Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-07
THE NATIONAL GAME.
RSEY CITY has released Pyle.

I'LL NAIlUNAL ia NIL.
JERSEY CITY has released Pyle.
INDIANAPOLIS is strongin catchers.
BALDWIN has been released by Detroits.
NICoL, of Cincinnati leads all the base
stealers.
BURDICK has proved himself a great
MURPHY-is the best catcher IN the Central
League.
CHICAGO has now shut out every club but
Indianapolis
TWELVE games have been tied by League
teams this season.
AMONG the Washingtons Myers is consid-
cred the most timely hitter.
THE Detroit players concede the League
championship to New York.
NASH, of Boston, is just now playing the
best third base in the League.
ERRORLESS games are quite frequent in
the international Association.
BROOKLYN paid $500 for Tom Burns's re-
lease from the Baltimore Club.
SUBSTITUTE umpires in the League get
$3.50 per game for umpiring.
DETROIT is still trying to buy Titcomb and
Murphy from the New Y rk Club.
PINCKNEY, of Brooklyn is the first player
in the Association to score 100 runs
EVERY member of the New York Club
except Brown, has made home run.
CATCHER ROBINSON, of the Athletics, has
made seventeen errors in $40 chances.
JIMMY DONoHUE, of Kansas City, can catch
the fieetest runner with his rifle shot throws
to second.
HARTNETT is said to be the quickest and
most accurate thrower in the international
Association.
POWELL is the only man of the present
New Orleans team who started the season
with the club.
CONNOR, of New Y ork, has passed Denny
of Indianapolis, and now leads the League
in home runs.
BENNETT, of the Detroits, says that in Nc
Carly the st. Louis has one Of the best play
erS he ever saw.
ROBINSON. the second baseman of the st.
Louis Browns, is one of the trickiest players
in the Association.
A FEELING is growing in international
circles in favor of bringing Jersey City into
the circuit next season.
VAN HALTREN of Chicago, is the only
League pitcher who has retired League
team this season without hit.
IN Beckley, Pittsburg, for the first time,
has man more than capable of filing the
lamented Al MckinnOn's place.
JOHN BARNES, the manager OF the ST.
Paul Baseball Club, fell heir to 500, 200 by
the death of an Uncle in Ireland
THE Indianapolis Club have their new uni
forms of gray with dark blue caps, belts and
stockings. 1ney were sadly neeueQ.
OLD EZRA SUTTON is looked upon as a
most remarkable player for his age. His
work since he has joined the Rochester team
has been first class.
THE Detroit Free P.'eSS thinks it would be
a good plan to try the twenty-tive-cent adj
mission rate at Detroit. The tifty-cent rate
is a failure this year.
FRED DUNLAP, the popular and highest
salaried second baseman in the baseball
profession, is very bitter in his remarks about
the Philadelphia grounds.
ABOUT half TIE teams N the League are
just now negotiating for John Wards release
from the New HOrk'S 1t IS presumed he is
wanted as player-manager.
ASSOCIATION players are puzzled as to how
Snyder, of Cleveland, got his throwing abil-
ity back He lines them down to the bases
as well as he did ten years ago.
WILLIAMSON, of Chicago, is playing better
than any shortstop in the land. In the last
twenty eight games he has made five errors
and accepted 1872 chances-an average Of
$685.
UMPIRE FERGUSON classes Fogartv, Johns
ton and WEIGH together as the best out
fieders in the country OF the three. he
considers the Boston man entitled TO the
front rank
BURDOCK is the best sacrifice hitter on the
Brooklyn team. He cares but little whether
he gets base hit or not so long as he adj
vances a base runner makes a run count.
This accounts for his low Latting average.