The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
THE NATIONAL GAME.


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, 900 persons.
BASEBALL fatalities are growing extraor.
dtnarily frequent Of late.
LOUISVILLE has made fewer home runs
than any other Association club.
UNLUcKY Catcher Fulmer broke finger in
recent Baltimore-St Louis game.
LOUISVILLE paid 5000 for the release of
Shortstop Tomney, of the Allentowns.
TENER, the new pitcher for Chicago, stands
six 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
UEOhGE w uOCSu Ddll player VI
twenty years ago, will make one Of the Aus
tralian party.
SUNDAY, Of PittsJurg, now leads the
League in base stealing, with Seery, of In
dianapolis. second.
THE town of Cleves, Ohio, boasts of one
legged player who is said to be quite expert
in fielding at third base.
THE wife Of Ball-Player Lille, of Kansas
City, has been burned to death bY the ex-
plosion Of a gasoline stove.
The first instance of where a 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
Bostoniar is the best batsman with men on
bases
THERE will most likely be a Michigan
League next season. with Kalamazoo, Jack
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-
bration at that place.
MORRILL, and Anson 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
lyn players If they win the pennant has
stirred the boys up, but their chance of
reaching the top is very slim.
WHEN Anson strikes out or makes an error
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
he 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
Beckley, Of the Pittsburgs, is natural hitter,
but Keefe thinks that Beckley will not hit
safe 80 often when the League pitchers
thoroughly size him up.
KELLY, of Boston, is still one Of the star
base-runners Of the League Probably not
as fast as some, yet he is seldom thrown out
and can rattle fielders into throwing wild
balls better than any Of the rising clever ones
ANsoN is determined to rob the New
Yorks of their claim to the title of Giants
He IS signing big men whenever he gets
chance. Farrell, Tener, Sullivan, William
son, Baldwin, Darling and Anson are all six
feet tall or over.
AT times ball player risks his life with
out realizing it. Such an event occurred in
Chicago when Duffy caught Connor's line
hit as it was about to land on horses back
In jumping for the ball the little right
fielder lost his balance and rolled under the
animals feet. Ryan came to his rescue and
lifted him up with the ball in his hand.
Dunlap's injury is go serious that his bali
playing days may be very short. He will
ha a lu fN1o
rate. A ligament in the ankle is torn loose,
and while the wound may knit it will be
Liable to break by sudden start or Jerk.
Dunlap told an intimate friend in Pittsburg,
that be was afraid the wound would put an
end to his ball playing.