Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 23, 1878, Page 7

PORTING, BASE-BALL. CHICAGO VS. MILWAUKEE. Srecial Di<patch to The Tribune. WrwavKEE, June 22.—The Chicagos defeated pe Milwankices this afternoon by a score of 14 to 3 The gume. or what was called s game, wae Jiter toe Jame eamples 80 frequently set befare the vic during this year's gmes with more or fess Fipyled playere. The Bome club lbored nnder the gissdvantace of having 1o catcher, aud Golden as obliged to use lese than his usual foree in de. Jieers. This fact, together with the hard pating of tbe Chicagos, decided the game. gbe EmL sevem inmings were by far (ke best Of the game. the score standing fareeto thrce, the runs of the home Club beivg madeinthe 1hird, sixih, ond eeventh, gnd the yisitors in tne firstand third. A feature of thiy me was the larse number of assists by Fergnson 2tshort. Ju the cighth fnning the new catcher, Bhiss, Began 10 weaken, and Goldenlet up considerably, the Chicapos gettinz tn seven base hits and four esrned ruts, together with one by Cassidy. Five more ravs in the ninh closed the game. “Foliowing i# the oficial score: THE SconE. CUICAGO. ,,4)1:,17‘1’,45 a3 5l s| 2t 247! 30 11 3 0! o1 pUs 21 S Terbidge, ¢ Eat. 10 Jneon, L 1. Forguson, 6. & .. - NeClellan. 2 b cassidy, T T Larkis, .. Jiankinson, 3 Yemsen, ¢ (. Totsl.... - NCLWACKEE. Dairymple, 1. 1. Teters, 2B.... Goodman, 1 ... Fuler, 31 Qolden, Re¢mond, 5. Morgan, rf s, G Cresmet, c. 1. . NS scouore | Slocaoeuron & me Toal. “Frningi= A e s Firss bae on balls—Chiieago, 11 Left ou bascs—Chicago, 85 Milwauker, 7. ‘Wild pitchus—Larkin, Golden, 2. Pasted bails—iarhidze, 2: Blien, 6. Struck put—Chicago, 5: Milwaukee, €. Time~Trvy hours and Aficen minates Tmpire-Weal. of 5t. Paul. . KESUME OF THE WEEK. Following ure the results of e rames played Isst week. Thoee Hnes marked with o star (¢) aliow Leazue mmes: June 13- ston, 43 Clactnnad, 2. June 17—{'eoria. 3: Davenport. 0. Juge 173 . 35 Lowedl, 2. Jute 1=Buflalo, 1: Lioracll, Juae y3-Pitiadeid, 5; Haymaker, <. Worcester, 2. Juse 18-3iitsan Jihe In_Prorin. 1t o ke B st oo, 5, une 19—P1 lcice, 9 Tndiatay June [9—-Hartford. e, 3. 2 June 19—Eoche: r, 4: Cricket 1, Juae 19—Mancnester. 3: Spriozeld, 0. Juge 19-Hornell. 4: Plitefield.” 3. Jute 1o HolORe. 163 AMUCHT, 4. June 20—>Chlcazo, Milwaukee. 7. June 20—<Promdeice, 73 Miianapotts, & it 8 o 21=Furest City. 3 June 21—Tecumser, 13: Cricket, 9. June 21-Yale, 10z Princeton, 3. sunei—i’eoria, ¢; Davenport, June 22—*bicago, 1H4; Milwa! GAMES TO COME. Following is the echedule of sll zames of im- ‘portance for this week 80 far a8 they can be ascer- 1ainca. ‘Those marked with a star (%) are by League clubs for the championship of the Gnited States Indlanap- 1d: Boston 'y =i Bafalo: Pluursedd vs. Star. 2t Sytacuse. TTESDAT—*Chicaso va. Boston. at Chicago; "Provi- geoce vs. Milwaukes, at Miiwaukee: fsIndianapol! invinnutl, at Judlanepolis; Worcester va. Hariford, at ford; fCinciunuil vs. Forest City, at Cleveland; ket ve. Lrle, at Krle: Pliwsficid ve. Utlea, st Gtica. WEDNESDAY—~Tecamech ve. Siar, at Syracuse: Chi- GE0 Ve, DIavennort. ot Daveuports CHicker var Forost City. at Cleveland; Pittsheld Ve, Hayinaer, at Trog. Tarrepav—*Clicago V8. Boston, at Chicazo; *Providence vs. Milwaukee, st Milwatgee: *Indianup- ;A!L‘n;‘;‘d.‘ ’jl";fluu!l."‘»l_llfld l}l]m“.l:w.\x(hnl:llnnér VE. ord. at Hartford; Tecumseh va. Utlea, &t Utlea; Cricket ve, Buflelo, a1 Bufialo. i Yripav—Loweil v Springaeid, at Spricgfield: Buf- falo va Hornell, ol Hurhellsviile; Tecumaeh vs Cricket, at Birghanaoa. SATUEDAY—*Chicizo va. Duston, at Chlcagos *Frovidence ve. 3ifiwansve, st MOwaukee: “luctan~ cpolle ve, Ciaclonati, st Indlanopolis; Lowell vs. lianford, at llartiord; dlauchester vs. Springfieid. at Sirtachelds Tecamach va. Horacll, 5t Norbcilotiites Budalo vs. Cricket, at Bioghamtoa. fClacinnstt {3 unnounced to play two games Tues- ¢av.~onc {n Cleveland, sud tho viner 1n Indlanspolis, TaE TRILUNS does noL Know whieh announcemsnt 1s {ue coreet one.” Tu may L ihac the Cluclunact: Iuglanapoils gazne of Tuesday fr to be put aver unill Wednesday. “That would expialn it Agais. the Cln- clanatls are booked for both Bagals and cdianapolls Houcay. The forimer 18 @ost 1ikely, buc nelther s certala, . TOE CHAMPIONSHIP, The gegson i= now little over one-third Gone, and the status of clabs competing for the champion- ehip it as followa: . *wopiog. ““uon voupy “00Do1D “* pouuanry e 4 B The potablc featare of the situation is that now. for the first time Uhis year, uil the clabs have felt tke muscle of all the other clubs, the meetings of e Cimcinnati sad Loston and tbe fndisnaolis and Providence being Jast on the list. The results of bott fiese fast-uamed encountera have sarpn the knowing ones. So furss numberof games s¥on counte, the Cincinnatis still lead; bot. When o] things are considered. it will be scen that Bos- tonis £t The most certain record of the per- formauce of any club at any given time is the per- centage of games won 1o gumes played. Counting in that way the record s s follows, skowing the Bostonsanead: Wn. Percentage, Plaved. 18 i 5 Indistapoiis, a. Provideuce... 7 Milwaukee, 7 THE PLAY DY WEBKS. For the purvose of showing the change in char- 2cter of play of tue teams, the following table bas been made. showing the games won by cach Leam i each week since the opening of the sea- w3 T SIFIFIFI§E|E fiF'z(8|sis)] CLUBS. :.},x_[ B 5[!.; sisigiz|El5.5 -'si igisla H >33 (& [5i8F T 8ol WoR o 3 o " o1 7 0 O .4 Tt will e seen that_Boston won half of (he e until the last week with Providence, when it taok all the games. Then 1t slipped upou the Chicagos, Lat made a fine showmg with the other Wesiern- ers. Cuicago etarted off well, then fell ta picces for three weeks, but has eince struck a gait very creditable to if. In the Jast month the Whites Lave manazed {0 Win just two games o weeks in one of thes weeks only o games were played, so that the figures ere: Won, 8; lost, 3 in the month. Tue Cincinnatis started off bravely. but have rather fsllen down on themeelves in the latmonth. This week will make a heap of differsnce. If it wasn't against the law to it looks as if 1t would bo ¢35y 10 zuess 2 Wweck from mow Wwho is 10 win the fiag. CONTRACTS AND RELEASES. Phillips, of the late Live Oaks, is claimed o bave sigued in Erie. The Buffalo Espress saxs that Quinton bae re- jolued the Tecamsehs. e is the wan who was 3atied 1 Guelph before the season opencd for flealing . revolver fn 3 house of brostitation. It is haraly possible that the Tecamsebs would take him bag i Waitt has at 1ast **made hie first appearance this scacon with the Athleties. ' 1t was only a ques- on of time. i weer. Jnte_of the Alleshenys. is reported as having joined the Nationals of Washington—Oscar Bielusky's cluv. Stevens, of 1ast year's Hornclle, has joined the Piusteld team. Bradley, who was released by the Tecnmsebs, bes heen reinstated. 1% wold apuer from scores of games and other zecounts that Cummings bad Ieft the Hartford- Dougluss-New Haven team—or that he had been 1eft by 1he tesm. The Binghumion Crickets have released Arun- del and Jumes and taken up Falley and Whoitaey. 1t was annovnced by telegraph that Fieler had ‘been engazed to play with tae Lowells, hut he bas ot joined them, nor has be shown any disposition 10 do <0, How and why? Tl ofiicial announcements of the ensacement of Wheeler by the Providence Clob, and ine re- leasc of Benneit by the Milwaukees, have been Tecerved by the Chicago Clab. The latest conceraing Mike McGeary are the fol- lowing from. first, the wlobe-Democrat: **Mike McGeary Enst on a plessure tnp. e will take in 1he Hanian-Morris boat-race at Pittsburs on Thurs- " Second, the folowing from the Boston “Mciseury, of the =t Louis Browns of 12at year, afine plaver, has been ensaged by the Springhiclds, snd will play with them on faeir Enst- i~ oot week. " MeGeary was in 1his city 3 = itha ren 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY., JUNE i 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES, er, said that he had 2 S Bad no engagement, and didn't rthiur Commings has been retessed from his fnesseuent wich Den Douglass' uritords pt] zocs vidence. —Hoston Globe—No! No! NO:~Trovidence Dispateh,. 00 0 V0! Yot AlLnS Auburn nine will hereafter bo known as the jpuy Uase-Ball Club, and have eecared grounds on Latk strect, between Canal and Sherman, which A5¢ fo.be graded and fenced. The Clab is composed 38, fallow 5. Arnold, manager: Fdward hillen ¢.: William Welch, 'p.: Charies Honsa- et 1 b Joseph Barhérs 2b, 5 George Fair, B8 Harcy Fisher, e. .3 William Lawton, 1. 1.3 eipelager, c. f. ;' Ad Rocap. r. f.