The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-25
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 have been somewhat frequent of
late.
THE champion Providence club is now at
the foot of the league in batting and fielding.
What fal
O'RouRKE, of the New Yorks, leads all
League players in run getting. He has made
over 100 runs.
GILLESPIE, left-fielder for the New York
League club, made only one error in thirty
six successive games.
! MCVEY, who has the 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 The st. Louis Browns
have accomplished the same feat in their as
ISOLATION.
/ GLAsscocK and Brody, of the st. Louis
League nine, are playing for $1,000 this sea-
SON They signed for $4,000, but s., 900 each
as a fine
THE baseball fever has become so strong
here among the Mississippi negroes that it is
very difficult to get hands to pick the cotton,
now white in the 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 81 900 salaries among the
ball-players next year and 81, 800 will be
about the highest wages paid for the seven
months of field amusement.
TIE New York State league singulary APP
pears to be quite 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 whitewashe1 by an outside organiza-
ton. At Hartford the Metropolitan failed to
get n man across the plate while Hartford
made six runs.
THE New York Philadelphia series has re-
suited in favor OF the giants by eleven games
to five New York made ninety-five runs
152 hits with a total of 2OS and had 1913 err
rors; Philadelphia made fifty-two runs
ninety-eight hits with a total of 124, and
had III errors
THE Eastern New England clubs are play
ing an interesting game. First one leads and
then another; one takes good squirt one
week and falls back another. The thing
could not be arranged any better if an effort
was made. There's nothing like evenncss iu
playing of clubs
Is the New York Boston series the New
Eorlis Lave won thirteen out of sixteen
games. The New Works made eighty. three
1l9 errors in these games. Boston made for
ty-flve runs and nlnety-nine hits with o
total of 1l4 and 101 errors.
JOHN CoRKHIGLi is conceded by the Ameri
can association players to be the boss right
fielder Phenomenal catches are 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 and
mulfed but four in three years.
THE Philadelphia League club has pur
chased from Chattanooga the release of Se!gle,
considered to be the best outtel1er in the
Southern league He is described as a sure
catch, a wonderfully accurate and long-dis
lance thrower, good general player, and one
of the best batsmen in the South.
THE fight for supremacy in the National
league is now the leading topic of converse
ton in baseball circles Everybody inter
ested in the game at all seems more or less con.
cerned about the welfare of either the New
York or Chicago club, who have had such a
close struggle for the championship honors.
ONEIL, of the st. Louis, Browning, of the
Louisvilles, Orr, of the Metropolitans, Jones,
of the Cmcinnatis and Stovey of the Athletic,
rank as the first five in the batting averages
of the American association. Conner 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 FORKS had made
SOS base hits, the Chicagoes SOL, Buffalo SOP,
Boston H. Detroit 100. Philadelphia G1S, st.
Louis Gas and Providence Up. The fielding
averages were: New York SCI, Chicago
.SG3, Buffalo SIG, Boston $50, Detroit SIS
st. Louis .S44, Philadelphia .si4 and Provi
dence .S4S. The Chicagos had made G24 runs
the New Works j2l, Buffalo 42O, Detroit 33S
Boston 39l, St Louis 29i, Philadelphia 3S4
and Providence 3d..
The championship records up to recent date