i e playing portion. The ?fl[’[ of the vround substantially cnfiu Dase-ball in o udel}zhl:. No club has for several years been. e tozet money enonuh to puy players, and to attempt to it up a'ground (except under a credit :’Tngcmcnt) would be an imporeibility. 1t is naid e lute grounds cost $10,000 to At up, but that, of course, 18 about 50 per cent lie. ;. The only matter of note In relation to the zamo in Chicago is the fact that the second ordinance granting the usc of the lake-front to the Chicago Iub was more fortunate than its predeceseor, and became a law. 1t is not greatly different from its | o Predeccesor, except that IU.is drawn with a keener | hatts Chicago, £ye to the protection of the city, -Where anpeared that the city needed protection, or thutany one had offered to malest it. It will be ig:mr:)k;n%belnm any eteps will be taken to fit up ground. Among the ramors_ which just tow infest the Prees is one to the effect that George W, Bradley, ate of the Chicaros, will play with the Tecomsehs this year: that Egzler has an offer from the Chi- | & €agos which he will accent, also that he will play | & “with the Teca a team for New Yorks that Pittsburg will be repre- seuted by a co-operative team, formed ona basis of Lane, Hozun. and Wilkinson, late of the Stand- ards of Wheeliuz; that Douglass has promiced to | b play Hines at sccond-base and Murnan in the feld of his new team. District-Attorney Catlin, of Brookiyn, N. Y., Bas appointed George Zetilcin, formerly known us | ‘o George, the Charmer, ™ the' old Atlantic_base- | ) ball pitcher, one of his officers, George Bunce, formerly of the Louisville Eagle Club, but latterly | & playing with the amateur Nameless Club, of Brook- lyn, _has deen appointed, by the Mayor of the Iat- Ler city, watchman at the City-Hall at.a_salary of 51.000:)’_(.‘.“4 Mr. John Galvin, formerly of the old Atlantic Club, of Brooklyn, has becn removed | e the National Aesociation Secretary, nd now in, regard to Mr.'\Waddle's statement thiat his son Is not, & professional rider. it is oniy necessary to_ state’ that in I rode Pompey Pillar for A S. Barues, of this city, beating Queen of Diamonds Galesburg rode the same horse for Mr. ‘Barnes in a two-mile dash, -1 o thority that he rode Pompey Pillar at New Or- Teans, and also that be has riddeu - monds. This complaint of being budly treated by the Dexter Park management does not seem to be well founded, and the course of the Turf. Ffeld and.Karm in giving it so much prominence can at Galesburg he and Swect Bay, and at. It is also asscrted on good au- uoen of Dia- nly be explained on the ground that that paper and never foses an opportunity to though it had no- | injure turf inferests ir this clty. MR. VAIL'S MISTAKE. MMr. Thomas J. Vail, the Secretary of the Na- tional Association, bas voluntarily made bimself the central figure of a row which ‘may gerhup& re- sultto his.own disadvantage, and_ whic] tainly teuch him never. position.where a newspaper has a good cbunce to will cer- in to place himself fna sstl Dim. It fa well known that tho most micable fecling does not exist between the two schs; that Dick Pearce will get up' | sporung journals, the Spirit o7 ke Yintes and The T'urf, Field.and Karm. scacons the editors of these rival comfortably busy attending to their legitimate ing the raciug heets are kept isiness of reporting turf events, but in tac long Awatches of the winter there is none of this to be ‘done,:and they while away the hours by abusing verybody 1n general and each other {n particalar. Years 8go, when George Wilkes was at the helm £ the Spirif, that. paper eajoyed a monopoly ! the mews which emanated from the oftice of it being the ficinl organ of the concern. This little arrange. ‘Bent was tinally broken up, and the Turf was ‘permitied to share In the crumbs of news that fell from Mr. Vail's table in the shape of notices of expulsion, suspension, etc. The latter paper, owever, has always felt ratner sore over the in- from an Tnspectorehip in_the Brooklyn (N. Y.) | Jiitice formerly practiced upon it, nd nover loses City Works Department to make room for .come a1 onemore fortunate in Brooklyn politics. —alercury. Tic Clipper asks, **Ilaw is it that the League refused the Hartford Club—Douglas' team—ndumis- lowed Milwuukee to come in?" The serald is not o oppartanity to give dr. Vall a whack. It was near]y thrown into convulsions a short time 220 by the fact that Mr. Vail issued from his offlce a circular stating that the official record of the trotting for 1877 would be nublihed by sub- scription, if atall, and forwarded copies of this the spokesman of the League, but understands | document to Secretaries of tracks snd horsemen that the League deciacd that the Douglas combi- | 3 nation wps not the Bulkeley Clab, and thcreforo had no membershiy fn the Leagac. Since chen no 1l over the country. The Turf formerly pub- lished a trotting resister, but the Spirif cat in with a cheap edition, ana spoiled the business. Last apphcation has been made for_membership from | scason Mr. Buck found that he had lost money by any club in Hortford. The Douglas nine will | b js scheme, and this year he' induced "Mr. doubtices hail frum Providence, and ask and be | Vail to issue the above-mentioned clreu- granted a place iu the Leazue.—Bosfon Herald. | lar, giving this fact as a rcason for 1t is proper to add that the City of Milwankee has ublishing the work by subscription no about 20,000 inhabitunts more than necessary to Hhen the Turf tound what had been done it pitc] apoly fora Leazuc memoership. The St. Louis Jeratd says that there is a possi- bility of a reoreanization of the old Rea.Sox under the charge of Waite and auspices of MeNcary, 1t adds that Morgan, Houtz, and Magner will form 'S thc nuclens of the team. It is o p way, that the Jerald could not bave been in the ball inicrest when the Browns werealive. One z00d paper which dared to tell the truth could, by insisting on the removal of rome of the **stilfs,” that it coald bave ) pecgaye: *tInive large citits in the United States profesional base-ball s substantially ‘s thing of the past.” Tbese are New York, Philadelphia, Brooklya. Baitimorc, snd St. Loals. Crooked: Dess was the cause. The following parazraph wonld be credited if -hi paper knew where it originated. 