—Albany Times, - THE PROPERTY BOUQUET. Harry Wright is a wonderful manszer. e is lmoat equal fo Dave Thomas in ranning a show, — and that is the highest praise knowr. Harrs has maticed tht the crowd at the ball cround, o3 well 29 4t e Wieatre, are amused with the fact that the perloraier hus samebody to- present her, or him. with (10 quote from the theatrical critic) * 5 beautiful Noral tribute, " or **an elezant basket of Rowere," or '3 splendid cmblematical token eousght in Flora's offerings, " There 18 reason to believe that Harey taok advantage of this nobalar wweskness und cansed 1o bz procured what 1 knoswn as & “*property bonguet,” which he has kept in With the vats, Dnlls, sud old shoes In the aresstus: TOOW 80 that 1t condd he handily gotten at when vanted. People wouldn't huve suspected Narey if ne badw't overdone fhe thing. The parasraphe In the tierald came 100 fst, ond people read with Wouder, **O'Rourke was prosentod with an ele- gaut bouquet ot the cluse of the third inning yes. terday, " and **0'Rourke, was handed a splenaid floral tribute yostorday us b reward of s Gre hit,” or **Morril! was rewarded with & beautiful nasket of flowers for his remarkable catch,™ This sort of thing came to he so common that the boys discov- ered Harry, and tney do say that they caught him it in Monday's game, when tne **property " bunch of ** praperty * fowers was brouzht ont and given, this time 10 Sullivan, of the Cincinnatis. The eveut is thus recorded in the ferald: > Sul- Tivan, Grst baseman of the Cinciunatis, is 2 Boston boy, and as be etepped to the plate in the second Inning vesterday lio was ureeted with & magniiisent floral preseut in the ehape of o flower backat,” My dear Loy, it was the mame basket; 1t was O'Rourke's **bouquet,” and Morrill's * tripute, " eid it has all the otier names whieh the Herald man can thisk of : but, in the interests of honesty, the practice ouzht o 56 stopped, —or ¢lee it ought b Decome genersi. Let Hulbert ot A banch of wetls £eiul flowers from SeVicker uud send u boy out to g1¥0 thein Lo the tiret man who dits the ball clsan snd clear in Tuesday's zame; sy Anson or Joe Start. Soomer thun see the Boston ferald get anead of us, we will make x parageaph ubout {t,— twice a8 Jong & paragraph a8 the Herald wade,— 2nd thus CatTy sorrow into the souls of the Doston fellows and dlscourage their *bouguet.” And, furtber. Mr. Hulbert ought to have Harry and bis Dbatbng aearched when he plays hera 10 sce that he Lasu’t broueht along bis **bouquet,™ 1t would bs 100 much—much too tuch~ta see two small boys smirking areund with two banquets looking after iwo blayors. They might got the **propertics ™ mize GENERAL NOTES. ‘The Hartfords have pleyed twenty-two different men this season, and the Springfields elghteen. | The ‘‘beat game of the season” has, by sctun] count, been piayed Lwenty-two imes up Lo date, The ** Grocers” nine beat a nine from the Mer- ghnts” Natioual Bauk yesteraay by a score of 21 0 9. dewelry nines from B. F. Norrls & Co. and W. B. Clapp. Young & Co, played yesterday, sna tho former won by 18 to 8. Critchley, of the Tornell Club. bae been accased of selling 3 'game, but @ paper down his way says that ne has Cleurcd himeelt. Spalding's Base-Ball Guide has just goneton fourtk edition. Or.ers from New York and New England bave caused the exhaustion of the supply. The Oswego Base-Ball Association have fittea up a eround and will play a home team. except two or ;“mz professionals, notadly Scolt, of Spriugfield, Manager . S. Bloodzood, of the Providenco Cinb, lias resioned. and 3tr. Kobert 3forrow, one of the Directors, has been clected to 811 the va- cancy. Any strong city elub which desires to make & match witt: 1 good outside ciab for July 4 on the grounds of the outsiders, may address the bail-re- vorter of this paper for a lctter on the subject. A. 8. Morgsn, msnager of the Peoria Reds, writes that he wonla like o hear from all clubs in Chicago aud elsewhore who can come lus way, and that he wiil offer them special inducements. He Thopes to give u tourmament in September. The St. Louis Spiri¢ nresents the following- mamed pleyers for pext season’s professional nine in that city: Fliat. c.: Bradley, p.; Croft, 1st b. McGeary, 24 b, ; Morgan, 3d'b.; Peters, s. s, Cawp, Golden, 2nd Morzan in the outfieid. Among the games for the amateur clhampionship of the city was one in which the Dresdnauchts beat the Crooks by = score of 23 to 10. The win- ners in this wame beat the Oakiands yesterday by 17t014. They will play in Fond an Lac July 1. An extraorcianry ses writes und o Cieveland feader publistes)a letter cxplaining that if the home teum hud played as_well a+ they knew the Rochesters conld not have beaten them. It re- quests the manager to make **no more sach can- tracts. Nine bully sonng men of the Hnb Defeated the Pork-packers’ Club, Then Hurry Wrisht whooped, ““They're scooped ! thev're scoopad 1" Aud gwelled up as big'as a tab, —Enquirer. 7 A dispatch from Providenco last week said that Nolon bad been suepended, but gave no definjte Teagon, nor can ooy be sscertained. The suspi- clon that Tho Only has been dishonest ie, of coarse, at the bottom of the afair, but no proof has baen presented as yet. The yoong man of the Burlinzton Sunday Pe- view has csuzht the prevailing infection. Says he. of o lucal zame: **The Actives were numerousiy sovse-czred dve or six times, and returned the Complimeut three or four times,” The sforesaid ¥. m. had betier stick 1o croquet reports, The New Bedfords and the Hartfords are making arrancements to play three cames on the Fourth of July. Tbe first will be played fn this city, commencinzat § o'clock 5. 'm., tac eccond at Taunton st 11:30 o'clock, and the third at Provi- donce at 4 o'clock b, m. ~Hoston Heruld. The Boston Herald sass that the Lowell audi- ence abused McLean as 1o umpire ever was abused before, but thal the mAnAzZer of tho Jocal team was after a1l perfectiy sausged. The game was with the Cincinnati the fact that the loca) team won may have led to sume of Manager Butier's sat- istaction, A professional afne 1 il very tne. And onr Haymakers play it so fanay! We adwire thelr style And continue fo ruile, . But we~ratker npt bet aay money. —Trojan Qbserter. The' clerks in_the City-Harl and those in_the County Trensurer's office played & game on Whits Stockine Park_Friday, and the former won by s scoreof 211016, Tne report seat in leaves us in duabt whether dohn Moody played ar nat, bat the result of the guine gocs to show that he didn't. Very likely he umpired. The umpire in the. New Bedford-Atlantic zame in Ricumond. Va., wae 1 solid man; the following 34 verbatim report of the #peech he made before the game o **Gentlemen. T dou's know ucli about the ruies, and if 1 make a \wrong de- cision, feil me, and [ will iminedintely chango it that's'the kind of a man { am.™ A tonrnument has been arranged to be played at Springfield, Muss., anring the second and " third weeks in July, in which the Springiicld, Pittsield, Troy, ana Worcester uines wil plav. Each cluh will play two yames with every other cinb. The entraace is 3100 _each, the winaing elab to receive £300 and the second $100 out of the stake. The Buriington farkeye eays: 1t is noticed that no one of tne entire wltitude at a hase-ball tourunment looks so tranquil and unconcerned when the nitcher sende a red-hot ball into the bt~ ter's stomach as the butter him<clf. He usnally looks o8 though he didnt know ansthing about it, while the multitude a3 a rule rather like it." he Cincinuati Enguirer. in_scconnting for the !UZ; of the Boston gawes, and in defending Will White. says: **White was batted for fewer basc- Bits thian eitber Golden. Larkin.and McCormick.™ McCormick didn't piich azainst Doston,and Larkin yae hit for less hits per game than White was, With these exceptions the assertion i6 agood one. 1t is said that the Athietic Glnb has received an offer to #o to California. This is almost fmpose Dic: if the Pacific coast players want to see ball- playing, they would hardly newotiate with the iiccelluneons assortment of stilwand kids which tne once-lonorable but now broken-down and bankrupt Philadelpbis organtzation puts into the ficld ance in a wh The Milwaukee Senfinel of yesterday announced that: * It ls cxpected that the Sfilwaukeos will Bave a new calcher lere n_the 1oon train who will o hehind the plate for Weaver. In tms event tue Chicavos will unquestionably lose the game, as tliey are not entitled 10 win from the Grays when the’ latter orc in shape.” Guess he didn't get there; score, 14 10 5. Spenking of Cory, the Providence espatch says: «Thunks 1o the skill of his sttendants. Cory can Bow use his anm quite freely, and when tie Grays start on their first Western trip Cory will uccom- pany them ss pitcher. Providence people pinned their faith ou Cory. in the early part of the season, and. Lar accident, ‘he will yet show them that bis rignt hand bes not forgut its cunning. ™ Ttis sugzested, with agood dealof judzment. ton, that Chicagd and Providence play 1wo games bere July 4, if the weather i3 fair. There is no reason. why they may not play at 10 or 11 a. m., and agam at 3 p. m. sod this would accommodate a_zrent’ number of peoble who hardly dare to venture into the afsernoon crowd, but yet whowonld like 1o go to 0 game that day. Feonle out for a hohday, as tncy ore on tbe Tonrth, bave pothing to do in the forenoon, and Would Fejuice t a chance 10 see a game of ball. A corre-pondent in Waukesha sends the fotlow- sng: **The Wankeshas played the sccond game with the Milwaukee picked nine (composed of the following players: Bennett, ¢.; Furlong, p.; E. Goult, 1.5 West, 2 b.; Manaing, 3 b3 F.Gault, &e.: Meun, 1, L2 Potter, ¢._f.5 Simonde, 1 f.) ana defeated them 10 to 8. “Mr. T Dalryuiple. of the Milwaukees, umpired the game_satisfactorily. ATt the game the Waukeshas vlayed an_exhini- tion zame with a picked nine from the Chicazos and Milwaukees, consisting of the following play- ers: Bennett, ¢.: Larkin, p.; Goodman, 1 b.j West, 2b.; Dalrsmple, 3 b.: Creamer, 5. 