Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-16
THE NATIONAL GAME.


BASEBALL has become a fixture in Aus
tralia.
KELLY, of Boston, leads the League in
sacrifice hitting.
DURYEA, of Cincinnati, still leads the
Association pitchers.
THE Boston club has already cleared ex-
penSeS on the season.
HARTFORD, Conn, is trying to support an
amateur baseball league.
EVERY Pittsburg player caught drinking
will have to pay fine of $50.
COLUMBUS has released Catcher Peoples
and signed Rudolph Kemmler.
The Boston club has purchased the release
Of ShOrtstOp Smith, Of Plttsburg.
GUMBERT, of the Chicago team, is the
champion honle-runner of the season.
KEEFE, of New York, leads the League
pitchers still, on the number of strike outs
In the Hawaiian Islands they are so far
advanced as to use the double umpire SyS-
tenn.
Boston paid st. Paul $4,000 for Pitcher
SOwders's release and received $1,000 from
Pittsburg
THREE triple plays have been recorded in
the official statistics-One each by Cleveland,
W ashingtOn and Chicago.
IT is a remarkable fact that Boston has
never been quite right at short field since
George Wright left the club.
Boston recently led the League in the
total of bases, average 37S, with New Y rk
only marginal point behind.
THE sum of $500 and Shortstop Quinn,
was the offer made by the Bostons for Glass
>ock- of the INDIANAPOLIS club.
THE breaking of the Southern League
threw host of players on the market and
most of them have been signed by the Inter-
national and Western clubs.
RAMSEY. the new ST. Louis pitcher is only
twenty-fonr years old. He has a record of
fifty strikeouts in three consecutive games,
and Of seventeen il single game.
PITCHER WHITNEY'S contract with Buffalo
. is rather a peculiar one. He cannot be re-
served at the end Of the season and must not
be pitched more than twice week.
BURDOCK, the ex-Bostonian, never did bet
ter work in his life, both in batting and field
ing than he is doing for New Haven,
and he is also handling the team skifully.
O'BRIEN, the Cleveland twirler, whose
mystifying curves have been source of
wOrriment to the heavy batsmen of the
League, IS a prOtege of Tim keefe, of the
New YOrks.
GENERAL ARTHUR DIxwELL, of Boston, is
perhaps the most remarkable baseball en-
thusiast in the country. He has retired with
a fortune from active business and spends
every afternoon at a ball game.
No young player in either the League or
Association has made the first year" record
that Holiday has this season. The Gin
cinnati Club made no mistake when 1T in
vested big money in this young player.
The New Yorks have signed Pitcher
O'Oay, late of the Washingtons. and Lyons,
who PLAYED in the Outfeld with the dis
banded Jersey City club. Fieldeis Herman
and Slattery, of the New Yorks, are on the
sick list.
SECRETARY RUsK and United States Sen
ator Kenna, of West Virginia, We're present
at a recent game between the New Works
and the Washingtons in the National Capt.
tai. The head of the Agricultural Depart
ment frequently attends games
AS sample of the expenses of a ball team
it may be stated that Cleveland's 1888 team,
in which were Mccormick, Dunlap, Glass
cock. Bushong, Daily and other stars, cost for
salaries less than $4,000, and the present
team, in which there are no stars costs
So, 900.
PROFESSOR J. II. PARSONS, who has just
been chosen principal of the high school of
Augusta, Ne, and who was formerly princi-
pal of the Pittsield Academy, was the crack
pitcher at Bates College in 1878, 70 and 80,
in which years Bates won the college cham
pionship.
In fielding Comiskey leads the Assooiat ton
first basemen. McPhee the second baSeman
KappeFs averag, is the best at third base
Holland leads at short. Hornung in left field
is above all competitors. COrkhill easily leads
among the centre fielders, and DOwie, of
Baltimore, the right fielders.