The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-15
THE NATIONAL GAME.

JOE START, first baseman Of the Providence
club, is forty years of age.
SUTToN. of the Bostons was the first League
player to make 100 base hits this season.
COLUMBUS is the only club in the American
association that has played two consecutive
games without an error.
IT is probable that many veterans on the
professional field will retire at the end of the
season to make room for younger blood.
FIVE prominent men in Baltimore have sub
scribed 5000 for a new club, if they can be
admitted to the national league next year
CoRKHILL. the right fielder Of the Cincin.
natl club has played twenty six games with
out an error His record is a wonderful one.
THE Virginia club have resigned their
position in the Eastern League, and have been
admitted in the American Association in place
of the Washington club
IL st. Genevieve No, club has been
started, having for its players nine brothers
named Gresbaber. They challenge any nine
brothers to play them game.
THE out-field of the Cincinnati American
club is the largest in the country, and the
heaviest There are three Six-footers who
combine a weight of 80 pounds.
EVANS, the right fielder of the Clevelands,
says he can tell 10y the sound of batted ball
in which direction it will go If it sounds
loud and clear it will be a long hit, and If
mufed and indistinct it will land in the In
field.
A SPECIAL meetingof the Eastern League
was held at Philadelphia recently, when It was
decided to admit two clubs, one from Jersey
City and one from Paterson, in place OF the
Virginians, resigned, and the ActiveS, dis
banded.
A SINGULAR feature of the national game is
seen in the fact that in a recent Philadelphia
Boston game Mulvey, of the former club, play
ing at third base had four, cen fielding chances,
while Sutton, of the Bostons, i'll the same
position, had none at all.
AN old baseball player, says that left handed
batters. in striking the ball, give it a curve
that makes it very hard to catch At recent
game in Cleveland. Brouthers, of the Buflalos
knocked liner to the right OF the centre: the
right fielder tried to catch it, but the bail on
approaching him, took such curve that ne
was obliged to rctrace his steps in hurry,
and was unable to get it. Right hand batters
knock u straight ball.
WHERE THEY ALL WERE,
In court - said the card on the lawyers
door,
"Back in ten minutes on many more;
Gone to the hospital" on the doctors
slate,
On another "Sit down and watt
" Gone to bank on the notarys sign;
Z" Arbitration that young clerk of mine,
q" Back soon,n on the brokers' book,
" Collecting rents" on my agents hook,
They were all tn busy, a matter quite new,
Very sorry was l. l had nothing to do.
Then hied me hence to the base-b ground
And every man ON the grand stand found
-NcW York Sun.
AT a recent Milwaukee Minneapolis game,
Pearson. the pitcher for the Minneapolis club
while delivering the ball, broke hi arm above
the elbow, 1t broke with n swapping sound
that could be heard all over the diamond, The
ball rolling along the grass to tie captains
line Pearson uttered "A loud cry OF pain and
fell to the ground He was Immediately car
ried to a doctors Office, where the broken bone
was set The unfortunate man is resident
of Waterloo, y. y. and a member of the class
of 'S5 at Hobart college
AT the end Of the fifteenth week the rec
ord of the League clubs in the championship
race was: