The Granddaddy of All Win Streaks

The Anaheim Angels won their ninth-straight ballgame with an exciting 10th inning go-ahead hit by recently activated Tim Salmon. The Oakland A's whose historic 20-game consecutive win streak came to an end yesterday may have started a new one today with a 2-0 Mark Mulder-pitched shutout of the Twins today. With all this excitement, much has been made recently of the all-time streaks. Some saying that the all-time major-league record of 26 set by the New York Giants should not be counted because of a tie ballgame in the streak (unlike other sports, baseball does not count ties in the standings). Some have reported the all-time streaks while leaving out the nineteenth-century clubs that would qualify deeming them pre-modern.

With all the discussion of winning streaks, I am surprised to have heard nothing about the greatest streak in baseball history. And I am not talking about Morganna. The all-time win streak belongs to a team that no longer exists except in spirit, the team that was the first openly professional (not that there's anything wrong with it) club in baseball history, the 1869-70 Red Stocking club of Cincinnati.

In the 1860s baseball, though barely 20 years old as a codified sport, was generating a mania that spread from New York, the birthplace of the sport, through the rest of the country as far as the Pacific coast. The country itself was enjoying its new-found outdoors craze that boded well for an ample supply of both participants and spectators. Even the Civil War did little to dampen its spirits-rather it spread the game to new areas. New nines sprang up everywhere when the war was settled, and the membership in the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP), the first multi-team organization in the sport, went from 30 in 1864 to nearly 350 in 1868. The association had been formed in the Astor House in New York and was led by the first baseball team, the Knickerbockers of New York. Cricket, whose popularity eclipsed the younger sport's prior the war, was left behind as young men of an athletic bend, like Harry Wright of the St. George cricket club, turned to a game of base.

After playing for the original Knickerbockers in their twilight, 1858-60, Wright moved on to the Gotham club of New York in 1863-65 improving more each year offensively and playing most of the defensive positions including pitcher. Wright had gone to Cincinnati in November of 1865 as an instructor and player at $1200 a year for the Union Cricket Club. Aaron Chapman, the principle financial backer of a young Cincinnati baseball, had heard of Wright's past success in baseball and coaxed Wright into leaving this job in 1867 to become the pitcher and leader of a fledging base ball club inspiringly entitled the Cincinnati club of Cincinnati for the same pay (they had been 2-2 in after forming in July 1866 with very little fanfare, though they did win a November tournament against 4 local opponents including the rival Buckeye club). Champion made an inspired choice as the man the Cincinnati Enquirer said, "eats base-ball, breathes base-ball, thinks base-ball, dreams base-ball, and incorporates base-ball in his prayers." Wright led the club to a 16-1 record with over 51 runs per game playing mostly Midwest teams (except for the National of Washington) in their first year. It was also their first year playing on their legendary Union Grounds. Wright led them in scoring with 112 runs in only 17 games and 42 "hands lost" (i.e., outs). This translates into an average and over of 6 and 10 for runs and 2 and 9 for hands lost (i.e., 6 runs per 17 games with a remainder of 10. This is the first concept of batting average and given the statistics available at the time a rather inspired one based on runs and outs, kind of like a prehistoric runs created per 9 innings. By the way, Wright is shown atop the club's batting statistics in Beadle's 1869 Dime Base-Ball Player guide, the genesis of the baseball guide and of batting leaders).

Their only loss is described in Albert G. Spalding's classic America's National Game. The victors, the visiting Nationals of Washington, featured captain and shortstop George Wright and official scorer Henry Chadwick, both of which are now enshrined at Cooperstown:

After [a game with the Capital Club of Columbus, Ohio and] the customary banquet and other social functions common to the game in those days, the Nationals left for Cincinnati, where they arrived on the 14th, and on the 15th, after a full day's enjoyment of the hospitality of Cincinnati's players and people, they played the Cincinnatis, on the Union grounds, which had been opened on July 4th. As at Columbus, the Nationals were again victorious, this time by a score of 5~3 to 10 in a full game. For the Cincinnatis, the afterwards famous Harry Wright pitched, and the noted cricketer, Rogerson, caught.

