The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-09-19
THE NATIONAL GAME.

BEcKLrY leads the Pittsburg Club In home
runa.
THE Bostons won the series from New
York.
MAINE has a base ball club called the PEN
nessewassee.
CASEY. Of the Phiadelphias, has been laid
of without pay.
A. q. SPALpINa favors doing away alto
gether with the foul catch.
The total attendance at the Boston grounds
this season is almost sure TO reach 27b,O0O.
ACCORDING 10 Anson Cleveland has given
Chicago harder fights than the other League
clubs.
RYAN, Glasscock and Tiernan are the only
League players who have scored 100 runs this
season.
THE buildings and fences Of tho old Polo
Grounds in New York have been sold atpub-
lie auction.
EWING, the New York's Captain, has given
up playing mascots. The last "a little colored
boy was a failure.
FARRAR, Fogarty. Wood and Nash are tho
latest additions TO the 100 base-hit record
among League clubs.
In Omaha they have tarted the old and
demoralizing practice of rewarding home
runs with coin showers.
PIrTsBURo, Philade, 1hia and New York
are tne teams tnAt flJCncr 'JinTkson, tnc
mainstay OF Boston Is a special terror to-
Indianapolis fears him not
A BosToNAN promises a forty dollar easy
chair TO each member OF the Bostons IL they
succeed in winning the pennant.
THE struggle for the championship il very
close and exciting this year. both in tho
League and American Association.
OVER one hundred League games have so
far been won and lost by one run. Chicago
has won the most games and Cleveland lost
the most by that small margin.
THE stars Of the baseball world afford
valuable lessons 10 the aspiring youngsters
Of the profession. They are shining exam
piles Of the value of temperance
CLEVELAND is the only League club TO loso
three straight games TO one club by one run
each. il Is also the only club in the League
which scored in every inning of game.
THE Washington management have made
arrangements with the Bostons TO play n se-
ries Of six games in Washington, during tho
Triennial Conclave Of the Knights Templar
in October.
THE Louisville baseball managers have
signed Flanagan, formerly of the Athletics,
10 play first base; Ryan and McDermott rs
n battery: and young Clarkson. formerly OF
the Tri-State League, as pitcher.
On Labor Day the twelve games played
by the League and Association clubs at
ITacteu uu attendance OF tD,OOZ. me League
had 46 3S4 patrons and the Association 2s,-
9iS. The League played seven games aud
the Association only five.
THE Boston-New York. PHILADELPHIA
Washington. Indanapolis-C Cleveland and the
Chcago-Pittsburg series are complete. AZ
least the few games which these clubs have
not played will not likely be contested, as
the schedule will not permit IL.
THE Columbus Club directors at a meeting
request that Holland, the umpire be no
longer scheduled for any game in Columbus.
President Wickoff replied that he has no
power TO change umpres, rs the schedule of
umpires was arranged by committee APP
pointed for that purpose.
ARTHUR IRWIN, late Captain Of the Phila-
delphias, has reason To feel proud of the re-
cord he has made with the Washington Club.
1t stamps him as a baseball general second To
none. He took team badly handicapped,
and with practically the same men and de
pending on the efforts Of two pitchers to win,
has vastly bettered its standing among
League clubs and made il u dreaded antag-
onist.
A BAD accident occurred recently in Chi
cago at n game OF baseball between two mines
that styled themselves the doctors" and tho
"Undertakers." In the seventh inning,
when the Undertakers were well in the lead,
James NcNerney, the pitcher, was delivering
a swift n-shoot when his arm snapped a few
inches from the shoulder, and he fell to the
ground unconscious An examination re.
vealed the fact that his arm was broken, tho
bone almost protruding the flesh. He was
removed to his home