The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-07-14
THE NATIONAL GAME.

P1rrsBURa is the first Association club to
be whitewashed twice in succession this
season.
: RADBoURN is pitching strong game for
Boston, but he has bean given poor field
support.
THE pit ,hers who were batted the hardest
early in the season are now becoming very
effective.
No pitcher has as yet this season disposed
of a team without base hit in q champion
ship game.
CALIFORNIA has the base ball fever so bad
that there is not a town or village, however
small but has club.
JOE GERHARDT, second baseman of the New
Yorks, made but one hit in eight games, and
but one error in twelve games.
The Petroits to re >ent date had made four
teen home runs, twenty-one three-base hits
and fifty-eieht two-base hits.
LESS home runs have been made on the
Charleston grounds than in any other city in
the Southern Lsague-only three.
KELLY, Of the Chicagos, has made more
runs than any other player in the League.
He earned the record by fine base running.
BUFF1NroN, Of Boston, is certainly one of
the steadiest batting pitchers in the League,
as he hits the ball in nearly every game he
plays
UNTIL Detroit ran into Chicago and
stopped short the nine had not been defeated
on the home grounds this year eighteen
games in al
PRESIDENT WYCKoFF, Of the American
Association, has is ued an order that missed
third strikes should not be placed III the error
column, but must be scored as passed balls.
ORoURkE and Connor, of the New Yorks:
Brouthers, Thompson, and Richardson, Of
Detroit; Hines, Of Wa>hin yton, and Arson,
of Chicago, have each made over fifty base
hits this season
CHICAGO has made IA home runs this sea-
son, Phi a1elphia II, St Louis :, Washington
&, Detroit IA, Boston 6, New York 9, and
Kansas City 3. Of this number Thompson, of
Detroit, has made 5, and Hines of Washing
ton, 3.
LATHAM is the first player in the American
Association who has scored fifty runs this sea-
son. He did this by etcellent base running,
and not so much by hard hitting, as he does
not rank among the first twenty leading
batters.
DUNLAP, second ba Seman of the st. Louis
Maroons, made in en-, game the following
unaxcelled record: Three runs; four base
hits, one a three base drive and another a
home run; eight put outs, seven assists and
one error.
NEVER was there such an even race as the
present one Of the American Association. In
marked contrast the League fight has al.
ready settled down to four clubs, and the
third club has a higher percentage than the
leader in the Association.
LUTHER H. FRANK, the thirteen-year-old
son Of Judge j. L. Frank, of Dayton, O.,
was instantly killed one day recently by
being hit with baseball He was engaged
in game and was at the bat. Herman Sci
bic, the pitcher, threw the ball, which struck
him in the region Of the heart.
NOTWITHSTANDING that there are more
professional ball clubs and associations this
year than ever before known since the Ma
tional game jumped into popular favor, there
has so far been only two disbandments-the
LancaSters, of the Pennsylvania State
League, and the Long Islands Of tie Eastern
League.
THE Little Nicols, of st. Louis, are going
on tour to Indiana, playing at Marmont
Peru, Argus, Princeton, South Bend and
other places. They are the youngest team
that ever took the road, the Oldest member
being barely sixteen years old. They are
said to be fine players. despite their youth,
and capable Of easily beating teams of much
more mature material