Clipping:Credit of inventing scoring; the Chicago Times reporter

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Date Wednesday, April 16, 1879
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“Henry Chadwick is still writing notes all over the country, vowing that he invented short-hand scoring, and calls on Go(ul)d to witness the truth of what he asserts.”--Chicago Times. Give the “old man” his dues, friend Davidson. The writer has one of Beadle's base-ball books of 1861 before him, edited by Chadwick, and in it is the short-hand system of scoring referred to. “Chad” is too old for such kids as “we uns.

Source Cincinnati Enquirer
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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