. Old Boston boys and the games they played . nding 16 to 13. Games of more than nine innings werecomparatively rare in those days, andsome of the boys who accompanied us 192 OLD BOSTON BOYS upon this trip nearly died of heart failureduring the last innings. We stayed at New Haven until thenext evening, when we left for Hartford,where, on the 15th, we played the Char-ter Oaks, beating them 61 to 12. Rain prevented our game with theOceanics of New London, which wasbooked for the i6th, so we left that after-noon for Providence, where on the 17th ofJune we crossed swords with Brown Uni-versity, o
. Old Boston boys and the games they played . nding 16 to 13. Games of more than nine innings werecomparatively rare in those days, andsome of the boys who accompanied us 192 OLD BOSTON BOYS upon this trip nearly died of heart failureduring the last innings. We stayed at New Haven until thenext evening, when we left for Hartford,where, on the 15th, we played the Char-ter Oaks, beating them 61 to 12. Rain prevented our game with theOceanics of New London, which wasbooked for the i6th, so we left that after-noon for Providence, where on the 17th ofJune we crossed swords with Brown Uni-versity, on the Dexter Training was to have been the wind-up toour trip, amid red fire, tom-toms, and therejoicings of a large party of friends whocame down from Boston to join in ourapotheosis, but somehow we slipped acog and the programme on the TrainingGround got twisted, the Browns making22 runs to our 19, instead of the other wayabout as was intended. Frank Herreshoff, one of the most fa-mous athletes who ever went to Brown ^^ L^^r-A^. ^ ^^^ ctvi> E? ? ^% C^ i»iU-- ^ I V C^\5 .fw) OLD BOSTON BOYS 193 University, pitched against us in thisgame. He is a brother of Nat Herreshoff,the famous yacht designer. He and I wereold friends, and I am glad to say he isstill living and prosperous. CHAPTER XIX THIS ending to our trip took thesharp edge off the pleasures ofhome-coming, and we laid it upagainst Brown for a year, when, on the17th of June, 1869, we went back and bal-anced accounts, making 40 to their 13,and then felt better. I do not know if the present amateurclubs make these friendly tours, as was thecustom in ante-professional days; but dur-ing the years when the championship ofNew England was held by either the Har-vards or Lowells, we were treated royallywherever we went and enjoyed all thepleasures and glory that can be derivedfrom ball playing. Private houses wereopen to us, balls were given in our honor. OLD BOSTON BOYS 195 and even cigars were named for us. Wha
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