, 1877-10-07
nI-TTTGT9 TAST1MES.
-. 4 Fielding Averages for
1877.
The Last Game Of the Chicagoans
1.-The Championship
Record.
Extra Encounters This Week and
>fext--Gossip Of the Game.
Goldsmith Maid Honorably Mus
tered Out Of the Service.
Double Team Trotting By Small Hopes
and Lady Mae---The For
mer's Career.
The Last Day Of the Interstate Rife
Match-The Challenge Badge.

WHAT THE PLAYERS HAVE DONE.
The championship season OF 1871 was formally
brought to close yesterday By the decision OF
the twelfth game between the Chicago and
Louisville Clubs. Tie relative standing OF all
tue clubs in the race has for some time been ab-
solutcly determined aud consequently there re-
mains only one thing to settle before sllunting
the game into winter quarters That one thing
is considered Of the highest importance By tue
PLAYERS, who look at its figures with ca..cr in-
tcrest impossible to be conceived by an outsider
The figures referred to are those which 60 to
make up the seasons average OF players, and
which show, as fur as any figures can, the rc1a-
tire abilities Of the mcn,-thcir capital l,-thcir
stock in trade, rs it were. The first
item is Of course the batting, basel
On the number Of base hits and their
proportion to times at bat The question as to
bow MANY players should be included in the list
Of those who have played for the championship
ol the United States is, for the purposes Of this
paper, settled by refusing to recognize any
service in, or games against, the Cincinnati
Club. 1t has been the position OF The TRIBUNE
FROM, the first that the various and sl1nlry Gin
cnuati Clubs have none Of them held member
shin in the League, and there seems no reason
wEy if Cincinnati games are not to be counted
III the general club record, they should affect
personal averages. It is now universally ad-
uliticd that these games do not count toward
tire championship; they are therefore omitted
from the following averages, which are the per-
ful 1nauees OF tho men in the games which have
decided the championship, with this exception,
that the Two tie games are counted. The
League Secretary made this precedent last
wear; that is the reason they are put
in. Further, 1nE TRIBUNE does not
wi>l, to claim that these figures are the same
these which will be given III the official book By
tho League Secretary next March. These are
made up iron, printed tafIcs, almost invariably
fr:n the st. Louis GEobc-iA1Aocrut, the Louis
vile Cournr-]ourna!, the Boston Herald, The
CHICAGO TRIBUNE. and such reports from
Brooklyn Us the reporter could lay hands OH.
1t is proper here to say that In many cases tue
figures gwen will be smaller than those III the
League Secretary's book. Fer this reason:
Some scorers have habit OF ta1npcring witt,
the figures so as to raise up friends and put
down enemies. That sort OF thing d<cs not
Spoca: III the newspaper scores, but it does in
:hc p7lyatc League official scores To certain
extent, therefore, the newspaper scores arc The
most trustworthy. 1t is hard to draw
the line at what number OF games With
a club entities a player to appear in
its list, hut in this series Of averages it has been
set at three. mainly because it was so il, these
columns last season. Following is tie table Of
batting averages. showing tie players rank in
the profession, the games he has played IN Gn-
clulug ties but not counting Cincinnati games,
the runs i,c has made, isls times at bat and then
the test Of merit, his percentage vi base-li1s to
lines Al lat To this is added. for purposes OF
con.parison, the players record for 1o.U, taken
from the leaHuc book:
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