The San Francisco call., 1897-08-28
Prices Of the Cereal Driven
Up and Down During the
Innings,
CUDAHY AND COUNSELMAN
FORM A UNION.
They Intend to Break the Bull Com.
bine, and Independent Bulls
Are Discouraged.

CHICAGO. Ill, Aug. 27.-The great
game OF wheat opened This morning with
the bears al the bat, and the bulls putting
up decidedly weak battery. Promptly
. at9:30 O'Clock the umpire clim bed to his
post the gong sounded and the game
began. In the first plav a bear kD ocked
the ball down into the 9315 cent field, and
before it was grabbed by the bulls it had
rolled TO 90 cents. After this the bulls
pulled themsel together and soon had
an inning. They made a succession of
sing e. baggers that sent the score upward.
q The grand stand and bleachers were well
tiled, but the players did all the root
ing" and the spectators looked on and
said nothing. At the beginning of the
day the "rooters" made the place hideous
with their caterwauling, but as the game
progressed he noise SUITS ded.
When So cents was reached the bears
again took the stick and began sending
The ball into the lower field in spite of the
pitching OF George French and the root
ing" of the whole bull crowd. By 1:30
ociock the bears were still hanging to he
bat and the hall had been knocked down
10 the 81 cent field.
Reports from Eastern games during the
morning were all favoTab bic to the bears.
AT Liverpool the bruin team had downed
long horns by several points, and dis
patches showed that the bears were hav-
ing he better of it there. This SO elated
the bears in Chicago that it was only the
strong play of the Wall-street crowd that
saved the bulls from being utterly routed
At noon the condition OF the game was
just as 1t had been half an hour earlier,
while in the Decem Der game the ball had
been Knocked to 904 cents and in May to
92Z cents. Only aUout half OF the usual
numb bar of players were in the field by
this time and tAe noise had grown much
mider.
Later in the day 90 cents was again
reached; but for the most part there was
very little hard play after the first half
hour, and most of the players Were
gathered at the corn pit, where the bears
were rushing the bulls back ward. In
September The game is practically i'm
possible tor outsiders TO break into, and
the bears are afraid to go into December
for fear a high fly from the Septe I'm Der
pool will knock them cold, while the bulls
- fear that the same batiers may spoil
everything by knocking a foul. The con-
sequence is that the game OF wheat seems
to- be suffering from too much profession
alisn.
: al the close OF the day the ball had been
knocked into the Septem ber 93-cent field,
over 10 cents away from the high fly of
Thursday morning. II December the
product price was driven to 80 cents at
The finish, and May to 915s cents.
=. From reliable source 1t was learned to-
day that John Cudahy and Charles Coun-
p sflman nave formed a union to break the
:. bull combine. The independent bulls are
discouraged by the prospect as it is be-
!. lieved that this "cliaue" has more power
TO undo than the Allen Grier-French ALI
ance has power TO do.
1t is also hinted that the bear combina-
.ion worked last evening through the curb
TO break the market to-day, and that the
decline was due 10 their manipulation
rather than 10 the sensationaily large
break in Liverpool.