Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
THE NATIONAL GAME.

TIL NATIONAL GAME.
BECKLEY leads the Pittsburg Club in home |
runs
THE Bostons won the series from New |
York. |
MAINE has base ball club called the Pen
nesSewaSSoe.
CASEY, of the PhiladelDnias, has been laid
off without pay.
A. G. SPALDISG favors doing away alto
gether with the foul catch.
TIE total attendance at the Boston grounds
this season is almost sure to reach 2'o,oOO.
ACCORDING to Arson Cleveland has given
Chicago harder fights than the other League
clubs.
RYAN, Glasscock and Herman are the only
League players who have scored 100 runs this
season.
THE buildings and fences of the old Polo
Grounds in New York have been sold at pub
lie auction.
EWING. the New Yorks Captain, has given
up playing mascots. The last Ia little coIorcd
boy was failure.
FARRAR. Fogarty, Wood and Nash are the
latest additions to the lOO DaSe-nlt recoIo
among League clubs.
IN Omaha they have started the old ana
demoralizing practice OF rewaTding home
runs with coin showers.
PITTsBURG, Philadelphia and New 4orA
are the teams that Pitcher Clarkson, the
mainstay OF Boston, is special terror TO-
Indianapolis fears him not.
A BosTONIAN promises forty dollar easy
chair to each member of the BOStOnS II tney
succeed in winning the pennant.
THE struggle for the championship IS very
close and exciting this year, both IN the
League and American Association.
OVER one hundred League games have SO
far been won and lost by one run. Chlcago
has won the most games and cleveland losC
the most by that small margin.
THE stars of the baseball world afford
| valuable lessons to the aspiring youngsters
of the profession. They are shining exam
pies of the value of temperance
| CLEVELAND is the only League club to lose
| three straight games to one club by one run
| each 1t is also the only club In the League
! which scored in every inning OF game.
The Washington management have made
ARRANGEMENTS with the BOstOns 20 play a Sc
ries of six games, in Washington, during the
Triennial Conclave Of the knights Templar
! in October.
THE Louisville baseball managers have
to play first base; Ryan and McDermott as
a 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
tracted an attendance OF -, 362 Inc League 5o
ty.sCS
97S. The League played seven games and
the Association only tive.
The Boston-NeW York, Philadelphia
Washington anapOhs-Cleyelanda and the
Chicago-P ittsburg series are complete. Al
least the few games which these clubs have
not PLAYED will not likely be contested, as
the schedule will not permit It.
THE Columbus Club directors at meeting
request that Holland the umpire, be nc
longer scheduled for any game IN Columbus
President WickOff replied that he has nc
power to change umpires, as the schedule OF
unpires was arranged by committee ap
pointed for that purpose.
ARTHUR IRWIN, late Captain of the Phlla
delphias, has reason to feel proud OF the re
cord he has made with the Washington Club
It stamps him as a baseball general second tx
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 it a dreaded antag
OniSt.
ABAD accident occurred recently in Cnl
cagO at a game of baseball between two nine
| that STYLED themselves the doctors" and tn
''Undertakers" In the seventh inning
when the Undertakes were we'll in the lead
James NcNerney, the pitcher, was delivering
a swift in-shOOt when his arm snapped feV
inches from the shoulder, and he fell to tn
ground unconscious An examination re
Vealed the fact that his arm was broken, tn
bone almost protruding the flesh. He wa
removed to his home.