I have already remarked that cricket is not Base Ball. It was not until Harry Wright put cricket in the background that he became noted as a Base Ball player and manager.

The following day the Nationals met the rivals of the Cincinnati Club, in the Buckeyes, also of the same city, and defeated them, 88 to 12, in a six innings game. On July 16th the Nationals left Cincinnati for Louisville, by the steamer "General Buell"...

The NABBP, growing unwieldy as a non-hierarchical organization, reorganized itself along state lines, and the Cincinnati club entered the Ohio Association on September 25, 1867. There were thirteen such organizations: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Oregon. In 1868 the Cincinnati club posted a 36-7 record while playing some of the finest teams of the day from cities as far away as Philadelphia, Washington, and New York. Wright was named captain and quickly enlisted first baseman Charles Gould from the rival Buckeye club of Cincinnati (the only local player to be on the Cincinnati club), pitcher and second baseman Asa Brainard of the National club of Washington, third baseman Fred Waterman of the Mutual Club of New York, and catcher Doug Allison. Though it is not reported anywhere that I can find, these players were undoubtedly played a sum to switch to the new club. Professionalism was still frowned on in the sport though "revolvers", players who would switch allegiances when offered more compensation, were becoming common. Paying players (either through a percentage of the gate or with a fictitious job) became so widespread that the conservative organization had official sanctioned it in their December 9, 1868 convention for the 1869 season, a decision that spelled the death knell for the association within two years. (Spalding remember it differently years later, "The leading Base Ball club of Cincinnati, seeing the inevitable, unwilling to be bound by rules which nobody respected or obeyed, holding in utter contempt an organization that had failed to uphold the dignity and integrity of a game of which it was the nominal executive head, threw down the gauntlet of defiance to the National Association of Base Ball Players-not by a flaming pronunciamento, but by manly declaration that henceforth it would be known as a professional organization.")

Harry Wright outdid himself in 1869 in latching on to the idea of creating the first openly all-professional team in baseball history-or as A.G. Spalding wrote, they were "actualized by the spirit that has characterized every pioneer movement in history." Wright reasoned that people will gladly pay "seventy-five cents to a dollar-fifty to go to the theater, and a number prefer base ball to theatricals. We must make the games worth witnessing, and there will be no fault found with the price. A good game is worth 50 cents; a poor one is dear at 25." Wright became the first national scout using Champion's money to fund the premier club in the country. The Cincinnati club (nicknamed the Red Stockings by fans-presaging the major league adoption of nicknames in the years to come) added Harry's brother and future Hall-of-Fame shortstop George from the Union of Morrisania (NY) club. Wright again pilfered from the Buckeye club to snatch second baseman Charlie Sweasy, leftfielder Andy Leonard, and substitute Dick Hurley. Rightfielder Cal McVey was procured from the Active club of Indianapolis. Harry Wright would play center and pitch, and Gould, Brainard, Waterman, and Allison were also retained from the 1868 club. The total team salary was $9300 from $1400 for George Wright to $600 for Hurley. (plus: Harry Wright ($1200), Brainard ($1100), Waterman ($1000), and $800 each for Sweasy, Gould, Allison, Leonard, and McVey. Alternates Fowler, Bradford and Taylor were also employed, but nothing more is known of them, and they never played). Wright also redesigned their uniforms with knickers meeting long stockings instead of the then-conventional long pants. With the pants shortened, the players' ruby hose became their calling card, and the nickname Red Stockings was born.

