The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
THE NATIONAL GAME,

placed at $37, 600. =.
No less than ten of the Milwaukee team
are total abstainers. .-.--| - =
The Indianapolis Club claims to have sold
$6OO0 worth OF season tickets.
GERRY DENNY, the tall third baseman, Is
to captain the Indianapolis team. -,
PITCHER FERGUSON, of the Philadelphias
tnnxs New York will win the pennant
MANAGER MUTR1E thinks Crane, of the
New Yorks, will prove to be the speediest
pitcher of the League -.
WASHINGTON can boast Of having four er
ceed1ngly clever outfelders in Wilnot,
Shock, Daily and Hoy. ?. -
OF tho four, League Umpires- Daniels
Lynch, Valentine and DeckerILynch is the
only one new to the League. l,ts
The Southern League this season will have
only four clubs-C Charleston, Memphis, Bir
mingham and New Orleans.
PRESIDENT BYRNE saws the Yale College
boys beat anything he ever saw on the ball
held In the matter Of physique.
AN enterprising individual has invented q
"catchers hand-protector,' which enables
back-stops to do without padded glove.
BosToN viii be strong in the pitchers de,
Radbourn, Sowders, Madden and Conway.
P1TTsBURG now has but fourteen men under
contract, the fewest Of any club in the
League, and not single substitute in.
fielder.
BALTIMORE has three left handed pitchers
IN Klroy, Shaw aud Smith. The other
pitchers of the club are Cunningham and
Harkins ....
HARRY MITCHELL, who played in the Chi
cago reserves in 1884, was the biggest man
that ever played ball. He was six feet seven
inches. He is now policeman in New York
city. .. .a- ...,.---..
. JACKSON, the tallest man In the baseball
profession, measuring six feet four inches in
height who played with the indianapolis
Leagbe team the latter part Of last season,
has joined the Allentown PENN club.
UMPIRE Gafney, of the League, says:
"You can depend upon it that the record of
one hour and eight minutes for game Of nine
innings will be surpassed before the season
closes. expect to umpire one nine-inning
gameswithin an hour"
THE Boston club this season will prove a
better drawing card than ever before. Their
twenty. ty.thousand-dollar battery. Clarkson,
and Kelly, and their ven-thousand: five
hundred dollar pitcher, Sowders, will be ad-
yertised all over the country. .'r
.IHERE are 20 De no less than thirteen DaSe-
ball organizations in the field this season,
viz: The National League, American AS.
ISOLATION, International Association, Western
Association, Southern Les que, New England
League, Central League, California League,
Tri-State League, Central Interstate League,
Texas League, Western League and Central
Pennsylvania League. s
The eight League clubs have 143 men signed
or under reserve. Chicago and Philadelphia
have 20 men each. New York 19, Detroit and
Indianapolis 18, Washington and Pittsburg
II, Boston Il. Philadelphia and Chicago
have pitchers each, Detroit and New York
S, and the others clubs 4 each. Only Chicago
has more than 4 catchera The Athletics, OF
Philadelphia, have q men under contract.
INTERESTING in high degree is the statis-
tical record Of the Cincinnati Red Stockings
Of 1869, and some Of the figures are worth re-
peating. George Wright played in all the 81
games Of the season, and in those games the
club made 1895 runs, an average Of over AZ
per game. George made 339 runs and 304
clean hits, with total Of 614, or an average
Of 5. 10 singles with 10. a totals per game. He
averaged run to every time at bat. He
made 40 home runs, Sweeny coming next
with so, end Leonard with g. He did not
strike out once. He put out III; assisted 179
times. The highest score made by the club in
q single game was 103, against the Buckeyes
of Cincinnati; the highest number OF runs in
an inning was 40; the number Of home runs
was 169. But eight men were put out on
Iirike during the season The club Travelled
II SIT miles in the season, and its games were
witnessed by 10000 people.