New Britain herald., 1918-01-10
 
OLD TIME BRAVES
 EARNED LITTLE COIN
Receipts S30,931.17, Expenses S3O,865.97 in the Year 1874

New York, Jan. 1O.--A glimpse of the baseball of the early seventies is given in pamphlet on the game pub lished in 1875 which was recently un earthed by a modern devotee of the sport. The booklet which is equiv alcnt to the present day baseball guide consists of about thirty pages instead Of the several hundred now necessary to chronicle the records of the many major and minor league teams
 Much of the space is devoted to the doinGs of the Boston National Association club, winner of the cham pionship of the previous year The combination included several players the names of whom are still familiar to the fans of this day. That they were high-class players, according to the standards of those times. goes without saying, yet there is nothing to indicate that they were supermen. either on the diamond or off the field of play.
 The personnel of the Boston club of that year shows that of the 12 players whose physical dimensions are given, A. G. Spalding, pitcher and center fielder, was the only one who exceeded the siX-foot mark. The ma- jOrity of the players ranged from it. in. to it. in, and the average weight was not more than 160 pounds.
 The heaviest man on the team was McVey, who tipped the scales at 19O pounds.
 The batting averages of those days tn ho hor f base hits per game, and McMullen, of the Athletics, led the league with 1.90. Pop Anson was eighth with IFS and Spalding eleventh with ITO. In club batting the Boston team led with an average of 17.11 hits per game, and the Athletics were second with 15.06.
 The total receipts of the Boston club for the season of 1874 amounted to $30,93l.17 and the expenses $30,S65.97. portion of these ex- penses, which were exceptionally large for that period of baseball de- velopment, included the trip to lIu- rope, the first of the several invaSions of England and the continent by American baseball combinations. The salary roll for the entire year then would now barely pay for one star player, as'the accounts show that ST.
  season in this direction Ground rent amounted to $517.5o, and uniforms bats, balls, etc. cost $3S7.S9. Even in the carly days of the game, adver- tising was not overlooked, as the ac- counts show that 1,619.70 was spent for advertising and printing, which was more than tho com hined rental of the grounds and the team equip ment expenses
 Princeton Men Patriotic.
 According to the latest record of Princeton university students in the service. all but one member of the 1916 Varsity football squad arc now serving with the colors or in some allied war department. The only "P'' man who has not left college is under age and he is a, member of the Prince ton Reserve Officers Training Camp.
 Doing Well in War.
 Norman Brookes who, with Anthony r. Wilding, wrested the Davis Cup, emblematic of the worlds amateur team tennis championship, from the United States in 1914, was at last re- ports a Red Cross commissioner in Mesopotamia with the rank of lieu tenant colonel.
 Football Was Clean.
 The consensus of opinion among football coaches and officials is that the play during the past season was unusually hard yet exceptionally clean. The fighting spirit engendered hv tho world war appears to have per meated the gridiron sport with tho re- suit that football was played with wartime zest that marked the season ont of ordinary.