8.3 Star, 1. 1.5 Gauli, c. .5 Holbert, r. ., the pi ed nize winning by the score of 11 to 0. They, howevar, found Fuller hard to Wit. Dalrymple striking ‘oue wica, Foley, Harbidge, and Ha 1inan were present, but did Rot paticipato in the game.™ When the Providence Club wanted Bradley, Ban- croft, Manager of the New Bedfords, with Whom he was under contract. enid that for' & ** consid- cration " he would refease Bradicy, and matters looked hopeful. Tho **consideration ™ Manager Bancroft wanted was about equivatent to puiting G. W. B. into one side of the sciles, nd balance ing them with gold, yellow gold, on the other. Tue Providence munngement wanted Bradley bad- 1y enongh, but would pay no such fancy vrice fur him, and 60 negotiations were abruptly broken off. The Manchesters have strucka new wrinkle in base ball sirategy, ana the Dnion-Demacrat of Manchester thus tells how they plaved it on the Syracase Etars at o critical period of the game: **Atthis juncturea Newfoundinnd dog appeared upon the stene, and Dorgan. thinking the dog was g£oing for him, threw the ball ut the animal, and O'Rourke drove him off the fleld witha bat. ' The confusion at this time wes indescribable. and when Woodlead ecored, thus tyinz the ame, the &ir was fairly rent by the cheers ofithe spectators.” The New York World (Chadwicl) explained lnst Sunday that .the Indianapolis Club were going down o Providence to **pull up their score,” which they were very likely 1o do, as the Provi- dence nine were **man experimental condition, aud not working well together.” And then tho perverse Providence party fell on the prophecy and on Nolan, McCormick, ctal., at Lhe same time, and wiped the whole assortment off the siate. 1f Chad nas called the turn once this year, the writer will give Lim the regalar throes to one 'to point it out. The Alleghanies were organized by a few par- tles, headed by one Fullwgod, an irresponsivle soungater of Fittsburg. ang, starting from home with but elght men, picked ap one bere and ono there, played more than twenty sames with Inter- national clubs, receiving cach game 373, oran anount neregating S1,600. out of which he paid for salaries and traveling oxpenees about 3600. On Fullwood's return home he declared the Allegha- nies 1o b disbanded, thus dishonorably failing to Incet his engagements with the cluba that yaid im guurantees, ‘sud netting a cool S1.000. We think that the Internutionul clubs shoukd make an ex- ample of this man, —Mercury. This week will be one of great Interest In the League, inavmuch 3s it will ‘witness tha first ex- cutslon’ of the Eastern clubs away from their bwn grounds. Boston and Providenco_have up to this time taken matters very easily, and hava not Deca oblized to Jeave their own danghills to fzht: but now the boys will havo to pack their valiscs and try their luck with_traval. = Chicago will re- ceive {ts old focs, the Bostons, who uave olways drawn the Jarzést crowds of the seazon to the White Stocking grounds. Thelr three games will e smong the best, most exciting, and most im- portans of the wesson. These two clubs alone remain of all tho ploneers of the game. Cincianati and Iudianapolls are expected to ~‘play four yames tkis week, the exten 0ue being the postpoued cantest of June 8. They are the irst clubs 1o enter on_the third quar- ter of their race—that is, they will be the Arst palr ta play the soventh, cirath, and ninth games of their twelve while the other chaps ore playing their third, fourth. aud Afth. The Haymakers, of Troy, have reorganized their nine. Craver playlug second base and acting o Captatn. The Judiciary Committes of the Inier- national Association hive, by 8 unanimous vote, euspended_ the rule waich debirred Craver from Dlaying. 3r. Walte, of St. Loais, an mduential member of eaid Committee, who knows witercof 1o speaks, says that to his certaln knowledze Craver was mot treated fairly by the Loulavillo Club. and that he (Waite) would vote for Craver's remetatement withont any qualidcation, he being **more sinued axaiust than sinning.” 1t will b recollected that there was no avidence whatever sezainat Cravor. and the Louissille’s oficlals coula bo mulstea {o ieayy dawsges fo espelling bim. 1o, Mercury. Tae above fs probably a 1f it be the truth, it reflects everlasting onor _on Messrs. Gorman, Spaulding, Butler, Keily, and Waite, who compose the Committce.’ It fs almost amposstble that cither of the frat thres named should have acceded to the oroposition, If they have beca scounarels enough o do so, they have Deen fools enough to forzet that they have not the right to do it. There wos a great discussion in Buffalo, Roches- ter, and Syracuse over the conduct of the umpire in 3 game Where the Rochestera beat Buffalo by 16 103, or theresbouts. The Uulalo Erpress, alter narrating the instacces which it accounted as foul play, adds: **The Directore of the Buffaloninejem- loyed two _experienced detectives 1o investi Empice Catapbel, - The result of theie oporstions has been to discover the true inwaraness of the affair, whica is that Mr. George Campuell, of Syra cuse, umpire, sold that game for $200, paia by two gamblers—one of Syfacuse ana the ther of Rochester. These geotry realized on the transac- tior 31,600 clear. ‘Chis" 1 50 much of tha detect- fves' discoverica ‘s has yet been made known to us. They are still at work on the case, ond Cm- pire Campbell may not yet be entirely out of resch of justice. Inview of these fzcls we cansubmit 1o any unprejudiced person or commuulty whether the Buffalos ought again to allow so dirty a crew as tae Rochester nine on their grounds. The Rocnos- ters would have no other umpire than Campbell. “Tihe only zumes ho hias umpired Uhis yeat, o4 wo are credibly informed, have been three, in all of which the Rochesters porticipated.” Upon which Camp- Dell threatened to sue for lisel, But be wou't do it QUESTIONS ANSWERED. J. R—**Did Hallinan play in any of the Doston- Chicago gomes in Boston this year" Answer— 0. A, C. J.—~Tuz Trinuxzswill publish such a table sbout July 14, when the scason will be half throngh. Nontox—**Was Sallivan, of tins year's Cincin- natis, enzaged to play withlast year's Chicagos®" Ansiter—No. Curprox—It don't make any diference s to the principle who made the error.” See Sec. 7 of Rule 8 of toe League Code. P. D. T.—'*A was on first_buse; B hit the ball, 30d it it A 2s he was_running toward sccond. ‘Was be outt" Ansiwer—Yes. K. L, P.—** (1) Koy far is home base from first base? (2) What is Harbidge’s aret name®" in- awer—(1) Ninety feet. (2) William A. J. E. G —**If a man is on frst basc when a bat- fer hitsa ball over the fence, can he run all the wuy home?' Answer—No; only to third base on the Chicago groand. . W. B.—**In o qame of base-ball, A bets that the Chicavos will win of the Milwankees © to 1. The Cnicagos make one run, the Milwaukees 0. Docs A win? 1f 0, is 1t00'as rauch as 2 to 187 ginaioor—A wios; 10 0 1s 2 greater ratfo thau B0l Niwo.—(1) They change 80 often that it is im- poesible to keep count. (2) His gencral record tMs year is not belter than McClellan's: he is under contract with anothor club, and taerefore conld not be gotten if wanted. (3) Tho avorazes have not been figured up for ihe whole Lesgue, cither in batting or fetding. HoxTiserox. —+* (1) Three strikes on man at bat, catcher drops bull. picks it up, touches the mad runmag to first, and then throwe to_third {o cutch 3 man runnfhg there; nmpire decides man runuingto dret not ont; was he right® (2) Whero do the Chicago and Indlanapolis Clubs play July AT insiver—(1) Ie was uot; 1T you state the cate correctly. runner was out. _'(2) Chicagos at Chi- cazo, with the Providence; Indianapolfi with Cin- cinnati, at Cincinnati, SEcoyp, Asniasp, Neb.—+* Please give Chicazo tcam of 15717 Also'the_Chicago, Rockford, and Doston nines of 18717 Algo the aze of Barncs and Jteie™ _inawer—Chicngos of 1870 were Pinkham, Craver, Meatee. Wood, Meverle, Hodes, Dugy, Cuthbert, Treacy, King. Flynn: Chicagod of 1371 were Zettiein, Hodes, McAtee. Wood, Pinkham, Tufly, Treacs. King, Simmons, and Foley: Rock: fords of 1871 were Fisher, Hustings. Mack, Addy, Ansou, Fulmer, lfam. Bird, Stires, and Ryan; Tustons of 1871 were Spalding, McVey, Goula, Garnes, Schafer, G, Wright, Cone, II. Wright, Dicdaall. Jackson, Barrows. Barnes 1s 28 aad Teeis i3 not quite 50, WaTERTOWS, Wis.