The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-08
THE NATIONAL GAME
McGLoNE is captain of the Detroits.
JIM HART manages the Boston team.
Jor GFpuApnT centains Jersey CITY,

JOE GERHARDT captains Jersey City
STAGG will pitch for Yale this season. \
THE Philadelphia Club is in very bad shape.
( THE President Of the Columbus (Ohiol Club
is brewer.
DEs MONIES, Iowa, is in the field with a
: WISE, formerly of Boston, has signed with
Washington.
BROOKLYN has very strong in as well as
good outfeld.
THE Pittsburgs look like a flock Of orioles
in their gay uniforms.
THE price paid for Morrill, and Wise by
Washington was $4,000.
CAPTAIN ANsoN has traded off Ryan for
Philadelphia's Fogarty.
CRANE, New York's pitcher, has improved
greatly since last season.
THE All-Around-the-World Baseball Tour
lists travelled 1890 miles.
SIX business men are at the head of the
club at Chattanooga, Tenn.
A PROMINENT physician says the game Of
baseball produces heart disease
THE Indianapolis uniforms are dark blue,
with orange stockings belts and caps.
IT is a poor ball player in Pittsburg that
CAPTAIN EWING thinks that the New Yorks
will play better ball this year than last.
GEORGE WASHINGTON BRADLEY, the vet
eran, has signed with Sioux City, Iowa.
"ToNMY" EsTERBooK an e1-New York
player, is captaining the Louisville team.
GRANT, the colored player, late of Buffalo,
will play with the Cuban Giants this year.
TOLEDO, Ohio, has an amateur league COM
posed of players under nineteen years of age.
THE Kansas City Court of Appeals has de-
cided that playing baseball on Sunday Is
illegal.
OVER ten thousand persons witnessed the
opening American Association game in Gin
cinnati.
CHICAGO, it is said, offered the Cincinnatis
5000 for Catcher Earle's release, but it was
refused.
ToMSEY is great head-frst slider. He is
considered the best base-runner Louisville
ever had.
KRocK and Hutchinson will do most Of the
pitching for Chicago this season, with Far.
rel as catcher.
DUREL1, Of Princeton College, Is con-
sidered one Of the finest fielders in the
amateur arena
CHARLEY KING, of the St. Louis Browns,
has got a new curve. Its Agzag, IN and
out, up and down.
SIX runs on one hit is feat recently
accomplished by the Worcesters In game
against the Lowells.
OF all countries visited by the Spalding
tourists, Italy appeared to be least able to
understand baseball.
THE reason John Morrill, was released by
tlo hic refr1Sal 70 caIjtalQ the
picked nine on Fast Day.
INDIANAPOLIS, with Boyle, Whitney,
Shreve and Burdick, will be very strong in
the pitchers box this season.
MANAGER HART fixes the total amount
lost by the Western Association last year
owing to high salaries at $780,
PITCHER RAMSEY, of Louisville, says he
even now can't explain his curving; all he
knows about it is that he can do it.
JOHN K. TENER, of the All-Americas,
was badly wanted in Rome as model. He
was offered $4,000 to pose for two months.
BASEBALL cranks are plentiful in Cuba.
Over 900 people Travelled l40 miles to see a
game between Havanna and Matanzas. They
occupied three special trains.
FRANK RINGo. the old catcher, who once
played with the Detroit, Pittsburg and Phila-
6elphia clubs, took q dose Of morphine at
Kansas City with fatal effect.
THE New Yorks. by winning, took the en-
tire gate receipts of the first two games with
BROOKLYN They won over $1,000. The Brook
lyns captured the third and last game OF the
series.
THE Louisville press considers Pete Brown
ing the greatest mystery on the ball field to-
day. After winters dissipation and with
out days practice or preparatory training
he walks out into left field and plays in per-
feet style.
A PECULIAR thing happened in a game be.
tween the Metropolitan and Commercial
teams at Weehawken, n. j. Cough, OF the
Commercials allowed twelve runs to be made
off him in the first inning. Upon having his
arm examined after the game one Of the bones
was found to have been split. -