sentences:  Following the Bridegrooms' series loss to the New York Giants, six games to three, a telegram from Bushong to Giants catcher Jocko Milligan was revealed.The scheme involved a $400 prize to the individual winners of the series.The prize had been offered by a chewing gum firm, likely the Green and Blackwell Company of New York, known as "G and B Chewing Gum Co.", who in 1888, were first to issue gum with their baseball cards.