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lite, and, unless Goldsmith shows himself to be
superior pitcher, strong pressure will be brought

lite, and, unleas Godsmtth shows himself to be
superior pitcher strong pressure will be brought
| to bear against him."
Hollineer, whose failure to enter the Northwest.
| ern League was decided and complete will star II
! Detroit this season, although at one time therf
| was some talk Of his nine going to Toledo. .
,, Providence Di:rete1; M H. ASstsyey; the Elongated
ns-you- please nine OF 1878, will cover his same
drst-base this year with al1 his native national
grace"
''The Only Nolan. whose photograph adorned
season. IL playing with . Baltimore CLUB. The
only Flint. who caught for him IN Indianapolis, ID
in Chicago.
Chadwick, Of the Clipper, has secured a con-
genial ''pai " in the person OF Wright formerly
Of the Athletic club and whose doings in conpec-
ton with forged dispatch have been exposed By
TIE TRIBUNE.
a Cincinnati paper gives the ages Of the men in
Mevss g. !n3s Ratney eey 5m White
White. "a; Burke. Il; Foley, rs; Hotaline. 2a:
Kelley, Il; Dickcrson. go.
The National campaign will open On April 10 At
VA Mas911nSt9n f,1nS D. c. on Thsh occasion The Holy
Washington to play the Natlonal Cluo team. under
Mr. uollin:rhead, these clubs playing two games.
Now ttst the Chicago Club contcmplates trip
to California, the Ctncinnattans are bestirring
to send their representatives on similar tour
Both clubs had better wait and let the chamnion
club OF 1870 90 0rst.-Boston Herald.
The Boston and Cincinnati papers are taking
Club q rules for the guidance and management Of
is players will not be adopted BY the clubs Of those
cities As nobody has proposed any such course,
TnE TRIBUNE has received from the official nnh.
lishcs. 1r. Louis II. Mahn. OF Boston, COPIES Of
the constitution and playing rules Of the National
Basc-Ball Association Besides. a complete record
OF the ecason Of 1hT8 it contains larpe amonnt
OF information T1luHble to 1OyErH nf tha
Twelve clubs in Massachusetts have formed an
association and have arranged d championship
schedule The Clubs are as follows: d3tna OF
hoston, Atlantic Of Peabody, Beacon Of Boston,
Gen. Worth Of Stoneham, King Philip Of RocEjand'
Live Oak OF Lynn md Our Boys Of Maiden.
Women were never cut ont for professional base
ball players. A determined woman can do almost
anything, but she cunt slide In on the home baKe
bark her shins. sprain hershoulder put three ing
ers out Of JOINT, mud then get up smiling as sweety
rs il she were eating molasses taffy while waiting
for her best fellow to take her to the circus,-E=
mira Gazette.
The New York Dspateh saya: - BaHe- ball bats
are beginning to ripen, md the time will soon be
hero when a man can get drunk and fall off chr,
and then 90 home and tell his wife that they beat
The other fellows all hollow, but that be had to
stop playing in the fourth inning because Jim jams
hit him in the cye with ball while ha was trying to
take hot ono ut first base"
The Yale University nine this season will prob
ably be composed as followa: Catcher Wagon, 81
scientific; pitcher. Lamb, 81. ACADEMIC: first base
Hopkins. 81. academic; second base. Walden, 81
stop, Hutchinson, so. academic; risht tieid, nip
ley, '7a, academic; centre field. Clark, 80. ncad-
emic; left field, Camp, 80, academic; substitute,
Wilson, 10. academic.
4 diagram OF the Cincinnati grand-s,and is being
prepared by wood cutter, aud Reserved seats viii
be for sale this season in the city without extra
charge. The management are using every effort
to make the game more attTnctiye T this year than
wood cut Of the .randstand will certainly do much
to populasize the game in Cincinnati; the greatest
scheme, however, was abolishtng beer and FIST
women from the grounds.
The Chicago team has p1acticed every dav dur
Ing the past week when the weather permitted, and
the uoys are now beginning to get ''shaped mp"
little. ''Cherokee" Fisher has been secured to
make twelve in the team during the practice sea-
son. so that three men can bat while all the field
positions are occupied. The grounds are being put
in first class condition: and the first game Of the
season will be played next Saturday Rguiast
strong picked nine. The Chicago substitutes will
not play in This uine-
"'The League Club representatives about came
to the conclusion ut Buffalo that President Hubert
other Cluos. He declared, rather than agree to the
adoption OF any other schedule than his own he
would 60 back to Chicago without = schcdule."--
unns, the malicious and lying paragraphs which
emonate from Cincinnati are constructed by
little brat connected with newspaper, whose at-
teMpts to run" the League have heen eignally
unsuccessful.
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Special DisUafca to The Tribune
PHILADELPHIA, April 12.-The Philadelphia
Club has procured lease OF bage- ball grounds at
Twenty fourth street and Ridge avenue for Mon
days and Thursdays during the season. Their
opening game will be played next Monday. The
nine is follows: Fu5sclbach catcher; Reynolds.
pitcher; Banker, a7st base; Corkhill, second oase
Crowley, third base; Strcker, shortstop: Berkle
bach, Whiting, and Collins. felders. William
VAR, Manager.
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