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The Chicago folks were In dead earnest, and my fondness f»r Philadelphia and a portion of Its contents cut no figure In their calculations. For one thing, they had made up their minds to organize a championship team before the opening of the seaeon of 1876. They had got weary of seeing Boston walk off with the honors and were lying awake nights to 'invent some scheme to circumvent the bean eaters, and were willing to part with a lot of rhino if it could be done.
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