Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-28
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Rowe is back with the Detroit team.
ANsON allows his stay-at-homes to play
with local teams.
BARR, of the Rochesters, refuses to play
ball on Sundays.
JOHN IRWIN is the leading base-stealer of
the Central League.
ALLENTOWN claims to have the strongest
in the Central League.
CHAMBERLAIN, the Louisville pitcher, has
been sold to ST Louis
NEW YORK has won the series from all the
Eastern League clubs
THE fifty-one games at Boston have at
tracted 23S, 600 persons.
BASEBALL fatalities are growing extraor-
d1narily frequent Of late
LOUISVILLE has made fewer home runs
than any other Association club.
UNLUCKY Catcher Fulmer broke finger in
Q recent Baltimore-St. Louis game.
LOUISVILLE paid 5000 for the release of
Shortstop Tomney, of the Allentowns.
TENER, the new pitcher for Chicago, stands
Blk feet and two inches in his stockings.
DAN BROUTHERs now leads the Detroits in
singles. doubles, triple runs, home runs and
put outs.
ROCHESTER still leads the international
Association clubs in the number Of errorless
games played
GEORGE WRIGHT, the noted ball player of
twenty years ago. will make one of the Aus
tralian party.
SUNDAY. of Pittsburg, now leads the
League in base stealing, with Seery of In
dlanapOlis, second.
THE town of Cleves Ohio, boasts of a one
legged player who is said to tNe quite expert
In fielding at third base
THE wife of Ball-PIayer Lille, of Kansas
City, has been burned TO death by the ex-
ploslon of a gasoline stove.
The first instance of where player was
sold for 81, was the sale in Ohio.of Williams
by Canton to Lima for just 81.
FLINT, the Chicago veteran catcher, is an
excellent trainer of young pitchers. This
season he devoted much of his time to this.
NASH comes pretty near being Denny's
equal as third baseman Of the two the
Bostonian is the best batsman with men on
bases.
THERE will most likely be a Michigan
League next season, with kalamazoo, Jack
son, MuSkegon, Grand Rapids, Saginaw and
Bay City.
AT the close of the season ten of the Phila-
delphia players are going to Augusta, Ga. to
play two weeks during the centennial cele-
bratlon at that place.
MORRILL, and Arson are the only two men
now playing ball in their respective clubs
who were members of the League in 1876
the year it was formed
THAT offer of $500 to each of the Brook
Ign players if they win the pennant has
their chanPa of
reaching the top is very slim.
WHEN Arson strikes out or makes an arror
on the Chicago ground the play meets with
misses or cheers. This display on the part of
the crowd stings the old war horse to the
quick.
In every game that Quinn, of Boston. PLAYS
ne does something astonishing with the bat
or In the field In his first game with the
Indianapolis team he had five put outs. five
assists and one error
BUCK EWING and Tim Keefe agree that
iPecKIey, OF the Plttsburgs, is natural hitter,
put Keete thinks that Beckey will not hit
safe 80. often when the League pitchers
thoroughly size him up.
, KELLY, of Boston, is still one of the sta1
Dase-runners of the League Probably NOT
as iasG as some, yet he is seldom thrown out,
and can rattle felders into throwing wild
Dans better than any of the rising clever ones.
ANSON is determined to rob the New
I orKs OF their claim to the title of Giants
he Is signing big men whenever be gets a
chance. Farrell, Tener, Sullivan. William.
son. Baldwin, Darling and Arson are ali sly
feet tall or over - '-A
AT tlmes a ball player risks his life with
out realizing it. Such an event occurred in
SC!hlcago when Duffy caught Connor's line
M as IL was about to land on a horses back
IN jumping for the ball the little ripht
heider lost his balance and rolled under The
an. hLtlhdi Ieet. Ryan came to his rescue and
lll1ed him up with the balm his hand.
Dunlaps injury is SO serious that his ball
playing days may be very short. He will
hardly play any more this season at any
rate A lgament in the ankle is torn loose
and while the wound may knit it viii he
liable to break by a sudden start or Jerk
Dunlap told an intimate friend in PjttsbIJra
Cna1 ne was afraid the wound would put an
end to his ball playing al
NATIONAL LEATUE RECORD.
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Chica &C. Is so
Detroit NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 81 -
Boston 60 ST
Philadelphia 81 80
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