Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Ed. SwARTwooD is Captain Of Hamilton
ABOUT 6.OOO, 900 balls were used last year.
TIERxAx, of the New YOrks, leads the
League in home runs
RADBoURN, OF Boston, appears to have lost
none of his own skill.
SUNDAY of Pittsburg, now leads the
League IN base stealing.
CHICAGOANs are offering 800 70 $50 on
Ansons aggregation winning the pennant-
KRoCE, the new Chicago pitcher. is show
ing up in fine form under the coaching OF
Catcher Flint.
II costs the Harvard Baseball Association
$3.50 a week TO run the training table for the
University nine.
SOwDERs, Krock, Viau and Gleason are
the greatest successes among this seasons
crop or new pitchers.
SAM WISE still makes plenty of errors but
hits the ball at critical times oftener than any
other man on the Boston team.
IT'S conceded that Kelly will win the bicycle
offered by Boston firm to the Boston player
making the most runs this season.
THE Hamilton team contains eight left
handed batterS. \ good ''South-paw pitcher
generally makes sad havoc with them.
THE marvels and the wonders who were
discovered last winter are not proving
themselves to be what they were advertised
to be.
No base runner takes so many desperate
i
times these attempts to steal a base are
brilliant.
THE Chicagos' new suits are of black broad
cloth, and cost SIS each. The suit is to be
worn at the opening game in each League
town and during the Australian "trip.
THE work of Reipschlayer behind the bat,
for the Jersey City team, has greatly aided
that club in obtaining its present high posi-
ton in the race for the Central League pen
nant.
THE eight ball clubs in the Central Inter
state League will travel ID, 736 miles. 1t
will cost them S31 ,452. 40 for transportation.
The contracts have been made with the rail-
roads.
IT is a noteworthy fact that young play
ers seldom or never suffer from Charlie
horse" 1t is generally the veteran players
who have been IN active work for number
of years.
SowDERs, Of the Bostons, delivers diff
cult ball for a catcher to handle He has
control OF the mysterious drop ball. but he
adds considerable more speed to it than
other pitchers.
NEARLY all of the Texas League clubs are
increasing their capital stock to raise the
wherewithal to strengthen their teams.
Dallas has secured $500 extra and San
Antonio will do likewise.
THE Chicago papers have started story
about the immense strength of BOrchers,
the new California pitcher, to the effect that
he can tear pack of cards with his fingers,
and split a silver coin with his teeth.
Tony MULLANE of the Cincinnatis, once
pitched in a Geneva Ohio team, and he re-
ceved the munificent sum of a a week for
doing it. When not playing the players had
TO put III the extra time in the hay and corn
fields
FIGURES tell the story of Kelly's work for
the BostOns this season better than anything
else. In the first nineteen games played he
has made forty hits, and scored twenty three
times, while the rest of the team combined
has made but sixty-seven runs.
In Charleston, S. c., fund has been
raised to give such deserving boys as are I'M
able to pay for them, tickets to the best seats
at the baseball grounds. Fifty boys at a
time will be sent in while the fund lasts, at
ten cents each, and, according to the Ne,0s
and Courier, lit is expected to last all sum-
mer."