The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-01
THE NATIONAL GAME.
CHICAGO won the penant dx times.
EWING leads the New York batters

CHICAGO won the penant ax times.
EWING leads the New York batters
BAsrfAE has been reinstated by Chicago.
CAprAIs ANsoN n once more batting we'll.
The Bostons have fallen of greatly in bat
ting.
RYAN, Of Chicago, leads the League in run
getting.
wAcEsuuRsr, the collegian, has been re-
leased by Sc. Paul.
SHANNON has succeeded Wolf as Captain
Of tho Louisville team.
RoGERs, of the Houston Texas, team, has
caught in sixty consecutive games.
CHANGE Of speed is now more effective
than all the curves in the category.
WILLIAMSON, of Chicago, Is the champion
iong-distance thrower Of the League.
Bio Ed. Williamson, who is on the injured
list, made $500 of his benefit in Chicago.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, is pronounced the
best ball city In the Atlantic Association.
BosroS won thirty-one Of the first thirty
seven games played on their own ground.
DENNY, OF Indianapolis, has mado moro
home runs than the whole Cleveland team.
TuE st. Louis Club has traded Pitcher
Hudson for Ramsey, of the Louisville Club.
DAILY, the young Jersey City IN. j. pitch.
or, recently released to Boston, is only twcn-
ty years OF age.
BENNETT, Of Boston, Ewing, OF Now York.
and Farrell Of Chicago, seem TO be n trio of
tiroless catchers.
AT twenty-five cents Detroit is making far
more money than il made in either of the two
past League seasons.
IT is notorious fact, alleges baseball pa
per, that Pfeher, Of Chicago. has had to
cover both Anson's and his own territory for
years
ONE Of the most unfortunate players I'm the
business is Rickley, Of Toronto, Canada.
Hardly game but what he Is more or loss
injured
GoRR, of the New Yorl,s, hns so far boen
playing great ball. He has had the laugh ON
the oI-colts who used TO jceringly call him
papa"
THE Pittsburg Club has purchased pitcher
Sowders's release from Boston and he has
signed with the club. White and Rowo were
laid or.
THE only pl,yers now In the League who
were members OF the organization when 1t
was formed are; Hines, Anson, ORourko
and White.
ROCHESTER, n Y, Is 10 lose its Integra-
tional League club, which is 5000 behind.
The club and franchise are 20 be sold 10 the
highest bidder.
PHILADELPHIA won throe straight games
on thor own grounds from Now York. OF
lato tho 'Phillies' have been playing tho
strongest games of any club in tho League.
AT tho end Of the season Syracuse, N. ",
Is to lose the services OF Jack Chapman, who
is to manage and have entire charge Of the
Louisville club next season at q salary Of
$500.
MURPHY, of the Syracuse IN. y. y toanl, has
the portrait of his best girl tattoood upon his
right arm. When the opposing team are hit
ting him he seeks inspiration by studying tho
picture.
THE now Chicago ball ground will be ESQ
feet long and 632 feot wide and hes boen pur-
chased for S105, 600 The field will bo enclosed
by brick wall and viii bo tho prottiest in
the country.
THR following cities have been represented
in the National League in the past Kansas
City, st. Louis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati,
Louisville, Syracuse, Troy, Worcester, Provi-
dence, Hartford and Buffalo.
BosTos has played less mon, fifteen, than
any other team Chicago has used sixteen,
indianapolis and Cleveland seventeen zach,
New York eighteen, Philadelphia nineteen,
Pittsburg twcnty-one and Washington twen-
ty-three.
A BosToy paper is authority FOR tho state
ment that "Hardie Richardson's wife Is a
constant attendant at the ball games. 10
costs Hardie 81 for every strike out and every
error, while Mrs. Richardson is taxed 81 for
best of it thus far"
BEN BATES, while umpiring ball game
near Owensboro, Ky, for two clubs of boys,
made g dicison in the sixth inning to which
Frank Norris who was at the bat objected
a quarrel and fight followed. resulting in
Bates fatally stabbing Morris with II pocket
knifo. Bates was arrested and Morris soon
afterward diod. Bates is but sixteen years
old
THE Cherokee Indians arc the 'boss" ball
players OF this continent. Fifty or sixty
years ago, when they lived in northern Geor-
gia, they used to meet once year ON large
plateau among the mountains and have a
grand ball game festival The Indians came
, from hundred miles around. A hamlet
near by retains the name Of ball ground" to
this day.
PAUL HINES of indianapolis, the only ball
player who completed u triple play alone,
made his first appearance as q professional
under tho management OF Nick Young at
Washington in 1872. The phenomenal play
made by him was in close game in Prcvi-
ieuce in 1878 against the Boston club, with
men on second and third, and he made mirac-
ulous running catch, close 10 second base
Both men had started for home ard Hines
with ball in hand touched third ald second
LEAGUE RECORD. .