1t was found | untions somewhat - dreary ina paver which alwaya steals and never crodits, and of coarse did not originate there: There are some things that women can'vdo. The teachings of centuries have established the fact a woinan can't play base-ball. Dald-headed advocate of female. suflraze would permit fhe assamption 1o dally o his mind that & woman could throw a bzl underhand or attempt 1o catch ooe with- out shuttinz both eves Just when she should sce big- Now how could 3 delicately-reared, white-fin- {23 gt down 1n the weeds and dust and hick up 2 utter waltzing tnrough space ot the rate h 2ad, siretching her y without terous!” Nor would {100k well for some hig swraduate of a hieh- toned Sunday-schiool 10 8Xip overton sympathizing short-stop ond swear at the umiplre.Our mind is made upas unchanzeable 3s Plymouth rock that. though a Woman may ralc the ualverse, she can't piay base-vall. The Star BazeBall Association of Symcuse held younz la c fect b arms up wiother three feet. what inlucnce it possessesto onst Mr. Seeretary's chair. one buta perccried and | part of & papor is nonsensical. .ed nto Mr. Vail for all it was worth, charging him \with using the machioery of the National. atioa for the furtherancoof private business ends. "To this Mr. Vail replied that the Spirt¢ paid all the ‘expenses of the job, and he really conldn't see why Associ- nybody . should kick .abont it. *He informed the ity, by the- | ‘egfror of the Zurf that he would shoulder the en- :tire responsibility of the trapsactivn, and added that no money of the Associstion had been uted to defray the cxpenses of the circular, that no inim- bave uikio the guane fu S5, Lowis oleat enousts so | o diseriminstion was intended, and ao far a8 he vas conveyed by the circular, ed. Another St. Louis pa- {41 that in his administration of the ofiice of Sec- Tetary no partiality wae shown 1o any paper. - But this letter was not crab-like enough to snit the Turf. and it keeps up its fire, ssserting that Ar. Vail is skirmishing around the troth at a con- sigerablé; distance -from that valuable and some what _scarce_article. From the dark im: which _glisten at jntervals in article, the _readers its of the same are led to belleve that the paper will use ail from the This eort of blowing on the The oflicers of the atiopal Assoation cannot be bamboozled into . the belief that-Nr.. Vail deserves to be retired be- cause he granted .5 _favor asked by one journal, which he would probably have been equally willing 1o bave granted to any other. things regarding the mauagement of the Secre- tary’s office of which Tug TwisUNE does not ap- prove. and to which it has called attention in these columus. DBut the idea that Mr. Vail is to be sum- marily removed because the 7¢rf is mad at him, is tov preposterous to e entertaiied by any one e tbe editor of that sheet. take when he acceded to the Spirit’s request, and auother when he replied to the Zury’s attack upon m. He should have rebuked the first for asking There are some Mr. Vail made one mi its annuai meeting last Alonday, and decided to go | unreasonable favors, and fnored the other. on this year. Their fiuances showed a hole inthe box of anout 5700, Tha election of a Board of Directors resultea in choosing H, G. White, A. . Darvis, J. F. Wiikinson, H. 8. White, A DRIVER'S VIEW OF IT. The adherents and supporters of that glittering frand, the National Association for the Promotion of the Intercsts of the Troiting Turf, have been in G. Bames, . Townsend, G. F. Comstock, dr., | Lot water ever since that influential body of gen- E. X, Westeoft, T. slcCarthy, G. A. Porter, d. | 1) Ligaton, E. T. Hawkins. A this distance it is not easy to jndge of the policy which this Board represents. It does not contain the names of Mnrsl or livder. who are well known here; bat it | Jo Courier to have cbaracter, re- | wonld prove disastrous 1o any body that laid claim tb much respectability ers' Association immediately celled down upon it the wrath of one or two atleged sporting _journals punlished in the East, whicli make jta point to de- fend the National Association and the Board of Appeals, mo matter what happens, tried to make it appear that the DBreeders wore a Dbody of malcontents, to whom no attention should by 1 v, and stability, which are certainly requ:site to susain a club. ' The only indication of olicy-is tne announcement that the new Board nmoed risht in 1o vet Denny Mack, late of the Indianzpolis team, and tht the Courier hopes they may be successful. A change of zround is also ocated. Boti these fast-named ijcm give rise Lo the saspicion that the salt-boilers have got- is declared lemen, the National Breeders' Association, de- clared jtseif opposed to uny alliauce with the first mentioned concern, on the ground that fraud and thieving had been perpetrated under its auspices so nd so unblushingly that an alliance with it ‘This action of the Breed- They have ten control of the Club. Friends of the game | pe paid.and whose rémonstrunces against the gross would be forry to sec thut party in control of the | outrages perpetrated under the name of the Na- Club. tional Asociation were of no value when set against QUESTIONS ANSWERED. on, asks that the averages of the s be printed in these columus possibie, for lack of space. ‘The S, J.— WL sitors last Syrcuse, Builalo, or Rochester? (2) ther of thest the best non-Leagne city in t cuunu;_\ "' Ans«er—(1) That iz very nearly an im- ssible gues concerned, Bufalo was said to be the best. (2 The oniy way that questiun can be aaswered from tne infoTmation at band is by cago Club bad its best non-Leagne receipts in Indionaolis and St. Paul. Sax—*(1) What do you Hoffman: are they wood, reliavle playerst (2) of ta¢ Cinciunatis. weizh more thaa (3) What do you charge for une in- cr's advertisement 1n your ball- Aunsieer—(1) Kuow nothing of icers of the Minneapolix Clab onght [ b ow of Doln and P tiem; the to_lknow them well. winte: (3 Cznnat Inserta card {or less than 35, less than the time named. Hoostin~**What are the averages for 1877 of | 5 the following players, who will bein the L in 1878: Mamninz, Pike, Jones, Sullivan, Kelly, White, Hankinson, Géer, Sweasy, Hizham, Denneu, Weaver, Redmond,” Dalrymples” Ln' swer—Tiey were s folior. 3 Piayer and C:ub. Menainz, Clacinnat Joaes. Ci Pike. Sulifven, Backes Sultivan, Clycinou; I Milwa: Be Affiwaukee. Hizharm, Stay seduomd, Gl Scer, Star. Iedmond, Thode il Kelly, Bue This is defective in thay it does not show W. Whites record, of which 1o satisfactory pa tion hasbecn made. Iediaon theeimple say-s: PRICUNE bezan the agitation of this National sociation matter.nearly o year ago, and 1s pleased 10 see that its exposure of some of the crooked work done by Association tracks, and the favorit- ism shown by those who run the certain drivers and owners, 18 bearing fruit, mamn trouble with the Association is that honest ¢ | mnen have lost o!l confidence in it simply be- e P the Chitata G g | gaase it las shamefully neslected, in numerous (2) He nrobehly doesin | sammarily cxpelled for fraud, Kind of fraud st that. i fricnds 3t court, and were soon teinstaed to ull the prisilezes formerly cnjoyed by them. by Park. T adyertised a mecting, gavo it, and then fallod 10 puy the purzes. trance-money of some of the horses uominated hadnot boan collected. and that in consequence tha purzes could ot be paid. that of course the National Association would ex- pel Ar. Darnard, as provided for in the rules, but 1o such action wastaken. On the contrary, be was treated g o gort of martyr who shonld be handled in the most gentle manner. with, and slobbered over, and instead of being kicked out as defuulter, which wus the least that SoaoLy il the rules aflowed, was coustituted a_committee