, 1877-12-23
Various Notes, News, Queries, and
Answers for Ball-Tossers in
Winter Quarters.
Death OF the Famous Trotter
Flora Temple, Aged Thirty
two Years.
Dexter E'a-k Doomed---It Is to Be
Transformed into Great
Iumber-Yard.
Iore Concerning j National Rifle Associations
English and American Shooting
Tried at the Trap.
BASEBALL.

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nouus.7 -o'N ~ asA4n's p4ep'atute
eh=ateueu.s '1 auu t1'e fec.'on "salnst
e.ooAeune ~o.s Se taan a'''
VI League sionnos ml1uls approved;
also the cutting OF OF total bases, but not
tbe1nsertion Of rcached first The changes in the
p.A' sAs 4u'es a,7o soou' Ano Ioe "oo1e
4osa - " psaee "nu na1'n'ns'
me sew lork 1ereaTy and Cincinnati Enquirer
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abuse in saving that the League is Chicago
Institution, and Is run and owned by Hubert"
If that were true: it would no doubt BE- source of
general eons7atulation that it was Ns. Hubert
and not sperins OF coneannon who controlled the
NATIONAL tic. n,g5, gans: r,,,. :, ., :, -. ....
1ae n'ooAlsn 1a9'e ~ Improving IN ats way OUT
'9 is,ess 1s 70 ss .sss pasn $50 far a. the writer
.1ouzaol has had not one word as to the doings Of
leen made the pa5er containing it faiIad to COMA
to hand.
There isa sinenlar difference Of opinion among
authorities as to the merit changes in the seor
ing rules made at Cleveland The Globe Democrat
heartily damns the ''tnes reached first base
OF tae 90 wants column
~ ro.aa oases On h.s and the Cincinnati En-
,.a,;s,as :. 's7 a"u ootn
i i Would be nawse 70 Change The Base .hit COZ ~
unn the only one which gives Us any basis OF COM
u long as they ear 7 " WV ' ''4' y S'~1'
CINCINNATI PROSPECTS.
The Hatter of the settlement of the White
brothers has been arranged, rs was expected, By
their signing for'cinctnnati. The Commercial Of
LUG @oth cohtempates tue Team anu grows entaus1-
ast'c, as witness the following:
@ Is n nne a. .nat ~ opnnr 70 seep tnnSa 9e1oTf
SCI from such q team Of w,llom-swingcrs! Pike viii
@ sena y ever te aiGhtc neid ience tnen Jones VII
ete:nay whack It clean over tc centre ied ialo Miii
E1ses. or possibly over The III hcyond Mcvey viii
sullivan viii sand Tie bali into the air and make u
before u gets down and GeThaEdt viii knock
ress of tc boss viii make holes throus5 lie carrace
to2s aud knock oI boards from the fence In Tic cen
{fs neid: And White and Mitchell viii pitch such aw-
bis eycs shut snd u,lissn vii do tic Gtan ftate au
business On rst hnse and toss ninenen fect nfn he
sE for balls. Blacky Edwards viii 70 out aod sec .
game Eon for The Arst time In his life
y the, Cincinnati Club, and Mart Cra-
char ~ ~ :rapoa nnche ne eusaiohea nd @ ETH t,
Csyior about Boot6. Vile cbareT cou1d eander n IN
from The carraCc rafe with hs In tnTrrt f1j ~ tirE
cts Uh. It will bc grcat Gofngs at the bail park next
season and 1t the close Of ~ We Will unfur the whip
a. a M o. me & ,a iro dhe hhess f.eepe
iuI p1 az be fh @ r @ o! g
tho Kind Ut hase.laH crasahnnner 1incnna;f viii hs
ne1t year With That niue we shall clean out Chicago,
aud maui Miissaukcc and suuec Zannsyiije Ne sha
p tAs Crested Ja5awks Of the mountain The
Is lie Find Of patcnt cosc nots xen he ncIt wear II
seems u though the organization Of the Base Bail As
Directors nayer ana c,nn1nycs n as n"a1 ~
Il cou!d he and. II don't tho chaui iplonsip.
bs ana an un n cn m se m oas on
ttatrs Ut which they can Sc per week-tthatts Is
n1s tr1a &c a.. - - 3''1as 70 A4se w 'ol.
h,t,"x' H ~. e .s.nl. vus o"o 1. nAe soo1
coad n.,aa - o.a, "a1ls' Mee.s, anu ovues' Aao
Ae4oc4s aH around except III ihe pltcnefs po-
suon- Unless the writer is wilder in his guessing
thcn is often the case young White cannot ..stapd
thc racve, :, N;1, r-ool- (; d..,rn,o had ~
n;,,tos" 49, .,..',. 49, ~
1acFe were flenef' anu "llllaHs' a"u
Dean IN lSI6; and Mathews, and Cummings, and |
Mitchell in 1877: and eyerv identical one Of the |
kix had .hr rcrr+at;o, no ,,,bt;o, md tho ~
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b. nn,cr.:ond tnot Tr Tn,n7.xr h.n.,;i ho...
Cinc;nns1i stard 80 ni1ap ~ +ha Gsns o"d !, a, @
ll,y snare sny nne nf fhcm - ~ s' N - ~
Co,n1ncn11no m rho fcan the Euov,r-r aavs
that hlte and Mcycy were 1rrt and second ba.- |
ssss IN the League ths year which tue same 1s an
nd arson cs,nc "AT T.41 ~ ~ 1851 H.
latter is, however, fully the equal of any man in !
~ country IN MS hitting, no matter what any rec
Nv A'ae sno"'
WHAT THE LEAGUE HAS DONE WITH CLUES