—**(1) Man on thiré base; batsman knocks a (Iy to short-stop. who muffs, hut recovers the bafl in tine to put ranner out. st drsts plaser on thrd hax taken & good lead, and gets liome before tho man is out nt first) Does tho o count or not? (2) Datsman knocks a short fly to one of the felders, who tmus in too far for i, and batsman szets Grst. 18 it 2 buse-nit or an ecror for fielde ) Where 1a Mills of the Nilwankees of 1577t Answer—(1) 1f the mon outat firet base 1s third Qut, the run docs not count: .otheriise, it does. (2)' 1t Is an error to misjudze & ly under ordiary circumstances. (3) With the Harttlords. Apuren, Muscatise.~** (1) 1 iuclose_copy of a score puhlished in a Davenport paper. You will see that each club is charzed with one error, and, in the pitching and catching suimary, one catcher has two pussed balls and the other one. What 1 want to_know 1, How can a catcher_have a clean score, as the table shows, and yer have a passod Dall; or, if a pussed bail is not an error, \what i it! (2) Where is the Cincimnati Kelly from? | see the Janchosters have their Kelly yer." Answer— (1) Passed Lalls and wild miches are errors, and snould slways be 5o scored. (2) flo played with tho Buckeyes and Hornells last season. The writer thinks he is from New Jecsey, but sa't sure. P. A, L., Wraxer.—'* Where did Wheelor, now with _the_Providence Clab, play last seasan? (2) Isn‘the Jolnson of last year's Full Rivers? Tha Iatter fefc hiv home abont (wo weeks a0 to 2o to Crnctnnati. () Is Hallinan stitlwith the Whites? (4) Do you know of any tronble between him and the management? (5) fsn't Boston's chance as good for the championship as Cincinnati's? (G) What_prospect have the i’rovicence Club of get- ting Bradicy:" Answer—(1) lle was an amaieur witk a_jumor club. (2) lie cannot be, unless Jahuson” hes becn there since March, because Wheeler was playlng with picked nines agarnst the Cincinoatis in early April. (3) Yes. (4) No. (5) Boston hes won "13 games out of 18 played, — that is, she has wop 72 per cent of all played. Cincinnati bas won 15 games out.of 22 played, that is. 03 per cent. or 4 per cent lesa then Boston. Asamatter of Leacue ruling. Cincinuati stands ahead; ae a matter of actual fact, Doston has wade the best record. (6) Doubtful. THE TURF. TIE PACING ELEMENT. Trobably the st dafly paper in this conntry to take ap the subject of the pacing elemeat in trot- ters, and give some of the mors prominent and noteworthy facts in connection therewith. was TuE Trsusz. In February, 1877, there was pub- lished in these columns, usder the caption of **The Pacing Element,” an atticle which treated of the matter at as great leogth a3 the limits of & newspaper would allow, and in which the theorl in regard to the Influence of strains of pacing blood on trotting pedgrees were given, together with a Jistof the principal harées whose breeding and petformances tended to sunport these theories. Stace then (he subject has received the attention of some of the ablest writors on turf matters and pedigrees in the country, but the most recent and exhaustive review of the matter appears in a forthcoming work from the pen of Mr. IL 7. Helm, of this city, a gentle- man whose articles on ‘*Trotting Stallions™ in o monthly publieation last year attractad so much attentlon on account of thelr origluality and the fearless and impartial manner in which the subject was treated. Mr. Heln's new work, which will bo issued in about three weeks, i entitled ** Amorican Rondsters and Trotting lorsee.” 1t is essentinlly a sketch of the trotung stallions of the United States, and a-treatise oa the breeding of the same. The work wiil be iliustrated with photo, views of the ropresentative atallions of the pastand pres- ent, the list including, among others, Iamble- tonian, Volunteer, Edward Everett, Admiastrator, Florids, Thorndale, Gov. Sprague, Bollfounder, ote. A more extended notice of the work will be given hereafter, The fourth chapter of the volume 18 devoted to consideration of the influence of the pacing slo- ment on trotters, In his introduction of the sub- ject, Mr. Helm somewhat unadvisedly asserts that., notwithatanding all thut bus veen wriften about the matter, nota particie of light hus been shed on the topic, and this, be thinks, sugzests the coa- clusion that it is not 3 matterstsceptible of special elucidution. or one that bas very important sciutil- lations to diffusc over the matter of breeding rosd- sters. Ho suys that in most instances pacers scem 1o come from highly-bred families, and_from suca parent stock to_have inherited a temporament that gives them speed nt ooy ealt they inay adopt. The same formula of expression, he as- serts, will apply 10 the trotter, aud this proves the identity of cacli in all that reldtes to physiologcal or psychological organism. The pacer ndopts tho eaft from which he acanires hi name, not fe- cidentally, but as the resnlt of use, In regard 1o 1he conversion of » pacer 10 3 troiter, Mr. Helm thinks that, pacing being more akin io trorting than to the gallop, itis ot a dificult matter 1o converta pacer intv a trotter, ana for tho like reason the natnral pacer, with his'even and eteady gaft, makes n moro reliable trotter thay the racker or single footer. A paciug-bred pacer ucquires a conformation that is easily recognized. and 1n it are scen many of the stronz points which adapt Dim to the trotting action. [fis powerful shoulders and quarters, bis strensth of buck and loin, and the immense and eweeping stride of* the' hind leg, it bim for great superiority of action. His welght of shoulder nnd forequarter fs_often £o great s 10 ve againet himn; but it gives him great power, aud if he can only keep on_his feet he gocs with 3 wonderfal momnontum. The pacer is geuerally a horse of powerful fragio and superior oscular development. r. Helm, after alluding 1o the popalarity of crossing pacing mares with trolting stallions, and the phenomenal trotters which this cross has' pro- duced, instances some of the noted trotters and fumilfes of trotters in whoso pedigrees the pacing clemont 13 found. Someof the Cauadian pacers, und particalarly the Pilots, astumed the wotting gait with great readiness, much more readidy m fact than the Copperbottoms and Red Ducks, the last-named family being the most osrsistant pacers known. Their tendency to that gait Iy shown even now in ibe Swigerts, a family that traces back to thom. ‘Tha carlivst of the pacers Was Highiand Maid, 2 ware that afterwards became o trofter, and was the first o trot In 2:27. St was by Suiirain, and ho was s pacer by Keaticky Whip. Stmuggler, oca- hontas, and all tne Cadwus famdly are descendants of lrun's Caomius, & sov of American Eclipse. The Tilinols mars Flora Bolle, record : 2234, was orig- inally u pacer, and came of the Uwnorie family, that is strongly inbred it the Diomed blood. The Histozas, an Obio family that has prodnced Lew Scott and other noted trotters, is from Virsinia stock. the dam beinz by Diomed. The first Tack- ahoe found In the stud-book is by Florizel, s son of Diowed, and tnis fact sugzeets the orizin of an- other fawmily of pacers that has produced many trotters. The Ifuc Bulls, descended from an In- diana pacing etallion of that name, are noted as cacly and remarkubly speedy trotters. Blue Bull Daving one son and two davghters in e 2: 23 list, —Richiara, 2: 215, Elsie Gaod, 2:23%4.and Ethel, who_gained the same recora ut Grand Rapids over o bal{-mile track lnstweek. The well-known Co- Tumbus famfly isdescended from a horse from Can- adn that paced. _Ile vroduced Smih's Columbus, that bas sired Ben Smith, 2:28%: Vanderbilt, 2:25: flarry Haricy, 3iyron Perr 4 PaflSheridan, 2: 96551 Sea Toam, 2:24 daw has in turn pioduced Adelaide 2105, Tom Malloy, The California horse Occident, record 2:16%%, s de- ecended on hus daw's side from St Ciair, a 2:35 pacer. - Other trottets in whose blood the pacing element is murked are: Swugeler, 2:151¢; Red Cloud, 2:18; Muzomanie, 2:0k : Kansas Chief, 2:205g: Flora Delle, 2:223(: Richard, 2:211} {e Good, £:28:¢; Ethel, ¥:2314; Russell, 2:96; Milo C, Berdle, Kate Bennett, 2:2047 Purity, 2:30; Ed Wilder, 2:30: Eila W/ 0,~the lust ten teing Che getof Bilue THE MARING OF ENTHIES. There has been cousiderable talk and mo liutla dissatisfaction af lte about the monner fn which entrigs have been made at trorting meetings, and at the recent races over the Mystic and leacon Park tracks, Boston, 1t was open!y charged that there hud Deen altogether too much underhand Jyork In counuction With the cntries. 1a past years it was an unpleasant but well recognized fact that there were altogether 100 muny deritions, **condi- tional.