to record in Mem- | colloet the uppaid entrance-money if he could, and Tie 80~ 5 0f these Dewspaper wiscucr ** machine ' to The to punish fraud when exposed, or 1o co- force its own rules in regard 1o the suspecsion of In daya gone ayment by tracks. v, when a man N i gthat the Chi- | us expeliod it mennt comething. but of late years expulsions are looked anon merely as the restlt of being caught in tomo dizhonest action, and a_very ciicap _punishment for the offense commitied. ‘When Dan Mace, 'Frank Van Ness, and Rood were expelled for their dirty work in_the Buffulo in 187 the reault wozld be. all over the country, and one of them, in old man, race at lonest people wanted to see what These men were well known us 2t {rom ooyhood In the sulky. They wore and the mesnest Bt they bal inflncnial Does ny maii believe that, had these men ZUe | been of lttle renutation, they wanld bave been re- instated? was ased to place on an equality with all the driv- ers in_the conntry a_trio that hud descended to the lowest kind of dirty work in urder to win a fesr dollazs. " Anoter (nstance where the rules of the National Not one. They bad influcnce, -and it ciztion were _deliberately trofden under foot ts officers was the recent one of Fleetwood The proprietor of this track, Mr. Barnard, 18 only excuse was that the en- Evervoody expected He was sympathized phisix notat hand, neitber is Weaver's with the | 1y it over to the Assoclation, which Athletics. will dole it out "to the poor horsemen alter they have waited oll winter for THE TURF. MR. WADDLE ANSWERED. it. decency, and is 8o aptly described and commented upon by Mr, A. J. The whole affair was an outrage on cRimmin, of Nashville, driver Mr. A. Waddle, of Springficld. T1l,, well known | of Blackwood, Jr., who won & purse at the Fieet- in tlis section as the proprieior of running horses, has involved himself in a controversy. out of which he seems likely to emerge in a manner not very creditable to himself. The difficulty arosc out of a runninz race for gentlemen riders which took place at Dexster Park on the 4th of last July. wood Park meeunt which he never received, that it is given In fuil. from Nir, Clark Bell, Tre: Aseogiution, In regard to- Lis views about Joining- the National Association, and is s follows: This fetter is in answer 10 onc rerof the Dreeders' The fon. Clark Bell~DEAR Sti: Yours of the 10th inat. asking my views about jolning the Nutionnl Asso- cfation §s before me. InTepiy, [ beg 10 say that_our r. Waddle recéntly wrote 3 letter to the 7urf, | jouing that body can possibly do us o harm, but I am Fietd, and Farm, out of which thet pa- ber consiructea an article which appears in s lust jese. In his letter Mr. Waddle cays that on the date above mentioned he en- Lored his horse, Willis Eenfro, in a $150 parse for | g gentlemen riders. ouc and onc-cighth miles. welter The other cutrics in this race were the veighte. e Crockford, owned by Al Haukins, of ey horse this city, and ut g0 He says that he sent his 17 igreatly at loes 10 see whoreti we are to be bencfifed, unless the breeders should purchase grounds and have s track of their own. stances, be benefited by membersulp In_the Nationsl Aseoclations Imt even then I caudot sce why the tireeders shonld not have rules of thefr own to It might, under such circuin- overn tueir own meetings, for there - are o8y rulos In the Bresent code applicabe 10 cult Taces or staies. be ndopted to meet the requirements of the breeaers’ pesuines as T feel thae ey ool o oo Condhcicn, 4 ou e Scen the necessty yourself, at your inan- the chestnut gelding Bannockburn. | aral meeting st Hartford fast fall, | thin b A great many new rules miisy ThiAR that tiie car-old son to the | breeders shuuld be allowed to adopt thelr own rulgs, 10t In any spirit of opposition or antazonisn 10 the Na- stand to weigh when the race was called, and that | (ynal Association, Lut in a friendly aud co-operaifve objec pirit, both working togedlicr to Dromote the ntercats » & tion was made to his riding on the ground | SRl pobs RORELS LORFACH (0 Profiore the fnterests that be was o professional. This proiest, he e3ys, | or punishments fnficted by one would be respected by ‘was sustzined by Mr. Mansur, tnc proprietor of the track, and !l)e judges of tace. He further claims that the \asnot according to rulc, as in the programe it \Was stipulated that four shonld enter and thrce Start, whercas, as i says, bus thrve were entered, 2nd two started. He also asserts that Mr. Mansar | wonld not allow him time jn which to sccure the i he o ces of another rider. In regard to t e albitity of his £on 1o ride iu this race, Mr. Wad- e oys flaly that the boy was not a professiopsl 3 lbat he hind never ridden but twice in pub- Sk bt i cach race be was o the back of kis r's borse. [a’xl!:;uc statments do ot at 31l agree with those of those word is fall as good as thas ol Il\-'l.n Insto be swayed by prejudice. Bis state~ ment that there were but threc entries n txhe ;z:z, and that bat tro started, i§ fatly contrad cm'h‘ ; the ofiicial recoras of Dexter Park, from V‘\ lc_'. % the following summary of the race in question iz | taken: i 150 for gen- Droven PArx, Jaird, 1977 ey welglia o1 eother, 1 or suspen, the | dnet. good fee race | duefrom one to the other, would prompt U Nationgl Asssoctatlon_for sl of ihe Troming Tirf 0 Tespect thal pennity, Fhe varions running sssoclattons of the country are ok coverncd by 0ne great heads Dut the acts of way roi: larly-onzauized ussoclation others, and evli-doers are very. effectually punished by them. and their punishment toihe wicked than thutof the trotting assoctations. Thero IS no good rearon why such should not be the caso on the trouting turf. Ina very appropriate and Periinent article upon this subfect. published 1 the Yur/ of Dec. 21, 1tsas the machivery of the unpald dues’ and Bizchiners {ine collecitus. partor f must Do ittle ublished & Dhenic did nor Tesily believe that ¢ wa fuscly duc and conld not start a until the mat Tam very confident that, 1f 1 was expelte: by the X. A of 7. 1. B. for any wlscon. g and sense, and that courtesy the_Promotian of the Inter- all ro_recognized by tves much more trouble The preeders slmply use atfonal Assuclation to coilect Now that unish wrong-doe: ut_of orier. or the coliecting ~must ail De op'one ide, for I 1876 the Nutional Associatfon l'fl]l:gi_;nfla befter seiection could o have beea made). for hon.paymeat of an entrance that e did not think e owed to Beech Grove Driving Parl ed Col. H, C. McDowell, your President (than AL thelr requeat, without a woni of warning, he was Wotaulter for unpaid - entrance-monos: orse over ap Assoclation coursc Yei. when this cams - was adfusted. od 2 track 1fona) Aseoclation Is requesied o’ eus, for non-paymeat of premiams, the petitioner Is told to ‘raiz until the_money is coliected (rom God knows who, and the defaulter is etili allowed to occupy a high place in the councils. A. J. MCKINMIN, SAVANNAT RACES. uiernen riders,one and oue:elghih mCHTE SavANNAH, Ga., Jan. 10.