The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-04
THE NATIONAL GAME.
How the Base Ball Clubs Are TO spend the
Fourth.

How the Base Ball Clubs Are to Spend the
Fourth.
The attractions nj the ball fields to-day are many
and interesting, and the thousands who will seek
them will do 80 for twOfOd purpOse--t0 amuse
themselves or be amused and escape the horrid din
Of exploding frecrackers pistols, guns and cannon
which the city walls reverberate from early morn till
midnight Every bail field in and around the city
has been engaged, and the supernuous national en-.
thusasm which Will be worked Off in this way Will
be greater than in any other line. There
is no game that offers to our people
amusement SO fitting to their tastes as base ball
this natal day. By slight stretch of the imagi
nation can perceive in it the elements of pyro
technc display The faces OF the thrOng, according
to their sympathies, are lit up or darkened-some
white, some red, some bue-acc0rding as the for
tunes OF tins side the other rse and fall And as
fortune plays tickle part in these contests, the
crowds vlsage Is constantly changing hue. The
ball follows the curved lines Of the rocket goes
ricochetting like hot shell upon the water. The
players themselves perform gyrations that PIN
wheel might initiate with honor, while all go IN, go
Off and 60 out as would so many Roman candles
DISPLAYS TO-DAY.
At BROOKLYN Atlantic VS.. White Stockings of Chi
cago The latter club arrived In this city yesterday.
At the Willow Grounds the Burnside and Frontier
At Hudson City the Empire of this city meet the
Waverley Club.
Al PnllaucIpDla the MuttlaS oil tnlS city play the
first OF regular series with the Athletics
At washington the Unions OF M0rrisanta play the
first game Of their tour with the Olympic Club.
At New Haven the Harvard and Yale college Uni
verSity mines meet
At Peekskill the EXcelsiors of Brooklyn play the
Dunderbnrg Club.
At Troy the Oriental OF New York and Haymaker
clubs.
AT SangerIies The Harmonic OF Brooklyn and u
ster clubs
At New Rochelle Warren of New York ana Con-
fdence clubs.
At Rutherlurd Park the Alerts of Iiackensack and
Iona clubs.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Harvard College begins to-day an extended tour
OF ball play throughout the country. The pro-
gramme, as laid down, Is as fo0w5:-
Yale, New Haven, July 4; Rose Hill, OF Fordham,
N. ", at New Haven, 5th; Haymakers, Troy, eth;
Utica at Utica Sh; Eckforq Syracuse, 18th; ONTARIO
Oswego. 18th; Niagara Buffalo, 18th; Forest City,
Cleveland, Ohio 18TH Red Stockings, Cincinnati,
18th; Riverside, Portsmouth, Ohio, 10Th /; Eagle,
Louisville, KY, 21st; Empire, St. Louis No., 22d;
Union ST. Louis Odd; White Stockings Chicago,
25th: Forest City, Chicago, 26th Cream CITY, Mtlwau
kee, Wis, 21th Garden City, Chicago, 29th India
napolis Indianapolis, Ind. 3Oth; OLYMPIC Washing
Pastimes, Baltimore, 5th Maryland Baltimore, 9Th
inrepids. Philadelphia sth Athletics. Philadelphia,
9th; KeysOnes, Philadelphia, 10th; Atlantics, Brook
Ign, 18th: Stars, Brooklyn, 18th.
On Sunday evening next the Mutual Club leave
New York on their annual western tour, and viii be
gone for month.
The White Stockings ana Mutuals play on Wednes-
day and the Whites and Eckiords on Thursday on
the Union grounds L. ID.