Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-06-07
THE NATIONAL GAME.
PTTTsBURG is In a bad way for pitchers.
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PTTrsBURa is In bad way for pitchers.
AMHERST COLLEGE recently beat Yale by
5 to 4.
BRoUTHERs of Boston, leads the League in
batting.
THE Cleveland Club is breaking all ''baby"
records
CLARKsoN, of Boston, is pitching slow
ball this season.
In the '89 lexicon of the game base hits are
called "safeties."
THE Detroit Club has signed pitcher Shreve,
late of Indianapolis.
THE Indianapolis Club sports the ugliest
uniform In the League.
THE Pittsburg Club has suspended Pitch
ers Morris and Conway.
THERE have been comparatively few shut
out games so far this season.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE is a great ad-
mirer of the popular American game.
The Southern League has increased the
salaries of its umpires to $3.50 q month.
FROST, the Fort Worth Texas) catcher,
had his collar bone broken by foul tip.
BURDoCK, the veteran second baseman, is
playing with a New York semi-professional
team.
ONE American manufacturer of baseballs
employs 500 hands and keeps 10000 balls in
stock.
The Kansas Citys are reported to be the
finest lot Of men on the bases ever gotten to-
gether.
TORONTO (Canada) clergymen of all de-
nominations patroniZe the games in that city
In large numbers.
WARD and Keefe have been reelected
President and Secretary, respectively, of the
Ball Players Brotherhood.
THE daily 'taken of the New Yorks In
gross. that is, at their grounds in Staten
Island, averages only $3.50.
On three-bagger Billy Sunday. of the
Pittsburgs, recently ran from the home plate
to third base in 10 As seconds.
JOHN MORRILL, says he never played ball
with as sober, quiet, orderly or easily man
aged team as the Washingtons.
THE Boston Club has appointed two ply
sicians to the team, and one of the two will
be in attendance at every game.
GEORGE HENNINGER, aged ninety, and
Henry Geist, aged eighty-nine, are among
the warmest baseball zealots in Bethlehem,
Penn.
A FEATURE of the New York game this
year is the magnificent fielding of O'Rourke.
He covers great deal of ground and throws
admirably.
THE grand stand of the Brooklyn Baseball
Club, which was partially destroyed by fire.
will be torn down and a new one built. The
loss is $4,000
THE stockholders of the old Detroit Ma
tional League Club have declared a dividend
of $54, 600. The directors own four-fifths of
the 400 shares Of stock. The par value of
each each share is $50, and the holders will receive
Sl55 per share
In a recent game between the Brooklvns
and Kansas City Clubs the latter scored in
every inning winning the game by IS to 10
runs. 1t rarely happens that in game be-
tween first-class clubs runs are made by one
side in every inning.
THE rivalry between New York and
Chicago is much greater than between anv
other teams. The games are bitterly con-
tested, and no matter how badly the two
clubs may play against other mines, they
play q fine game when pitted against each
other.
HARRY WRIGHT, manager Of the Philadel-
phias says that batting will win more games
IMAM neldlng, and he proposes to play the
strongest batting team he can put In the
Held. An error was not of such vital conse-
quence last year, when scores were small. 1t
takes good hitting to win this year.
THE highest baseball club in New York
city, In the location of its home grounds, IL
not on record, is that made up Of Tribune
employees. 1t practises daily upon the top of
the Tribune building. There is a space there
hundred feet long and surrounded by high
wall, where everything but heavy batting is
perfectly feasible =