The management of the latter organization, smarting under the fact that the "big four" had been hired away from them by the Western Metropolis, had gotten together as strong a team as was possible under the circumstances, the list including Harry Wright, manager; J.E.Borden ("Josephs"), T.H.Murnane, F.L.Beals, H.C.
Schafer, A.J.Leonard, J.H.O'Rourke, J.F.Manning, F.T.

Whitney, George Wright, John F.Morrill, Lewis Brown, T.McGinley, and W.R.
Parks.
Our strongest opponents, however, proved to be the Hartford Club, of which Robert Ferguson was captain and manager, and which numbered among its players Allison, Cummings, Bond, Mills, Burdock, Cary, York, Remsen, Cassidy, Higham, and Harbidge.
As I have said before, it was anything to beat Chicago, so far as the Bostons were concerned, but this feat they were unable to accomplish until the very tail end of the season, and after we had beaten them in nine straight games.
The first game that we played on the Boston grounds that season I remember well, because of the enormous crowd that turned out to witness the contest.

The advent of the "Big Four" in a new uniform was of course the attraction, and long before the hour set for calling the game had arrived the people were wending their way in steady streams toward the scene of action.

Every kind of a conveyance that could be used was pressed into service, from the lumbering stage coach that had been retired from active service, to the coach-and-four of the millionaire.
Street cars were jammed to suffocation, and even seats in an express wagon were sold at a premium.
It was Decoration Day, and therefore a holiday, and it seemed to me as if all Boston had determined to be present on that occasion.

By hundreds and thousands they kept coming, and finally it was found necessary to close the gates in order to keep room enough in the grounds to play the game on.