The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-04
THE NATIONAL GAME.


made Captain Of the Cleveland team. F..
PRESIDENT N1MAncK of the Pittsburgs is
tired Of baseball, and is going to retire.
|, IT is said that President Lyons of the Louis
vile Club will manage the club himself.
ELMER FOSTER, Of New York, is a success
as fielder ard base-runner, but not as bats
man. ,ra. ...
Boston is certainly the baseball city of the
country. The attendance up to June was
G., 900. r. .!..
PHILADELPHIA's new second baseman,
Delahanty, has stolen eight bases in ten
games. .., .... r..' ,.r
WELSH is New York's great pitcher this
season. III ten games he allowed but eight
cen earned runs to be scored of his de-
livery ",. 3D.. ,.ss.-s ....-.. i.
DALRYMpLE has made only one error in
twenty-five games played in left field for
Pittsburg. t'E'
PITCHER CARUTHERs, Of Brooklyn, made,
two home runs of Bakely in Brooklyn
Cleveland game. ..-. ~ . 81
Ton LYNCH of Birmingham. leads the
Southern League in batting. Monk Cline. OF
Memphis, is next. ..-.,, e.. -
DUNLAP, Pittsburg's second baseman, has
played seventeen consecutive games this sea-
son without an error. '.. .... .,..'
LIE w GSUSTu A6SuCldulOu dl0 U0p
ter than those Of the League, and they re-
ceive $500 more pay. -.
NASH, OF Boston, had thirteen plays on
and made only one error.
HARRY WRIGHT, manager Of the Philadel-
.phias, will push the movement for double
umpire system next season. a.
"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. g.
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 q
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 McPnee, OF Cincinnati, has
never yet been fined by umpire or manager.
That is record few or no professionals can
equal ... ..,.
TRog, N. Y, has Gentleman, and Cleve-
land, Ohio, has q Goodfellow on its respec-
tive mines. The former is 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 1.-The pernicious game
Of baseball, which the foreigners are attempt
ing to introduce into this country"
DURING game at Buffalo, N. Y, recent
ly. 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 base that way this season.
Not all ball players are as quick as Kelly,
however, nor 81 plucky. ...
PITCHER NEAL, whom Savannah sold to
Louisville as phenomenon in 1886. is again
launched on the sea Of success by his good
pitching for Columbus He is righthander,
with wonderful drop ball
HARVARD begins to loom up as the proba-
bic winner OF the collegiate pennant. In
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 C. ANsoN, the famous Chicago
baseball captain, is thirty-six years old and
has been ball.player since he was nineteen.
| In the twelve years that he has been with
the Chicago club it has won the champion
| ship six times.