, 1876-09-17


THE FUTURE OF THE CAMPAIGN.
The announcements for the future Of the Louis.
vile Club are; Sept: Is, Harrisburg; Sept 10, Al
toona; Sept 20 and Fl, pittsburgi Sept. % and 23
Wheeling; Sept. SO and Oct: 2, Bostons atLouss.
vile; Oct. 4 and s. Hartferds at Louisville.
A dispatch fro1u Dustvu. dated Friday, says that
ball season there will close as fur as the Western
clubs are concerned, by game Monday between the
/ Chicagos and Bostons Of 1878. This will be very
difficult, because, while all the Bostons OF that year
Chcagos Of 1875 are scattered through The Chicago
Athletic, Louisville, Hartford. indianapolis, Frank
LIN, and other clubs, and the Treasury Department
against picked nine.
The Chicago-St Louis game on the Union
Grounds, Brooklyn, is of in consequence OF q
protest entered BY another League Club against its
Western clubs had taken the pains to look at Sec
OF Art Y. Of the League Constitution, they
wonld have found it provided that no League club
shall be permitted to play game with any other
club than the one occupying the grounds within i've
miles OF the city,-not even with the consent of the
Louis game very clearly, ana though there is no
the Western members OF the League have too much
representatives. This will serve to explain to in
quirers why the Brooklyn game for tomorrow is
ott, and the Boston game substituted for it.
The White Stockings, closing. their Eastern
ed to play in Boston Monday elsewhere noted,
They viii then start for home, stopping in Syracuse
Meonesoay 70 pay Inc stafs, ana reachinS nome
games that can be announced with certainty for q
Chicago audience are with the Bostons on the
OF this week. They will be we'll attended, both Us
welcome to tne champions OF thls ana last year,
and because it has been some time since game
Was playee nere: vhiy saA naoiS sats l w.! "
played IN Gncago thfs season. ana inc aales 1of tne
Hartfords and hlutuals have not yet been liked with
certainty. The di*tntcgrat'on Of the athletic:
the eight which they expected to close the season
ATHLETIC CLUB MATTERS.
the Athetc CUB Cub that that o1yanization is Unable
to complete it's engagements hus set people who
keep track Of things to figuring out tic result
zS proS2de for ts rather the hs aet that
sns o eonnns the
can easy 1s learned from The following paragraph
from the Mt the q %.a the b; eaa Gg1 mo ~
play ibeir ~ sames. They az are negotiatins for tie
Remainder to be played here otherwise they VII
Thomnson,s letter to President Hubert printed in
these columns Thursday The Infinite cheekiness
Of the rsquest i worthy the Athletic manags,
to take ont OF the Chicago Club some
hundreds of dollars, for it seems clear enoneh That
no club has more Than made expenses N ln,laael- %
phla hs yearh Moua sxes appear Fo M an
>on ettef thaL lnis was ~ G43e; 1u
haa, so, ar enonp1 IN The icht Of the facts
~ th;s sss,ns nnfruc iast renr before the Centeu.
1al md other hiuderapccs TO which Mr. Thompson
alludes were begun, the average receipts Of the
Chcagos were $40 Tor each or hve games Inc
ycar Eefore the Chcagos received Sl2s per game.
These figures. coupled with those which might De
given for 1876. ecem to indicate that no cup can
succeed in Philadelphia unless dtdefentiy man
lEuu leh doos ,ot With to hc understood to inyefeh
sst e,;, M ~ +nat ctv which hc1ned to foster