—The meeting of the 4 panbing & 58 S mnockbum. 1S O Gitn closed fo-day, and h3d & gooi attends X eaguie's b, Willi ticatro, 113 Bones ance. ‘There was 3 slisht, rain during the races, Th'"x.furee entries in_tbe race, aod, 28 3T | 5 lpey and Asnie G., started. Burzundy won weze bu distanced, of course'|“{n Two straight heats. Time, 1:51, 1:511;. ‘addle’s horse is put down 18 distan n P loLis Waddle's boree e put AoV AL ™ orhe fucts fn re- | T hurdle race, two miles, oSt eighi burdles, hcmut:c xz;:gsfin"“ Waddle's son, a5 related| ::%mfimx:d nfi?flm or starters. Dalgasian gerd to 'HC Pm“d;m% . aro as follows: When | ‘Wyn yo oirse race, Gov. Hampton .and.Gen. by Col. Manear and Bt e Waddle riding!| patiips atarted. Fulilips won i 1:49% ou!;flh": ‘;’; m“; ‘groupd of beivg s professionsl, | - Tac Copsolation Purse, mlle dasb, had five start- in the race, ers. - Beb . won; _Fi Burgoo Third. Time, 1:50%. R TRACE Tu’df. v. Sprague will be trained next . s . e s b, mil Sty B o Mike Goodwin, of Philadelphia, wiil ,nandle the promising young mare Morning next season. Watlace's Monthly was thc first publication this year to compilo a list of the 2:30 horses of 1877. The S-year-old running borse Outcast has been parchased by Sharp & Baymond, of Tarboro, N.C. The -Cleveland Jockey Club has .decided to abandon its running-meeting of 1878, Causc not given. B Ten Broeck and Tom Ochiltrec .won nine races each Jast geason, Ten-Broack. taking §6,000 and Ochiltree $11,500. The black gelding Capt. Bumnell is being worled on the road this winter by Peter Johnsou, and is looking well. The Louisville Jockey Club has realized over $30,000 net prafit from its investment during the threc years of its existence. Carl Burr, one of the most éncccesful handlers of trotting coits in the country, isabout to take a pleasare-trip to Californiu. Bodine i in fine fettle at Freeport, and, should no accident befall him, will be one of the best ‘horacs in the country next senson. Tanner Boy und John 1L are being driven to- gether in New York by their owners, Measrs. Con- nor & Batchelder. They can spe¢d a '20 clip to the pole when called upon. Tne Dulo of Hamilton Jast year purchased four thoroughbred yearlings m America, and has in- flicted ‘on them the names: Caluma-Glen, Glen Jorsa, Loch Tanna, and Sylvia. The English 2-year-old Red Wing Tast year won §24,575, the 3-year-old Silvio 800,750, the 4- jearoid Springteld $2278, the S.year-old Jampton §15,525, and the B-year-old Pageant $£10, 800 ‘The race-horses Viceroy, Rifle, Simoon, Brother to Bill Bruce, and two Kingfisher colty, all | the property of Care & Co.. of New York, are bein wintered ut Jerome Park. They will be lfluneg mext geason by ** Uncle Ansel.” The St. Touis Trotting Club has clamed July §, 9,10, 11, 12, and 13 us the dates of its first meel: ine. This will give the Chicago track a chance 1o hold its meeting at the ustal time, —Jduly 17 to 20, ~—without any clash of interests, Honest Harey, one of the best-known and gam- est trouting horees in the country, bas been £oid toa Mr. Belden, of New York City, for S1,000. He Is by Wintkrop Morrll. dam’s ‘pedigree un- kuown, and the price paid wss $4,000. The statement that the trotter Frank Davis had been added to Peter Johnsou's stable scems to have been & mistake. Johnson merely jozzed the horse u few times during the absence of William Darling, who has steered him succeesfully for two Beasons, Mr. George Brasficld, superintendent of - Col. Richard West's well-known Edze II{l1 Stock Farm, Kentacky, is in the city on business. Mr. Dras- field bus handled nearly all the firat-class trotters that bave come from Kenincky, among the num- ber beinz Lulu, May Queen, Grafton, Gen. Gar- fleld, and Rosalind. ‘The offer of a 85,000 purse for Molly-McCarty to put fo an appesrugce s the Apring mceting 8t ouisville is not as liveral as California will offer. A responsible associztion will give Ten Broeck, Tom Ochiitree, and Parole 3 purse of $15,000 to run for, and allow eachoi them $1;000 for ex- pens!ui the purse of course being open for others to run in. ‘The organ of the venerable swindle known s the | Athletic Club_notes that Sotton has obtained o judgment against that concern for salary out of which he was defrauded by it. This orsan adds, *“As the Athletics left no available assets, the Jjudyment will not be of any beneflt to Sutton.™ ‘This 15 as it may be. The Club had some stock- holders and offfcers, and {f the law is as good in Philadelpbia as in most Eastern States, it will not allow these men o swindle a player. It is under- £tood to be Sutton's intention to test tnat pont. W. P; Barncs, of Californta, bas added the Mon- day-Anuoite 2-year-old filly 'to. his stabie, hav- ing purchased her of Henry Walch: the price, $2,500. Muny think she is the best S-year-old in the Stare, but those can only base their estimate on private trials, which are broverblally fallacious when compared with public ranning. There is li tle question, nowever, of her beinga good one; Der breeding and form indicate it, and the price aid, and that by 3 man who is not likely to be ‘misled, s farther proof. At Wesley P. Baleh's salc of trotters, in Boston -on_the 22 i the following were the best prices brought: Chlestout stallion Kimball Morrill, by Young Morsill, S yearsold, 3500; Judith, black mare, 9 years old, vy Draco, $1,073; Lattic E., 5 years old, biack, by General Lee, dam Lady Rich- mond, $380; Annie"S., black. 7 vears oid, by Drrigo, $330; Plymouth Boy, brown, 5 years old, by Van Mott. $500; American Girl, sorrel, by Van Mott, $465: Pauline, bay, by Green's Hambletonian, $300; vears olil, $440. The Marquis of Queensbury was riding Image by Eidolon {felicitons nomenclature), in the eelling of the steeplechase at Sundown' Park, when he staised himseH, and had to be killed, He was much thought of, and 3 strong favorite in the rac Fortunately the Marquis was not hurt. The **old Marquis, " he of over a hundred years ago, was wont to bot larze ums on the eailing of bot- ties down n_stream. or-{he drops of ruin on the g1ass of his club-room wingow. If pecuniurly haz- .ardous, it wns rather safer than riding steenle- chases over staked fences. _ The New York Ierald hus the following: *A. W. Frauenthal, No. 125 South Third strect. Phila- delphia, has sent ns & pamphlet containing a list of horses thut ure now and have been on the Ameri- con turf, which bave trotted in 2:30 or better. ‘They number 836, A glanco ut the table will be cnougn, we U to convince the proprictors of the trotting tracks thronghout the country af the necessity of havinga timing machine in front of the Jadees stand 40 lore that cvery oue on the public stinds can eec the time made by the win- ning horee, Then there will be heard no more the vemark in the judzes etant of *Let us make 11—," us has been common all over the coantry ever since the organization of the Nationa] Associations and the orzanization of the system of four premiums in trotfing rices. One hundred and thirty horses trotting in 2:10 and_ only nineteen in 2:203; tells the ste ‘The National Associaiion for the Pro- motion of the Interests of the American “'rotting ‘urf have & meeting in tais city next month, und itwould bewell fuf them to try and induce the proprictors of tracks tiroughont the conntey to put up'the timers. Accurate machinesno doubt can be made, as well onalarge scalcas those of the pocket size, ana the cost need not be a great deal more. Charce second, It BILLIARDS. THE CHICAGO TOURNAMENT. The billiard tournament has, now been in prozrees two weeks, and about balf of the games necessary to decide the result have been played. Tonahan leads by having won all the zames he has ployed. Rhinesand Hoa have also zone £o far without defeat. The state of the play is shown in the following table: maauip Players. d2an Games hll_‘:— BILLIARDS AT NEW ORLEANS. