Windy City (13 May 1876)

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   It's also, very clearly, a few days later.


   13 May 1876, CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, pg. 2, col. 1:
   _CHICAGO LETTER._
_The Sad Story of a Base-Ball Tour--How_
   _the "Cincinnatis" Took their Punish-_
   _ment._
Special Correspondence of the Enquirer.
      CHICAGO, May 11, 1876.
   When the Red Stockings left Cincinnati for Chicago Tuesday morning they never dreamed they were going three hundred miles to get "skunked."
(...)
(Col. 2--ed.)
   The trouble was not with the boys, but with the chairs.  The latter had been cut out for slimmer people than base-ball men, and fit too tightly.  There was no time to lose, however, in prying off chairs, and the boys all started trainward, chairs and all.  Only the plucky nerve of the eating-house keeper rescued the useful seats from a journey to the Windy City.


(I was told that the Library of Congress is missing the 1876 CINCINNATI ENQUIRER volume before this one--ed.)