™ and otnerwise irregnlar entries. It was the most natural thing in the world for thix evil to exist, since t was tolcrated, and in many instances enconraged, by the very men who had it mn thelr power 10_suppress the practice,~the managers of tracke. What are known as *‘conditional * en- tries were perhups the most common frauds in this Tine, and the manner of making them was some- whst as follows: A driver who controlied quite & string of good horses, which if entered ata meet- inw_would incresre the receipts from entrance- money very considerably, would aporoach the man- ager of a truck over which a meeting was to be given & few duys or hours before the eniries closed and make & propostion. One of his horses. he would #ay,—encrally selecting an antmal whose record was low. and who would be obiiged to g0 in a fost class, where the purse wae lacze and the cn- trance-fee in_proportion,—was ailing a_little- Ho was not +-dead or lame, or anything of that kind, but was a little ont of fix aud did not take his work ki Now he would like to start this horse in the — race if he was all vixht on the day it was trotted, but. s there was some douot about the auimal's **rounding to™ 10 time, he didu't exnctly like 1o run all the risk bim- self.’ Couidn't the track fct hin_cnter this horso conditionally; and then1f he started the entrance fee would be paid: 1f be aid not, why of course it woald hot be. At the eame timé this astute driver swould throt in 8 hint or two abour the large num- br of horses in bis stable, and how many he conld enter in the different clatses if he chose, —ihe in- ference to the onicers of the track, of course, being that, in cuse . -*conditionnl ™ _ehtry was refused, Mr. Driver would ktart with Lis Liorses for some other meeting, Not wishing, of course, to lose o lot Of entrics which might prove vital to the success of the meeting, the man almost invariably consented to the arrange- ment, which not only was a. rani violation of the rules'of the Natioual Association. but a_frand on the Association, aud & very dirty fraad on the ‘other men hnving horses in the race with this **conditional™ entry fellow. When the entries finaily closed and were made public, the man who mude the conditional entry looks over the list and finds out just what kris allézed sick horse will have 10 start aiinst in his class. 1 the field i3 euch a sironz oue tont the anfmal fs Ificely to meet defeat, ne chinnces are hat the driver wiil 2o through the farce of druwing it on the nizht before the race, especinlly i the entry isu stallion for whow a reputation is souzhit 1o e made before he gocs into thestad. Diut if the other horses entered are onea that he is conident of defeuting, the smart driver paya lis entrance-money to the Seecretary and Etarts in the race. Some people may think that this aescription of how conditional entries are made s ageerated, butivis not. Just such cases 43 the supposititioun oncabove are ocenrring every week auring the racing season, and not uldne o the smalier tracks, bat on those of the larzust cities of the country. is safe 1 sny that under the old rule_there was not a prominent driver in_the country who could not muke a conditionnl entry at any of the farse meet- ings. provided he wanted to. And in this connec- 1ion a great wany pzople would like Tindd Doble and the Cleveland Association 10 explaiu whether ornot the entry of liodine in the 2:1y class at the Cleveland mevilng last year was a condirional one. When the entries to that 1necting closed, Bodine was in this city dead lame, with Dazdly any pros pect that e would be able to trot again Tor at least three monthe. yet his name appeared among the listof those nominated in the 2:19 class at Lafalo. It laoked very mucl_like n_conditional eniry, since it would have bucn the holehit of folly for oble to_have eutered the horse when the chances of bis being able ta trot in the race were a thousand to one against, as was demonstrated by the facl that since thut Time he has never wotted in o race, or recoversd from the Jameness which then aillicted him. This is one cae of 3 presuma- bly conditinal cntry which Doble and Sam Irigre, Secretary of the Cleveland track, can’ ex- platn if they choose. Tn order 0 remedy this evil, the Turf Conzross last winter amended the rule regarding eotries so a3 10 wuke it read as follow: All entries not actually received by the memher as aforesaid (In writing, properly signed and deposited with the Secretary or other persor autiturized o re cefve them) ag the hour of closing shall be inclfgible, except entrics by miall bearing postinark not lagar than the day of ¢ ud the latter snall not be ellzible unless sent 1 tered letter, or notided by tefe- graph, the telezram tu be actually received a the otfice of delfvery ut or nefore the hoar of ¢lostag, such tele- KIAm to stite the color, and name of the horse, and the class to b2 entered; uiso to give the name aod rosldence of the party maklng the eutry. Any violation of this rule involves deliberate aud quite complicated dishonesty, and If, &s fnci- mated. the Boston tracks hiave beon uilty of it, au example shonld be made of them that will not soon be forgotten, ‘The turf morals uf toe Iiuo bave always beenat a rather low ebo, sad this face tends to ive color to the assertion that fictitions catries ate still in fashion there. GRAND RAPIDS. Fopecial Dic:ich to The Tridune. Graxp Rarios, Mich., June 22,—There was but 3 lim attendance at the Driving Park to-day. Tae day was cold 2nd raing, snd the. tmek very heavy and slippery. in conscquence of which the owners of tne horses enguged in the 2:30 purse and on- finiehed pacine rages refuscd 1o stact them, and they were declared off. The frec-for-all was trotted, Hopefal, Cozette, aud Adelaide stasted, Mazo-Manie and Litde Gip z soy were drawn. It was a poor apology for s rac Hopetul winniris in Thres ‘stcuight Aats witnock the slightest exertion. Each hest was trotted on the extrems autside of the track, so that the distance actuslly teaveled was in every [nstance over s wlle. Belore starting for the third heat & complaint was made to the judzes that Cosctfa was not being driven to win, and Bill McLanehlin was unsaated aud Coarlie yers put fn his place. In scorint Hopeful acted so badly that McUarty, his reguler driver. muve way to Dan Mace, who, Som- Ingap level, but a couple of lenzths behina on the second attempt, madded for and got the word. Cosette behaved badly in Myers' Lands, an¢ would bave been shut out had not Mace taken his horse ‘buck to let her in, 5 sUIAEY. Froe-for-all, purss £500; first, third, $135: fourth, $80: Jopetul .. Cuzette, Adelalde . $450; Finia B g oes from hercto Newark, O. forth to. Dan Mace following horsea were suinped ight: White Stocking, Shecidan, Daroy. Jim Sphriber, Gray Salen, Thomas A.' Mendricks, acd Billy Dare, The rest of the hotaos here start. fu Sagi nawat G a.m. to-morrow by special traln over the Michigon Central Rathvay.. + ‘* DICTATOR.” % _Ouaiia, Neb., June 23 —The colebrated trot- ting horse Dictator, found and seized by the szents of tha awner, Yilllam A. Pazton, of thie; city, in Grand Rupids, Mich., last Monusy, acting under ordera of the United States Court ut Jeflerson City, Mo., biua been brought tv Omahu. |, Spacial dispitches stating that Paxton hay been arfested in Michigan cliarged with horso-stealing are unirue. He 15 one of the woalthiest cattle men of the Weat., The trouble ll 2rows out of the title to the horae. LEXINGTON, KY. LexiNaToN, Ky., June 23.—Pho_attendance at the race was small, the weather cool, and the track in fine condition. The first race was for purse of 3500 for horses that hiad never beaton 2:48. 3tacey Bros' . &, Cloveland, by Ned Forrest..3 1 1 1 James - m. Gracle Goodman, by Fea. ieecnnd 38 Bashihach, b5 Jos | 2 od 160k, by Gurrard Ciiiet.4 3 3 3 ch. . ioor. by Seimont . dist. tagy,\llcn e Macey wror. and G. 11, Buford's b. m. Waftabit, by Basfl Duke..... Muckle aul Rotily's_g. & Bashaw, by Green's Bashaw.. G, H. Brasedeld, S. 8. Oifuts & Co. b. §. d. Munrod, by Ji 134345 2 TRACK TALE. Maggie M., record 2:30, hae been bred to Nil Desperandum, record 2:24. Mollie McCarthy Is said to greatly resemble her grand-dam, Moltie Jackson. The race mare Lizzlo Whipns, by Enquirer, broxe down recently in 8 trisl run over the Louisville track. The brown gelding Dorby that trotted last year 03 Jobn Murphy, Jr, was- recently driven o 11 mils over the Prospect Park track in 2 Conntry Gentleman, s well-known son of Rys- dyic's Uatnbletonian, broke his off hind leg recent- 1y, and, ss mortidcutiou sct in, the animal was de- stroyed. The Nevada, Ta.. association will give a two aays trotting and running meeting June 27 and 28. ‘There will be five races on the first day and six_on the second. The trotting stallion Envoy, by Gen. Hatch, owned by B, Hershey, of Muscatine, In.. has boet pliced in_tho hands’ of Peter V. Johason of this city for training. Almont Eagle, by Almont, purchased a few months ago trom Col. Withers by a Naskua (N. H.) gentloman for 33,000, was recently sold. Under a mortage for $730. E. C. Walker & Co., the well-known Michigan breeders, have bougnt the trotting qualities for