The club finished 57-0 for the season. After a five-game homestand, the Red Stockings took a twenty-two-game road trip unprecedented by a Western team at the time, with stops in Ft. Wayne, Mansfield (OH), Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Troy, Albany, Springfield (MA), Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Irvington (NJ), Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington in a little over a month (the tour was the first of this length by any club East or West according to Spalding). They had won their first 14 games with ease but needed two in ninth to slip past the Mutual club of New York on June 15. On August 26, they faced the Union club of Lansingburg (Troy, NY) and were tied 17-17 in the sixth inning. The Union catcher caught a ball off of McVey's bat apparently on the bounce. According to the New York Clipper, the earliest baseball journal, the umpire called "not out." The Unions left the field in protest, and the umpire ordered them to continue to no avail, called the call and awarded the victory to Cincinnati. Harold Seymour in the peerless Baseball:The Early Years reported that the Union club had left the field so that John Morrissey and the other New York gamblers who wagered high on the local club wouldn't loss their money. In the next game they pounded their recently pillaged city-mates, the Buckeyes, 103-8, their most lopsided victory of the season.

With their record 43-0, the Red Stockings rode the newly completed Union Pacific railroad to play the Eagle, Pacific, and Atlantic clubs of San Francisco with stops in St. Louis, Omaha, and Nebraska City along the way. With all of their traveling and the burden on the financial backers, their financial situation remains unclear: come reports have the wealthiest men of Cincinnati backing the club and others report them barely surviving until they met some of the more-established clubs (one even says that an avid fan donated his wife's $300 nest egg to see them through). Reportedly, their profit for the year was $1.39 (given the amount that the public's consciousness has been made aware of the somewhat unconventional accounting practices of corporations in the 21st century, I am not sure to what extent we can draw conclusions from this sum). While traveling the first reporter to accompany a team on a road trip, Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette writer Harry Millar telegraphed each games result back home.

With a 57-0 record against all teams and a 19-0 record against professional teams, the Red Stockings still were not considered champions. At the time, the first team to defeat the previous year's champion, like in a boxing match, took over their title, but apparently two wins were needed (I guess to allow the champion to re-prove their worth in the second game). The champions at the end of 1868 were the Mutuals of New York. The Eckfords of Brooklyn with a 47-8 had beaten the Mutuals 6-1 on June 5. Even though the Mutuals held the title on June 12 by pasting the Eckford 24-8 and the Red Stockings beat both clubs in their East Coast trip, the Eckfords took the title on the strength of a July 3rd, 31-5 drubbing of the Mutuals. The Red Stockings bested the Mutuals in their November 6th rematch (the final for Cincinnati that year), but the crown was no longer theirs to give. The Eckfords subsequently lost it to the Atlantics of Brooklyn (40-6-2 record and featuring future major-league star Lip Pike), who had beaten the Eckfords in for the second time in three trees on their last game on November 8th. Ironically, it was the Atlantics "record" of consecutive wins that the Red Stockings had broken. The Atlantics were 20-0-1 in 1864 and 18-0 in 1865 (the year that catching a ball on the bounce for an out was outlawed and that baseball endured its first gambling scandal, on the Mutuals).

Here is the account of their season in the Beadle's 1870 Dime Base Ball Player (think of "do" as a double quote continue symbol):

[The total distance that the Cincinnati club in] its various tours, traversed by rail and steamboat, 10,879 miles[Spalding reports 11,877 "without a serious accident of any kind"). Again, by estimating the run around the bases at four hundred feet, which is about the length of the circuit, the nine ran, in base running alone, one hundred and ninety-one and one-half miles. They have played before a total of 179,500 persons by a close computation. The largest audience was in their game with the Athletics of Philadelphia, on the grounds of the latter, it being fair to estimate that inside and around the grounds there were over fifteen thousand people.

Below we give the complete record of the games played by the "Red Stocking" nine during 1869.

The Granddaddy of All Win Streaks

The Anaheim Angels won their ninth-straight ballgame with an exciting 10th inning go-ahead hit by recently activated Tim Salmon.  The Oakland A's whose historic 20-game consecutive win streak came to an end yesterday may have started a new one today with a 2-0 Mark Mulder-pitched shutout of the Twins today.  With all this excitement, much has been made recently of the all-time streaks. Some saying that the all-time major-league record of 26 set by the New York Giants should not be counted because of a tie ballgame in the streak (unlike other sports, baseball does not count ties in the standings).  Some have reported the all-time streaks while leaving out the nineteenth-century clubs that would qualify deeming them pre-modern.

With all the discussion of winning streaks, I am surprised to have heard nothing about the greatest streak in baseball history.  And I am not talking about Morganna.  The all-time win streak belongs to a team that no longer exists except in spirit, the team that was the first openly professional (not that there's anything wrong with it) club in baseball history, the 1869-70 Red Stocking club of Cincinnati.  

In the 1860s baseball, though barely 20 years old as a codified sport, was generating a mania that spread from New York, the birthplace of the sport, through the rest of the country as far as the Pacific coast.  The country itself was enjoying its new-found outdoors craze that boded well for an ample supply of both participants and spectators.  Even the Civil War did little to dampen its spirits-rather it spread the game to new areas.  New nines sprang up everywhere when the war was settled, and the membership in the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP), the first multi-team organization in the sport, went from 30 in 1864 to nearly 350 in 1868.  The association had been formed in the Astor House in New York and was led by the first baseball team, the Knickerbockers of New York.  Cricket, whose popularity eclipsed the younger sport's prior the war, was left behind as young men of an athletic bend, like Harry Wright of the St. George cricket club, turned to a game of base.

After playing for the original Knickerbockers in their twilight, 1858-60, Wright moved on to the Gotham club of New York in 1863-65 improving more each year offensively and playing most of the defensive positions including pitcher.  Wright had gone to Cincinnati in November of 1865 as an instructor and player at $1200 a year for the Union Cricket Club.  Aaron Chapman, the principle financial backer of a young Cincinnati baseball, had heard of Wright's past success in baseball and coaxed Wright into leaving this job in 1867 to become the pitcher and leader of a fledging base ball club inspiringly entitled the Cincinnati club of Cincinnati for the same pay (they had been 2-2 in after forming in July 1866 with very little fanfare, though they did win a November tournament against 4 local opponents including the rival Buckeye club).  Champion made an inspired choice as the man the Cincinnati Enquirer said, "eats base-ball, breathes base-ball, thinks base-ball, dreams base-ball, and incorporates base-ball in his prayers." Wright led the club to a 16-1 record with over 51 runs per game playing mostly Midwest teams (except for the National of Washington) in their first year. It was also their first year playing on their legendary Union Grounds. Wright led them in scoring with 112 runs in only 17 games and 42 "hands lost" (i.e., outs).  This translates into an average and over of 6 and 10 for runs and 2 and 9 for hands lost (i.e., 6 runs per 17 games with a remainder of 10.   This is the first concept of batting average and given the statistics available at the time a rather inspired one based on runs and outs, kind of like a prehistoric runs created per 9 innings. By the way, Wright is shown atop the club's batting statistics in Beadle's 1869 Dime Base-Ball Player guide, the genesis of the baseball guide and of batting leaders). 

Their only loss is described in Albert G. Spalding's classic America's National Game. The victors, the visiting Nationals of Washington, featured captain and shortstop George Wright and official scorer Henry Chadwick, both of which are now enshrined at Cooperstown:

 After [a game with the Capital Club of Columbus, Ohio and] the customary banquet and other social functions common to the game in those days, the Nationals left for Cincinnati, where they arrived on the 14th, and on the 15th, after a full day's enjoyment of the hospitality of Cincinnati's players and people, they played the Cincinnatis, on the Union grounds, which had been opened on July 4th. As at Columbus, the Nationals were again victorious, this time by a score of 5~3 to 10 in a full game. For the Cincinnatis, the afterwards famous Harry Wright pitched, and the noted cricketer, Rogerson, caught.

I have already remarked that cricket is not Base Ball. It was not until Harry Wright put cricket in the background that he became noted as a Base Ball player and manager.

