Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-04-27
THE NATIONAL GAME.


,BosroN's salary list for this season is
placed at S37, 900.
No less than ten of the Milwaukee team
are total abstainers.
THE Indianapolis Club claims to have sold
$1,000 worth of season tickets
GERRY DENNY, the tall third baseman, is
to captain the Indianapolis team.
PITCHER FERGUSON, of the Philadelphias,
thinks New York will win the pennant.
MANAGER MUTRIE thinks Crane, of the
New Yorks, will prove to be the speediest
pitcher of the League.
WASHINGTON can boast of having four ex-
ceedingly clever outfelders in Wilmot,
Shock, Daily and Hoy
OF the four League Umpires-naniels.
Lynch, Valentine and Decker-Lynch is the
only one new to the League.
THE Southern League this season will have
only four clubs-Charleston, Memphis, Bir-
mingham and New Orleans
PRESIDENT BYRNE says the Yale College
boys beat anything he ever saw on the ball
field in the matter Of physique.
AN enterprising individual has invented a
"catcher's hand-protector," which enables
back-stops to do without padded glove.
BOSTON will be strong in the pitchers de-
partment this season. They have Clarkson,
Radbourn, Sowders, Madden and Conway.
PITTsBURG now has but fourteen men under
contract, the fewest of any club in the
League, and not a single substitute in
fielder.
BALTIMORE has three left t-handed pitchers
in Kilroy, Shaw aud Smith. The other
pitchers of the club are Cunningham and
Harkins.
HARRY MITCHELL, who played in the Chi
cago reserves in 1884, was the biggest man
that ever played ball. He was six feet seven
inches. He is now policeman in New York
city.
JACKSON, the tallest man in the baseball
| profession, measuring six feet four inches in
height, who played with the Indianapolis
League team the latter part of last season,
has joined the Allentown PENN club
UMPIRE Gaffney, of the League, says:
"You can depend upon it that the record of
one hour and eight minutes for game of nine
innings will be surpassed before the season
closes. expect to umpire one nine-inning
game within an hour"
THE Boston club this season will prove a
better drawing card than ever before Their
twenty y-thousand-dollar battery, Clarkson
and Kelly, and their seven-thousand- five
hundred-dollar pitcher, Sowders, will be ad-
vertised all over the country.
THERE are to be no less than thirteen base
ball organizations in the field this season,
viz: The National League, American As.
sociation, international Association, Western
Association, Southern Lesg que, New England
| League, Central League, California League,
| 1ri-State League, Central Interstate League.
| Texas League, Western League and Central
Pennsylvania League.
The eight League clubs have 143 men signed
or under reserve. Chicago and Philadelphia
have 20 men each, New York 19, Detroit and
Indianapolis Is, Washington and Pittsburg
| H. Boston IA. Philadelphia and Chicago
have pitchers each, Detroit and New York
| 5, and the others clubs 4 each. Only Chicago
has more than catchers The Athletics, of
Philadelphia, have u men under contract
INTERESTING in high degree is the stats,
tical record Of the Cincinnati Red Stockings
of 1869, and some of the figures are worth re-
peating. George Wright played in all the 81
| games of the season, and in those games the
club made 1895 runs, an average of over 42
| per game George made 339 runs and 304
clean hits, with total of GA, or an average
of 5. 10 singles with TO- AZ totals per game. He
averaged run to every time at bat He
made 49 home runs, Sweeny coming next
with 80, and Leonard with g. He did not
| strike out once. He put out III; assisted I79
times. The highest score made by the club in
| a single game was 103, against the Buckeyes
| of Cincinnati; the highest number of runs in
an inning was 40; the number of home runs
| was 169. But eight men were put out on
strike during the season. The club Travelled
| list miles in the season, and its games were
witnessed by 100000 people.