Father Of Base-ball

Probably the best known of all men in wijf way connectcil with the game of baseball is Henry Cadwick. of Brooklyn. N. Y., savs ''he Fhi'tüelhia Times. He is botter known thxoughout the country as Futbar Chaclwick, and is oft;n referred to a3 the founder of the National game. While Mr. Chadwick can not lay claim to b.ing the founder of the game, it is certaiu that ondel h's fostcrins; care tho game lias grown froni a crudo pastime to be the most popular pastime of the world, with a following countéd by the millions. All the improvements made in the game in its eariy days wcre suggested by Mr. Chadwick. He was very justly referrnd to as the "authorlty," and the title still adheros to liim. Mr. Chadwick, besides being the best known of all baseball authors, has written a complete library of books referring to cricket añil kindred sports. Mr. Chadwick is the "Grand Old Man" of baseball. He has an imposing appearance, being over six feet in hoight, is heavily bnilt, has an iron gray beard, whieh adds a charm to his strong. ruddy face, and he has a pleasant, forcible way of cxpri'ssing anti explaining ideas, which oarries conviction with it. In appearance Mr. Chadwick is not an old man by any means. He is strong and healthy and occasionally takes exercise on the diamond. Mr. Chadwick was born in England in 1821 and he is therefore in his sixtysecond year. He is tho son of Mr. James Chadwick, formcrly editor of tho Western Time, the principal West of England paper. He is also a brother of Sir Edwin Chadwick. the great English sanitary philosopber. lle began his journalistic carcer in 1844, as contributor to the Long Island Star, of Brooklyn, but he did not adopt journalism :is a profession until ten or twelre years later, when he became cricket reporter for the New York Times, in 1856, under City Editor Augustus Maverick. The same year ho began writ-, ing for the New York flipper, but was not regularly engaged on that journal until 18J7. His first ini]ortaiit baseball report was that of the series of games between picked nines of New York and Brooklyn, played at the Fashion Kace Course, Long Island, in 1858. From 1856 to 186" Mr. Chadwick was the leading reporter of baseball on the New York da ly papers, he being the lirst to report tlu; National game for the New York Ma a d, and he afterwards wrote lip baseball for the Times, Tribune, tun, Dainj .ews, tiund'nj Times, hUidiy Dispatch, etc.. and he was Mr. Cauldwell's suveessor on the Hunttay Aiercury for over a dozen yi ars. All this t.me ho was base-ball anti cricket il tor of the New York i liiier, aud was on that paper from 18J7 to 1867, when he j:ave up his posit.on to take charge of tho Amcnctm ( hro iele of Sports. In 18o8. however. In; resunn-d his posilion on ihe ■ Iqi, er, wh ih he has slncö retuined, tliough siuce the ilc.uh of Mr. Qiu-eü he luis not uritteu as niuch for t.ml paper as before. Air. Garno having taken emire editorial charge of the ipi.er. Tli s year Ml', Chadwick concludud a period of '.hirtv )ears of b:ise b.ill and cricket reporting on the New York tlail es, and lu perman ntly retirad from that arena last w nter. whun he resigned al his positions on the daili-.s to accept a posit on on tin; eil lori:il si all' of the Onting mouthly magazine of sports, a positiun more tongen al lo his ailvancing ears. In the 6Já he look a pos ft ion on the staff of the Biooklvn KajU, he beug then contemporaiH'OiH with sucli writers on tliat paper as Joe Howard, then city editor; John Slanton, "Cory ü'Lanus." and Thomas Kinsella and others, all of whom, except Mr. Howard, he has seen carried totheir graves, leaving himself as the oldest writer now on the Brooklyn Eagle and the only one who was on the cd. tor. al staff of that paper twenty odd years ago. Mr. Chadwick conlines his journalistic work now entirely to the Upper, the Eagle and the Üuting, and he will doubtless "die in harness," for journalistic work is his life and pleasure. In "Chadwick's Gaine of Base-Ball," Eublished in 1868. Mr. Chadwick tells ow he first became interested in the National game: "It was in 1856," he says, "when, on retnrning from an early closinc of a cricket match at Fox Hall. Holjokon, I chanccd to go through the Elysian' Fields during the progress of a baseball match betweun the then noted Eagle and Gotham clubs. The game was being sharply played on both sides, and I watched it with deeper interest than any previous match of the kind I had seen. It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base-ball was just the game for a National sport for Americans, and, rellectino; on the subject on my return home, f carne to the conclusión that, from this gamo of ball, a powerful lever might be made by means of which our pcople could be lifted into a position of more devotion to physical exercise and healthful outdoor recreation than they had hitherto been noted for." He goes on to say that: -'From the pcriod that I first became an ardent aqmirer of base-ball I have devoted my offorts to the improvement of the game and to fostering it in evcry way I thought likely t promote the object I bad in view, whice was to build upa National lield gamo for Americans such as cricket was for England." It would require pas;es to follow the progress of Mr. Cnadwiök from this period in the earlv history of base-ball through that in which, as chairman of the committeo of rulos of the old National Association, he revised and improved tho playing rules of the game, up to the time of the inaugurado of the professional system of ball playing, when, afler seeing the National League organized, he retired from further ]irsonal work in oonnectlon with association conventions, not, however, until he had seen the fruits of his early labora develop into a gamo fully established as the greut popular field sport of the country. Mr. Chadwick now devotes himself largely to the ediUng of books of inslruction on the science of base-ball plaving. Mr. Chadwick has been tho unreienting foe of all the abuses which have worked their way into the professional baseball arena. Ho has no raerey for base-ball "crooks," no synipaihv for dranken ball-tossers, and natuially is a strong opponent of that curse of all sports, pool gHtnbling. Of Inte. too. lio has begun a erusa le ara nst hose nuisanees of a ball lield, thii i-lasa of clironic kickers iind gruinblers. An Enqjlrb Mgler pxpltns íiis dtjvottoo ío tbc sport by say lif; tiíat t U "tl oly auatc-i