The national leader., 1889-09-07
THE NATIONAL GAME.

EXTRA inning games are now frequent.
A FEMALE team is making tour Of Can
PITTsBURG has inaugurated "Ladies
Day"
NORRIS, of Pittsburg, is pitching as well a,
he ever did
ANsoN, of Chicago, was born in Marshall.
town, Iowa.
JOE HoRNUNG is the best captain Balti.
more ever had.
P1TTsBURG is having hard time of it with
the pitching talent.
HARTFORD has had eight ex-major league
players this season.
CRANE, the New Yorks pitcher, kicks the
beam at 220 pounds.
In the absence of Faatz, Tabeau always
captains the Clevelands.
CLARKsoN, of Boston, leads the pitchers in
number of games played.
TITCoMB, late of the New Yorks, is being
hit hard in the International
WITH Williamson back at short the Chica,
gos are harder to beat than ever.
KRocK, recently of Chicago and Indian
spolis, has signed with Milwaukee.
LOUISVILLE has won only one game from
Brooklyn and Cincinnati this season.
TIE Columbus Club has released pitcher
George late of New York, at his request.
ROGER CoNNoR has participated in every
game played by the New Yorks this season.
ST. LOUIS made twelve runs in one inning
off Foreman the pitcher of the Baltimore
team
MORRIS, of Pittsburg, has done the most eff
fectlve work in the box of any of the League
twirlers.
DUDE EsTERBRooK now captains the Hack
a4t ~ q o1
York city.
BRoUTHERs, of Boston, has made $50 safe
hits. He was the first League batsman to
reach that figure.
EWING, of the New Yorks, is ahead so far
as the best catcher in the League, closely
followed by thinner, of the Clevelands.
CRANE of the New Yorks, is the only
pitcher who has succeeded in striking out
Brouthers, of the BostOns, twice this season
THE Pittsburgs have shown the Eastern
teams better front than any other Western
team. They have won mere games from
them.
CAMEL says that young Daley, the Jersey
City (N.J.) player, recently signed by Boston,
has the making of one of the best twirlerS in
the land.
PITCHER TIM KEEFE, of the New Yorks,
was married recently to Mrs. Helm, OF
Worcester, a sister of Helen DauVray, Short
stop John Wards wife.
OMAHA, Neb., has the temperance team
par excellence of the West. 1t is claimed
that there is not one drinker in the team,
which will in all probability win the Western
Association penant.
WARD, of New York, has stolen more
bases than any other player in the League.
Duffy and Ryan, of the Chicagos have
scored the greatest number of runs, each
having made over 100.
GUMBERT leads Chicago in home runs,
Denny, Indianapolis Connor, New York
Beckley, Pittsburg; Thompson, Philadel-
phia; Brouthers, Boston; Wilmot Washing,
ton, and Tebeau, Cleveland.
GLAsscocK, of Indianapolis, has had 1OG
moreschances at fielding than any other
player in the League, and yet he is second
among the short stops, Mexican, of the
Clevelands, leading him by very small per-
centage.
In common with many other players
John Morrill, thinks the pitchers ought to be
put back five feet. That is only question
of time. The pitchers overshadowing i'm.
portance must be reduced, and an increased
pitching distance is the only thing that will
do it without giving the batsman undue ad-
vantage.
WHEN Sam Wise, of Washington, came to
the bat in the first inning of a recent game
at Boston, Umpire Knight called for = halt
in the hostilities, and handed the ex-Bosto-
nian an elegant bouquet of flowers to which
there was attached little bag containing
$50 in S. gold pieces. The whole was the
gift of Boston friends.
A GAME starred in by Pitcher Jack Hornel
against Hartford, Conn, recently, will and
should go on record as one of the most re-
markable ever pitched in a championship
series. Twenty-eig men only were at bat,
but one man got as far as second base, where
he was left, and he was the only man left on
base; two single hits one base on balls-the
first man at bat-and no wild pitch, with
time of game sixty eight minutes, is Horner's
record.
LEAGUE RECORD