The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-04-08
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 a third of the population Of Brooklyn.
TIE largest man in tho Western league this
season is Sam Thompson, Of the indianapolis
team. He is six feet two inches tall, and
weighs 1S5 pounds.
The vote was unanimous in the National
league requesting President Young to on
gage tho services of Ferguson as chief OF the
staff Of League umpires for 1851.
The National league and American as
ISOLATION clubs this coming season each play
1l2 games, the scores being sixteen games be-
tween each of tho eight clubs, eight being
played on home grounds.
NINETY-oNE dollars and a half a week is
Gerhardt's salary for playing second base hr
tho New York club from April IL to Octoboe
Is, 1885. Some Of tho ablcSt writers or the
New York dailies do not get such a high
salary as this.
THE Southern New England League ass6!
citation has adopted the league playing rules
for 1886. The League includes clubs OF
Waterbury, Hartford, Meriden, New Britain
and Bridgeport, Conn, and Holyoke, Spring
field and Pittsleld, Mass.
The Southern league will follow in tho
footsteps Of the National league as far as
placing their organization on n high moral
plane is concerned. That is, they will play
40 Sunday games, or allow betting, liquor or
pool-selling on the grounds.
THE intercollegiate Baseball association,
country, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Dart
mouth, Amherst and Brown, will open its
championship season April 30 in a game be-
tween Amherst inc Dartmouth Mt Amherst.
THE National league has instructed Secretary
Young to explain to the umpires that, &C
cording to the new pitching rules, tho pitcher
must keep his forward foot stationary on the
ground, but may slide his roar 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 |, US follows: st. Louis VS.. Chicago, at
St. Louis; Detroit VS.. Buffalo, at Detroit;
New York VS.. Boston, at New York, and
Philadelphia vs. Providence, at Philadel-
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 and
American associations. So there Will be
three members of that commit % still, viz:
the League, the American and the Eastern
league.
THE Philadelphia Sporting Life says: 1t
will require O man with strong nerves and
physical endurance to be a league umpire the
coming season. Between watching the
pitcher, to SEQ if he keeps his feet on the
ground, and tho ball, to see if it goes over the
plato. the umplre's attention will be pretty
we'll taken W.
THE salary lists OF the American associa-
ton ball clubs arc said to 10 rs follows The
Pittsburg list amounts to 81, OOU inclusive OF
the ST, coo paid for the release OF tine players
to the Columbus club officials Louisville,
S26, 900; Baltimore, $4,000; CINCINNATI,
S2S,00O; Brooklyn, $4,000; Metropolitan,
$4,000; Athletic, $4,000.
THE various baseball associations cover
nearly all the territory in the United States,
and there is hardly a city east OF the Rocky
mountains with a population of $4,000 inhab-
itants that is not represented in one or tho
other of the six associations. They this sea
son include in their membership in tho neigh.
borhood of forty leading cities in tho United
States, employ close to 500 men, and repre-.
sent an investment of several millions OF dol
lars.