Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-21
OLD BASEBALL EDITOR DEAD.
Henry Chadwick Passes Away in His
 Eighty-third Year.

Henry Chadwick, the Nestor of baseball reporters and also the carli- est to pursue the occupation, died al his home, The Glen, $40 Halsey street Brooklyn, at R1J o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was S3 years old. He had been ill with pneumonia and on Saturday night suffered an attack of heart failure from which the physi- 1 elan inattendance Dr Arnold w. Cat lin, said he could not rally. He was unconscious at his death, which was peaceful and took place in the pres, ence of his two daughters, Mrs Thom. as r. Eldridge of Sag Harbor aud Mrs William C. Edwards of Brooklyn while Mrs Chadwick, who had aided in the nursing, had mOmentarily Jeff the sick room.
 The interment will be made in the plot at Greenwood cemetery presented to him some years ago by A. C.. Spald. ing. Arrangements fe@-the funeral have not as yet been completed. Henry Chadwick's birth was on October 25, 1924, ill Jessamine Cot. tage, St Thomas, Exeter, England His father, James Chadwick. had been editor of the Western Mail there and on coming with his family to this country in 1887, Henry, the youngest child, being then 13 years old, he fol- lowed newspaper work in Brooklyn where he made his home. Henry's uncle, Sir Edward Chadwick, w.s known as "England's Sanitary Phil. osopher."
 Besides playing both cricket and baseball in the Abs at Hoboken young Chadwick, who had been trained in Journalism by his father, soon began to write on outdoor sports. He play cd shortstop in 1S41 on the Elysian Fields. Hoboken. In 1854 Henry Chadwick wrote on cricket for the old Spirit of the Times and on the same game for the Long Island Star, the Brooklyn City News and the Brooklyn Union. Two years later the future of baseball had impressed him and he began missionary work among tho newspapers to foster the interests of the national game. This energy earn cd for Henry Chadwick the title of 'the father of baseball"
 In 1856 Henry Chadwick was base ball editor of the New York Times and this had been his titular position since on q score of papers until his death. with the exception of some months during the exciting times of 1861, when he visited Richmond Va. as correspondent for the New York Tribune. Henry Chadwick wrote the first baseball for the New York Her aid in 1882 and within the next twen- ty years he did work in the same game for the New York World and The Sun. A long sequence of contin- nous service was his connection with the Brooklyn Eagle, extending from 1865 until few days before his last sickness. It began with baseball re. porting and closed with semi-editorial work. His pen name for the chill dren's page was Uncle Harry"
 Aside from daily newspaper wOrl; Henry Chadwick had unique and busy place as specialist in baseball. He was baseball editor of the New York Clipper from 1SJij to 1SsO and for twenty years editor of ''Spaldlng's Official Base Ball Guide" havips brought out the l90S edition. He was the author of "Beadle's Dime Ball Player" 1860. and for a period of years from 1sG9 edited "DewHfs Baseball Empires Guide" Henry Chadwick also wrote and edited file American Boys Book of Sports and a score of hand books on baseball. cricket. lacrosse. billiards and chess.
 In 1858 Chadwick was invited 10 attend the meeting of the rules com mittce al the first National Associa. tion of Baseball Players. and many of his suggestions were incorporated Ia the code Later hc became prrma- uent chairman of the rules committee. and hc filed inc same otice with inc National Association of Professional Baseball Players. organized tn 1871. Chadwick was a leading adviser in formulating the rules on the organiza- fian of the National league. and in Isal was formally elected an honor ary member of the board. In iSs; Chadwick was appointed Co the rules committee as an adviser in recsgni- lion of his long service in promoting the game and the value of his coun- suls. This appointment carried with ft yearly salary or SssGo for t1e re- Elainder of bis life Chadwick was rrTy fond uf chess and he piavrpl a good game If billiards. He was an assistant librarian for the Brcoslyn Institute in Is40
 Mrs Chadwick was Miss fsosts. daughter cf ilIe late AIexander Potts uf Richmnni Va. and grauIaaughfer of Benjamin BS,tS. who deFeusla-l Aarwa Burr sn his trial fO- trsasan at T.frltinsusT im 1St1.
 When Informed os fssr sIeath. Thsrses IT. Ellpts. president ~ fhr Brpoklyn Baseball club. orrIerrf the flag at Washington Rsrk to be paced st half mast