The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-08-01
Our Chicago Letter.

CHICAGO July ~, 1867.
EDITORS TELEGRAPH:
The Chicago ball players and their friends
sit, netaphorically, in sackcloth and ashes
and bewail them that they were born, or rath-
cr that the national" club was ever born.
Their pride hath been brought low, and their
horn, which was blown SO loudly hath been
trampled in the dust They went in for wool
and came out shorn. On Saturday last the
Excelsior" club of this city, one which has
long BONE the palm as first of all the north
west, played with the Nationals of Wash
ington, D. G. A couple of days before, the
Nationals" had been beaten by the Forest
City club of Rockford, one which couldn't
hold candle to the excelsior" so that an
easy victory for the latter was anticipated
Vain hope, misplaced confidence. They were
most mercilesslv and incontincntly
''scr unched" l say "scrunched' becouse no
other word full expresses to my ear such fear
full defeat They made four runs against the
nationals forty-nine 1t is said that some
$50, 900 at least changed hands on this result
of the game. Well so far the affair was sim
ply a sad disappointment, but at this point
comes in positive disgrace. The Sunday
papers came out with vurulent attacks upon
the winners, stigmatized them as professionals
from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington" charged them with throwing
off on Thursday game to enable the gambler
who were said to be with them TO ito rope in
alats for bets on Saturdays game etc. These
attacks, or rather this gross abuse, does not
seem to have been in any degree deserved
The nationals have published a list of the
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all their members which effectually quashes
the first count of the Indictment. In answe,
| to the second, they reply that they were de-
| feated GU Thursday because they were eXces.
sively fatigued by travel and constant play
and that two or three of their members were
quite unwell. On Saturday on the other hanG
thay had recovered from their fatigue ant
were stimulated to extra eXertion by thei
former defeat and the jests and sneers TX
which they had been subjected. They played
for all they knew how. The "Excelsiors' OF
the contrary played a wretchedly muffin
game. The game which they played agains
the nationals could have been beaten BY
any one of "a { 1zen possiblya score of club
in the state. Yet forsoOth because they Were
beaten, they having played i'll while their op
ponents played well, the victOrs have beef
greeted With this abuse. / have no acquaint
ance with or friendship for the nationals ant
| detest the game of ball, but | blush TO
our Chicago people and press. | am heartily
ashamed of the mean contemplate spite
Jealousy and avarice which have been show
by our daily papers. With quite as mucl
Justice might they have charged the ''excelsi
ors" with throwing the game" to win out
side bets made through agents, against thei
play. This position would indeed be by ia
the mosts tenable, arguing from the score
which shows how well the nationals played
their game and how far below the ordinar,
was that of the ''excelsiOrs This is WHY W,
lshn
game, not because we lost it, but because W,
made such q childish disgu sting 'squeal
over having lost.
One of the first trades to succeed in tn
eight hour struggle, or rather to achieve
partial and temporary success was that of tn
plumbers. The season of the "strike" wa
the busiest in their year and employers coulC
not afford to lie idle long enough to bring
their men to reason as was done by some othe
trades. Therefore they perforce, agreed t.
the eight hour rule, now the reaction take
place and to night the boss plumbers meet Il
resolve formally that they will employ NJ
man who is unwilling to do an honest tel
hours work. Thus one of the last plank
slender and thin as 1t was, in the eight hou
raft floats away.
A horrible fire took place last night over OIL
Milwaukee avenue IN the west division b.
which about an hundred poor families wer
rendered homeless. Most of them were onl,
partially or not at all insured.
The "Black Crook, continues to fill Nc
Vicker's night after night. It's wonderful
spectacular effects are being constantly added
to and improved and people are coming a
much as $50 and 800 miles from the remote
parts of the great northwest to see it. Wood
is doing badly. So long as the tastes and pro
lclivities of an individual actress, instead o
those of the general public govern the selec
ton of business, small audiences may be ex
pected to be the rule. Dan Rice's big show
is here.
Quotations on change to day are as follows
Flour very dull, $12, 80 for white winter
So, S71<@I6,5O for spring extras. Wheat de
clinlng in spring, firm in winter, 50, Is for No
l; So, 10 for No. 2; 81, rs for No. g. Red White
81, 70@1, 70 for No 2; s 1901 ,25 for rejected
spring. Corn firmer, 87@S719c No. l; 83aS315
for No. 2; 75@76c for rejected. Oals dull ant
lower, 5219@65c for No. 2. Rye, better 9S@1, o.
for No. /; 90@96c for No 2 Barley neglected
Seeds dull, $2,60@2,S0 for timothy Mes
Pork, inactive $24,00 Shoulders iuactiv,
I1l4@1116c. Lard, better, 12I8@13Ac.-
Freights lower, Corn 3@314c TO Buffalo.
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