The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-10-07
THE NATIONAL GAME.

a FEMALE baseball nine is travelling in the
West.
WHAT would many excellent players do if
there should be no Southern league next sea-
son.
GAMES of nine innings without run on
either side h I've been somewhat frequent OF
late.
THE champion Providence club is now at
the foot of tho league in batting and fielding
What falll
O'RoURKE of the New Yorks, leads oil
League players in run getting. he has made
over 100 runs.
GILLESPIE, left-flelder for the New York
League club, made only one error i'll thirty
six successive games.
McVEY, who has tho reputation of being
the best catcher in the Southern league, has
been engaged by the Brooklyn club.
New YORK has won the series from every
club in the league. Tho St. Louis Browns
have accomplished The same feat in their as
sociation.
GLAsscocK and Briody, Of the St Louis
League nine, are playing for 81, 2oo TINS sea-
son. They signed for S2,2OO, but Sl,o0' each
as fine
The baseball fever has become so strong
here among the Mississippi negroes that 1t Is
now white in tho fields.
An extreme Southern league is talked OF
for next season to take in New Orleans, Mo-
bile Shreveport, Pensacola, Montgomery and
some other smaller towns
THERE will be no 81, ON salaries among the
ball-players next year, and S250o VIII ne
about the highest wages paid for the seven
months Of field amusement.
THE New York State league singuiary ap..
pears to be quite q match for the National
league clubs. They have won full as many
Of the exhibition games as they have lost.
ANOTHER American association club has
been whitewashcl by an outside organiza-
ton At Hartford tho Metropolitan failed tc
get man across tho plate while Hartford
made six runs.
THE New York Philadelphia series has ro-
suited in favor Of the giants by eleven games
to five. New York male niHcty-hve runs,
1872 hits with total of 20S, and had 10S Or
rors; Philadelphia mado fifty-two runs.
ninety-eight hits with O total Of 124, and
had III errors.
TIE Eastern Now England clubs aro play.
Ing al interesting game First ono leads aid
then another; ,one takes good squirt on'
week and falls back another. The thing
could not be arranged any better if m effort
was made. There's nothing like evenness in
playing Of clubs.
In the New York-Boston series the New
Yorks nave won thirteen out OF sixteen
games. The New Yorlts made eighty three
runs and 5j hits, with total of 2ll and
10 errors in these games. Boston made for
ty-flve runs and nluety.nino hits, with
totel of III, and .0l errors.
JOHN CoRKNILLis is conceded by the Amorl.
can association players to be tho boss right
fielder. Phenomenal catches arc an everyday
occurrence with him, and nothing IS safe that
comes anywhere within reach in his territory
He has dropped but one ball this season anu
mufcd but four in three years.
THE Philadelphia League club has pur
chased from Chattanooga the release OF Se!gle
considered to be the best outiielder IN the
Southern league. He is described as sure
tance thrower, good general player, and one
of the best batSlnen in the South.
THE ficht for supremacy in the National
league is now the leading topic Of conversa-
ton in baseball circles. Everybody inter-
ested in tho game at all seems moro or. less con.
ccrned about tho welfare Of either tho New
York or Chicago club, who have had such q
close struggle for tho championship honors.
O'NEIL, of tho st. Louis, Browning. OF the
Louisvilles, Orr of the Metropolitans, Jones,
of the Cincinnatis, and Stovey, of the Athletic,
rank rs tho first five in tho batting averages
of the American association. Connor and
Dorgan, of the New York, Brouthers and
Richardson, of the Buffalo, and Sutton, OF
the Boston, are the five leading batsmen OF
the National league.
UP to recent date the New Yorks had made
SGS base hits, the Chicagoes S04, Buffalo SUI,
Boston 7l2, Detroit 7O!. Philadelphia 61S. st.
Louis Gas and Providence 622. The fielding
oycrapes were: New York SGT, Chicago
So, Buffalo SIG, Boston $50, Detroit .S4S,
St. Louis .S44, Philadelphia .S44 and Provi.
dence S4S. The Chicagos had made G24 runs,
the New Yorks 52l, Buffalo 42O, Detroit 33S,
Boston 39i, st. Louis 29l, Philadelphia 3SA
and Providence 352.
The championship records up to recent date
fp11nIyc.