The following day the Nationals met the rivals of the Cincinnati Club, in the Buckeyes, also of the same city, and defeated them, 88 to 12, in a six innings game. On July 16th the Nationals left Cincinnati for Louisville, by the steamer "General Buell"... 

The NABBP, growing unwieldy as a non-hierarchical organization, reorganized itself along state lines, and the Cincinnati club entered the Ohio Association on September 25, 1867.  There were thirteen such organizations: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Oregon.  In 1868 the Cincinnati club posted a 36-7 record while playing some of the finest teams of the day from cities as far away as Philadelphia, Washington, and New York.  Wright was named captain and quickly enlisted first baseman Charles Gould from the rival Buckeye club of Cincinnati (the only local player to be on the Cincinnati club), pitcher and second baseman Asa Brainard of the National club of Washington, third baseman Fred Waterman of the Mutual Club of New York, and catcher Doug Allison.  Though it is not reported anywhere that I can find, these players were undoubtedly played a sum to switch to the new club.  Professionalism was still frowned on in the sport though "revolvers", players who would switch allegiances when offered more compensation, were becoming common.  Paying players (either through a percentage of the gate or with a fictitious job) became so widespread that the conservative organization had official sanctioned it in their December 9, 1868 convention for the 1869 season, a decision that spelled the death knell for the association within two years. (Spalding remember it differently years later, "The leading Base Ball club of Cincinnati, seeing the inevitable, unwilling to be bound by rules which nobody respected or obeyed, holding in utter contempt an organization that had failed to uphold the dignity and integrity of a game of which it was the nominal executive head, threw down the gauntlet of defiance to the National Association of Base Ball Players-not by a flaming pronunciamento, but by manly declaration that henceforth it would be known as a professional organization.")

Harry Wright outdid himself in 1869 in latching on to the idea of creating the first openly all-professional team in baseball history-or as A.G. Spalding wrote, they were "actualized by the spirit that has characterized every pioneer movement in history." Wright reasoned that people will gladly pay "seventy-five cents to a dollar-fifty to go to the theater, and a number prefer base ball to theatricals.  We must make the games worth witnessing, and there will be no fault found with the price.  A good game is worth 50 cents; a poor one is dear at 25." Wright became the first national scout using Champion's money to fund the premier club in the country.  The Cincinnati club (nicknamed the Red Stockings by fans-presaging the major league adoption of nicknames in the years to come) added Harry's brother and future Hall-of-Fame shortstop George from the Union of Morrisania (NY) club.  Wright again pilfered from the Buckeye club to snatch second baseman Charlie Sweasy, leftfielder Andy Leonard, and substitute Dick Hurley.  Rightfielder Cal McVey was procured from the Active club of Indianapolis. Harry Wright would play center and pitch, and Gould, Brainard, Waterman, and Allison were also retained from the 1868 club.  The total team salary was $9300 from $1400 for George Wright to $600 for Hurley. (plus: Harry Wright ($1200), Brainard ($1100), Waterman ($1000), and  $800 each for Sweasy, Gould, Allison, Leonard, and McVey.  Alternates Fowler, Bradford and Taylor were also employed, but nothing more is known of them, and they never played).  Wright also redesigned their uniforms with knickers meeting long stockings instead of the then-conventional long pants.  With the pants shortened, the players' ruby hose became their calling card, and the nickname Red Stockings was born.

The club finished 57-0 for the season.  After a five-game homestand, the Red Stockings took a twenty-two-game road trip unprecedented by a Western team at the time, with stops in Ft. Wayne, Mansfield (OH), Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Troy, Albany, Springfield (MA), Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Irvington (NJ), Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington in a little over a month (the tour was the first of this length by any club East or West according to Spalding).  They had won their first 14 games with ease but needed two in ninth to slip past the Mutual club of New York on June 15.  On August 26, they faced the Union club of Lansingburg (Troy, NY) and were tied 17-17 in the sixth inning.  The Union catcher caught a ball off of McVey's bat apparently on the bounce.  According to the New York Clipper, the earliest baseball journal, the umpire called "not out."  The Unions left the field in protest, and the umpire ordered them to continue to no avail, called the call and awarded the victory to Cincinnati. Harold Seymour in the peerless Baseball:The Early Years reported that the Union club had left the field so that John Morrissey and the other New York gamblers who wagered high on the local club wouldn't loss their money.  In the next game they pounded their recently pillaged city-mates, the Buckeyes, 103-8, their most lopsided victory of the season.

