The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25
THE NATIONAL GAME.
RocHrsrrR's club is for sale.


BROWNING, Of the Louisvilles, Is for sale.
CALVIN is still Pittsburgs mainstsy In the
pox.
CLEVELAND went down hill fast in its
Eastern tour.
ST. LOUIS has made 1o9 two baggers to her
opponents SO.
MORRILL, has declined the management Of
the Louisville Club.
PrTTsBuRG has had nine pitchers under
contract this season.
BRournERs, of Boston, scored the first
Tooth hit Of the League.
DENNY. of indianapolis, made thirteen
home runs up to recent date.
THE release OF Myers from Washington
cost the Philadelphia Club 1900.
TwITcHELI. of Cleveland has failed in hut
six games out OF fifty 10 make hit.
CoMisKEY, OF ST Louis. was the first
player TO reach the l00.h base-hit mark.
ROGER CONNER. of New York, now leads
the first basemen with an average Of .9Sl.
MoRE seats are necessary on the Cleveland
grounds to accommodate the large crowds.
THE Cincinnati club has signed the crack
pitcher of the Southern League Petty, of
New Orleans.
INDIANAPOLIS is not likely to be in the
League i'm 1889 Their Successors will hail
from Cincinnati.
LACK of first-class pitching talent Is the
real cause of the poor standing Of the Chi
Cages. Outside Of the pitching department
! the club is quite strong
ONEILI. of st. Louis has made eighty runs
in seventy-two games and his percentage in
batting is .352. He leads the Association.
The directors of the indianapolis club have
accepted Bancrofts resignation and ap-
pointed Shortstop Glasscock manager OF the
team
SLOWLY, but surely the pitchers nre be-
ginning 10 assert themselves Small scores
, and extra inning games are becoming more
frequent.
THE Chicagos were the first TO defeat the
New Horks on their new ground. The
League Champions won the first seven games
there before they suffered defeat.
ONO bears the honor Of having furnished
all the deaf mute players To the profession.
Hoy, Dundon, Ryan, Gillespie and Sawhill
Gll come from the Buckeye State.
AN Omaha crank engaged at the beginning
OF the season 20 pay the members of the home
team So for every home run. Thus far he
has been called upon thirty-eght times.
STovEY, Of the Athletics has a record Of
fourteen twC-baggers, four three -bnggers
seven homers, thirty-four stolen bases and
seVenty-seNen runs IN sixty-eight games.
iiNNi't managers nave OF TAKING
pitcher out Of the box because he is hit
freely in an inning or two is very question
able. II Is humiliatng 10 player and goes
lar toward causing him to lose confidence
How the Boston veteran players are drop
| ping out of the big association There is
| Burdock in New Haven, Sutton in Milwau.
| kec, Whitney in Buffalo and now Morrill, i.
temporarily out of the ring
AN instance of the peculiarity OF baseball wa,
Illustrated Mt Chicago recently. The Bostons
| outbatted the home team by two to one In
hits, and outplayed them in the field by al
most as big majority, and yet lost the game
THEY have engaged baseball player "a
lead the choir in Chicago church He will
| probably give the right pitch, sing either
hrst or second base understand his score and
not be put out by any run which the soprano
may see fit to make
OXFORD and Cambridge will now have n
chance to see what kind of baseball material
the two foremost American colleyes-Yale
aud Harvard-turn out a representation
from the blue of New Haven aud the crim-
son OF Cambridge have gone 10 England,
and intend to combine forces and play the
cream Of Great Britain.
ALL the clubs in the League arc sipplied
free with all the balls they want by a firm
IN chicago for the sake of advertising the
brand. In IKE manner the American Asso-
clation receives its balls gratis from a Phila-
deiphia company. This latter concern and
another in Natick, Mass, manufacture be.
tween them nearly all of the baseballs sold.