The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
THE NATIONAL GAME.

NEW YORK was the hrSt League cluD 70
play an errorless game.
CHICAGO Will shortly release or sell six Of
its new men. '.-
LOUISVILLE and Washington received the
first whitewashes Of the season.
ABOUT half Of the professional pitchers
chew gum when they are In the box b.
LONG JOHN REILLY, of the Cincinnatfs, Is
bat fiend. He buys one every day orso.
CLEvELAND's fielders can get ratified
quicker than the average fair amateur nine.
PITCHER WHITNEY is now captain OF the
Washington Club, OBrien having resigned
the position. -..~ -.
TYING, Of the Philadelphias, and Serad, OF
the Cincinnaties, have retired opposing clubs
without a hit this season.
UNDER the three-strike rule Van Haltren
may replace Clarkson for Chicago He has
certainly started out we'll.
UNITED STATES SENATOR STocKBR1DGE,
OF Michigan, is alleged to own six shares OF
the Kalamazoo Baseball Association.
PAUL HINES, of Indianapolis, has taken to
wearing smoked glasses while fielding. DE
does this to shield his eyes from the sun;
when batting he discards them
BOBBY CARUTHERs, of the Brooklyns, is
decidedly lucky all around. He not only got
the top price for pitching, but received fully
$4,000 worth Of wedding presents.
FROM a Chicago exchange we learn that
the nine Harper brothers, of the Windy City,
rise up and declare that they can easily beat
the nine brothers Cantillon, of Brooklyn,N Y.
ANOTHER ball player has taken to himself
wife. This time it is Richard Conway,
Boston's twirler. who married Miss Moolic,
sister Of George Moolic, Of the New Orleans
team.
THE New York Club has decided to play
Ewing at third base whenever he is not be-
hind the bat When Ewing is catching, then
Hatfield or Cleveland, probably the former,
will cover third. 3. T.
The rules Of the Washington Club in re-
gard to the use Of intoxicants provide Tor
ine of $2s for the first drink, $50 for the Sec
ond, sl(0for the third and a blacklist for
habitual drinking.
The Lou: u:svilles have the most hideous uni
forms, it is said, ever seen on ball ground;
They are made Of a dirty looking red
dismal appearance.
THE case of Burdock is sad one Had ne
| let strong drink alone he would have received
$1,000 from the Boston Club this season even
if he didn't play single game. That drink
in Baltimore cost him Sl025.
INDIANAPOLIS has gone wild over Denny s
batting. Four home runs in two days IS
pretty good, but last season Moolic, OF the
| Boston Blues, made three home runs IN
one game, and that is better in proportion
than Denny's feat
PITCHER CLARKSoN on being asked the Sc
cret of his success, said: Simply little
head work Do you know there never was
batsman who didn't have some one weak
ness. No matter how good batter, there
will be some kind Of ball, in some one place,
that he can't hit"
UMPIRE GAFFNEY wears an ingenious
breast aid stomach protector. 1t is made OF
pasteboard in sections. jointed together with
elastic, and made to fit tight around. When
Gaffney buttons up his cardigan jacket no
one would know that he is provided with a
protector. He said he was hit so often IN the
chest and over the heart that he had to take
some means to savehis life The contrlVance
is his own make.
BASEBALL IS the squarest game on
EARTH" said Joe Quest, of the st. Pauls, the
other day. Il have been in the business
about fourteen years, and in that time
never knew Of crooked turn. played in
one game, however. where Jim Devlin, Geo.
Hall and Craver, of the Lolfsvilles, were do
ing some of their funny business, but was
not aware of it at the time. Afterward,
when these men were convicted Of crooked
work, l could look back and see in what re-
spects they had thrown off in the game In
question"