With their record 43-0, the Red Stockings rode the newly completed Union Pacific railroad to play the Eagle, Pacific, and Atlantic clubs of San Francisco with stops in St. Louis, Omaha, and Nebraska City along the way.  With all of their traveling and the burden on the financial backers, their financial situation remains unclear: come reports have the wealthiest men of Cincinnati backing the club and others report them barely surviving until they met some of the more-established clubs (one even says that an avid fan donated his wife's $300 nest egg to see them through).  Reportedly, their profit for the year was $1.39 (given the amount that the public's consciousness has been made aware of the somewhat unconventional accounting practices of corporations in the 21st century, I am not sure to what extent we can draw conclusions from this sum). While traveling the first reporter to accompany a team on a road trip, Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette writer Harry Millar telegraphed each games result back home.

With a 57-0 record against all teams and a 19-0 record against professional teams, the Red Stockings still were not considered champions.  At the time, the first team to defeat the previous year's champion, like in a boxing match, took over their title, but apparently two wins were needed (I guess to allow the champion to re-prove their worth in the second game).  The champions at the end of 1868 were the Mutuals of New York.  The Eckfords of Brooklyn with a 47-8 had beaten the Mutuals 6-1 on June 5.  Even though the Mutuals held the title on June 12 by pasting the Eckford 24-8 and the Red Stockings beat both clubs in their East Coast trip, the Eckfords took the title on the strength of a July 3rd, 31-5 drubbing of the Mutuals.  The Red Stockings bested the Mutuals in their November 6th rematch (the final for Cincinnati that year), but the crown was no longer theirs to give.  The Eckfords subsequently lost it to the Atlantics of Brooklyn (40-6-2 record and featuring future major-league star Lip Pike), who had beaten the Eckfords in for the second time in three trees on their last game on November 8th.  Ironically, it was the Atlantics "record" of consecutive wins that the Red Stockings had broken.  The Atlantics were 20-0-1 in 1864 and 18-0 in 1865 (the year that catching a ball on the bounce for an out was outlawed and that baseball endured its first gambling scandal, on the Mutuals).

Here is the account of their season in the Beadle's 1870 Dime Base Ball Player (think of "do" as a double quote continue symbol):

[The total distance that the Cincinnati club in] its various tours, traversed by rail and steamboat, 10,879 miles[Spalding reports 11,877 "without a serious accident of any kind"). Again, by estimating the run around the bases at four hundred feet, which is about the length of the circuit, the nine ran, in base running alone, one hundred and ninety-one and one-half miles. They have played before a total of 179,500 persons by a close computation. The largest audience was in their game with the Athletics of Philadelphia, on the grounds of the latter, it being fair to estimate that inside and around the grounds there were over fifteen thousand people.

Below we give the complete record of the games played by the "Red Stocking" nine during 1869.

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e e         Opposing Club,                 Played At,   Cin Opp