fhis yearof 'Lady Moscow, now trotting fn the 2 class through the Michfzan circuit. W. R. Armsirong, one of Michigan's best-known turfinen, bas purchased The Marquis; o chestnut horse, by Edward Evereft, the sireof Tanner Boy, Judge Fullerton, and others, Price, $730. The trotting horse Dake of Lexington, belonging to Charley Green. thodriver, died recently 8¢ Babylon, Long Tsland. e was a ** green ™ horse of remarkable speed, and valued at §10,000. A two days’ meeting will be heldatBuffalo Juno 26 and 27. A larze number of Canadian horses, driven from home by the passage of the law pro- hibiting pool eelling, arc expecied to take part. Hochstapler, who was first favorite for the Derby of 1873, nnd swho afterwards ran some good races In Germany, iojured himself recently in such a manaer thaf it was foand necessary to destroy m. ‘The stallion Hermes that is trotting g0 well in the Michigan circalt is by Harold, he by Hamoletonian, ond was brought out this scason by John Spian, who considers him one of the most promising young horses he ever handled. There is an itom golng the rounds of the papers stating that Belle ., 5 mare that trafted a zood race of two In Michizan this scason. has heen sald to Mr. McConuell, of Chicavo, but nobody in this city scems to knotw anything aboat the matter. A running clrcult has been_arranged by the asso- ciations at Parker Cily, Edenburg, Oil City, Titusville, and_Bradford, Pa. Each place givos $1,500 0 premiums, 5nd nas tbree days’ racin: Coinmencing at Parkef City July 9, sod closing at Bradford Aug. 8. Hannls, record 2:19). 1 glving the papess goou deal of troubls this séason fo ascertain whether ornot he is Isme. The latest repost is that the little cheatnut s perfectly sound, and will be started st the Cloveland meeting, driven by *“Genral " Tarner. Adele Clarke, the mare that won eight races in the Michigan Circuit in 1877, but whose trick of being a bad scorer rendera her of little account in Der class,—the 2:25,—will be driven rhis year by Sam Willets, who gave Albermarle his. record of 2:20 in 8 fourth heat at Buffalo In 1876, There will be a coupte of fmportant salee of thoroughbred stock this week, the frst belng the cambination gale of J. A. Grinstead and A. Keene, Ricliards, which takey place Taesday at Lexing- ton, Ky.. aad the other thatof M. H. Santord's Prenkness yearlings, at the North Elkhorn Farm, near Lexington. The fore_legs of McWhirtor, who broke down while running in the Greeley Stakes at the St. Louis mecting, and was destroyed. have been am- putated by o veterinary surgeon. and will be dis- - sccted. with a_view of ascertaining the cause of the aceident which deprived the turf of one of its best representatives. Galmar, who was so successful Inst seson under Jobn Splan’s handling. is not doing well this year. At Milwaukee he had plenty of speed in tne first Dart of his race. but was boaten bandily enoush by Lew Scott. At Jackson he failed to get any part of the purse for which be trotted, and &t Grand Rapids last weel was distanced. Among the California horses that will probabl; come East this season and tuke pact in the Centra Circut is the_stallion Gladintor, by George 3. Patchen, Jr., 11 years old. ani owned by John Wilson, of "Napa City, California. Gladiator trotted 1 n2:40 race at Marysville, last fall, and distanced the field in 2:33, trotting the last half of the mile in 1:00%. Etnel, the eray maro that made such wonderful] fost time over the Grand Rapids half-mile track ine 2:99 ruce, trotting her heat 15, 2:23L, first came into’ potoriety at the Dexter Park fall meeting last year, where she won the 2:35 race over a 2ood deld. She 18 by the Indians pacing stallion Blue Buil, out of a mareby Tom Crowder, the horse thas ‘sired Mar- ion, record 2:23%. Colts by Georze Wilkes continue to show up well in Kentacky. The last of the old_horse’s get that has appeared i8 Rea Wilkes, a 4-year-old, thet started in & race for green horses of his age af Lex- inzion fnst Wednesuay. [fe won a ridicalously :40, distancing Trinket in the inthe sccond. Aunie T.. his only other compelitor, wns too lame 1o start in the third heat, and it was not trotted. Jt i charged that the chestont mare that has been trotting lo the 2:3% races st Mystic, Beacon, aud Narragansett Parks tids season 'is aringer, the belief being that she isnone other than the Almont mare Easter uid, that at Danwille, Tii.. Sept. 1576, ob- ined a record In third heat of 2 Laster that State can doubtless rolve the question 18 to whether she and Dolly Davis are Identical. A controversy is in progresa fn_ New York be- tween Mr. erzh and the veterinarians snd hors men relative to the practice of ** docking " horac: or amputating tails. Bereh objects, and threatens prosecution, while the othicrs liken the vain of the operation 10 that of picicing the car, and say it is nothing. The disciple o1 the angel of mercy is de- tarmined to compel all ownera to desiz: from the cruclty, and the resnit of the controversy will be that euriosity will be excited and the business of ockinz ™ will be_fmproved, sreatly to the grat- fGication of the veterinary surzeons. Morril) Higbee, the woll-known Tlhinois driver, soems to be arllicted with choking borses. In 1 the gray mare Bertie that was in his stable choked in a race at Hartford aud fell, **Nosey * Brown. who was driving for Higbee, cscaping without in- jury. howerer. In 1876 Little Fred, another of 1lizbie’s horses, choked and fell near the wire, in the 2:24 race at_Utica, Jack Phillips being in the snlicy, and 3t Grand Rapids Jast Wednesdsy the black'horse John Hall that Morrill is driving this season droppes like 3 stecr at the Soish of the third heat. With Hall to fall down with him. and Col. Duwes to bolt, ilizbie is likely to have a Ive- Iy and varied experience this scason. A representative of an Eastern paper recently spent. ufln afiernoon on ‘‘Deadhead Hill" at Jerome Park, the vantage ground. of those who are either without the means or the inclination to ay for admission to the srack, sod relates sowe 1nterestiug wcidents that transpired. The sym- pathies of the crowd were influcnced entirely by other canses than the merits of the coutestiny horses, the frat {avorites being always those rid- den by Irisn jockeys. The firt choice on the day alluded towas Meany, the well xnown siceole- Chase rider, of whom oze geatleman, whose words evidently carried weizht With them, remarked: “+ Maney's the Ind for me. ez can niver tell av he's pullin® or_shuviw’, for he sita lolke a rock ywia his Arrums as stiff 'as a post, ull the Gnish.” Anotuer, who was clearly deemed a great racing oracte, fired the Irish heart as he remarked with a Qeep, Judicial air: **Well, ov Maney don't win, Caliaban wilt, and its all for the lrish onyhow.” % Begorea, 1'd loike to see Sassquybanny win, " gaid another Celtic individual, **for Bluwat's o sirong Dimmyerat, and s foine man intwrel The Irish do not hava a monopoly of the Il liowever, and the arrival of a party of colored cltisens caused ono of them to remark: > Holy Mother, dacs naygars come to races. It's 8— sight 100 good for them. " The weights for the handicaps to be_run during the Monwonth Park meoting, June 29 to July 8, Bave been announced, and are given here in order that taefmen in this city may preserve tho same for reference, as in races of this description weight is a very Important fuctor. Long Branch Handicap: Virginius, 126 Ibs. ; Cloverbrook, 122 Ibs. : Leon- ard. Gen. Phillips, ‘snd Cuba, 119 1 Chiquita, )}n 1ba.; Cape Race, Frederick the Great, and Vagrant, 116" 1bs. ; Vern Cruz and Bertram, 115 1bess Mablstick, 114 1bs. ; Susquehanna, Zoo Zoo, 2ad Higgins, 112 bs. ; Idalm, Gangor, Faithiess, Danger. ana Littie Red. 110 1bs.: Dan K.. 103 Ibs.; sdventure, Chamols, and Lady Solyers. 105 Ihs. ; Princeton and Rifle, 104 1bs. ; Simoop. Gar- rick. and Bayard. 