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 19, —At the billiard tourna- ment, tenth and last geme, Sexton scored 600; Dnly 477. ullizhest runs—Sexton, 146, 83, 207 whicli finished the_same, 50, 1 7 Average~Sexton, 2§ 12-31; Daly, 2215-21. GLASS-BALL SHOOTING. THE AUDUBONS VS. THE CHICAGOUS. Amateh at glass balls was shot yesterday be- tween teams from the Chicazo and Andubon Shoot- ing Clubs at Reesc's place, Anthony Station. ‘Each club presented eight men, and cach skot at twenty balls. The result was 8 substantial tri- umph of the Audubons by the following score: AUDUBON CLEB. i 2 W. H. Haskell..... J.'D. Keadall Lrow) JohnMather J. B, Wiezals John Whitls Charles E. ¥ Abe Ei Total. ptstotetciot ot Se5-nI28 ot~ fotstmaior-toi 6e23-205 OTHER SPORTS. PEDESTRIANISM. Miss E. Lachapelle writes to say that she has fouod no one willing to walk 2 long tramp soafnst her, and she pow offers to match herself against any one for 100 miles, to be walked in this city. She isbyno meansa novice, having a good Ca- nadian reputation, and she will make it lively for any contestant. A correspondent at Brodhead, Wis., eays that one G. 0. Gates walked 100 miles il twenty hours 2t that place on the 13th of tne-month. He would like to try a match with some person of mate. If any one wishes to correspond wita him, an address chn be had by sending to thia-ofiice. HAND-BALL AND RACKETS. A game of rackets will be played at Condon's Court this -afterncon at 2 o'clock between T. 0'Malley and T. McCormick as against-P.:Hannon and.WV. Skerrott. At the 2ame place 'a game of hsnd-bail will be played between H. Harrity and T, McKenna against J. Fearon snd J. Hogan. .shape of ‘A NEW DEPARTURE. Proposed Badical Reform in Comm;r- -cial Trading :and Religious -Worship, The Solution of a Long-Standing Enig- ma---How to Serve God and Mammon. 4 :Little Freo- Thinking Abont *“the Assembling of -Qurselves Together” for Profil .and Praise, For several days past a ramor has been afloat around the city to the effect that a few promi- nent gentlemen have partially matured a plan for a large building to be devoted at once or al- ternately, as the case may he, to the cause of commerce and relizion. The rumor baving reached 1AE TRIBUNE, o.member of the staff was deputed yesterday to call upon oue of tht gentlemen who had been named as prominently connected with the movement, and to ascertain if these things were really so. The reporter found the gentleman, and asked him in sub- stance if it were really-true that such a move- ment was in progress. The gentleman replied: “ Why, ves, to this extent it is trpe. Myself and two or three other gentlemen have held some conversations in refrard to the feasibility of getting up some plan whereby the people of this city might have a chance to do business and serve God on a principle which is at once republican and democratic; but it 1s not true, so far as I know, that any olan has been ‘matured sufficiently to warrant its being laid before the public; aod I really would ratner that nothing were aid about it just mow. - It may be that in a little while we shall know more certainly whether or not it is possible to enlist sufficient'sympathy in sucha movement.” [ presume you are aware that the press con- siders ftself tobe the best judge when it shall give information to the public; and having been detailed to learn your views in the matter, 1 am afraid Ishall be oblized to ask yon to submit to the pumping process, nolens volens.” “\¥ell, I do not know that I bave any speclal objection to stating the substance of what has beco said in regard to it, provided it be under- stood that while I do not claim that the views I shall state are my own exclusively, no other person shall be considored as responsible for those I entertain on the subject.” *“Will you then please state THE PLAN BRIEPLYY “I may start out with the statement of the bymn, that Relicion is the chief concern, Of mortals here below, — and tell you that I think it needs this important madification, that the two chief concerns are religion and business. Itis certain that under present arranzements religion does not fourish without busitiess support; that-is, it needs plenty of dollars to keep it going, and has really become such an expensive affair that tne Gospel idea of free orace has become perverted iuto 8 matter of no pew-rent no GospeL.” “Do you then propose to_furnish the Gospel on an absolutely free basis?” “Iam afraid that cannot be done,~at least at prescnt.~but it is possible to go back very much mearer o first principles thon s the present practice of the churches. The means of eracc can be fur- nished on s very much cheaper scale than now, if we except the plan of the Catholic Church, 2nd it 18 not impossible that we may be able to eficct an fmportaut improvement upon the method of that Church, in- niding rcheious thouglit and inciting to devotion.” *Will you please state your idea of CHGRCH SUPPORT AND CHURCH WORSHIPY? ¢ Perhaps I would better first state what it 1s not. As Lread the New Testament, while there were Bishops and teachers in the carly Cuurch, there was no such thing as the one-man power we have to-day. 1t scems to me that the early Christian %at.herinx:s were assemblages of peo- ple cach of whom spake as he was supposed to be imspired by the Holy Ghost; aud in one of his epistles to the Corinthians St. Paul seems to_be moved to repress some of the abuses which had cm?t into this practice, and s one step towards it prohibited women from speaking in the thurches. Whether or not this prohibition was directed aainst the set sermon by femaies' may be open to question; but it stems to me no one can dispute the statement that our present mode of religious worship is almost_the antipodes of the practice in the early Church. ‘The Quakers started out with what would appear to be the correct idea, aud if they failed as a sect to carTy it out it 18 be- cause they have departed from the plan which was favored by George Fox, their founder, and have now too muen of silence in their assemblics. It seems to me that the greatest interest oud_the greatest amount of devotional fecling would be secured if the wor- ship were conducted on some such }yhm as that which marks the exercises of our Philosophicai Society.” *“You think_then that 2 relizious assembly should makeitits chief business to compare views, and form a kind of Bible classt™ “ Perhaps so0; excepting -that discussion need not be conlined to Bible topics, nor would it de necessary to wander all_over creation for sub- jects. The cultivation of the devotional feeling might be kept wenl to the front, but it should be remembered that there is a much wider scope for discussion_of God’s works and ways now than was possible in the time when the New Testament was_written. Since that day the Book of Nature has been partially spread open before us, and is universally recognized, by thinking men ut least, 8s a work of God, of cqual authority with anything that is contained in what the theologian Tregards as the inspired volume, and contakils many a lesson which niay be studied with prodt by the devout believer in the inspiration of the Seriptures and efficacy of the atouement.”