The national leader., 1889-09-14
THE NATIONAL GAME.

BEcKLEy leads the Pittsburg Club in homo
runs.
THE Bostons won ths series from New
York.
MAINE hasa base ball ctub called Uhe PEN
nesSewassee.
CASEY, of the Philadelphdas, has been laid
off without pay.
A. G. SPALDMG favors doing away alto
gether with thefoul catch.
THE total attendance at ths Boston grounds
this season is almost sure to reach 275, OO0
ACCORDING to Anson Cleveland has given
Chicago harder fights than the other League
clubs.
RYAN, Glasscook and Herman are the only
League players who have scored 100 runs this
season.
THE buildings and fences Of. the old Polo
Grounds in New York have been sold atpub-
lie auction.
EWING, the New York's Captain, has given
up playing maScOts The last Ia little colored
boy) was failure.
FARRAR, Fogarty, Wood and Nash are the
latest additions to the 100 basehit record
among League clubs
In Omaha they have started the old and
demoralizlng practice Of reWardlng home
runs with coin showers.
PITTsBURG Philadelphia and Nav YORK
are the teams that Pitcher Clarkson, the
mainstay of Boston, is n special terror to-
Indianapolis fears him not
A BosToNIAN promises forty dollar easy
chair to each member of the Bostons if they
succeed in winning the pennant.
THE struggle for the championship is very
close and exciting this year, both in the
League and American Association.
OVER one hundred League games have so
far been won and lost by one run. Chicago
has won the most games and Cleveland lost
She most by that small margin.
The stars of the baseball world afford
valuable lessons to the aspiring youngsters
of the profession. They are shining exam
Piles of the value of temperance.
CLEVELAND is the only League club to lose
three straight games to one club by one run
EACH 1t is also the only club in the League
which scored in every inning of game.
The Washington management have made
arrangements with the Bostons to play Sc
ries of six games in Washington, during the
Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar
in October.
THE Louisville baseball managers have
signed Flanagan, formerly of the Athletics,
to play first base; Ryan and McDeRnott as
battery; and young Clarkson, formerly OF
the Tri-State League, as pitcher.
On Labor Day the twelve games played
by the League and Association clubs at
tracted an attendance of 75, 1862. The League
had 46, 3S4 patrons and the Association 2S,-
978. The League played seven games and
the Association only five.
The Boston-New York Philadelphia
Washington, apolis-Cleveland and the
Chicago-Pittsburg series complete. At
least the few games which these clubs have
not played will not likely be contested, as
the schedule will not permit it.
THE Columbus Club directors at meeting
request that Holland, the umpire, be no
longer scheduled for any game in Columbus.
President Wickoff replied that he has no
power to change umpires, as the schedule of
umpires was arranged by a committee ap-
pointed for that purpose.
ARTHUR IRWIN, late Captain of the PhiIa-
delphias, has reason to feel proud Of the re-
cord he has made with the Washington Club.
1t stamps him as baseball general second to
uone He took team badly handicapped,
and, with practically the same men and de-
pending on the efforts of two pitchers to win,
has vastly bettered it's standing among
League clubs and made it dreaded antag-
0nist.
A BAD accident occurred recently in Chi
cago at game of baseball between two mines
that styled themselves the doctors" and the
"Undertakers." In the seventh inning,
when the Undertakers were well in the lead,
James NcNernsy, the pitcher, was delivering
a swift in-shoot when his arm snapped few
inches from the shoulder, and he fell to the
ground unconscious An examination re-
vealed the fact that his arm was broken, tho
bone almost protruding the flesh. He waG
removed to his home.
LEAGUE RECORD.