The national leader., 1889-06-22
THE NATIONAL GAME.

GORE of New York, is playing the best ball
If his life.
SKIN-TIGHT base ball uniforms are falling!
INTO disuse.
FLOODS and rain have cost the Pittsburgl
eam $4,000
CHICAGO is securing the West for availa-
bic infield talent.
THE rainy and cold weather has hurt MANY!
clubs financially.
SINCE Shreve Joined the Detroits that club
has been playing great ball.
NEW YORK was the first to lose two success
i've games to Washington.
CLEVELAND is about the most aggressive
''baby" the League ever had
THE new rules have been very hard on the
pitchers in the minor leagues.
CLARKsoN, of tho Bostons won fifteen of
the first seventeen games played.
FoGERTY will likely be made the perma-
uent Captain of the Philadelphia team.
DUNLAP of Pittsburg, owns more dia-
nonds than any player in the profession.
THREE Keefes are now pitching for as many
rlubs, and all are doing themselves proud.
UMPIRE BAUER says that dirty ball playing
Is rampant in the international Association.
PITTsBURG has eight pitchers on its salary
list and the management is looking for more.
UMPIRE BARNUM wears a life preserver
under his clothes to protect his fractured
ribs.
WILL WHITE, the old Cincinnati pitcher, is
the only professional player who wears spec
tacles.
PITCHER RADBoURNE, of Boston, is
troubled with severe attack of "Charie
horse"
PITCHER BEAM, of the Pittsburg team,
iocf hrOf md .TnhncfnVVY1
disaster.
JOHNSTON, the Boston's center fielder, is
very clever at estimating where the batsman
Is going to knock the ball.
THE Boston team as now made up needs
little looking after as the men are mostly of
the quiet, temperate kind.
ANsoN likes better to visit Boston than any
other League city, as he is even more appre-'
,iated there than in Chicago.
THIS has been bad season on pitchers.
Just seventeen twirlers have found that they.
were mistaken in their ability.
JERRY DENNY, of Indianapolis, says: sWe
can beat any team in the League for six inn
ngs. I can't tell what is the matter"
KANSAS CITY ought to have pennant be-
tore 1892 The three stockholders have spent
nearly S25, 900 for players since last fall.
Ex-Governor JOHN D. LONG, of Massa-
ehusetts, is a good amateur baseball player,
excelling both at the bat and in the field.
AMONG the minor surprises of the season
are the Texas League tall-enders, Austin and
Waco, who are playing astonishing ball.
A SYNDICATE of Americans and Parisians
proposes to engage two baseball teams to
play in Paris in the Wild West Show grounds.
CLEVELAND is playing in as good cham
pionship form as any other aspirant for the
League pennant Its first trip record is SIM
ply wonderful.
A CoLoRED league, to comprise the Cuban
Giants, of Trenton; Gorhams, of New York,
and clubs located in Boston and New Haven,
Is being formed.
THE largest score and the biggest batting
record of the season was made In wilkes
barre-Hartford game. There were forty
nine runs and fifty base hits.
The Easton PENN Club lost $1,000 last
year. but was then and is now backed by;
some wealthy sporting men, who say they
will stay in to the end of the season.
BALL players, as rule, never diet. They
eat anything that comes along, making q,
point to eat a cold lunch at noon and a hearty
dinner after the game for an evening meal.
BosToNEsE say Brouthers's reputation as a
fielder did him gross injustice. To the BoS-
ton mind big Dan can cover first base equal
to the best form ever shown by John Morrill,:
IT is a singular fact that success and the
maroon color never Travelled in the same
baseballs teams. Maroon has hoodooed every
baseball team that included it in its make
up.
MANAGER HARRY WRIGHT picked out
Boston's first professional team in 1871, and
managed them for nine years in succession,
winning the championship in '72, '7S, "a, Us,
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BASEBALL has taken root in Australia Not
only has it taken root. bit the roots are al
ready spreading in all directions. There are
a great many clubs, and each week at least
one is added to the list.
THOUSANDS of dollars are wasted by clubs
in excessive salaries, vain efforts to strengthen
and sensational deals, but when it comes to
considering the umpire question economy
suddenly rules supreme
THE greatest trouble with young pitchers
is their great fear of getting hit. They seem
to think that the entire responsibility of the
game rests upon their shoulders and that the
men behind them are merely so many
statues.
ARTHUR IRWIN, who for years has cap
tained the Philadelphia team, and to whose
services the club owes much OF its success In
past years, has been released to the Washing
tons for 5000. Heis to receive 5000 salary
as Captain of the team. Morrill, will act as
manager and viii cover first base.
OVER 5000 people paid to see game of
ball at Victoria, British Columbia, ON the
Queens Birthday, between the Victoria
Amites and Port TownSends, and they got
the worth of their money, as it required ten
innings for the home club to win by 10 to T.
Baseball is becoming even more popular in
British Columbia than it is in Canada, and
that is saying great deal.
LEAGUE RECORD.
Won. Lost. Percentage