The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-17
LEAGUE aCHFDUIR
DIAMOND DUST.

IT costs Yale College $4,000 year for
base
DETROIT thinks that the "big four" was
a wise investment.
THOMPSON, of the Detroits, is the tallest
man in the League.
IT is feared that Ewing's injuries will
permanently cripple him.
CHADWICK, of the Clipper, does not
think New York will win the pennant.
SHAW, of the Washington Club, is not
making the showing expected of him.
DAN BRoUTHERs, of the Detroits, has
failed in but two games SO far this season
to make base-hit.
THE Sporting journal says that as soon
as Kelly. of the Chicago Club. reaches first
base he becomes kleptomaniac.
MCCORMICK is doing great work for the
Chicagos this year. He has pitched in nine
games and won every one of them.
THE Philadelphias travelled 500 miles
to play at Kansas City and did not receive
a cent. Rainy weather was the cause.
SIX games in Detroit drew 1900 peo-
pie. The same games in Philadelphia
would have drawn 50,000.-Philddelph id
Times.
CAPTAIN ANsoN, of the Chicagos, has
failed to make a base hit in only three
games this season, and he has played
twenty seven.
BUFFINToN, of the Bostons, seems to
he back number. In the six games he
has pitched he has landed the Bostons VIC
torious only once.
GAFFNEY is reported to be the author of
the statement that when umpires write let
tiers to each other they address each other
as Fellow Target"
THE League championship since 1876
has been won as follows: Boston, 1877,
1878, 1888; Chicago, 1876 1880, 1881, 1882,
1885; Providence, 1879, 1884.
PRESIDENT YOUNG has instructed
League umpires that when the second ball
is knocked out of the grounds before the
first could be returned a new ball must be
used.
THE Detroits refused band and mill
tary escort when they left home, because
they thought it might prove Jonah, and
begged to be allowed to depart as quietly as
possible.
CASEY and Daley, of Philadelphia. are
doing we'll, while the wonderful Ferguson
is doing badly, no less than twenty one
earned runs having been made off him in
nine games.
The lowest per cent. of opponents base
hits made in the League last year was made
off Welch within an even 200, Keefe and
Baldwin being next with .201, and Clark
son close after with .207.
LAST year there were eleven League
players with batting average of 800 or
better, Connor leading with 81, Brouthers
second with 1858. The remaining nine
were, in the order named, borPan, Rich
ardson, Gore, Sutton, Arson, Ferguson,
Ewing, Thompson, and Hanlon. ORourke
failed TO get in the 300 list by one notch.
So far this season there are just eleven bat
tiers with 800 or better, and O'Rouke leads
them all. He has made 40 hits, with an
average of .377, Brouthers being second
with AZ hits and an average of 1853.
Thompson is third, with 1886; Conner
fourth, with 1888; Richardson, of Detroit,
fifth, with .321; Arson sixth, with .317,
Denny seventh, with 1903; Morrill, eighth.
with 1903; Mulvey ninth, with .301 and
Ward and Dunlap tenth aud eleventh, with
800 each. Detroit has three of these big
batters, New York three. St Louis two,
and Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia one
each.
THE following is the batting average of