The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
THE NATIONAL GAME.

CnlcagO.
The New York Club will not release Gore
Tor the present.
The London Canada) Club has signed
Larry Corcoran.
DETROIT continues to lead the League in
team batting and fielding.
KINsLow, Of the Londons, has caught in
thirty-eight consecutive games.
WASHINGTON would like to have pitcher
Crane, but New York won't sell.
EIGHT thousand dollars were lost on the
Memphis team before it disbanded.
THREE brothers on one team is novelty
presented by the New Bedford Comm Club.
SINCE John Irwin's release the Washing
tons have placed Shock permanently at
short.
CATCHER MILLER insists that Calvin of the
Pittsburgs is the speediest pitcher in the
League.
FERsoN is doing by far the best twirling
of all the New England League pitchers at
present.
Boston has won eight games by one run
this season and lost eleven by the same SEN
der margin.
PITCHER RADBoURNE has been made Presi-
dent of the Boston Chapel of the Players
Brotherhood.
WALKER and Higgins, the colored players
Of Syracuse, N. Y, are popular among their
fellow-players.
In Cincinnati they have come to the con-
clusion that there isn't snapclub in the AS
sociation this season.
BosToNEsE think highly of Tom Days
catching, and consider the Chicago player the
greatest in the business.
The Iowa State University has asked the
Legislature for 1000 to buy a baseball
ground for the students.
NEW YoRK's recent feat Of playing two
errorless games in one day ID remarkable
and especially noteworthy.
JOHN A. DAVIS, the we'll known twirler. is
now pitching for the Portsmouths, of Ohio.
he has not lost game this season.
OF all the young players gobbled up by
League clubs last fall Buckley, the Indian
apolis catcher, is one Of the best finds in the
The exact distance from the home plate to
second base is 127 feet inches. When a
catcher has lame arm he thinks it Is about
q mile.
BOSTON paid s1750 for Ray. indianapolis
offered more, but Salem wanted her pat
player to go to New England club so Bos.
ton got him cheaper
DURING practice game at Pittsburg.
Fred Dunlap was struck in the face with q
aard-hit ball and his right jaw broken. He
will not be disfgured.
CINCINNATI has inaugurated "Ladies'
Day." Once a week fair admirers OF the
occasions half price will be charged.
The Washingtons boast of possessing the
best outield in the League. In getting under
9TH tiner md vii m WllmOt.
Hoy and Daily are lauded as being without
superiorz.
HEREAFTER when the regular umpire fails
to appear on the ground in time each captain
of the opposing teams will have the right to
select player, and the double umpire system
will be tried for that contest.
The Chicago Club is playing the luckiest
game of ball in the League. Anson will
admit this, for the nine has lost but one game
by one run and won nine. In numerous
games they have been outbatted
GOLD SILVER" FLINT is rarely allowed to
catch for the Chicagos. He has played in
only eight games this season. DAILY and
Farrell are filling his Place ''Old Silver" is
being used to train young pitchers
BY the time the season is over land if the
Chicagos win the pennantl Anson will be
able to start a second hand clothing store.
,agos will capture first honors in the League.
CARsEY. the seventeen year-old pitcher Of
the Monitors, of New York, struck out IL Of
the New York Reserves in a recent game.
He is considered one of the most promising
of all the young pitchers in and around New
York City.
THE attendance at twenty-seven games on
the Boston grou'. dc has been 136, ,000, divided
substantially as follows:-Philadelpb three
gamesl, g, 600 indianapolis, H,0Oo; Pittsburg,
10000; Detroit, 22,51O; Chicago, $500; New
York, 11,G00; Washington, $500
THE st. Louis Browns are workinga a cute
trick right along. When an opposing base
runner is at second base the Browns pitcher
makes an intentional wild throw over the
base The runner of course starts for third
and gets fooled, as the centre fielder, who has
been posted, runs up on the throw, scoops it
in and, nine times in ten, gets it to third in
time to put the runner out at that bag.