The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-03
THE NATIONAL GAME.

BRoUTHERs, OF Boston, leads the League IN
batting.
GoRE, of New York, is playing thebest bal!
# his life. 60 49,
SK1N-T1GHT base ball uniforms are falling
INTO disuse. /;
FLOODS and rain have cost the Pittsburg
.eam $4,000. ~
CHICAGO is securing the West for ayailai
bic infield talent.
THE rainy and cold weather has hurt Inany
clubs financially.
SINCE Shreve joined the DetrCts that club
has been playing great ball. =
NEW YORK was the first to lose two success.
i've games to Washington.
CLEVELAND is about the most aggressiya
baby" the League ever had. II
THE new rules have been very hard on the
pitchers in the minor leagues. -!
CLARKsoN, Of tho Bostons won fifteen OF
the first seventeen games played.
FoGERTY will likely be made the perma3
uent Captain of the Philadelphia team.
DUNLAP, of Pittsburg, owns more dial
uonds than any player In the profession.
THREE Keefes are now pitching for as many
clubs, and all are doing themselves proud.
P1rrsBURa has eight pitchers on it's salary
list and the management is looking for more.
UMPIRE BARNUM wears life preseryer
nnder his clothes to protect his fractured
| ribs. > s-s,.a,,i
WILL WHITE, the old Cincinnati pitcher, a
the only professional player who wears spec!
eacles. ,i
Pitcher RADBouRNE, Of Boston, Il
troubled with severe attack Of "Charlie
dorsen ~ |:
PITCHER BEAN, Of the Pittsburg ream,i
lost brother and sister by the Johnstom
| disaster. y
JOHNSTON, the Boston's center fielder, is
very clever at estimating where the batsman
Is going to knock the ball. = Z
THE Boston team as now made up needs
little looking after, as the men are mostly OF
the quiet, temperate kind. s1 s1l
ANsoN likes better to visit Boston than anyi
,ther League city, as he Is even more apprej
:iated there than in Chicago. Z
THIS has been bad season on pitchersa
Just seventeen twirlers have found that they
we're mistaken in their ability. j.
JERRY DENNY, Of Indianapolis, says: ssWe,
can beat any team in the League for six inn
lngs Ican't tell what is the matter +
KANSAS CITY ought to have a pennant be-
tore 1892 The three stockholders have spent;
nearly 25, 600 for players since last fall.
Ex-Governor JOHN D. LoNG, OF Massa!.
chusetts, is good amateur baseball player,
sxcelling both at the bat and in the field.
AMONG the minor surprises Of the season.
are the Texas League tail-enders, Austin and,
Waco, who are playing astonishing bal.
A SYNDICATE Of Americans and Paridans
proposes to engage two baseball teams to.
play in Parisin the Wild West Show grounds
CLEVELAND is playing in as good cham
pionship form as any other aspirant Tor thel
League pennant. Its first trip record is sm-i
ply wonderful.
A coLoRED league, to comprise the Cuban
Giants, of Trenton; Gorhams, Of New York,
and clubs located in Boston and New Haven,i
Is being formed. .5,ss5
THE largest score and the biggest batting
record Of the season was made In WnkeS9
barre-Hartford game. There were fortyii
nine runs and fifty base hits. i
TIE Easton Penn.) Club lost $1,000 last
year, but was then and is now backs BY
some wealthy sporting men, who say they
will stay in to the end OF the season.
BALL players, as rule, never diet. They.
eat ANYTHING that comes along, making q
point to eat cold lunch atnoon and a hearty
dinner after the game for an evening meaR
BosTosEsE say Broutherss reputation ASA
fielder did him gross injustice. To the Bos4
ton mind big Dan can cover first base equal
to the best form ever shown by John MorrtH11
IT is singular fact that success and the
maroon color never travelled In the sam6
baseballs teams. Maroon has hoodooed every
baseball team that included it in its makel
up.
MANAGER HARRY WRIGHr picked out
Roston,s first professional team In 1871 and
managed them for nine years in succession,
winning the championship in ~, '7S ~ '76af.
" and '7S.
BASEBALL has taken root in Australia. Not
only has it taken root, but the roots are al-
ready spreading In all directions. There are
a great many clubs, and each week at least
one is added to the list. q
THOUSANDS Of dollars are wasted by clubs
IN excessive salaries, vain efforts to strengthen
and sensational deals, but when it comes to
considering the umpire question economy
suddenly rules supreme. 80.
THE greatest trouble with young pitchers
Is their great fear of getting hit. They seem ;
TO think that the entire responsibility OF the
game rests upon their shoulders and that the
men behind them are merely SO many
statues.
ARTHUR IRWIN, who for years has cap I.
tanned the Philadelphia team, and to whoss
services the club owes much Of its success I'D
past years has been released to the w ashinS'
tons Tor $S0OO Heis to receive $500 salary
as Captain Of the team. Morrill, will act as :
manager and will cover first base.