? 3 “There might be some difficulty in PINDING A PASTOR who would be an expovent of such views. Per- ‘haps you think to be yourself the leader.” “ Emphatically vo, to both. I have noam- bition to become: such a leader; and 1 have no desire tosee o pastor installed in such a church. 1 think the truest approach to perfection possi- ble at present would be to intrust the munagement of the exercises to acommittee of, say, three or five persons, who should have the selection, either inside the ranks of the socicty or out of it, as might oe judzed expedient for the time being, of the party, either man or woman, who siiould Jead the devotional exer- cises, and state his or her views upon an agrend topic, and designate those who should take part. in mny subsequent discussion. That would se- care harmony ; aud any charze of unfair repres- sion of individuals or views might be made temporary by chaoging the committee, say, once a month, so that any injustice that mizht be complained of at any time would not neces- sarily exist more thau a few weeks at farthest.” “3¥ould you, then, have no sct preaching 7 «Such a plan as that I have sketched would permit preaching on one Sunday to the exclu- Eion of discussion, or discussion of some scien- tific topic on another Sunday to the exclusion of preaching. It would permit the calling in of adistinguished divioe, or a distinguished scientist, or 8 man or woman distinguished for philosophic investization, at any time that the socicty through its committce might desire, and the remuneration of such parties for their services in such a wayaswould leave the society free to call upon any one elsc from outside, or to depend upon home talent for the conduct of jts subsequent exercises. This plan would have the advantaee of not hampering the society with one man whose views might be distasteful at the first, or become wearisome by repetition; sud better still, it would prevent the society from being loaded down with a_heavy incum- brance for the stated support of a “minister whigh it was unable to mect.” ¢ But what has all this got to do with THE COMMERCIAL PART OF THE IDEAI” “Well, we take a vicw of the commercial sit- uation from very wmuch the same staudpoiut. Wekile agriculture is the basis, commerce is the stience of civilized life; and it ought to be free as the air we bredthe. Our trading in the prod- uce of the Northwestis at present hampered with so many restrictions, and so many artificial rules, and 50 much expense, that _the comme:- cial process pares a very larze slice from every loaf as it passes from the producer to the con- sumer. It s the duty of the Christian, and the philosopher, and the philanthropist, not only to reduce these charges as much as possible, but to throw open the trading iu this immense vol- ume of property to whoever chooses to partici- |- patein it, on the true democratic plan. We think it possible to.open an exchavze in which everybody may come to buy or sell without hav- ing to pay $1,000 entrance fee, ora big anoual assessment to build up an autocratic govern- ment known as a Proauce Exchange ora Board of Trade. We think that people can come to-!! gether and .do business, without the maiute- nance of expensive modes of zovernment in the Boards . of -Direetors and-Arbitration | Committees.. We thiok that peaple who make . trades ought to:be held up :to their con- should have the right to choose parties upon _building, and to form and maiutain su ract3; -that -in -cases -of disagreemont they |- whom they could-mutually agree to act as arbi- trators, and if: they would not accept the. rul- ing of such arbitrators, then the rule of the primitive church .should be carried out,—the party failing to (ulfill his agrecment should be held'as 2 ““heathen and & publican.” Honora- ble men would ceasc to trade with such, and it may be that the recalcitrants could be excluded {from the place where -honorable mea icet to transact business. It scems Lo me thatis the only limitation wc should place upon com- merce,—which is the great means of supoort to izde cxistence, that is, to existence in cities, and to the worship of the Creator in temples not made with hands. “I do not yet sec the combination of the two ideas." " THE COMBINATION 1S A SIMPLE ONE; we think it likely that capital enouth can be en- listed to erceta Jarze and commodious building in a central location tlLat will accommodate not only these but more. The building could be used:for the purposes of trade during the day; at night it could be thrown open to meet- ings, concerts, lecturcs, ctc., and if to stage representations, I should have no objection, though thai, of coursc, would depend upon the judzment of the majority. On the Sabbath it could be used for relizions purpuses,—aye, even for Sunday-school, and other things if you pre- fer,—and from its ccatral Iocation would (orm at once a -nucleus for the «reatest religious and commercial movements of the greatest city m the Northwest.” “1 think I have read in the Gospel accarding to-St. Matthew that'Jesus objected to this com- bination of commerce aud religion.” “Oh! 1suppose you refer to the celebrated scene whiere He took a whip of small cords aud drove the traders from the temple. Butdo vou remember the reason He gave for his action? He aid of His Father’s house, Ye have made it a den of thieves.” Not because they traded honorably did fle find fault with them; far from.it. “Immemorially the courts of the tem- ple had been used as a market place where ani- mals were sold for the service of the altar and other commerce had been permitted without a protest from the highest relirious aathorities of the tation.” . “Then you think it possible that you could keep such a building from being used as a den of hieves?” ** Yes;.we have, or at Jeast I have, an abiding faith in the good senmseand the honest inten- tions of a majority of the human family. I be- lieve that where abuses creep into trade or to relizion the introduction and the continuance of such abuses are very largel§ traceable to the fact. that artifi resirictions prevent the good sense of the majority from ruling. The fact is, that, while we are theoretically a nation of dem- ocrats .or Republicans, which you will, we are practically the slaves of autocratic power in everythingthat pertaius to our religious observ- ances, and o very many of our commercial wusages. 