Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
THE RATIONAL GAME.
2oCHEsTER's club is for sale.


BROWNING. of the Louisvilles, is for sale.
; CALVIN is still Pittsburg's n1ainstay in the
box.
CLEVELAND went down hill fast in its
Eastern tour.
ST. LOUIS has made 100 two baggers to her
opponents 50.
MORRILL, has declined the management OF
the Louisville Club.
PITTSRURG has had nine pitchers under
contract tins season.
BRoUTHERs, 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 $4,000
TwITCHELIA of Cleveland. has failed in bat
six games OFT OF fifty to make hit.
CoMIsKEY, of st. Louis, was the first
player to reach the Tooth basc-hit mark
ROGER CONNER, Of New York, now leads
the first basemen with an average of .9S1.
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 in 1889. Their successors will hail
from Cincinnati.
LACK of frst-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.
ONEILL, of st. Louis, has made eighty runs
in seventy-two games and his percentage in
batting is 1852. 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 are be-
to co11
and extra inning games are becoming more
frequent.
THE Chicagos were the first to defeat the
New Iorks on their new ground. The
League Champions won tie 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
all come from the Buckeye State
AN Omaha crank engaged at the beginning
of the season to pay the members of the home
team IS for every home run. Thus far he
has been called upon thirty eight times.
STovEY, of the Athletics, has record Of
fourteen two-baggers, four three-baggers,
seven homers, thirty-four stolen bases and
seventy -seVen runs In slxty-eight games.
HE practice some managers have of taking
a pitcher out of the box because he is hit
freely IN an inning or two, is very question:
able. It is humiliating to a PLAYER. and goes
lar toward causing him to lose confidence.
How the Boston veteran PLAYERS are drop
ping cut Of the big association There is
.BurdOck in New Haven, Sutton in Milwau-
kee, Whitney in Buffalo. and now Morrill, is
temporarily out of the ring.
AN instance Of the popularity of baseball was
illustrated at 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 a baseball player to
lead the choir in Chicago church. He will
probably give the right pitch, sing either
first 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 a
chance to see what kind of baseball material
the two foremost American colleges-Yale
and Harvard-turn out. A representation
from the blue of New Haven and the Grim
son of Cambridge have gone to England
and intend to combine forces and play the
cream of Great Britain.
ALL the clubs in the League are supplied
free with all the balls they want by a arm
IN Chicago for the sake of advertising the
brand. In like manner the American Asso-
citation receives its balls gratis from Phila-
delphia company. This latter concern and
another in Natick, Mass. manufacture be-
tween them nearly all of the baseballs sold.
LEAGUE RECORD.