Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-30
THE NATIONAL GAME.
are demoraliZeti.

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THE Brooklyns are demoralized.
BARLEY is captaining the Toledos.
MINNEAPoLIs has the League bee in its bon
net
PITTsBURG's salary list amounts to SO, 900
year.
HEALY, of Chicago heads the pitchers
column.
BRooKLYN's games are largely patronized
by ladies.
TEBEAU is considered the best captain Gin
cinnati ever had.
WARD of New York, is doing a heap Of
scientific batting.
IN Boston Camel is now considered the
dubs star player.
CLEVELAND and Chicago will have to fight
1t out for fourth place.
GARRISON, of Boston, now leads the League
IN pitching percentages
HANLON has outstripped Sunday as Pitts
burg's leading base stealer
PRESIDENT BYRNE, of Brooklyn, has, il is
said, renewed his offer of SIS, 900 for Comis-
key.
HENRY MCCORMICK. at one time one of the
most effective baseball pitchers in the coun-
try, died in Syracuse, n. Y, recently of
cholera InOrbus.
FRED. DUNLAP has resigned his position as
field captain and acting manager of the Pitts
burg club, and HanlOn has been selected to
I'LL the Vacancy
JOE GERHARDT, second baseman and
Catcher Moore, lately Of EastOn and Wilkes
barre, Penn, have been engaged by the
Hartford Comm club.
The Kansas City team has been a sore dis
appointment this season. 1t surprised the
baseball world at the outset by whipping
everything that came along.
THE Clevelands have a new uniform. It is
Ill orlr TO ovid cf0 No
only white in the suit is the belt and the let
ters across the breast Of the shirt.
LATHAM of St. Louis, has been suspended
indefinitely for, as President Won der Abe
puts it, Ibis generally bad ball playing and
for conduct prejudical to the clubs interest"
JIM HART contemplates taking a trip
through South America, Mexico and Cuba
next winter to sound these countries and
lay out a route for a baseball tour the fol-
lowing winter.
IN sacrifice hitting Kelly leads the Bostons,
Mexican the Clevelands THOMPSON the Phila-
delphias, Arson the Chicagos, Dunlap the
Pittsburgs, GlasscOck the Indianapolis Club,
and Carney the Washingtons
BUCK EWING, of New York, is considered
to be the best all-rOund player in the League.
Out of a vote recently taken he polled III
out of 375. and the field included such men as
Arson, Ward, Kelly and men of that caliber
SOME years ago the regulation ball con-
tanned two ounces of rubber, double the
weight now used. With straight arm pitch
ing and rough ground one can easily imagine
the lively time the infielder had during a
game.
GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania is
lover of baseball Whenever he has an OPP
pOrtunity he attends professional game. He
thinks that Philadelphia would be greatly
benefited if its League team could win the
pennant.
In no city in the country has baseball pool
selling reached the height it has in Boston.
It is carried on openly, and in one place the
business done is simply immense There from
$1,000 TO $500 worth of 81 combinations are
sold daily.
PERHAPS the youngest professional ball
player is McGill, the Evansville Qnd)
pitcher He is but sixteen years of age, and
his record SO far is four games won and four
games lost. He recently struck out eleven Of
the Dayenports.
THE clubs with the young pitchers are be-
coming more and more successful. Person
| and Haddock, of the WashingtOns; Dwyer
and Gumbert, of the Chicagos; Rusie, of In
dianap0lis; Beatin, Of the Clevelands are
| examples in point.
CAPTAIN CO1IsKEY, of St. Louis, bitterly
deplOres the home umpiring system which is
coming into vogue, and declares thatf it is
persisted in the time will come when every
club will Just about win nearly all OF It's
home games and lose all its foreign games.
JOHN S. BARNES, for the last four years
manager and part owner of the st. Paul
| Minn.l baseball team. has sold his interest in
| he club to Michael J. Roche for SIS, 900. Mr..
! Barnes has cleared 500, 600 in baseball, and
! asst year inherited an Irish estate valued at
| $40, coo.