Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-06
THE NATIONAL GAME,

LEFT-FIELDER GORE is no longer popular
IN New York.
MACK, Washington's catcher, stands feet
inches in his hose.
CINCINNATI has never yet made success
tul first trip to the East.
THOMAS, of the Cuban Giants, colored
club, Is over six feet in height.
PITCHER GARRISON will go to Australia
with the Spalding aggregation.
GARRISON has pitched in more champion
ship games than any League pitcher.
MANAGER SPAULDING, of the Chicagos,
has decided to keep all his new material.
PITCHER KILROY, of Baltimore, has been
applying electric treatment to his lame arm.
BURDOCK, of Boston, is the only regular
League player who has not made long
hit.
VAN HALTREN, the Chicago pitcher, is one
of the finest alI-round ball players in the
League
IT is a singular fact that the tail-ender,
Louisville, actually leads the Association in
batting
DUNLAP, of Pittsburg, has played seven
teen consecutive games this season without
an error.
MARK TWAIN is an enthusiast regarding
baseball, and attends all the games played at
Hartford, Conn.
FENELLY, Cincinnati's short stop, can
throw the ball to first base quicker than any
other man in the profession.
ONE-ARMED DAILY and Louis Say, the we'll
known profess Onals. are playing with semi
professional club at Norfolk, Va.
IT is estimated that there are over 600
amateur ball clubs in Chicago, with mem
bership of between 1000 and $780,
PITCHER ROACH of Wilkesbarre, Penn,
with seventeen strike-o uts, for the present
leads the seasons strike-out record.
HERMAN, of the New Yorks, is finding the
ball Oftener than any man in the team. He
is the hOme-ruQ hitter of the nine now,
PITCHER BUFFINTON. of the Philadelphia,
is to undergo a surgical operation for an
affection Of the eyes. His sight is SO greatly
impaired that he can with difficulty see first
base.
EVERY year seems to make Camel more
valuable man TO the Detroits He has now
developed allarOund player, but his
work behind the bat is attracting especial
attention.
TITCoMB, Murphy and Slattery appear to
be the only new members of the New Yorks
who have kept up to the standard. Pitcher
Crane may be all right when he is given more
work, while Hatfield labOrs earnestly all the
time, but as yet has not shown any brilliancy.
DURING the last two years the Chicago
Club has made more money from the sale Of
players than the capital stock amounts to.
The transfer of Kelly, Clarkson, Gore, Nc
COrmick, Dalrymple, and Sunday netted the
club $50, COO. The capital stock is only $2O,-
300.
RYAN, of Chicago, is the most spirited boy
who is playing this summer. His confidence
in himself is something wonderful Arson
himself does not face a pitcher with more
Self-possession than Ryan displays. His field
ing, his ability in the box, his batting and
base-running stamp him a most valuable
man.
THE first player to give his catcher and
Outfielders signs as to the kind of ball he was
about to pitch was Harry Wright, when he
was change pitcher for the famous Red
Stockings of Cincinnati, in 1870. Harry
worked the fast and slow ball, and would
always let his catcher and outfielders know
when he was going to toss a good one over
the plate.
SHOCK, of the Washingtons, has accom-
plished the feat twice this season of hitting
for a home when there were three men on
bases. Few batsmen possess the faculty of
keeping cool and of having the patience to
pick out good Oall at such times, and, on
account of being over anxious, very few sue
coed in hitting the ball even for one base
when the bases are full.
THE crowd at a ball match is almost as i'm
portant factor in winning games as are the
players. The nine that can depend on the
spectators to back them through thick and
thin and stand by them in veal and woe are
always rolling up their sleeves and stepping
up to the plate in confidential manner with
a wink or two, maybe, for the crowd, even
should the score be ten to one against them