Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-31
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Brooklyns lack dash and vim.
GOLDSBY now captains the Baltimores.
ST. LOUIS owes the lead to Pitcher King.
THE Pittsburg players wear caps of differ
ent cOlors.
GENTLEMAN has been released by the Troy
a. W Club.
SAN ANTONIO has the best batters in the
Texas League
CHICAGO Cinnamon play ball and are said
to play it WELL
DENNY, of Indianapolis, leads the League
in home hits.
Felt lined gloves arc used by the majority
of League players
KEEFE, of New York, recently won nine
teen consecutive games.
THE Chicagos were the first to win a series
that with indianapolis.
RYAN Johnston and Connor have each
made over a hundred runs.
DAVE FOUTz has the best fielding record of
any of the Brooklyn players.
EVERY time the Indianapolis Club plays in
New " rk Esterbrook gets hurt.
Hanlon has signed contract to go to Aus,
tralia with Spauding next winter.
TIE Cincinnatis have played in a twelve,
afourteen, and fifteen-inning game.
UMPIRE GAFFNEY says Philadelphia is the
best city in the country to umpire In.
PETE WOOD is one of the most successful
pitchers in the international Association.
SHREvE has supplanted Boyle as the win
ming and star pitcher of the indianapolis.
Boston is having hard time finding a
man to take Burdock's place at second base.
The Hamilton (Canada) city council has
voted $500 to the Hamilton Baseball Asso-
citation.
FERsoN, of Manchester, N H., is consid-
cred the best pitcher in the New England
League
DUFFY, the new right fielder whom Chicago
recently signed, is making very favorable
impression.
NOTWITHSTANDING the amount of catch
ing he is doing, Bushong has not yet been
hurt this season.
WITH Hardie Richardson and Jack Rowe
off the team, and Thompson unable to throw,
Detroit is in a sad plight.
The LouisviIles have one of the best stats
of pitchers and more star performers than
any other club in the Association,
AT Lima, Ohio, the other day, Ellsworth
Pillars, catcher, had his left eye knocked
out by bat slipping from the hands of a
catcher.
JOHN BURNS, of the Baltimores, has been
released, and has signed with the Brooklyns
as centre fielder. A good bonus was paid for
him by the BrOoklyns.
THE Hamltons, of Canada, are considered
the heaviest batting team in the Inter
national Association. 1t has seven left
handed sluggers in its ranks.
THE Detroit team lost ten straight games
recently. This is the first time in Manager
Watkins's experience that any team he ever
handled was beaten more than three
straight
BASEBALL critics who have seen young
Hoy, Washington's deaf and dumb centre
fielder, pronounce him one of the most
natural players now in the field. He catches
a ball very gracefully, and bats with con-
siderable science.
THE California papers unite in declaring
that Purcell, of the Pioneers, is the dandy
pitcher of the Pacific Slope, and that
Borchers, Knell and Van Haltren, who are
now doing duty in the East, are mere side
shows alongside of this greatest phenomenon
of them all.
MANAGER WATKINS has sent Sam Thomp
son, the famous Detroit center fielder, home.
His arm has been getting worse with every
game-in fact, so lame that without I'M
mediate and total rest he would be perma-
nently famed. Baseball will know him no
more this season.
LAROQUE, who has just made his appear
ance with the Detroit team, was secured from
the hymns, of the New England League. He
is a hard hitter and a swift runner, though
somewhat clumsy. He resembles Hardie
Richardson in physique and handles ball
somewhat similar to ShOrtstop Rowe.
THE best monthly record of victories in
1885 in the league championship arena was
that of the Chicago team in June of that
out of twenty three games The best in 1856
was that of the Detroit team in May Of that
year, when they won twenty victories out of
twenty-four games. The best in 1887
that of the Philadelphia team in September
of that year, when they Won sixteen victories
out of twenty-One games.
NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.