, 1876-10-18

Mutual, y.
,owxrAt1 OF THE GAME IN REV TonK.
sptctu. Correspondence a} The Tribune.
NsW YonE, Oct. l4.-The base'pall ecason OIL
1sid Is at an cad, and with It tho MUTUAL oluo'
Nany doubtless regret the close oI LIE seasons
p,ay, but very few will DO iouna 70 shed my
trars over the demise Of the emo TINT NOT ohiy
represented Now York, but all t'le eamo'crs una
blaeSlegs IN the country as wc'i. 1ho olutua1
Baseball Club was organized mnhy years aso
tr a Int NJ rIr.m[ll propr1ctors md gamblers,
- ,,t,, nm hccinniny Of tl,o season Of 1871
sau aa.4 s"v +, VI. srtcrcat nj these ncoplc.
WIS Iun W a.u ~ w., 49,. IL 4,,o xo,tth ~
In ISL the T"ced HING, Ihcn ~ 1No Acnltn -.
IA rlury, furnished nuy quantity Of money with
rhrh 10 nav pla1crs mud put Alec Davidson IN
.na.so s. ri n. roncrrn. \ tob was nut I'm tho
s'a'ks y. nv ~. At1on,,, cIr,,of nrrt,tlvn
se9on previous .ot wy n'.a''.l'
The championship TO New York. Aa MI offset
nv ,ha ltt,c net ut cirIitY, tic best men OF tho
~ NNs a.. .,,t..n,a " ,,l.r viii, t1,a
Auaut,s n'ae "ssS o,,s,as sar1,r ,snn, 81 Snn ~
Mutual Ciuo AZ Salaries ranging 'Fo'n st,ooo "
$500. But this ntual-Atlantie consolidation
a,a,a tho msr nuar,c,c1 Fcrruson. nrobo1,lv
paee' W, Int" ..a,. -, r,st ,,s,, -
tic Eosstlelnpeleu ihal! p!asl''R JUL, ""s Inaue
Captain Of the n!nc, anu NC WIS 50 abusive to
IFS men that they would do nothing. In the
fceond place, lwcci anu Ats gang "eFc hunted
down and tho players salaries went unpaid.
They had to mako up The deficiency somehow,
and low could this bc done except by "throw-
Iue" gamcs' From that day to this, the chief
aim ct the Mutual club. seems to l!avo been to
lote rutLer than win games. Men Of undoubtcd
ra.,ality we're taken into the nine, and ali IT.
,,.,,. - d,.o,,,,,n. ,p,r. ,,ar1onoJ I,,s n.ss.
.p,s ~. ~ w.. , ~, s .,.,, ',I. "s w.. ".,o
pai ap, hfst YIN ta!a Man ana then WAN Tint,
anu una,iy WIN ring consisting Oh three or
foul, 70 lose game to-day md viii ono to-lnur-
row; Thc writer knows positively, and ean provo
y sae testimony q - one VI TIC playcrs, that,
sa, wsls on she way 10 CasaGo two years ugo lasI
cl the players to lose the first gamo to the CHI
Cages, Win Il possible the SECOND, and lose tho
t'El, and THIS proyratnsnc was carried out to
the !ei!sr tor three yenrs tl.e asaociatcs Of at
nye 0 ,Hs ns atS peoI W.,
on oil the games. During Inst August tic club
went 70 Philadelphia and lost d uorne TO The
Athletics, and fruin Philadelphia went 10 Pits
surg y pluy mn amateur club. While IN Pitts
n na!E they Mcfs 1ulheu ny three g9'nblcrs who
,rnS M" SonG ou ~ , tne Wy from New fork to meet
On reaching ts l paeo tc q 8.ot,ea asan e5 ~.
leatcl tl!clu the Mutuais) a1ld tho three ga,,,-
b!eEs aud their confclcrutes In the pool-roo1n at
NcT York %cro undo happy. One Of these
Gau'nless lIal TIC week previous, assaulted Cru
violent blows IN tic farc. Urayer did not a.
tempt to striSc back, although, s,IrromntirIi Iy
f,trnds nor did lu request to haye
thG man arrested, Notwithstanding tic
.aesa,,;, Rol!ee were st 2, ~ the grounds and
meyer, the manager Of the cnb anil grnnn.ls fnIc
my sttpa 10 have ,hp rn,nhler nrrastcd or ov
elected from the grounds. Tle whvle nffafr was