1 May 4,    Great Western, Cincinnati. . . Cincinnati..  45.. 9

2 do 10,    Kekionga, Ft. Wayne, In......      do ..     86.. 8

3 do 15,    Antioch, Yellow Springs, 0...[OH]  do ..     41.. 7

4 do 22,    Kekionga, Ft. Wayne, ...... .  Ft. Wayne..   41.. 7

5 June 1,   Independent, Ohio              Mansfield..   48..14

6 do   2,   Forest City, Cleveland, 0      Cleveland..   25.. 6

7 do   3,   Niagara., Buffalo, N. Y        Buffalo..     42.. 0

8 do   4,   Alert, Rochester, do           Rochester..   18.. 9

9 do   7,   Union, Lansingbirg, N. Y.,     Lansingburg.. 38..31

10 do  8,   National, Albany, NY           Albany..      49.. 8

11 do  9,   Mutual, Springfield, Mass. ... Springfield. .80.. 5

12 do 10,   Lowell, Boston, Mass           Boston..      29.. 9

13 do 11,   Tri-Mountain, Boston, Mass       do ..       40..12

14 do 12,   Harvard, Boston, Mass            do ..       30. 11

15 do 15,   Mutual, New York               New York..     4.. 2

16 do 16,   Atlantic, Brooklyn             Brooklyn..    32..10

17 do 17,   Eckford, New York              New York..    24.. 5

18 do 18,   Irvington, Irvington, N. J     Irvington..   20.. 4

19 do 19,   Olympic, Philadelphia ... .    Philadelphia..22..11

20 do 21,   Athletic, do ....                  do ..     27..18

21 do 22,   Keystone, do ....                  do ..     43..30

22 do 24,   Maryland, Baltimore, Md. ..    Baltimore..   47.. 7

23 do 23,   National, Washington           Washington..  24.. 8

24 do 28,   Olympic, do                         do ..    16.. 5

25 July 3,  do       do                    Cincinnati..  25..14

26 do   5,  do       do                         do     ..32..10

27 do  10,  Forest City, Rockford, Ill     Rockford..    34..13

28 do  13,  Olympic, Washington            Cincinnati. . 19.. 7

29 do  22,  Buckeye, Cincinnati                 do . .   71..15

30 do  24,  Forest City, Rockford               do . .   13..14

31 do  30,  Cream City, Milwaukee          Milwaukee..   85.. 7

32 do  31,  Forest City, Rockford          Chicago..     53..32

33 Aug. 2,  do             do              Rockford..    28.. 7

34 do   4,  Central City, Syracuse, N.Y.   Cincinnati..  37.. 9

35 do   5,  do       do      do      do ..      do ..    36..22

36 Aug.10,  Forest City, Cleveland, 0... . Cincinnati..  43..27

37 do  11,  Riverside, Portsmouth, ... .   Portsmouth..  40.. 0

38 do  16,  Eckford, New York              Cincinnati..  45..18

89 do  23,  Southern, New Orleans, La           do    .. 35.. 3

40 do  26,  Union, Lansingburg, N. Y            do ..    17..17

41 do  31,  Buckeye, Cincinnati, 0              do . .  103.. 8

42 Sept. 2, Alert, Rochester, N. Y              do ..    32..19

43 do    9, Olympic, Pittsburg[h], Pa           do ..    54.. 2

44 do   15, Union, St. Louis, Mo           St. Louis..   70.. 9

45 do   16, Empire, do        do                do ..    31..14

46 do   25, Eagle, San Francisco, Cal.     San Francisco.35.. 4

47 do   27, do        do           do           do..     58.. 4

48 do   29, Pacific,  do           do           do..     66.. 4

49 do   30, do        do           do           do..     54.. 5

50 Oct. 1,  Atlantic, do           do           do..     76.. 5

51 do  11,  Omaha. Omaha, Neb              Omaha..       65.. 1

52 do  12,  Otoes, Nebraska City....       Nebraska City.56.. 3

53 do  13,  Occidental, Quincy, Ill        Quincy..      51.. 7

54 do  15,  Marion, Indianapolis, Ind..    Indianapolis..63.. 4

55 do  18,  Athletic, Philadelphia, Pa.... Cincinnati..  17..12

56 Nov. 3,  Kentucky. Louisville, Ky       Louisville..  59.. 8

57 do   6,  Mutual, Ncw York               Cincinnati..  17.. 8

Totals                                                2,395 574

In addition to the above, the club has played six

picked-nine games, scoring                              282  63

An average of 47-0 for Cincinnati; 10-6 for the picked nine.