, 1876-07-02

The report that Parks, late of the Dostons.
PAD been engaged to play with the Cincinnati
| Reds, is untrue
There Is certainly q good deal in baseball
luck. The uartfords have lost eight games this
year, but have, very fortunately for them, nut
tllree of this number In with clubs outside Of
the League, and where they don't count, while
the Chicago's list Of five lost all count agaiust
them
ltscems to be pretty we'll settled that Cum
nings, Of this ycar's Hartford team, will pitch
Tor Cincinnati next year, and that Hicks will
cAtch Tor him. The latter denied the ru1nor that
he was going to Cincinnati at all, but there is
reason to believe thut he will show up III the
City Of Pork next year.
The gn1ncs this week will be Hartford
Chicago, charlottesville, Boston-St. Louis,
and Athletic Cincinnati. The Hartfords have
gone through their Western trip with the loss
nt m only one League game, but they may find,
like the young bear, that their troubles are all
before them.
In addition to Bond, whose engagement for
1877 was announced last week, the Hartford
management have signed contracts with Bur-
dock, York, Caroy,, Harbiage, and Hisham, Of
this yea;r'sS y; s niue. These, with Bond, Start, aud
to be filled in the Hartford team for 1877 -
We find in one Of the daily papers the impor-
tant intelligence that Charley Gould, Of the
Clncin1lats, has become father.n We do
not know how much experience 6 Charley" has
had, but he will probably now learn some points
III the game Of bawl he has never met with OIL
the diamond ficll.-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
It is said-,although as yet no contracts have
been sigued-that Providence next year will be
represented in the National Base Ball League
with nine composing, SD far Us known, the fol-
lowing players from the Hartford nine Of this
year: Cummings, Captain and pitcher; Carey,
second bascmall; Mills, first basclnan, aud Ali-
co11 faffhar RtfnDr n1s 11C II that f:Rofrt-n
will play the Hartford's first base, next year,
with HaIlinan, Of the Mutuals, at short stop,
Harbidge and Higham alternating between right
field and the eatcLer's position.-Bost0n GIUbc
1t may be that Providence has Mills and Allison,
but they arc the only ones who can 70 there.
A mercncnt Of Hartford, while hurrying
along the street yesterday with his mind intent
Oh business affairs, spied n brother merchant,
who seemed anxious to attract Ills attention and
oyertake Him; therefore, surprising something
to him, he wuited for linn to approach. His
friend hurried up cut OF brcath, his face
wrcatheu in smiles, and said, glad to see
yon; 1ve some good news" "What is it,"
was the eager inquiry, when to his wondering
"Tond las signed to tie Har4yovis for ,lezt year"
Hartford CoNra,A-
The Cincinnati Ehquire, in common with
many other papers, has been waiting with great
anxiety for the futillment Of its prophecy: that
the Chicago papers would 81 eall the Whites hard
the day after the Whites lost to the Athletics
There comes vail to us from the Windy City.
People up there arc dissustcd with their pet White
Legs. louisville is disgnstcd too, with its club.
Louisville knows how It is herself to hnye the
good things Of base ball wrestcd from their grasp
Cincinnati should cast glance towards Louis
Vile and Chicago and then look tn her own young
hired ball-tossers and smile satisfactorily.
Wen bet q nickel to a cent that the Hartfords |
will yet fly the whir Just wait until the Chicago
papers begin to biackruard their pets, who pIAy I
With SO much conscientious badness"
The San Francisco Bail Club, whose intention |
to make an Eastern trip was some time ago |
noted, has carried the project into effect, aud
is now somewhere i'll the wilds OF OMAHA The |
Fourth, and in Davenport on the 9th. They !
will play game with tile Franlllins Of this city
IN the White Stocking grounds Friday next, !
md will thus for the first time in the East have
IN opportunity to Judge what the Eastern ama-
o make trip through the East, covering about
hrcc months, during which time they will meet
ii the leading amateurs. They have under
AIKEN long trip, and should be encouraged for
heir pluck.
Two good, clever brothers who live not hun
Ercd miles from Lexington, who are known to be
a a 1ourishing condition u baseball club Oh a
ighly moral basis. The modus operandi is this: |
The club meets every Saturday evening for play, |
in the meantime having been sent out
4 the highways aud byways and especially to
very hardened case After the game is over
hese particular cases are selected aud invited to
upper, after which they are taken to the prayer
Meeting, which is held weekly in the school
ouse hard by; and so uususpectingly has the
oor sinner been led along that, before be is
ware Of it. he is down on lis knees to the first
fort at PRAYER, probably, since he left his moth
RS knee. He is then appointed to lead the
1ccting On the next; Saturday evening, and is
uly installed member of the club, which is
aid to be in very 1ourishing condition.-Le1-
.gton (Ky.) Ga=ttc