Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-10

Boston is disappointed in Ray.
THE Washington Club is complete.
THE Memphis Club has reorganized.
BATES will pitch for Hazard College.
BARLEY has signed with Kansas City.
CLEVELAND is the League baby this year.
rutland is to Captain the Hazard College
nine
BosToN1ANs begin to think their outfeld is
weak.
The four ball rule makes the pitchers
work.
PHENOMENAL SMITH is suing the Baltimore
Club for $3.50.
CARROLL has been appointed Captain Of
the st. Pauls.
The Columbus Ohio Club is in need of
second baseman.
PRESIDENT HARRISON thoroughly enjoays
game of baseball.
ELMER SMITH, Of Cincinnati, is styled the
dead arm pitcher.
O'BRIEN, of the Brooklyns, made the first
three-bagger of the year.
THE Pittsfeld (Mass) High School girls
have organized a ball team.
LADIES are to be admitted free at all the
games in Louisville this season.
QUINN is said to be the best thrower and the
most active man on the Baltimore team.
THE Minneapolis team is to have hand
some street uniform of gray for use on trips.
NEVER before this season has the Baltimore
Club opened the championship season with
defeat
single game this season was Dufee, of st.
Louis
The Pittsburg Club has put it's rules in
book form for the players to carry about
with them.
BALTIMORE has the honor Of being the
first club in the race Of 1889 to shut out an
other club
HE largest and finest baseball grand stand
in the country IS the one at the Hh1ladelpn1a
baseball grounds.
NINETEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS were divided
among the New York players as result OF
the Brooklyn series.
HUTCHINSON, Chicago's new pitcher, is in
finer form than he ever was in his life, and
his speed is simply terrific.
THE salaries and travelling expenses Of this
years Kansas City team will cost the
management about $4,000.
Cross, of the st. Louis Browns, Is the MOST
agile catcher in the business. He is perfectly
cat-lilze and quick as lightning.
1T is predicted that the largest leather
failure in Chicago this year Will be the failure
of the Chicago team to hit the ball.
WILLIAMS, of last years Buffalo IN. y
team, is beyond doubt the smallest catcher
Ed. WILLIAMSON, the famous shortstop of
the Chicago Club, who was injured during
the game in Spain, has returned to America.
A MAN who contributed $1,000 to the stock
of the New Yorks when the club was organ
lied has since drawn $40, 600 dividends three
years in succession,
A PURSE is to be presented to John Morrill,
upon his first appearance with the ash1ng-
ton Club at the Hub by his Boston friends
as a token Of appreciation.
THE League magnates are quite unanimous
in their intention of passing resolution not
to engage ball players who are in the liquor
business during the winter.
PRESIDENT SPALD1NG, of Chicago, is OPP
posed to the three-strike and four-bau rule.
He favorS last years rule with the pitcher
put few feet further back.
MANAGER HART of the Bostons, has taken
charge of the team. He will control the
players OH and off the field and Will be held
solely responsible for their doings.
THE defeat of Louisville and Baltimore by
| the Kansas City and Columbus teams, re-
| spectively, indicates that the weak clubs in
| the Association intend to have say in the
| 'pennant race.
THE Chicagos and All-Americas broke
| even in the ten games played in this country.
Altogether the teams played % games Al
| America won %, Chicago won % and 3
| games were tied.
OWEN WILLIAMS, the young player who
| PLAYED right field for Canton, Ohio, last
| season. and whose sale to Lima for one dollar
has gone down into history in the company
with the Kelly SO, 0C0 deal, has signed to play
centre field for Hamilton, Ohio.
| GOVERNOR Hill. vetoed the bill which
would have enabled the New Yorks to play
| another season on the famous Polo Grounds
| This compelled the New Yorks to play their
| opening game of the League season in Jersey