The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19
THE NATIONAL GAME,

SAVANNAH was the first Southern League
club to play an errorless championship game.
WATERBURY, Conn.,. claims the best base
running and batting team In the Eastern
League.
p STE1NMEYER, of the Bostons, is looked upon
as one of the most promising young pitchers
in the League.
EVERY Hartford Conn., player who makes
home run receives box OF cigars from u
local enthusiast.
THUS far the pitching in various clubs has
been first-class, Indicating closely contested
games among first-class clubs.
The Charleston Club is enjoying the best
patronage in the Southern League. The
Charleston ladies turn out from SUI to IOo at
every game.
In reckoning up National League proba-
bilities it should be borne in mind that Chl,
cago does not finish at home this year and
New York does.
A NUMBER of New York actors, who are
enthusiastic on the subject OF base bal, have
| organized nine. The New York PresS nine
will play the actors
The Bostous have official contracts with
16 players; the Chicagoss,. IA; Detrolts, ~
II; Washington, II; Kansas City, 11:total' ".
The strong showing which the dlterent
| Eastern League clubs have made IN the
Games that they have played so far is very
encouraging to their managers and TO ths
patrons of the game in the various cities
where they are located
THE playing of the Southern League clubs
so far has proven that the teams are more
evenly matched than last year, and that the
fight for the pennant will be so spirited that
q person will have to guess several Tunes
during the season, and then may guess
wrong.
EIGHT fully equipped baseball associations
are now in existence, employing over over ono rUo
players, whose salaries amount to Sooo,ooU
! In addition to these are number of State and
osher Leagues of the semi-professional char
acter employing at least 800 more players
who will receive in salaries at least sl0o,oOo.
AN exceedingly exciting contest took place
recently in Richmond, Va, between the
Boston and Newark IN. J.) Clubs A two
bagger by johnson, after two men were ou6
in the ninth inning. enabled the Bostons to
tie the score. Both clubs were blanked IN
the tenth inning, leaving the score tle 70
3, as the Newarks had to leave the held 10
catch train for the North.
| The grand stand on the Metropolitan Clubs
new grounds at Staten island is the finest
| ever seen on ball-field. It is three-story
structure, nearly four hundred feet long by
sixty feet in width, with extensive balconies,
and will seat over five thousand people.
There are n so included in the build a hand
j some dining-room, with space for more than
a thousand persons to be fed at one time
A NOVEL feature Of the national game is
seen in the Southern League cities where
the details of the contests between the home
team and the other clubs are shown each
day. The games are reported from the stage,
Where a special wire is placed to receive the
game in every detail, the ball being followed
as if you had your eye on it. On the stage
q diamond as large as the stage will permit
is marked off, the chalk line and bags being 1! 8
there as we'll as the bat and batsrnan. Nine
small boys do the playing as the teIeSrapihles pr nc
instrument instructs The boys are al Labelled
in large letters-according to who is batting
at the game at distance-.and whatever
happens to the real player this youth does
likewise.