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...think, apply only to deuce sets, as otherwise there might be a manifest disadvantage to one of the players. A motion to do away with two services was lost. The Ayers balls, imported into this country, were declared to be only "the refuse balls of the English market." As Peck & Snyder and Wright & Ditson have joined in making a combination ball, which the executive committee believe will be better than any balls yet used in this country, this ball was adopted by the association as the regulation ball for the ensuing year. These balls will be furnished to association clubs...
Such a statement would hardly be within the scope of this report. It will be sufficient to state that the society buys as a rule at wholesale prices and in no case are the prices of the society higher than the retail market price, and in many instances they are lower in a surprising degree, as in certain cases the society has been able to make arrangements which enable it to sell at prices with which the ordinary retail dealer cannot hope to compete...
...night before a large audience, on "The Sub-Treasury System." The lecturer traced the growth of the present system from that formerly in vogue, and afterwards set forth in clear light the defects that now embarrass it. The undesirable relation of the Secretary of the Treasury with the money market, brought about by the act of 1864, in which it is enacted that the banks shall not be depositories for receipts for customs, and which, therefore, forces the treasury to hold in its vaults large amounts of specie, was discussed, as well as the slow and irregular way in which...
...shown how the money market thus rested almost entirely in the control of one man, the minister of finance, a fact which must necessarily condemn the system, aside from the evils which arise in the money market on account of this. As a remedy, Dr. Laughlin would have the deposit of specie, obtained by the government from its customs duties, deposited with the New York banks on the security of the government bonds. That the banks would even be willing to pay a small interest for the privilege was clearly demonstrated. As to the security after the payment...
...athletic association of the University of Michigan has $3,000 invested in United States four per cent. bonds, worth on the market $3,600. There is also a surplus of over...