The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
THE NATIONAL GAME.

:, THE Connecticut league will play under the
National league rules.
THE merry ball player now dusts Off his
uniform and picks out his home run bat
The New York Brooklyn and Metropoli-
tan teams have arranged twenty games to be
played in the vicinity of New York in April.
THE whole population of the eight South
ern league cities combined does not reach
over third of the population of Brooklyn.
The largest man in the Western league this
season is Sam Thompson, of the Indianapolis
team. He is six feet two inches tall, and
weighs 1Sj pounds.
The vote was unanimous in the National
league, requesting President Young to en-
gage the services of Ferguson as chief of the
staff of League umpres for 1885.
THE National league and American as
ISOLATION clubs this coming season each play
112 games, the scores being sixteen'games be-
tween each of the eight clubs eight being
played on home grounds.
NINETY-oNE dollars and half week is
Gerhardt's salary for playing second base Cor
the New York club from April Is to October
10, 1855 Some of the ablest writers on this
New York dailies do not get such a high
salary as this.
THE Southern New England League asso:
citation has adopted the league playing rules
for 1888 The League includes clubs of
waterbury, Hartford, Meriden New Britain
and Bridgeport, Conn, and Holyoke, Spring.
field and Pittsfeld, Mass
THE Southern league will follow in the
footsteps of the National league as far as
placing their organization on high moral
plane is concerned. That is, they will play
no Sunday games, or allow betting, liquor or
poo-selling on the grounds.
THE intercollegiate Baseball association.
comprising the six leading colleges of this
country, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Dart
mouth Amherst and Brown, will open its
championship season April 30 in game be-
tween Amherst and Dartmouth at Amherst.
THE National league has instructed Secretary
Young to explain to the umpires that, ac-
cording to the new pitching rules, the pitcher
must keep his forward foot stationary on the
ground, but may slide his rear foot up to the
forward one, provided some part of said foot
touches the ground.
The National league will be among the last
of the leading associations to enter upon its
championship campaign, which will begin
May |, as follows: st. Louis VS.. Chicago, at
st, Louis; Detroit VS.. Buffalo, at Detroit;
New FORK vs. Boston, at New York, and
Philadelphia VS. Providence, at Phiadel-
phia
The National league, at their recent meet
ing, declined to acquiesce in the American
association to limit the membership of the
arbitration committee to the League ana
American associations. So there will be
three members of that committee still, viz.
the League, the American and the Eastern
league.
THE Philadelphia Sporting Life says: 1t
will require a man with strong nerves and
physical endurance to be league umpire the
coming season. Between watching the
pitcher, to see if he keeps his feet on the
ground, and the ball, to see if it goes over the
plate. the umplres attention will be pretty
well taken up
THE salary lists of the American associa-
ton ball clubs are said to be as follows: The
Pittsburg list amounts to SD 900 inclusive of
the $1,000 paid for the release of the players
to the Columbus club officials Louisville,
$26,0J0 Baltimore, $4,000; Cincinnati,
SIS, 900; Brooklyn, $4,000; Metropolitan,
S25, 900; Athletic, 100000.
THE various baseball associations cover
nearly all the territory in the United States,
and there is hardly city east of the Rocky
mountains with population of $1,000 inhab-
itants that Is not represented in one or the
other of the six associations They this sea-
son include in their membership in the neigh
borhood of forty leading cities in the United
States, employ close to 500 men, and repre-
sent an investment of several millions of dol
lars