20-17 by the Cincinnati Red Stockings. In the
latter game Harvard had the game well in hand when Cincinnati made eight
runs in the last inning, blanked Harvard, and won.

Harvard beat Niagara at Lockport, New York, 62-4 in five innings, making
thirty-six runs in the third inning. In the Harvard nine were Bush,
catcher; Goodwin, pitcher; Perrin, White, and Reynolds, basemen; Austin,
short-stop; Thorpe, Wells, and Eustis, fielders.

In 1871 Harvard beat Tufts, 32-9; Brown, 42-10, 34-15; Yale, 22-19;
Haymakers, of Troy, a strong professional club, 15-8; Lowell, 14-9; was
beaten by Boston, 13-4; Athletics, of Philadelphia, 14-6; Olympic, of
Washington, 17-5; Chicago, 12-2; Eckfords, of Williamsburg, 15-9. This
shows what the caliber and mettle of the college teams were in those days.

During the season of 1867 the National club, of Washington, made the most
extensive trip ever taken by a club up to that time. The team, which was
composed of government clerks, left Washington on July 11, and won its
first game in Columbus, Ohio, defeating the Capitol club 90-10. At
Cincinnati they defeated Harry Wright's Cincinnati Reds, 53-10. They next
whipped the Buckeyes, rivals of the Cincinnatis, 88-12. At Louisville the
Nationals won, 82-21; at Indianapolis the score was 106-21; at St. Louis,
with the thermometer 104 degrees in the shade, they beat the Union club,
the score being 113-26. The Empires, of St. Louis, were next beaten,
53-26.

The eventful games of the trip were those at Chicago and Rockford,
Illinois. Previous to the arrival of the Nationals, the Excelsiors, of
Chicago, had beaten the Forest Citys, of Rockford, 45-41, in Chicago, and
28-25 in Rockford. The Nationals were, therefore, awaited with intense
interest. The result made the Chicagoans groan. The Forest Citys had given
the Nationals the only defeat of the tour, winning 29-23. This made the
Excelsiors confident of victory, but they were beaten 49-4, this being a
death-blow to them. They never got over it.

The Beginning of Professionalism.

Up to 1868 the laws of the game forbade remuneration for players, but so
great had become the rivalry that professionalism worked its way in, and
the rule became a dead letter. At the convention of 1868 the district
classes were made, and in 1869 the first regular professional nine, the
famous Cincinnati Red Stockings, was organized, and signalized their
appearance by playing clubs from Maine and California without a de