, 1876-10-29
PASTlMES.
Baseball Batting and Field
ing Averages.
AReliabIe Statement OF the years
Work.
The Chicago Players Make an
Excellent Showing.
Efforts to Revive Baseball Interest
in Philadelphia.
Turf Notes, .Pigeon-Shooting ltems'
Aquatic Paragraphs, Etc., Etc.

RASE-B,ALI.
MIR, 0F PARTICULARS.


The Chicaro Climb has made this season Wnat
is in some respects, the most e1traoroina15
record ever made By any organization ID tue
wav of travel and number Of games played. ~
has been ain commission" 15S working days
BEGINNING April "a, and ending Oct Il pul-
Ing that time it has played 66 championship
pa1nes. and SO with semi-professtonal ana
amateur clubs. or 119 in all The idle days nave
been: a5 in Chicago, between League games'
on trips, spent Il, travel, and where rain pre-
vented games. During the season the tluo
has travelled the extraordinary distance o.
11.1s6 miles. From April 25 to Oct IL Inc
Club has been away from chicago
113 DAYS, and remained here 81. Out OF
sixtv-sfr eames only five had to be postponed on
sccount of rain, one in Louisville and four with
the st. Louis Club, two in Chicago and two IN
Sr ,,oni. Every Eastern game on both trips
was n,,1,ed OF without interruption on the ap-
nointed dar. The Chicago Club has not played
. tie zane with League club this year, and,
of conrse. has never had any ten-inning contests
with League clubs, neither anything less than
nine innings.
4 still more extraordinary fact is, that during
the whole season the Club has suffered no accl-
dent or delay in travel, and, further, no player
has been laid off for even one game y 45ness' @
or b; injury received in the game itsT{. Hlnes,
to be sure, injured leg IN a running Vatch, but
that had nothing to do with the game.
DEATH or M'ATEE.
The Cupper contains the following letter IRON
I.ansfncburc, n. T., conveying the intelligence
in this city. He died Oct Is, aged 81 years:
.'Bab" McAtce, the name he was best Known By
among his friends. passed from this nc ,a, OF
when xe',% tnc
Cub iirst became prominent by DEFEATING the
Mntusls IN Sc. by the score Of 1913, McAtee was
Of The Club The nine ,sxs VIZ then cS Me.
RS1sS Snide 81 D.; i LeyiaesW6rth, Isl b. Ward "a
Fenaeid, Sd b.: McA,ee, s. f.; king, !: T.: T.:
now s; desd. l. Tie remaining four sss cTayef who
present 1Iaymakers; reuaeld, who j. woFsing ut
1ni,ps ee % Of 70 @ McAtee, Il. Kius md :'cpper'
Flynn seeded from, the Club to join fortunes y,th
contract was suddenly broken By the great fire.
He never played afterwards. for he was then all-
Ing, and lie fingered till the 10Th, after wishing
II cared for By his good mother, father, aud SIS
1ers. The last words he said we're that no was 60
ing to take long sleep and closing aIa syes N h
was reliable, always striving his best to win; as
bow. he was generous to fault, respected BY al
who knew him. His funeral took PlaGe IRON =: e
friends. The Hay,n.ker Club, with the four sur
viyors of the nine OF 1866, attended in body.
TIE BATTING AVERAGES OF 1876.
Monday morning last THE TRIBUNE pub
lishcd table showing the batting record Of
each professional, or member Of a professional
club, who had played in three or more champion
ship games during the season of 1516. Several
gentlemen iutyrcsted in the game have desired
this record to bc published again on The ground
that they were unable to obtain copies OF it. i
is, therefore, given below. and may be depended
OH as correct. As will be observed, this table
is based On the proportion OF hasc-hlts to times
at bat, the only fair criterion OF judgment; and
It includes all the games played for the
championship, without reference to whethe!
the League will throw out the Mutual and
Athleticc1u or not. Following is the record
RATING RECORD FOR 1876.