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l977-SIXTEEN PAGES.
ton, N. \, bears upon some statements hereto
fore made In these columns:
70 tho EaHer q re Tribune.
BSauAAroN, n. T., March e.-Having noticed
say h ssue :, # reb e. hat
trying to procure Meaars. Daily and Bradley, mem lem
bcrs Of other clubs, which, The writer adds LOOKS
to he e.
ranted by the facts. and does great Injustice to the
Cricket Climb, and creates q false impression. 4
to the Writer how unreliable runor il, as founda-
ton to assal the motives and acts of club In Sc
1ecting mine. Mr. Daily signed contract with
play with the rcorganzed Cricket Club for the
son OF vi. While in New York learned that
Mr: Daily had, about the 1st Of February
| Manchester Clnb Of Manchester. n. II. On my
return home 1t came to the knowledge Of tho Di-
1cctors Of the Cricket Club, from the Manager Of
the Manchester ninc lhat he would no. permit Mr..
Daily to play In his nine il be had signed with the
crickets: IN view Of Dafley's, unmanly treatment
and his little regard for valid and binding con-
ors were unanimously willing that he should take
| his departure to snch club MS might g1vo him the
most comfort. and they released him.
Aitor the Eoetons had played their closing game
with the Crickets in the fall Of 7, it generally
believed TINT Mr.. White pitcher OF the Crickets,
application was made to Harry Wright to assist in
a. M st a1ssy gs ,o1 ss the Psa
lures were made, and correspondence was had.
Mr. Bradley made offer, but by reason OF
neEltsence and and press Of business matters, the
All negotiations were open7 aboveboard,
and In good faith, without any knowledge
that he had made any engagement elsewhere. Mr.
bradley has not inttmatcd that he has yet signed
with any club. Newspaper announcements are not
always sure proof.
The Cricket Club are decidedly opposed to giving
gagemcnts With other clubs. The success Of the
base bull interest depends beyond question Oh a
rigid enforcement Of contracts, otherwise there
tract.
The Cricket Club has suffered without retaliation
11r. George Latham sought m engagement and
nt1 wssn Sontt sn for hS h NJ, %
ary. About the 1st Of January last h6 co.nnenc-
ed to rcvolve, aud wrote for release Inquiry re-
'
not released Mr. Latham, and at the proper time
they propose to bring bis case before the bnse ball
CHARLES Z. ABBoTr
1t is 8 pleasant thing to learn that the Cricket
Club Of 1877 is an entirely reorganizcu institu-
tfon, which has cut loose from the traditions OF
1876. The mere fact that the name OF the man
ager has been changed from Mix Is promise Of
d new deal. It is not going outside the record
to say that last years Crickets were given to
getting men pretty much any way, and it is a.
ceptable to be able to announce q change. The
Daily matter seems to hare been pleasantly
at in the above letter. Correspondence from
the Manchester Club, received since the letter
from the Crickets, says that the whole thing
las. las been , satisfactorily adjusted ,ja o,oa aud I'd
By Binghamton, will play IN Manchester. The
same letter asserts that Daily never offered to
p'ay With the Live. Oaks Of Lynn, as had been
asserted. There seems no doubt TINT he will
T. 1-nr LII
plain how he came to sigm contract with
Binghamton in October, 1876, and another With
Manchester in the spring Of 1877. Some friend
OF Mr.. Daily's will have to set that matter
straight before he can be whitcwashed- At
present the Cricket Club stands in the best posi-
tion in the matter. THE TRIBUNE knows several
facts about Boston Bradley not at all to his
credit In the matter Of contracts, but 1t waits to
sec where he will bring up this year before It
prints them. In the meantime, it would say
tract with the Tecumseh Club, Of London,
Ont, and has received 800 gold advance pay
ment. That will cut of negotiating with him.
A statement made By the management Of the
Club OF 1876 deliberately stole Latham away
from them right in the middle Of the season By
offering him S25 a month more than he was get
ting to desert them. II this be true, there Is q
sort Of poetic Justice In his second transfer.
However this may be-, and there is no reason to
doubt the source OF the story, THE TRIBUNE is
glad to hear that there Ia to be NO more work OF
that sort in Binghamton: Alr. Abbott may be
cure that he will make his balances come out
nearer right by honest work than by cncoaragg-
that he will square his conduct BY that principle
THE II REoRGANIzED."
The usually trustworthy correspondent OF
Tue Tribune at Philadclphia gave last week
the prospectus OF the rcorganized Athletic Club
with something like laudatiou OF the honesty
.rh}rh wnS tn animate the new association, 1t