Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-22
THE NATIONAL GAME.

IT is reported that veteran Tommy Bond is
to try pitching again.
GORE, of New York has stolen but one
base in twenty three games.
IN three Princeton games Pitcher Bates. or
Harvard College, struck out forty-hVe men
CLEVELAND has cast a vote against having
a base on balls recorded in the error column
of a score.
THE New Orleans management has volun-
tarily raised Captain McVey's salary for
good work
Won DER AHE's losses on his Western Asso-
citation speculation are reported TO DE over
$4,000 already
FRED PREFER, of the Chicagos, is cover
ing second with more dash and vim thls
season than ever before.
BOX of cigars is offered to the player OF
the Chicago Western club making the first
double play unassisted.
WHITEwAsHEs are plentiful this season
under the three-strilke rule. Last year they
were comparatively rare.
"SMILING MICKEY" WALSH has kept his
opponents down to less than ten hits in every
game he has pitched for the New y orks.
mexican, of Cleveland now disputes with
KiIroy of Baltimore, the honor of being the
fastest runner to first base in the AsSocIa-
ton.
IN three innings as the men came to the
bat in the recent Princeton Yale game,
Stage, of the New Haven College, struck
them out
THE largest baseball glove mandatory Is
said to be located at Rockford, Ill, eighty
persons being employed all the year round III
the manufacture.
CLEMENTS, of the Philadelphia has caught
in twenty-six championship games this sea-
son out of thirty played, twenty OF them
being in succession.
THE numerous accidents on the field this
season seem to show concluSively that the
players taking more desperate chances
than they ever did before.
AT SCRANTON, Penn. Umpire Callihan
had to be escorted from the field by police
men and the players of the visiting Jersey
City Club, else he would have been mobbed-
GA BALL-TossER is either hero or q
tramp" says the Louisville Post de IL
either worshiped or he is cursed. There IS
no middle ground around the bases for
him u
But for Mike Kelly's remarkable batting
and base running, Boston would not rank an
high as now. He, single-handed, has won a
number of games by timely hit, stolen base
or run.
CATCHER FLINT has his hands done up in
knots as an Indication of the punishment he
has received in handling the swift delivery OF
Krock, the big Oshkosh pitcher OF the
Chicagos
GrLKs is the most valuable all-round
player in the Cleveland Club. He handles
flies in the field equal TO the best Of them,
plays at third with skill, can pitch tine
game, and in pinch is right good man 10
have behind the bat.
WHEN any of the Chicago pitchers are be-
ing hit heavily Arson takes the slightest
chance offered to delay the game. His idea
Is to break the spell of the batters and to give
the twirler opportunity Of resting himself
and getting full command or the ball
LITTLE is said about Farrell, the young
player Captain Arson, of Chicago, got from
Massachusetts, and yet be is, by all accounts,
developing into one Of the greatest players
in the country, and an especially heavy
batsman. 1t is almost certain that he will,
before long, become another Kelly.
UMPIRE GAFFNEY says he is as much in
fuenced by the character Of game as either
the spectators or the players. A close and
well-played game, he says, puts the umpire
on his mettle and gives him a chance to show
the stuff of which his made. a one-sided and
draggy contest, on the other hand, has
correspondingly depressing effect and blunts
the umpires quickneSs Of perception,