Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-07-26
THE NATIONAL GAME.
AMsON is back in Chicago.


WILLIAMSON is back in Chicago.
LOUISVILLE has released Billy Gleason.
BALTIMORE has released Goetz and Fulmer.
COLUMBUS pays Billy George $500 month.
ANDREWS now captains the Omaha Club.
CALVIN appears to be Pittsburgs 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 tbs 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 infield positions for
Denver III 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 ''Rowes 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
world"
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-
p9arance.
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 surprise it would excite if the
babies assumed winning gait and cap
tured the pennant. America wouldn't be
big enough to hold Cleveland.
TWICE this season has the feat of knocking
out three doubles in the same game been &C
complished, and O'Rourke, of New ork, has
won the honor on both occasions.
PITCHER O'BRIEN's success in the League
is a mystery. When Cleveland was in the
Association he was considered soft snap"
and was always punished hard and often.
BY common consent Indianapolis is the
greatest home umpire city in tie land. There
the spectators want everything-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 bis 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 gold medal
given by an evening paper
WASHINGTON is getting rid of its men
to Philadelphia. Now the third baseman,
Sweeney, has been sold to Denver, and Nor
rill has gone home to Boston.
THE Southern League has disbanded owing
TO lack of patrons. An eight club league,
consisting of Nashville, Memphis Atlanta,
Louisville, Evansville Gnd0, Chattanooga,
New Orleans and Mobile, is talked 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 !
DaIIlmore BaSeDalI FTk; 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
prize-fghting to a remarkable degree, and |
has, therefore, exerted moral influence OF |
no small Importance.
THE fact that sentiment is something which |
baseball managers do not go much on has just |
been beautifully exemplified. Two years ago |
John Morrill,, or Honest John" was the |
baseball ideal of Boston; to-day he is an IN
signed player, walking around with his hands |
in his pockets, doing nothing.
LEAGUE RECORD.
Won. Lost. Percentage
40 81 $50