Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-01
TIE NATIONAL GAME.

PITCHER KRocK, of Chicago appears to be
success.
AINNEAPoLIs has bought Walsh, Omaha's
short stop, for $500.
THE left-handed pitchers haven't done
THE colored Gorham Club is to be trans
ferred TO New Haven.
THEY say the Detroits entertain the great
est respect for Captain Dunlap now.
LATHAM, of st. Louis, is batting and field
ing even more brilliantly than last year.
The Toledo Club is going it heavy. 1t has
four regular batteries and two extra
pitchers.
THERE is not a drinker in the Cleveland
team, Bakely excepted, and he is keeping re-
markablv straight
An appliance by which a ball can be
curved by any one has been put upon the
market by Cleveland man.
A CHARLEY HORSE" is the stiffness of the
cords In the thigh of the players limbs
caused by his attempt to steal base.
w HALEN, one Of the new catchers Of the
Kalamazoo Club, or KaZoos as they are
called, is phenomenal thrower to bases
SHoRTsToP GEORGE GEER, of the Rock
ford (lll.) Club, broke a rib during a recent
game, and will be laid up for some time
Ely made the first home run on the SYRIA
cuse IN. " grounds. He gets a box of
feat.
., IT is a rule of the New England League
Cna1 When two balls have been used in a
used.
PRESIDENT SPAULDING won't permit the
chicago Western Club to play Sunday games
on on ms ground, so it must play elsewhere on
that day.
ALL over the country the umpires are
practically one by one falling into line and
giving Gaffney's system of umpiring from
the centre of the diamond trial.
AMONG the curious names found in list of
noted contemporary baseball professionals
are Tebeau, Viau, Maui, Seerv, Werrick
Sowders, McGeachy, and Bastian.
TIERNAN is the greatest find the New York
management ever made. Ball PLAYERS can
not understand just where Kiernan is such a
hitter. He seldom hits hard at the ball.
THE attendance in the first three New York
games with Boston was about % 900, and
Boston took over $500 as its share With
fair weather the attendance would have been
10000
THAT was bad policy in Ewing changing
Slattery for Gore at the demand of one per-
son IN the audience, says New York paper.
speaking of a recent incident at game in the
metropolis.
No less than eight of Louisvilie's team have
hair bordering in color on the red The
white horse combination is Hecker, Smith,
Werrick, Ramsey, Browning, Wolf, White
and Mack.
BOSTONESE are sore at Keefe, of the New
1orks, because he crippled Madden with q
pitched ball, and limited that the act was in
territorial. They quote his record, which
shows that he has hit and in ured more play
ers than any other PITCHER in the League.
BIRMINGHAM recently pitched a green chap
named Petty, hailing from Columbia, Tenn
He pitched with great speed and consider
able curve, yielding only seven hits and strik-
ing out six men. He had never seen a pro-
feSsional game before, and his manifest fresh
ness was a source of great amusement both
to players and spectators He won his game,
however.
The United States infantry and cavalry
school at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, has an
exceptionally fine club in the field this year,
composed of the enlisted men representing
all the branches of the service-artillery,
cavalry and infantry The club has been
handsomely uniformed and equipped, and is
named in honor Of the commandment of the
post General A. McD. McCook.
PITILEA CALVIN, of Pittsburg is very sue
cessful this year in catching men mapping off
first base. Hanlon and Arson have already
fallen victims to his trick, which consists of
bringing his arm to the rear as if about to
pitch and bending his head as though ready
to deliver the ball. then instead of giving the
ball an inshOot over the plate, he fires it to
first apparently without looking.