The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-06
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THERE arc seven left-handed batters on the
Detroit League nine.
A HIGH laced shoe is the best for ball play.
ers, made on the English walking shoe last
THE railroad fares of the League and Asso.
citation will foot up to nearly S5o, coo this sea-
son,
JOHNNY WARD hasn't forgotten how to
run the bases, according to reports from New
York.
The Southern papers say that Twit,hell, of
the Detroits, is the most graceful pitcher ever
| seen down there.
PURCELL of Atlanta, and Dickerson, of
| Chattanooga, are the Oldest ball players in
| the Southern League.
THE Phila lelphas National League) won
| the local championship from the Athletics
| american Association.
THE Atlanta Georgia. people ara of the
opinion that their club has walk-over for
the Southern League pennant.
The eight leading organizations will
employ over seven hundred players, whose
salaries will aggregate SSC00oO.
ALL st. Louis has actually worked itself
into the belief that the Maroons can and will
win the National League pennant.
ALL the Southern League games are draw
ing big crowds, and interest in the contest is
greater even than it was last season.
IT is said that the players of the Metropoli-
tan American Association Club have lean
promised $500 each if they win the pennant.
THE pitchers seem to be getting the better
of the batsmen as much as ever, and big
strike-out records are of almost daily occur
renee
Ro1ER CoNNoR is batting in style which
indicates that if not at the top of the league
batsmen again this year, he won't be very lar
down the lis.
EVERY club in the International League
has already SGT forth its claim for the pen
nant, AMI each one has proved conclusively
that it will win the championship.
TIRE New York Herald thinks the New
arks will win the championship of the Eastern
LEAGUE without putting themselves to much
inconvenience. Hartford demms.
THE Chicago and Philadelphia clubs did
not lose a game South. The Chicagos' Jer-
Torrance is the more creditabe because they
played many more games with different
| clubs
A New York paper asserts that "Finley,
of the Columbia College team, is considered
| by many to he the best amateur catcher in
the country He is certainly far ahead of
many professionals.
DEALERs in baseball supplies report the
| largest business ever known, which would
indicate that the game is steadily gaining
| favor, ana tnat tllS Will DC one CT Ule DeSU-ll
| not the Ee5t-Season on record.
| THE base-stealing record seems to have
! Stirred even the mot sluggish players up,
| and men now run 10 secont whom previously
| nothing coul coax further away than two
| feet from first base but safe t.
! IT is proposed to organize North Georgia
; 1ase ball league, comprising the Madison,
I Washin ton, Lexington, Harmony Grove,
! University ard Athens cluIs, together WITH
| su Il clubs as wish to Join the league.
A CoLoRED Lac ball leayre has been
formed at jacksonville, Fla, including Mem
phis, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Macon, Augusta,
| Charleston, Savannah, St Augustine, Mont
gomecy and other Sou ,hern citi4s.
KENT HOWARD, who was the leading bat
| ter of the New England League and fo. that
reason was signel by the st. Louis National
League Club, has discovered how difficult it
$ to maintain a minor league reputation III
The fast company of a big league.
THE propose Virginia State League ought
| to be Il success Consi lcring the popu at on of
; the cities which propose entering, viz:
| LyncLb rg, with 2S,O)0 inhabitants; Dan
vile, 5000 Richmond, 5000; Norfolk,
5000; Stanton, 1900, AMI Roanoke, 1,O0l.
The Detroits are the biggest set of men
! ever &c thered into enc team, Manning being
| the only mediem-sized man in the team. In
| Brouthers, White, Thompson and Twitchell
| the team has giants, while Rowe, Richard
son, Hanlol and B.nnett are very large,
| heavy men.
The Brdgerorts have followed Washing
| TONS example, buried horseshoe under tho
home plate for luck and then went to New
| York and allowed the Giants to lelt them
IA to o. Meanwhile the Washingtons are
catching it right to left. The horseshoe
theory doesn't seem to pan out at al in
practice.
THE st. Louis Republican says: "Bau,r,
of the Maroons, is perhaps themost muscular
uall-player in tho profession. During one of
the recent games at SEortslnans ParG, some
one in the crowd where Bauer was standing
made an insulting remark about tho Maroons,
| and Bauer almost ma lie Il hClo in th3 fen ce
, with him"
A NUMBER of Atlanta players lave al.
| ready been heavily fined for drunkenness
and late hours. Mana ing Director Ryan
admits this and says: Il will do it again
whenever they break the rules. They know
the rules and they know the consequences of
breaking them. Our tam can play ball and
it has got to play ball"
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