Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-21
THE NATIONAL GAME.

BOSTON continues to win
IRWIN is playing short for Philadelphia
again
PIrTsBURG has tried eight pitchers this
season
BALTIMORE is sadly in need of good field
general
COLUMBUS is disappointed in Pitcher
O'BRIEx. of Cleveland, is fast becoming
star pitcher.
CINCINNATI has offered Louisville $500 for
Pitcher Stratton.
THIS is Anson's nineteenth successive SUM
mer a ball player
KELLY is supposed to get alb out $500 salary
from the Boston Club.
BRoUrHERS leads the League in batting, as
well as his own club the BostOns).
Playing ball without spikes causes a lame
back. The slips wrench severed Y.
THE Cleveland team as now made up will
play out the season. bar accidents
MORRILL, is trying to instil the science Of
sacrifice hitting into the Washingtons.
PETE HoTALING has been appointed mana
ger of the Chattanooga with full power.
SMOKED goggles are worn by the right
felders at Kansas City when the sun has full
sweep.
DALRYMPLE, the ex-Chicago- Pittsburg
yer Coll team.
In McGuirk and Ward New Orleans has the
greatest pair of coachers that have ever
played in the South
THE reports of the various committees show
that the Players Brotherhood is in good
standing every way.
IT looks as if Boston would have to put its
main reliance in the pitching line upon Clark
son and Radbourn this season.
A WILD Western exchange facetiously re-
marks that the Baltimores couldn't hit the
Atlantic Ocean with paddle"
CAPTAIN BURDOCK has given the New York
clothing store club the shake, and has linked
his fortunes with Spence's New Haven Club
THE four-ball rule bids fair to put good
many pitchers on the shelf this season. But
what matter so long as the public is satisfied?
CAPTAIN CoM1sKEYi of the ST Louis
Browns, says that the BOstOns will win the
League championship through the superior
ity of its pitchers.
BATTING is fast going ahead of pitching as
strikeouts are almost a thing of the past, and
the pitcher must depend on his team accept
| ing reasonable chances for outs.
BASEBALL is going up in the world. An
American sculptor has a statue under that
| title in the Paris salon. representing young
man in the act Of throwing ball.
For presuming to differ in opinion regard
ing ''called" ball at Washington Umpire
Curry fined Captain Ewing of New York
the limit, $175, and expelled him from the
game.
IT is mysteriously limited that Erastus
Wiman, the Staten Island millionaire stands
ready to back the Brotherhood financially in
case of a split between the players and the
League.
AT the Polo Grounds, Decoration Day
would have brought out 90 600 people at least
to witness the New York-Indianapolis games;
| I'll,
the two games.
CHARLESTON, S. c., has terrible nine for
| the telegraph operators who send the games
| to our cities. just think of AydelOtte,
Householder, Fitzsmmons and Brandenburg
all in the same team.
| LEAGUE pitchers are all anxious to see who
will be the fortunate one to strike Dan
| Brouthers of Boston, out for the first time
this season. The feat had not been accom-
plished up to recent date.
! UMPIRE GAFFNEY wears Jacket filed with
! air and bound to his waist by rubber band,
| in which he puts his cap, the extra balls and
! other articles with hghtning-hke move
| ment. He wastes no time in examining the
| articles into his pocket.
PATRICK GILLESPIE, the once-famous left
fielder of the New York Club, was severely
| and possibly fatally injured in a drunken
| brawl at CarbOndale Penn, Decoration Day.
| His head was fearfully cut, necessitating
| many stitches by the surgeon.
| CLEVELAND made the best showing of any
of the Western clubs on the Eastern trip
having won games and lost 4; Indianapolis
won and lost TO- Chicago won 6 and lost 10,
Pittsburg won and lost 10. Indianapolis
was the only Western club to win a game
from Boston.
BASEBALL is not a mere craze, as the at
tendance on holidays indicates a continual in
crease from year to year. On Decoration
Day 49, 164 persons attended the games of
four of the largest organizations, and the
majority Of them were interfered with by
the threatening or rainy weather.
MANAGER HART has given the Boston
players to understand that winning the
League pennant means at least $1,000 each to
the men in the games for the worlds
championship and other money that they are
sure to get out of it. Besides this Hart has
offered the boys a goodround sum to go with
him to California next winter should they
pull off the coveted piece of bunting.
LEAGUE RECORD.