Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-29
THE NATIONAL GAME.


TIE Chicago players call Krock and Flint
the blonde battery
CHARLEY SNYDER, the catcher, has been
made Captain of the Cleveland team.
PRESIDENT NDfMICK of the Pittsburgs is
tired Of baseball, and is going to retire.
1T is said that President Lyons of the Louis
vile Club will manage the club himself.
ELMER FOSTER, of New York, is success
as fielder and base-runner but not as bats
man.
Boston is certainly the baseball city of the
country. The attendance up to June was
IS, 900.
Delahanty, has stolen eight bases in ten
games.
WELSH is New Yorks great pitcher this
season. In ten games he allowed but Gig ht-
cen earned runs to be scored off his de-
livery.
DALRYMPLE has made only one error in
twenty-five games played in left field for
Pittsburg.
PITCHER CARUTHERs, of Brooklyn, made
two home runs off Bakely in a Brooklyn
Cleveland game.
Tom LYNCH, of Birmingham, leads the
Southern League in batting Monk Cline, of
Memphis, is next.
DUNLAP, Pittsburg's second baseman, has
played seventeen consecutive games this sea-
son without error.
ter than those of the League, and they re-
ceive $500 more pay.
NASH, of Boston, had thirteen plays on
second base in the last Boston-Detroit game,
and made only one error.
HARRY WRIGHT manager of the Philadel-
phlas, will push the movement for double
umpire system next season.
''DON'T get married to that base" is one of
the expressions now used by the coachers
when player is ''hugging" bag.
A NINE has been organized out in San
francisco made up exclusively of Cinnamon
They are not much as base runners
WASHINGTON ought to be pretty well used
to shut-Outs now. 1t has been whitewaShed
oftener than any other League team.
KANSAS CITY has not yet got over the wild
Western habit of throwing money to its
favorite pitcher and bricks at the umpire.
GOVERNOR HILL saw the Detroits whip the
New YOrks in the first of the series of four
games on the Polo Grounds in the Metropolis
IT is said that McPhee, of Cincinnati, has
never yet been fined by umpire or manager.
That is a record few or no professionals can
equal
TROY, N. Y, has Gentleman, and Cleve-
land, Ohio, has GoodfelIow on its respec-
tive mines. The former is a pitcher and the
latter catcher.
A COMPARISON of Richardson's work with
that of the famous second basemen of other
teams, shows New York'S modest little player
to be the greatest of them all.
THE Mikado of Japan has issued an edict
against what he calls the pernicious game
Of baseball, which the foreigners are attempt
ing to introduce into this country"
DURING a game at Buffalo, n. Y, recent
iy, foul ball struck by Reidy hit a citizen
In the grand stand in the vest pocket, igni-
ting lot of matches which he had there
HIS vest was wrecked.
KELLY, of Boston, says there is no reason
why player should be hit by pitched ball.
He has not got a base that way this season.
Not all ball players as quick as Kelly,
however, nor so plucky.
PITCHER NEAL, whom Savannah sold to
Louisville phenomenon in $50, is again
launched on the sea of success by his good
with wonderful drop ball.
HARVARD begins to loom up as the proba-
bic winner of the collegiate pennant. In
order to tie them Yale will have to win the
last three scheduled games, one of which is
with Princeton and two with Harvard
PITTSBURG expects TO secure twelve new
players within few weeks. Two of them are
League men. Dalrymple and Smith will be
temporarily suspended because they cannot
bat and Maui will become regular pitcher.
ADRIAN G.. ANsoN, the famous Chicago
baseball captain, is thirty-six years old and
nas been a ball-payer since he was nineteen.
In the twelve years that he has been with
the Chicago club it has the champion
ship six times.