Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-02
THE NATIONAL GAME.
rHE LouisviIes have disbanded.

THE Louisvilles have disbanded-
PITTsBURG this season has lost about $1,000.
BECKLEY. Of Pittsburg, leads the League
hatters.
BROOKLYN closed the season with brill
liant victory over Baltimore.
PITTSBURG'S heavy hitting first basemau.
Beckley, hasn't made home run
BROOKLYN is the only club that hasn't
tied or postponed game on its hands
BosToN, Brooklyn and the Athletics are the
money-spending clubs OF the country
CINCINNATIANs consider Tomney one OF
the greatest short stops in the country.
IT looks as II, after eighteen years service.
Burdock's time for retirement had come.
THE star second baseman OF Pittsburg,
Dunlap, did not make a home run all season
GUMBERT, of Chicago has eclipsed Van
Haltren's record the Leagues BEST batting
pitcher.
DEACON WHITE and Dan Brouthers ara
said to be the biggest money savers in the
profession.
FRED PFEFFER, of the Chicagos, will have
the score card privilege for the entire Aus
tralian trip
PITCHER HADDocK. late of the Troy Club.
has so far made very favorable impression
in the League.
THE New Orleans Club has decided to sell
enough stock to pay back salaries OF this
seasons players.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION baseball cost
Kansas City at least 5000 And still they
have not got enough.
IT is said that Hamilton, Of Kansas City,
can beat either Latham or Sunday in a
straight away sprint
ST. Louis and Brooklyn are tho only
League and Association clubs that have not
lost series this season
GOVERNOR HILL has written letter con-
graduating the New Yorks on their success
IN winning the pennant
STOCE CnMpANy has baar, fOrrnad in
Elmira, n. Y, and the directors will try
baseball again next season.
ACCORDING to the official averages, Beck
ley, Arson, Ryan, Kelly, Ewing and Brouth-
ers are the six leading League batters.
DURING the last baseball season in Boston
PCS, 900 people went to the home clubs
contestant average of 1895 spectators for
each game.
REILLY is the champion home run hitter
of the Association. His record is twelve
four baggerS against eighteen for all the rest
of the Cincinnati team combined.
RYAN lead the League batsmen in home
runs with fifteen. Conner has scored thlr-
teen. Denny. tweIve; Arson, eleven. and
O'Brien, Kelly and Johnston. nine each.
TOMNEY, at Cincinnati, successfully per
formed the feat of stealing home from third
base with the catcher under the bat. keenan,
stood in a trance with the ball in his hands
BOTH Radbourn and Wise want to get
away from Boston, and yet Radbourn is get
Ilns Ille Iaf S9sC odIaIy Vi any pI.IIoi III su
sion except Caruthers.
SERRY leads the League in stolen bases
He has pilfered seventy-Seven Of them Sum
day is second with Is; Fogerty, &c; Hoy, IS;
Keller and Pfeffer each, 81; Ewing, 81; Ryan,
46; Tiernan and Ryan, 45; GlasScock, ~.
CAPTAIN HANLOV. of the Detroit Club,
agrees with Harry Wright that base runners
should be allowed to overrun second and
third bases Just as they now do at first. Han
lon thinks that return to the high and low
ball would solve the batting problem
THE Brooklyn Club is the ''plunger" in the
baseball world, it has even surpassed Bos-
ton in the amount of money it has expended.
The present team contains but three players
whose releases have not been purchased, and
an enormous sum-estimated at $40, 0OO-has
been paid out in collecting this star aggrega-
ton.