Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-13
THE NATIONAL GAME.

PuTsBURG was the first TO lose series.
EXTRA inning games are now frequent.
A FEMALE team Is making tour Of Can
ada
PTrrsBURG has inaugurated Ladies'
Day"
MORRIS, of Pittsburg, is pitching as well as
he ever did.
ASsoS, of Chicago, was born in Marshall
town, Iowa.
JOE HoRSUNG is the best captain Balti-
more ever had.
PrrTsBURG is having hard time of it with
the pitching talent.
HARTFORD has had eight ex-major league
payers TINS season
CRANE the New York's pitcher, kicks the
beam at go pounds
In the absence of Faatz, Tabeau always
captains the Clevelands.
GARRISON, of Boston, leads the pitchers in
number Of games played.
TITCoMB late of the New Yorks. is being
hit hard in the International.
WITH Williamson back at short the Chica-
goS are harder to beat than ever.
Knock, recently of Chicago and Indian
apohs, has signed with Milwaukee.
LOUISVILLE has won only one game from
Brooklyn and Cincinnati this season.
THE Columbus Club has released pitcher
George, late Of New York, at his request
ROGER CoNNOR has participated in every
game played by the New YOrks this season
ST. LOUIS made twelve runs in one inning
off Foreman, the pitcher of the Baltimore
team.
MORRIS, of Pittsburg has done the most eff
fective work in the box of any of the League
twirlers.
DUDE EsTERBRooK now captains the Hack
EFT, Carhart & Co. commercial nine, of New
York city.
BROUTHERs, of Boston, has made $50 safe
hits. He the first League batsman to
reach that figure.
EWING, of the New Yorks, is ahead so far
as the best catcher in the League, closely
followed by thinner, Of the Clevelands.
CRANE, of the New Yorks, is the only
pitcher who has succeeded in striking out
Brouthers, of the BostOns, twice this season.
The Pittsburgs have shown the Eastern
teams better front than any other w estern
team. They have won more games from
them.
CAMEL says that young Daley, the Jersey
City N.JD player, recently signed by Boston.
has the making Of one Of the best twirlers ia
the land.
PITCHER TIN KEEFE, of the New Yorks,
was married recently to Mrs. Helm, OF
Worcester, sister Of Helen Dauvray, Short
stop John Wards wife.
OMAHA, Neb., las the temperance team
par excellence of the West. It is claimed
that there is not one drinker in the team,
which will in all probability win the Western
Association penant.
WARD, Of New York, has stolen more
bases than any other player in the League.
Duffy and Ryan, Of the ChicagoS have
scored the greatest number of runs, each
having made over 100.
GUMBRRr leads Chicago in home runs,
Denny, Indianapolis; Conner, New York;
BSeckley, Pittsburg; Thompson, Philadel
phia: Brouthers, Boston; Wilmot, Washing
ton, and Tebeau, Cleveland.
GLAsscocK, of Indianapolis, has had 100
more chances at fielding than any other
player in the League, and yet he is second
among the short stops, Mexican, OF the
Clevelands, leading him by very small per-
centage.
In common with many other players,
John Morrill, thinks the pitchers ought to be
put back five feet. That is only a question
of time. The pitchers overshadowing i'm
pOrtance must be reduced, and an increased
pitching distance is the only thing that will
do it without giving the batsman undue ad-
vantage.
WHEN Sam Wise, of Washington came to
the bat in the first inning of a recent game
at Boston, Umpire Knight called for halt
in the hostilities, and handed the ex-Bosto-
nian an elegant bouquet of flowers, to which
there was attached a little bag containing
$50 in S. gold pieces The whole was the
gift of Boston friends.
A GAME starred in by Pitcher Jack Horner
against Hartford Conn, recently, will and
should go ON record as one of the most re-
markable ever pitched in championship
series. Twenty eight men only were at bat,
but one man got as far as second base, where
he was left, and he was the only man left on
base; two single hits, one base on balls-the
first man at bat-and no wild pitch, with
time of game sixty-eight minutes is Horners
record.
LEAGUE RECORD.
Won. Lost. Perceata0e
Boston. ............... G3 81 .644
New Y DIRK ....... s. IS 631