The national leader., 1889-07-18
WASHINGTON. ID. c. TIL HURSDAY, JULY 18. 1889 Ne
THE NATIONAL GAME.
'ILL1AMsoN is back in Chicago.

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WILLIAMSON is back in Chicago.
LOUISVILLE has released Billy Gleason.
BALTIMORE has released Goetz and Fulmer.
COLUMBUS pays Billy George $500 month.
ANDREWS aow captains the Omaha Club.
CALVIN appears to be Pittsburg's mainstay
in the box.
THE Dallas Club of the Texas League has
suspended.
LOUISVILLE is after Joe Gerhardt, of the
Jersey Citys.
CHICAGO is no longer the great baseball
city that it was
CoNNoR, of the New Yorks, has so far made
eight home runs.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, has American Asso-
citation aspirations.
HATFIELD is now the only ''colt" left ON
the New York team.
TIERNAN, of the New Yorks, is once more
batting in his old form.
DALRYMPLE now plays inield positions for
Denver in emergencies.
WORCESTER, Mass, is favorably spoken Of
as an Association city next season.
CLEVELAND has already made enough
money to clear the seasons expenses
HARTFORD, Conn, has taken the lead in the
Atlantic League from Jersey City, NJ.
LITTLE Hoy, of Washington, the deaf
mute, has few superiors as an outfelder.
THE Denver team is now known through
out the West as ''Rowe's umpire killers"
CUB STRIcKER, of Cleveland, so far has
outplayed all the League second basemen.
CAPTAIN DUNLAP, of Pittsburg, has be-
come one of the best sacrifice hitters in the
League.
CHICAGO is being entertained by 'the
champion young lady baseball players of the
worldn
IT certainly looks as if interest in the ma
tional game among the Western people is on
the wane.
RUNNING the baseball diamond bids fair to
be added to the list of field events at athletic
meetings. In Rhode Island it is being
adopted.
DENNY, of Indianapolis is the only player
in the League who has been at the bat six
times in game and made hit at each ap-
pearance
P. B. LYNN has been elected captain of the
Harvard baseball nine for next year. He
has played right field on the Varsity nine for
three years.
WHAT a surprise it would excite if this
''baoies" assumed winning gait and cap
tured the pennant. America wouldn't be
dig enough TO nOld cleveland.
TWICE this season has the feat of knocking
out three doubles in the same game been 40,
complished, and O'Rourke, OF New York has
won the honor on both occasions
PITCHER OBRIEN's success in the League
is mystery. When Cleveland was in tie
Association he was considered g soft snap"
and was always punished hard and often.
By common consent Indianapolis is the
greatest home umpire city in the land. There
the spectators want rything-even the
decisions that are not close at all being howled
! for.
MARTIN SULLIVAN, of the Indianapolis
Club, has had hard luck since he began to
play ball. He has lost two children, and ar
rived home recently to find that his wife was
| dead
CONNER, the big first baseman of the New
| YorkS, was the first man to knock ball over
the centre field fence at their new grounds.
The feat was rewarded with a gold medal,
! given by an evening paper.
! WASHINGTON is getting rid of its men
rapidly. First Myers, second baseman, went
to Philadelphia. Now the third baseman,
! SweeneJ has been sold to Denver and MGr-
rill has gone home to Boston.
THE Southern League has disbanded owing
70 lack of patrons. An eight club league,
consisting of Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta,
! EEdllSNll0 k11lul,
New Orleans and Mobile, is tarsed of for next
! year.
WHEN the Louisville players demanded
their pay from President Davidson, that
functionary handed to Hecker slip of paper
with this inscriptions: Sand bank, inside
Baltimore Baseball Park; please pay to Gus
J. Hecker, or bearer, any sum he wishes to
collect"
DECENT sports are powerful check to bru-
tai and immoral physical contests. In Cleve-
land, for instance, the baseball ''craze" has
unquestionably deadened public interest in
orize-fghting to remarkable degree, and
has, therefore, exerted moral influence OF
40 small Importance.
The fact that sentiment is something which
baseball managers do not go much on has just
been beautifully exempiified. Two years ago
John Morrill,, or Honest john" was the
baseball ideal of Boston; to-day he is an un-
signed player, walking around with his hands
in his pockets doing nothing.