1f we bave not the one-man power, we hase at least the power of the few governing the many, and it has long since passed into an axiom that the oligarchy is worse than the mon- frehy.?? PHiow a0 you propose to MEET THE EXPENSE OF ALL THISI” #Y do not know. AsItold you at the outset, no plas has yet been matured; there has sim- ply been a comparison of views. but I may state that that comparison of ideas has evolved the thonght on the part of some that a sulficient npumber of men could be found to subscribe the money necessary to crect such a builaing, hav- ing, as they would |m-5, the moral certainty that the fovestment would be rewarded with o good dividend. Sec how exceedingly artificlal are our prescot arrangements. We have a church built at s .cost of a quarter to balf a million dollars, wus on- ly once or twice in the week, except as there might be a smaller gathering in the basement on some evenings. The rest of the time it is entircly uscless, nominally de- voted to the service of God,—it is a libel on Christianity,—by being closed to any useful urpose during the greater portion of the time. B the other hand, we baye o commercial building desoted during a few hours of each day to » meeting at which people buy and sell, and that, too, is locked up from eversthing in the shape of evening recreation or Sabbath im- provement. Wehave a theatre that is opened during the evening and closed during the day, except at matinees. Now let us apply this reasoning to other matters, and we shall soon sec its absardity. Suppose a mau owns a steam-engine; he lets it run two hours in each day, or one day 1 the week, really only 2 small port of one day, and lets it lic idle the vest of the time. It costs just as much to build the machine—the interest oo the first cost is exactly the some—during the time that itis Iying idle as whonit isat work making live steam and doing a live busivess; mey, it is Worse, for the steam cogine and the machinery that it drives rusts out by idleness more rapidiy than it wears out by use.” 1 think I sce the point now and the advan- tage that isto be gained by the combination you propose.” “Perhaps [ may say that youseeit more clearly than I do. I AM BY NO MEANS SURE that it will be possivle to carry out sucha scheme as I have bere outlined. As I told you at the outset, the plan 15 not by any means ma- tared; and it may be that it will be classed among the schemes beretofore labeled aos Utopian: Personallv, however, L believe that -such a thing ought to be practical, as it certain- 1y should commend itself to the common sense of the people whe are blessed with tne possession of that mutier rare artide. I fee mo reason why the City of Chicago should not be uble to erect and sustain such a ‘mercial organization, and such a relii ciety. The result to the members would be ereat advantawe and improvement, and the ef- fect npon the world at Jarge 00 less beueficial than to the individuals who should orizinaie and take part in tne movement. Ifwecould abolish two-thirds of the churches that now exist, those that remained wounld be a power for good. If we could suppress two-thirds of the ministers, life and power would be permitted to the survivors. By thisI mean not the sappression of the indi- vidual, but the repression of the function. Each and every oncofl those men may have ideas, worthy of being spread beforc the public, but there'is not onc in twenty of them who has -learning or originality enough to cn- able him to preach once a week forthree months sithout being utterly exhausted. Ido not be- licve it is mDecessary that o man should o throngh a special course of study. lasting throush several years, in order to enable bim to tell what le knoiss, and to keep on telliug what Te knows or thinks he knows _after people have become wearied of hearing it. be- Meve in freshmess: believe in giving cverybody u chaoce; I believe ~ that twomen and women out of every three have some thoughts that might be breatbed to the advantaze of their fellows, if they were only permitted to give them _suituble expression: I Believe in the republic of thought, the republic of effort, the republic of exertiun, the republic of profit; 1 believe that a man's ideas belongsto the worla, that his exertions belong to society, and that we can best further the advancement of the race by cutting loose from the old auto- cratic forms of preaching and teaching, and let every man take his part in the work of building up society, in the place of allowing a thousan men to sit idly by while one man does badly the work which they might verform well.” e ea———— » LOCAL CRIMINAL NEWS, : Jerome Martinelli, a liquor-dealer at the corner or Eighteenth and Canal streets, was held in $500 bail to the Criminal Court by Commissioner Hoype yesterday, his offense being selling liquor withont poying the special license. Minor arrests: Frauk Brown, Jarceny of 8 gold ring from & livery-keeper named Murpby; R. S. Henderson, larceny of clothing from Edward Brettigoan; Edward Williams, larceny from W.E. Batler, of No. 143 Monroe street. A telegram reccived yesterday at headquarters aunounces thst Dr. S. Harl, recently arrested at Cleveland, has been identified by 3ir. Schwartz and H. Schroeder, of Lake View, as the person who beat them out of $500 ana $99 respectively. An ofiicer will be dispatchea to bring Dr. Hart back to this city to stand trial. Justice Summerficld yesterday held the follow- fng: Thomas Caunon, durglary of David Delancy’s grocery, S600 to the 3d; James Daniels, burglary of Mrs. Cohn's residence, No. 867 Michigan ave- nne, $400 to the Criminal Court. Justice Mo rison held Harris Lloyd 1n $300 to the Crimin: Court for stexling a dress from Lizzie Williams. The Kirk Guun erowil of gamblers of No. 5 Cal- houn place, who-were pulled a few days 320, com- menced an action yesterday before Justice Pollak against Detectives Ryan and Riordan to_recover the faro chips and general gambling utensils seized at the time of the raid. In the trial the gams proved that the chips, etc., had been seized, and identified the officers aforesaid as the men who took the property. -They neglected, howescr, to ‘prove theownerehip of the property, and after the defense bad arguea their side the zams attempted 1o introduce the desired testimony, but the Court ruled that their delag in_offering the said evidence had excluded it, and therefore they entered 2 non- suit. ILis to be deolored that the_ ownership was not proven, for thereon conid be based an indict- ment by the Grand Jury. William Price, a dyer, who lives at No. 86 South Clinton, was before Commissfoner Hoynie yeater- day, charged with passing