100 Ibv. ; Milan, 99 Ibs. ; Kinzs 1and, 08 1bs, : Alievenr an: Ravioll, 97 1b2.: In- Yyermore, 6 1hs.: Balaace All, 085 1lbs.: Plque, 93 1bs, ; Perfection, 92 1bs.s Loulanior, 90 1bs.: Ob My, 88 lus. [andi Sweepstakes: Tom Ochiltree, 190 ibs. ; Virginins, 1 bs. : Clover- brook aad Parole, 122" 1bs.; Gen. Prillips and Viceray, 120 1bs, ; Acrobat, 116 1bs. ; Basil Cape Race, and Verz Cruz, 113 1bs. ; Mahlstick and Shy-~ lock, 114 1bs.; fhagins, 112 ibs.; Zoo Zoo, 111 ths. ; Joe, 110 1 Daneer. Little Reo, and St James, 109 1bs. ; Lucifer, 107 Ibs. Adventare, 103 1h4. ; Rible and Princeton, 102 1bs. : Major Barker, 100 Ihs.. Garrick, 99 Ibs. Bayard, Daui- cheff, and Frankie, 98 1bs. ; Albert, 96 Ibs. ; Msri- tana and Zodiae, 93 lbs. AQUATIC. THE PIRST REGATTA THIS SDASON of the Clicago Yacht Ciub took place yesterday afternoon, as praviously announced. It was originally sapposed that there would b four clusses of yachis entercd, and prizes were offered for the winner in each class, but when tho time for the race srrived there were 1o boats of the foarth clnss to etart, consequently there will be no award of the prize for such bosts. For tho hrst-class boats, Commadore Munger had offercd s splendid miniature silver yacht as a trophy to be awarded 1o the successfal craft, but as his yacht, the Cora. was the only one of that class 1o entor, she canoot clatm the prize. THOE START 35 to have been mado from the foot of Van Buren streetat2 o'olock, the course Leing as follows: All yachts were to pass between the Dlinols Cen- tral breakwater and a staked flag in the lske, di rectly enst of Van Buren street, thence to a stak boat anchored ona mile eact of the foot of Thirty- ninth etrect, thence northeasterly to the crib, From this point the first and sccoud olass boats were to sail northwosterly o a stake-noatanchored one mile cast of the foot of Diversy street, thence back to startinz-point. ‘TIE THIED CLASS 5OATS after rounding the crib, leavinz that strnctare on the port side. wero to o directly home. When the liour for starting arrived there were seven boats on tne anchoring grounds, viz. : the Cora, first class:. [na, Mamie, Unknown, and En- terprise, second ciase; Lincoln Miller, Amnie Louigc Cary, and Lucy, tmird class. At sbout balf-past 2 the signal gun was fired, wnd the bosts passed the line In thefollewing order nud time: Ina, 2:38:50; Cary, 2 Mamie, 2:40:12; Lincoln Miller, 2 : Cors, 2:4028: Enter. prise, 2:40:33: Lucy 05; Unknown, 2:41:41. THERE WAS A PRESH BREEZE from the north, which had blown up qaite sea outslde, and harily were the boats nnder way be- fore tliey began 10 heel over and feel its cllects. The Cora, which ls indlsputably the best saller in the fect, 's0on overhaoled the Ina, which passed the starfinz-linc a litttle in_advance of her, and when the Thirty-ninth-streer stake-boni was rounded, was well ahezd, the Ina sccond, Cary ibird, Lincoln Miller fourth. and the others scat- tered. Asthe crafrgioud away to the eastward with the port taciss aboard and everything hazled taut, the effect of TIE WIND AND SBA was more perceptible than it had been when the ‘breeze was abeum on the trip from the starting- Doint to the stake-boat. There was plenty of work for tao sailors theu in attending to the decks over which the seas were wasting, and some of tha smaller boats pitched about like cockle-ahells. Bul all kept bravely to their work, a long streich to the castward being made by the Cora and Inn, while 2ome of the lesser lights deemed it more advan- 1ageous to make short tacks. Soon after lesving the stake-boat tae Lincoln Miller zov the weather- gauge of the Cary, and from that tume- tho desti- Bution of THE SECOND-CLASS PRIZE wadnot a matter of doubt. When tie leading boats came about on the'port tack thoy were about toree miles out in the Iake, and from this poita streteh was made which broneht them adreast of the river. Coming in-staya 2zain, they stood away to the eastward far enough to enable them to weather the crib, and from this point to the Di- vorsy utreot stake-boat it was plain saling. TRounding this, they headed for Lome, setting balleou-jibs and otner lizht sails, a8 the runto Van Buren street was with the wind. Dy reason of not having studied the programme, the Captains of alt tho thlrd-claes boats. EXCEPT TIE OARY, rounded the Diversy street stala-Bost Instesd of heading fBr home as s00n as the crib had been lefr. 1t madé no auference in the result, however. Tae Cura was the iirst boat nome, reaching the starting- point at 5 o'clock 23 minutes 42 seconds, the oth- ers_arriving oe follows: lna, 6:00:35: umle, :45:20; Lincoln Miller, 6:36:58; Cary, 6:19:53} the Intter being the last o aerive, und juet witain the specified time of four hours. ' Tha thne of the Enterprise was not taken OWING TO SOME MISTAKE, and the Unknown did not round the home-stake flag. The Lucy dropped oot of the race after reaching the river on ber way 10 the crib, seemng that she had o chance towin. The prizes will be awarded at o meeting of the Cinb to be held pext Tuesday evening, oud the resnit of the rezatma will be fo give the second-class prize to the Ina, and the ilrd-class ons to the Lincoln Miller. As stated above. the prize for first-class boats catzot be se- cured by the Cora, as she had 1o competitor 1a the race. = BILLIARDS. SLOSSON AND SEXTON. Speciat Dispatch %o The Tribune. Now Yonx, Junc 22.—Slosson and Sexton are practicing for their match next Thursday. Slosson mokes his headquartere ot Garnfer's resort, and Sexton is found at the Union Squate rooms. Both are in fine form, and st makinz large runs. It is ranored that Garpler will challenge the winner of ti match. THE ALPHABET. Yhat Is the Use of 1t? Arthur Gltman tn Sunday Afternoon for July. An old grammarian says that orthography is intended to lead the writer from the sound to the symbol, and the reader from the symbol to the sound. In other words, letters and sounds are mutuslly representative: and, as ths same author says agaln, there should be for erery sound one symbol, aud for every symbol only one sound; “ this nature and reason erave, and 1 can but trow that the worthy Inveators of this divino facalty shot at this mark.” So wrote Alexander Hume in bls “Orthogra- .phie and Congruftie of the Britan Tongue,” which he dedicated to RKing James the First atv about the time that the authorized version of the Bible was made, some two centuries and a half ago. He wos a bard- headed Scotsman, and he enunciated a senti- ment which the most advanced phonologist re- echoes without change to-day. Written language does not begin with an alphabet, but with pictures of objects,—with fizures representing the uames of the objects which the writer wishes to bring before the reader’s mind. Prof. Whitney says that “ An alpbabet is the Gnal result of centuries, even azes, of education und_practice in the use of writien cheracters.” Our own alohabet, which is used by 2 farae portion of the civilized world, as we all kuovw, is traced {o the Phenicians, aud it seems probable that 1t grew out of the civilization of Eeypt, the very ruins of which astonish the scientific ex- plorer after the lupse of so many uges. The Greeks took up the work of the Pheni- ciaus, and, by aldivz to it and chanzing some of its stzus, adavted it to the falthful repre- sentation of spoken languaze. The Rowmaus, in turn, adapted the same series of letters to the wants of their speech, and trom them it desvended to the modern European people. The Roman alphabet was first introduced Into England about 1,500 years oo, each letter be iug used to represent the English sound near-. est to the one it bad fu the Rowman pronuncia- tion of the time,~three siwns bemg added to denote sounds ot proyided for. Tie speli- ing that resulted was so.nearly phonetic that every change in it indicated a chanze of pro- nunciation. That {3, spoken lanwuage was written down oy the ear, as short-hand Teport- era record it now, instend of in accordance with orthographic tradition, as the rest of the world writes it. ‘The spoken sounds were, however, reduced to writiog by persons of comparatively tittle pho- netic cuiture, who were satisfied with roughly indicating the sounds, and by writers who were careless of accuracy if only the thoughts were conveved to the minds of their readers. From time to time, too, the sounds of the vowels changed without a corresponding chane fn the orthography of the words in which they oc- curred. At the time of the Norman con- quest a_consiaerahle addition ‘was mede to the Enciish vocabulary of words from the Latin which hal ~ been ipodified by use i the Norman French tonzue. In some cases the Fretich spelling and prooun- ciation were transferred o Englaad, in otters the French sounds were expressed fa Eaglish spelling, and agrain the French word was not changed fn orthozraphy, but was pronouncedas ifit were English. Without goinz futo the dey talls, it may be said that “sevon variations in spelling are exhibited.in the ciasses of words that have come to us from Franee. Wordshave likewise been incorporated futo our vocabulsry inthe same careless manner from most of the languages of the civitized aud uncivitized na- tious of the globe. A few classitied specimens will serve to show by what various combinations of letters some of these words of foreizn deriva- tion are spelfed. i From the Hebrew come abbat, amen, chefab, serap, fubilee. From Arabic—almanac, atlas, sherbet, bazar, chemistry, elixir, girnile, tariff, sirup, zero. From Persinn—caruvan. chess, emeruld, sash, shawl, turban, From Hindu— calico, chintz, bout. nabob, pauach. pundit, Tajab, rice, rupee, tum, sugar, toddv. From Malay—bantain, gamboze, rattan, sazo, veran- dab. From Chinese—caddy, nankeen, satin, ten, mandarin. From Turkish—divan, odalisk, siwetat. From our own Aborigines—eanoc, cocoa, kammock, squsw, skunk, potato, wige wam, yaw. From Italian—banait, busto, canto, * charlatan, domino, ditto, folio, gazette, harlequin, stiletto, studio, utbrelis, voteuno. From Spanish—alligator,amads,consro, T, desperado, mosquito, bunctitio, tornado. om