The national leader., 1889-07-11
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE louisville Club will be reorganized.
GEORGE w. BARNUM sno longer League
umpire.
NASH, of Boston, is playing wonderful
third base
GORE, of New York, made two home-run
hits in a recent game.
BUFFALO N. Y. is the most whitewashed
team IN the International.
THE defunct Easton penny Club lost $500
under its late management.
Tom BROWN, of Boston, was the first
League player to make fifty hits
The New York's future home will be-
known as the 'New Polo Ground"
BURNS is the Brooklyn's heaviest hitter, and
he ranks eleventh in the Association.
BLACK of Wilkesbarre, Penn, leads the
Atlantic Association in base-running.
CHICAGO is about to inf1ict another female
baseball team upon a long-suffering public.
SENATOR EUsTIs, of Louisiana, is numbered
among the Washington baseball enthusiasts
THERE are some cities which would never
be heard of if it weren't for their baseball
mines.
UP to a few days ago Mcclure had caught
thirty-seven straight games for Toronto,
Canada.
A PITTsBURG paper complains that Cap
tain Dunlap sets his men a bad example by
refusing to slide.
jim WHITNEY, once the pride of the WASH
ington Club, has been released by Indianapo-
lis as worthless.
The Clevelands are never beaten until the
last man is out. They have won lots Of games
IN the closing innings.
BASEBALL seems to have lost its hold upon
the people of Chicago, who decline to patron
ize wind-infiated team.
NTrr,o &C
does not appear to have strengthened the
Washlngtons very much.
SINCE 1868, Yale has won SO games from
Harvard and lost 80, and from Princeton has
won 81 games and lost IL.
PETE HoTALING, the old-time professional.
has signed to play with the ST. Joseph MOI
Club of the Western Association.
WILL WHITE, the old Cincinnati pitcher,
at last has an imitatOr. Pitcher Downer. Of
the Harvards, wears spectacles when he;
pitches.
BOSTON took Brown when he was dis
card. He leads the League in runs stolen;
bases and bases on balls, and is playing a.;
great field.
PITTSBURG has taken a fresh hold and
Philadelphia is the sufferer. The nine from
the Quaker City lost three consecutive gamesi
in Pittsburg.
THE long anticipated sale of the Louisville;
lars has been paid for it by t. Sherley and
W. H. Thomas.
AFTER being on the list of New York'si
players for two years, George was released Al
short time ago, and is now a member of the
Columbus team.
PITCHER CLARKsoN, of Boston. was re-.
moved from the players bench at Pittsburg,
recently, for signing Sowders how to pitch to-
certain batSmen
UMPIRE GAFFNEY says that during five
years of umpire service in the League and
Association, he has never seen player upon
the field intoxicated.
Boston has its men in good condition and.
yet is not winning games it did in the be-
ginning of the season. The first Western
trip proved disastrous.
THE Association has killed baseball in sew
eral cities by Sunday playing-notably in
Louisville and ST Louis. 1t is fast killings
the sport in Cincinnati.
PRESIDENT HEWITT, of Washington, saws
there are five members of the League who
favor an equal division of the gate receipts.
and only one vote is needed to carry thes
point.
How it must gall Anson, of Chicago to see
the work of the gentlemen he released Daly's,
great catching for Washington, Cores and
Sullivans great batting and Clarkson's great
work in the box.
recent game against the Lowell (Mass.) Club,
made two home runs in one inning, feat
that has rarely if ever been equalled in prof.
fessional baseball.
| ALTHOUGH it is not generally known
Clarkson, of Boston, is easily disheartened ifl
he is hit hard. He is a splendid pitcher, butt
when an opposing club begins to make hits
off him, he loses his head to a great extent.
WEIGH is doing the best work of the New
York pitchers, and must be ranked as one Of;
the greatest of twirlers. This makes the
thirteenth consecutive year for Welch as a
pitcher, his first professional engagement be-
ing with the Volunteer Club, of Poughkeep-
sic, N. Y, in 1877.
THE big centre-felder of the New Yorlp,
Slattery, has been unfortunate this year
Before the season began he hurt his leg sol
that he was unable to play. Finally he was'
all right and was going to play In game
against Cleveland. Before play began he,
was practicing and split his finger.
LEAGUE RECORD.