counterfeit money. Henry J. Wisner, a hackman, testified that Price ve him four bogns 50-cent pleces, and told him e would give him 10 cents on the dollar for pess- g them. AMichael Matoney. & backecoer for George Gifford, of No. 443 Clark etrect, swore that Price gave him a counterfeit half dolisr for drinks. He told him it was not good. and Frice showed him ‘scveral pieces of money-which were bright. ¥aying that be had some stuff that.would make that one : white like the others. Lizzie Loug also testified that Price gave her a spurions ¢ to have been one of **Soapy Levy’ claims that 3 job has been put up on him, and will have a further bearing Monday, in order to show that fact, if he can. . Thursday morning, Mrs. Denis Dooley, of No. 8 Emerald street,.was held up in her Souse, and gagzed by two thieves and then relieved of $55. Tne day previous two young men called witha note - signed " **Mueller, Contractor,” ordering Dooley nu rother to cepart eatly the (ollowing morniag forworkat the new Cnstom-House. :The next morming they waited untill the brothers had gone, and then, euteting, gagred Mrs. Dooley with a silk andkerchief. No violence was_shown. _The police have arrcsicd Michael Mapzan, Rtis *Scotty,™ ** Fatty " Conley, Ike Dyke, and Peter Lawler, all upon_saspicion. Mra. Dooley refuses to swear against any one, and it is. reported that au intimate relative is the one _who planned and exe- cuted the robbery. However the four prisoners arezood ones to keep, and aready Detective Scott hopes to connect Lawler with several recent show-case robberies. : THE GAME OF CHESS CHESS DIRECTORY. Cmicago Curess CLus—Nos. 63 and 65 Wash- ington street. Cimcaco Cugss Assocratioy—Hansen & Welch's, 150 Dearvorn street, opposite Trinoxz Building. Chess players meet daily at_the Tremont House (Exchange) and the Sherman House (Basement). All communications intended for this department s.mé‘;m be addressed to THE TRIBUNK, and indoraed *Cheas, ™ . —_— ENIGMA NO. 112, BY Mii. E. BARBE, CRICAGO. White. Blac] Eingat Q Bthird King 0 B stxth Queen atQ 1: third Pawn at £ R sixth Jishop at QB efehth Fawnut K Kt 81th Pawnat K1t second Pawn at Q K sixth White to play and mate in four moves. PROBLEM NO. 112 BY XK E. B BURNHAY, CHICAGO, Black = %’r”/;/“-/’f%/»”/;f%/ 7 h Tk VA White. v White to play a0d mate in three movas, Z SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 110. Whlte. Black. R10 K Kt7 1.Etakes B okl =K moves mat I1.EES RtoEt3 2/ K moves mates #,% Correct solution to Problem No. 110 recetved” from W. IL. Ovington, C. A. Perry, O. R. Banja- min, E. Barbe, J. {l. Campbell, O. Sonnenschien, E. R. Burnbam, C. W, Clark, F. A. Bergman, S, L. Myers, W. A. Mead. T. L. Hartigan, G. O. Paul, and J. T. P., eiy; §id. Herzberg, Pontiac, III. G. L. Thomas and M. Schimner, Milwaukee, Wis. R. nons, Misn. . Congor, Manchester, Ia.; F. S. Drew, Wi t., Tarmer, TIL} A7 W., city. SOLUTION TO ENIGMA No. 110. l = 2., If1..Bto Kt [“:2eme *,# Correct solution to Enigma No. 110 recelved from W. H. Ovinzton, C. A Perrv, O. R. Benja. wip, E. Batbe, C. W. Clark, E.R. Bumnam, J. . Campbell, 0. Sonnenschien, and T. L. Harti- gan, city: G, L. Thomas, Milwaukee, Wis. ; R.2, Congor, Manchester, Ia. . THE CHESS ASSOCIATION CHALLENGE CUP TOURNAMENT. The Challenge-Cyp Tournament of the Chicago . Chess Association will commence on Taesday evening at the rooms of the Association st Hansen & Welch's, 150 Dearborn street. The following gentlemen have entered: Messrs. Goggin, Craw- ford, Watson, Arensberg: Uedemann,-and Adair, ‘The puiring for the opening games, by the Com- _m{%trem é! as foliows, viz. ‘P akes Kt P takes B (Q) mate CHESS IN NEW YORK- Third game in the consuitation match at the Cafe International. Messrs. Delmar and Mackenzie consalt together against Messrs, Brenzinger and Mason. The potes are by Mr. Mackenzies RUY LOPEZ KT'S GAXE. Black~B. and 3, 1..PtoK4 1 wga Castlea (K 1) Ew R e Castles KBS (0 FtoQELs 33 Bto§Kt3 i St 0 eq RioR3 oK ke G gl KB G B Rkea Qo3 Bl 4 BX. gagf SKBa - Bio 8 kes o0 sw%n; o % kts @ (o ; takes I Iy g KR 0. /Btakes B viskes B BRWED i w0 to KKed 03B ey o e 36 R{rE3to QBY B g'éfikuams s 39 Kto B REBERD & 8 We believe that the retreat of the Bishop te o e dres rocomimended in the Siraligis . C. Morel. ) “’(fl'n G0 ke 5 would not be prudent om acconnt th ly, B tks B P ch, etc. o’(:) cfi‘[’zi pasnow a decided advantage in posis m}g} A loss of time, 88 the Rook s compelled presently to retarn KB3. P K R3at once was preferable. (e) P to K Kt 4 appears to afford Black more re- ; "UYE KR 4 would have blacked tha position, and rendered impossible \White's subseguent at- } .~ tack, but the_Black Kingand Koight would have been close prisoners for many moves. (2) If P ke P, White must win by PloKB7, etc. A CHESS COMEDY. A correspondent of the Glasgow Ierald gives the followlng amusing acconnt of a scene which re- centty transpired in one of the chess resorts of London: 1 was the amused spectator of a pretty lttle come I chese the other night. 1na room whers the love of chesw are fond of assembling | found sn enthuslastic chess-nisyer (and who, in falrness it must be said, is ore of vur.strongzest amatenrs) chivalrously appi )l adits full valuc. y W1 the exception of X and 0" (aaming two wu- denfably first-ratcs). **Ireally think 1 can odds Tetterthan any one who comes here. T don't pretent £o b 8 Arst-class player, but, you see, T am used 1o giv- ing odds, and there {5 & great deal {0 baving pleaty of havsort of practice.” " ““well, [ don’t know,” responds & cautions Scotch- man. with a keen relieh for hanter. *1 knaw you &re aclass or two above me {n atrengii. but do you reall; {hini you could give me Fawn and movs with lavariss € suicess?” “Letun try.” replfed the Engllshman, not unwillag to show lfs powers, aad the z3me sccordingly proceed- cd In this fashion: * (Remove Black's King's Bishop's Pawn.) s Tl “*I think that's the best move on the baard, ™ observes Mr, Bas ne makest. *+3febbe o, but we'll see, relies A, a8 he moves 2..Bt0Q4 EEELT 3..Ptakes P “+Tha takes yan ous of the books. at all events 5878 A, but B only smiles compatalonately. 3.Qukes P 4..Kt10QR3 “*Youi don't call thia Pawn and move.” says B, wita some wiperity. _*+Its slmply child's piay. “You sce L wia the Pawa bsck st once, *sad be playe’ ) **All right!" asys A, growing reckiess, sud be pro- coeds: 8-quakesQ &8 riunfty for an os- ou B now take teatatlous rubblng of his hands. as he excialms, sce Lam ull right nows it's only a question of tim *yWell. we'll see.” says A, somewnat nettled, are BGEDIIKI 0{ éh& mnh” and be plays 2 Kctakes - Tht lones you & me:erl triumpbastly shouts B, a5 he continues the game by | 8.Breakes Bt ++1 don't see that at all, " 3a73 A, a3 he replied 9..B takes Kt X w!” eays B, as hemovesPto QKL 3 e STy whlch upacts hia' King and cavscs slf the Sttier plcees to ruil it & most {ncbriate Bt 3 ] thiak that setsles It ™ remarks A, "ul‘. » T ket bRt P e VeV ooi one, aau -ite Bope that I mar be wacla 4%0 more than the gentleman on WHOm 16 Was Bavcsent (ton.