Dutch—boom, boor, brecze, ogle, seui- per, schooner, yacht, loiter. Fros German— loafer, wultz, wickes, quartz, zinc From Greek—demagogue, stratégy. anarchy, svmbol, chironicle, paradox, method, hydra, eycle, aptic, monopols, psychology, sycophant, blaspheme, blame, police. pore, ¥pistle, anatomy, phicbotor my, syatax. From Erench—bivouae, badinage, bouquet, brochure, etiquette, omelet, brusqae, foible, penchaut, coit, duke, count, chivalry, homugo, service, beef, veal, pork. Froin Latin—action, agent, coazulate, convert, candle, sugit, candidme. cap, cant, accent, add. ab- sedud, diury, journal, condule, anbitiop, luciser, frail, “defy, gentle. progens, remain, grief, ginve, logacy, ominous, pace, adore, expend, arrest, devote, termipaie. It is cvident that in these words the letters #ore not used with their proper vatues, nor, in- decd, are they used with any systematic values Whatever; 80 that no one who Las not commit- ted to memory the pronuacistion of cach ind; viddal word “on the list can be sure that he knows how to utter it properly. The same re- sult will be plain if we look into our Eaglish dictionaties to learn, first, how uany sounds cach Jetter of the alphabet hos in speech, and then to count up the number of different ways in which each sound is represented. Casting out the superiluous letters k, q, and X, we have twenty-three left to represent forty sounds, which makes it necessary to assign several sounds ‘to ouc sign. Thus we express four sounds with the levter 3, as in az, fame, far, all, and we misuso the other vowals in a siilar mauver. It would creste consider- able confusion in society if one person were called indiscrimmately by four namnes, and it many persons in the samie housclold bore tha saine name. Suppose that we lave the name sound of eto write. We express it variousiy thus: Cresar, seal, see, seize, people, key, ravine, field, fotus, quav. ‘Take, agein, the name ‘sound of u, which is found in beauty, feudal, feud, few, cwe, licu, new, duc, suft, yew, youth, yule. "If we try { in the same way Wo have spite, aisle, hight, eyig,eye, tie, guil buy, by,aye. We tind the naniesound of o Writte thus: Tote, bautbuy, beau, yeoman, scw, osk, foe, brooch, soul, mow, owe. Of course, 13 wo have gaserted, we cannot tell bow to write words in which these sounds occur without re- fesring 10 a Gictionary, unless, indeed, we have previously committed them 10 memors; ead, in view of the confusion they present, we may well ask, “What is toe use of the alphuoet " It is upparent that the English alphabet has lost fts arigiual uve, and Is DOW a means rather of hiding sounds than of expressiog them. As regards the disersence between the spoken and written forms, English stands sowme- where near the Celtic or the Chinesc, aod it behooves us to take some steps o the direction of the restoration of the proper relations between our lerters and sounds. - The lanyuage contains in itself all the elements required by the most_thorough spiris of reform. Al that is needed is that we make up our minds to use every symbol with 2 sinelo » sound, and to put_upon ‘paper by their means the true words, aod not the confused and ab- sara forms to which custom bhas made us nsed. But no souner de we state this proposition thau the scotimentalist roshes 1o arms in be- half of the word-forms which he tells us are hallowed by time sud rendered sacred. He forgets to look at the letters of kis grand- father, where he would find much sbeliing which he would thiok barbarous. He does not reflect thut the English classics were not fisst printed in - the orthographic dress in which they now present themselves to us. He may not kuow that our version of thé contained iu its earlior editions a great v of spelling,—the same words be printed differently on o single _page, if not, in- deed. on the same line. Were he to ruad Chaucer and Wiclif, he would find stastl veriations o spelling: and would learn. tirat, until Dr. Johnsoa made his dictionary, the auchor-class cared comparutively littiv for or- thograpbic cobsistency. 1f the conservative sentimentalist, with whom we confess to have 3 warm sympathy, at lust gives his consent to our using the alpha- bet for the purpose that it was wede to subserve, we find our progtess obstructed by the small philologist. He has read *“Trench on Words’ perbaps, and, knowine no more of thesubject of historic ctymolozy than that book can tesch, he feels it bis duty to pro- test in the pame of scholurship azainst any change in the speliine which he avers contaivs a record of the pedigree of living words.” As Temple Bar, with its venerated ussociations, choked the stream of travel in the thoronghfare of the metropolis, S0 the small phiiologist thrusts his spectral obstacle in the Way of or- thozraptne reformn. He ducs not know that the philological ‘gmunts of the day scowl at such an objection; that the greatest of them are the warmest advocates of a reform, saying wit Whitaey, that “every theoratical and bractical: copsideration makes In its favor,” and with Max Muller, that ** Etymological spelling would play erester bavoe Ui Englist tbon phovctic spelling.” ‘Thie truth is, that there {s noarzument against * phonatic spelling which, if carried to_ its legiti- mate conclusions, would 1ot also make azalnst the present orthography. If any principle were {nyolvea, this would not be so. Dr. Johnson tells us that this departinent was In a condition of anarchy when bhe bewun to make bis diction- ary. This state of affwirs bad resulted from the carelessness of writers, who permitted composi- tors in the printing-otfices to spell fob them; and they did & in the way that aeveed best with their individual potions, or with the re- sources of the odice. If any principle volving " the relation of letters aud sounds had guided these early spellers, the work of re- form would be one of compurative simplicity. We might returo to the ofd ways. But to re- turn from the present coufusion 10 a state of “absolute anareby ¥ s absurd. We canaot re- store a historic spelling, simply because there Is no histaric period to which we can potut and say, “Tiere English spelling was systematic and sensible.” 1t was absurd 500 yearsugo. It was chaotic after the Conquest, ‘and before thar time the languaze as we use it did not cxist, Since the last great accession of words, then, the alpbabet has not been used o its legitimate work of expressing souuds. The etymo- logical spelling is irapossible; the historical scheme is 1o more’ practicable; and the present typograpbical or dictionary arthoz- raphy s unrcosonable. This shuts us up to some phanetic system, and the ouly question is, What shall it be! We have said thal the lanzuage already ton- tains all the elements needed for the most ex- act reform. Mr. Alexander dJ. Ellis, of England, who i3 acknowledzed to be the most ewineat and careful phopologist on cither side of the ocean, shows that ail the souuds of the " lan- guage may be reudily expressed by the present ictters in the powers which they now most ur- dinarily bave. The requisite additional sigus. are obtataed by theuse of a rew diacritical marks and diagraphs. A system formed in this way bas the great advantsge of being read with ease without previous siudy; and it has the merlt of belnr a devetopment of the inpiuagze itselt,and of not iuvoivinz the addition of slzas’ from other alpliabets. or of letters that would apoear odd and revulsive. Prof. March, of Latayette Colleze, who is well known as one of the foremost of American hilologiats, says of this plan: “Two 'power- ful reasons ‘may be urged for a trial of this method: (1) 1i can be easily read by evers one who can read fn the prescot spellinz. (2) It can be printed with common tyoes. 1t may be fur- ther sald, that it Isin theline of the regular development of our language. .It is the tend- cacy everywhere in fsugusee for minorities to conform to majoritles. The unusual modea of spelling would naturally. accordinz to thls Jaw, give way to the most common mode, and this Would ~ ultimately be the only modo of denoting each sound. So thap in sdopting this system we should only be hastenlng the patural process by which cosmos comes out of chaos; and thls, our sclentific men say, is the true office of the re- former.” The problem to be solved is not, . How shall we form an alphabet?’” for it js agreed ou ail hands, as the Awerican Philological Association puts 1t, that “ The Roman alphabet is 0 widely and 50 firmly eatablished in use swong tho leading civilized ations that it cannot be dis- placed.” Our efforts, then, should e to learn the true use of the aiphabet we have, and then toapply it to that use in_conlormity to the eenius of our lanyu: When this has been dore, we shall no lonzer be wortied by the {r reeularities of orthugraphy; foreigners fior na- tives will bave no rizht to ask, What is the u3cof the alphabet{” and the English lan~ guaze will take anotber stride towards becom- 1ng the universal speech of ths worlds s