Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-07-12
THE NATIONAL GAME.

The Bostons are poor sacrifice hitters.
BCRDoCK now captains the New Haven
Club
COLUMBUS enjoys a very large lady pa
tronage.
THE Hamilton Club has released Catcher
Weidman.
TIE Chicago BARRIERS are to organize a local
baseball league
BosToN has not lost one game to the Pitts
buTgS this season.
PITCHERS say that Buffalo, n. Y, is an un-
lucky town for twlrlers.
BALTIMORE, under Joe Hornung's cap
taincy, is great success.
''ZEPHYRIzED" is the latest to indicate that
a batsman has been struck out
KEEFE and Ewing, of New York, waste a
good deal Of time during game.
SHoRTsToP PARKS, o. the Mansfield Ohio
Club, is said to be coming man.
BEARD has been deposed from Cincinnati's
captaincy. Tebeau is his successor.
THE Baltimore Club has farmed Pitcher
Whitaker out to the Galveston Club
Tom Brown is not only the best base-run
ner on the Boston team but he also leads in
runs scored.
MCKEE, of the Wilkesbarres, of Pennsyl-
wanna, is great pilferer. He stole 112 bases
last season.
GARRISON, of Boston, is making great use
of his ''rising ball" and the best hitters are
deceived by it.
THERE are now two brothers-the Sowders
pitching in the major leagues, something
unprecedented.
THE indiscriminate fining Of players by
umpires lately has caused a good deal OF COM
ment in baseball circles.
A FIELDER must be charged with an error
for muffing foul fly, whether the batter be
afterward retired or not.
A DEAL is said to be in progress by which
Jerry Denny, of Indianapolis, is to be secured
for the Washington team.
NEXT to Boston, Cincinnati is credited
with being the home Of more baseball cranks
than any other city in the Union.
"a MAN gets older in five years in the base
ball business" says President Speas, than
in twenty years in any other business"
S. NJ. DECKER, the ex-League umpire, is an
Oklahoma boomer He is now in the centre
of the territory and his lawyers single is
out.
No club in the League has as many batters
with percentage over 300 as indianapolis.
Seven of the players rank above that aver
age.
ARTHUR IRWIN is not Captain of the
Washington team, as reported. Morrill, still
rules in the field as we'll as off, Arthur being
only his assistant.
In order that history may repeat itself the
Athletics ought to win the Association cham
pionship if Boston wins the League pennant
this season. 1t was SO in 1888.
THE new Western League is now organized
with clubs located in Wichita and Hutchin-
son in Kansas, and Lincoln, Beatrice, Hast
ings and Grand Island in Nebraska.
THE Syracuse IN. " Club now enjoys the
distinction of being the only team to shut
out opposing teams three successive days
this season. 1t WhiteWashed Detroit twice
and Toledo once.
PITTSBURG, which was a money maker in
the American Association, has had nothing
but bad luck in the League, and, to top it all
off, is now playing out the worst schedule
ever inflicted upon club.
ANDY CUMMINGS, the famous shortstop of
the Forest Citys Of 1873, is in the Covington
(Ky.) Penitentary. He is the head man in
the shoe department., and is reported as one
Of the best paying prisoners in the pen.
EWING, of the New Yorks, now has the
honor of making the longest hit on the Cleve-
land ground. During one Of the recent games
there he knocked the ball over the centre
field fence, a distance OF Ats feet from the
home plate.
THE full amounts taken from the salaries
of the Louisville players as penalty for VIC
1atiOn of the club rules follows; Ray
mOnd, Ehret, Shannon and Cook, 1925 each;
Wolf and Vaughn, $25 each; Hecker, $500;
Ewing and Ramsey, 1854 each.
PRESIDENT HARRISON while enjoying a
visit to Cape May, n. j., witnessed game
Of baseball between tho home team and
team of Indian boys from Lincoln Institute.
He was warmly welcomed. Mr.. Wanamaker
was with him. So was Baby Mckee.