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disappointed about a matter connected with their proposed basket-ball game with your girls. As it was a thing that could have nothing to do with the game, one way or another, --with affecting its results, I mean, or any question of the least consequence, that I can see, aside from the pleasure and mutual good will of the girls, it did seem to me as if I might venture, without authorization from anybody, or the knowledge of the persons most concerned, to do a bit of tale-bearing to you.

It seems that after the two sides had agreed (according to the preference of both, as I understand?) to play before an audience of ladies only, the California girls asked