The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-25
THE NATIONAL GAME.

IT cost an even s1O0. 900 to run the Detroit
club last year. .--sv-- ...ss,
THE St Paul Club has furnished free pass.
es to the clergymen of that city.
"BUCKnE EWING will captain the New York
League nine in the coming struggle. <.
EVEN the bsst batsmen will do well thisi
season to reach $50 under the three strike'
rule. ~
JOHN N. WARD, Of the New York League,
Club, Is writing history Of the Nationals
game. = l..,.. - -,,... - ~
HOY, Washingtons deaf mute fleldR, made,
eight base hits IN three games at New
Orleans -;
HARRY WRIGHT, the veteran, manager Of
the Philadelphia League Club, is fifty-three
years of age
A Hot Springs physician declares that.
IKrock, the new Chicago pitcher, is "builtt
like gladiator" -
The Tri-State League, comprising West
Virginia, Ohio and Michigan, has three
deaf-mute players. -
The Brooklyn American Association team
this season cost almost 10000 Six Of the,
players are bridegrooms
IT Is asserted that neither the Cincinnati.
Washington or New York clubs benefited
materially by their Southern trip. *
THE baseball fever has invaded Georgia in
epidemic form, and the colored women and
girls In parts Of the State indulge In tho
game. -. t;5sl4
IT Is claimed that there are more veteran
players in the Boston team than In any other
club in either the League or American,
Associations " -,' - u
|. The Boston directors have decided to ar 9
range their in-feld as follows: Morrill,, first
base; White, second base; Sutton, short
stop, and Nash, third base. ~ 5s:s
The petition of Harvard graduates to the
Governing Board of the college, in favor or ,
allowing the Harvards to practice with pro- {
tessionals has been refused. :
"MIKEn KELLY, the 10000 baseball player,
appeared at the Park Theatre, Boston, as,
Dusty Bob in "A Rag Baby" for q week and
is said to have been successful
M. L. ANDERSON, of the Haverly Base.
ball Club Of Oakland, Cal, recently dropped
dead while practicing on the ball field. An.
autopsy showed that heart disease was the.
cause. e ~.
G. SCOTT STRATToE Is young pitcher.
barely eighteen years old, picked up by Man
sger Kelly for the Louisville American Assoi
citation club. He has record Of striking Out
nineteen amateurs. 2.-','
CLARKsoN, one Of the leading pitchers In;
the country, has been sold by Chicago t9
Boston for S10,C ,C00 Clarkson's accession viii
make Boston prominent candidate for
championship honors ..,.s. -
The Akron Ohio Baseball Club has been
declared insolvent BY the courts and re-
ceiver appointed Judgments amounting to
BIZ, $50. 81 were entered and the stockholders
ordered to pay so share which will enable
the club to settle at so cents on the dollar.
If the st. Louis American Association,
champions capture first, second or third,
place this season President Won der Abe win
present each player with 800. He has also
promised each player, under contract with
him, s25 if no fine is imposed during the
,eason. - J.
THE Boston League Club within one year
nas paid out S., 800 for players, has agreed,
10 give over $1,000 in increased salaries this,
season, and is building grand stand which
will actually cost $4,000. They will pay
.his year SIS, 700 in salaries to five players
Sowders, Clarkson. Morrill,, Radbourn and
Kelly.