The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-21
THE NATIONAL GAME,
he LcuisyiIles have disbanded.

The L0ulSVll1eS nave Ql6DandeQ.
PITTsBURa this season has lost about $1,000.
BEcKLEY. Of Pittsburg, leads the League
batters
| BROOKLYN closed the season with brill
hnt victory over Baltimore.
PITTsBURG's heavy hitting first baseman,
| Beckley, hasn't made home run.
BROOKLYN is the only club that hasn't a
tied or postponed game on its hands
BOSTON, Brooklyn and the Athletics are the
money spending clubs Of the country.
C1Nc1NNATrANs consider Tomney one Of
the greatest short stops in the country.
IT looks as If, after eighteen years service,
Burdock's time for retirement had come.
THE star second baseman of Pittsburg,
Dunlap, did not make home run all season.
GUMBERT, Of Chicago, has eclipsed Van
Haltren's record as the Leagues best batting
pitcher
DEACON WhiTE and Dan Brouthers are
said to be the biggest money savers in the
profession.
FRED PFEFFER, or the Chicagos will have
the score card privilege for the entire Aus
tralian trip.
PITCHER HADDocK, late Of the Troy Club,
has so far made very favorable impression
In the League
The New Orleans Club has decided to sell
enough stock to pay back salaries OF this
Season's players.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION baseball cost
Kansas City at least $50, ,000 And still they
have not got enough.
IT is said that Hamilton, of Kansas City,
can beat either Latham or Sunday in q
straight-away sprint.
ST. LOUIS and Brooklyn are the only
League and Association clubs that have not
lost a series this season.
GOVERNOR HILL has written letter con-
graduating the New Yorks on their success
In winning the pennant.
A STOCK COMPANY has been formed in
Elmira, N. Y, and the directors will try
baseball again next season.
ACCORDING to the official averages. Beck
ley, Anson, Ryan, Kelly, Ewing and Brouth'
srs are the six leading League batters.
DURING the last baseball season in Boston
PCS, 900 people went to see the home clubs
contests-an average Of 1895 spectators for
zach game.
REILLY is the champion holna run hitter
our-baggers against eighteen for all the rest
Of the Cincinnati team combined.
RYAN lead the League balsmen in home
runs with fifteen IConnor has scored thir
teen. Denny. twelve; Anson, eleven, and
O'Brien, Kelly and Johnston. nine each
ToMNEY, at Cincinnati, successfully per-
formed the feat Of stealing home from third
base with the catcher under the bat. Keenan,
stood in trance with the ball in his hands,
Both Radbourn and Wise want to get
away from Boston, and yet Radbourn is get
ting the largest salary Of any pitcher in the
League, and larger than any in the profes-
sion except Caruthers.
SERRY leads the League in stolen bases.
He has pilfered seventy-seven Of them. Sun
day is second with Is; Fogerty, &C.; Hoy, rs;
Keller and Pfeffer each, 81; Ewing, 81; Ryan,
&C.; Tiernan and Ryan, 45; Glasscock, AZ.
CAPTAIN HANLoN. of the Detroit Club,
agrees with Harry Wright that base runners
should be allowed to overrun second and
third bases Just as they now do at first Han
lon thinks that return to the high and low
ball would solve the batting problem.
THE Brooklyn Club is the ''plunger" in the
baseball world, as it has even surpassed Ros-
to, in the amount of money it has expended
The present team contains but three players
whose releases have not been purchased, and
an enormous sum-estimated at $40, ,000-has
been paid out in collecting this star aggrega-
tion.
SAYS John Ward: "I attribute the success
Of the New York team to good luck, good
team work and the bad luck of two of our
strongest opponents / refer to Chicago and
Detroit. The former became weak through
want of pitchers, and the latter lost some Of
its strongest players. Ewing's catching was
also great factor in our success"