The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-09-27
THE NATIONAL GAME.

New YoRK has won the series from all the
eastern League clubs.
The flfty.one games at Boston have at
traeted 2Ss, 900 persons
BASEBALL fatalities are growing extraor'
dinarily frequent OF late.
LOUISVILLE has made fewer home runs
than any other Association club.
UNLUoKy Catcher Fulmer broke finger in
recent Baltimore-St Louis game.
LOUISVILLE paid 5000 for the release OF
Shortstop Tomney, OF the Allentowns
TENER, the new pitcher for Chicago, stands
six feet and two inches in his stockings,
DAN BRoUTHERs now leads the Detroits In
singles, doubles, triple runs home runs and
put outs.
ROCHESTER still leads the International
Association clubs in the number of errorless
games played.
GEORGE WRIGHT, the noted ball player of
twenty years ago, will make one of the Aus.
tralian party.
SUNDAY, of Pittsburg, now leads the
League In base stealing, with Seery, Of In
dianapols, second.
THE town of Cloves, Ohio, boasts of a one.
legged player who is said to be quite expert
in fielding at third base.
THE vito of Ball.Player Lille, of Kansas
plosion of a gasoline stove.
THE first instance Of where a PLAYER was
sold for 81, was the sale in Ohio.of Williams
by Canton to Lima for just 81.
FLINT, the Chicago veteran catcher, is an
excellent trainer OF young pitchers. This
season he devoted much of his time to this.
NASH comes pretty near being Denny's
| equal as third baseman or the two the
Bostonian is the best batsman with men on
bases.
THERE will most likely be a Michigan
League next season, with Kalamazoo, jack
son, Muskcgon, Grand Rapids, Saginaw and
Bay City.
| Ar the close of the season ten of the Phila-
delphia players are going to Augusta, Ga, to
play two weeks during the centennial cele-
bration at that place.
MORRILL, and Arson are the only two men
now playing ball in their respective clubs
| WHO were members of the League in 1876,
the year it was formed.
| THAT offer of $500 to each of the Brook
lyn players if they win the pennant has
stirred the boys up, but their chance of
reaching the top is very slim.
WREN Arson strikes out or makes an error
on the Chicago ground the play meets with
misses or cheers. This display on the part of
the crowd stings the old war horse to the
| quick.
In every game that Quinn, of Boston, PLAYS
he does something astonishing with the bat
or in the field In his first game with the
indianapolis team he had five put outs, five
assists and one error.
BUCK EWING and Tim Keefe agree that
Beckley, of the Pttsburgs, is natural hitter
but keefe thinks that Beckey will not hit
safe 30 often when the League pitchers
thoroughly size him up.
KELLY, of Boston, is still one of the sta,
base-runners of the League. Probably moi
as fast as some, yet he is seldom thrown out
| and can rattle felders into throwing wild
balls better than any of the rising clever ones
--ANsoN is determined to rob the New
1orks OF their claim to the title of "Giants,
lie Is signing big men whenever he gets q
CHANGE. Farrell, Tener, Sullivan, William
son, Baldwin, Darling and Arson are all si1
feet tall or over.
AT times ball player risks his life with
out realizing it. Such an event occurred il
Chicago when Duffy caught Connor's line
hit as it was about to land on horses back
In jumping for the ball the little rigbt
fielder lost his balance and rolled under tn,
animals feet. Ryan came to his rescue ant
lifted him up with the ballin his hand.
Dunlaps injury is so serious that his bal
| playing days may be very short. He will
hardly play any more this season at an,
rate. A ligament in the ankle is torn loose
and while the wound may knit it will be
liable to break by sudden start or Jerk
Dunlap told an intimate friend in Pittsbury
that he was afraid the wound would mt n,
end to his bah Dlavnr