The national leader., 1889-08-31
THE NATIONAL GAME.

PITTsBURG has already tried nine pitchers
The Clevelands play nervously these days.
CoNNoR's batting percentage is still rising.
RYAN, of Chicago, leads the League in run
getting.
CH1cAGo's stone wall infield is once more
complete.
LOUISVILLE has purchased Rays release
from Boston.
BURDoCK, of Hartford, is to take nine
South this winter.
YOUNG pitchers are blooming out this yee:e
with great success.
SIX Of the Pittsburg players were recently
fined for drinking.
ST. LoUIs has made forty-two home runs
In ninety mine games.
HOOVER is doing about all the catching
for Kansas City just now.
MCGUIRE is considered the greatest pitcher
In the International League
DURYEA, of Cincinnati is still the king
American Association pitcher.
BIC JIM WHITNEY is putting up good
game in the international League.
JOHN M. WARD, of New York, is as great
favorite with baseball players as ever.
THE Chicagos have played with more con-
6dence since Williamson returned to his old
place at short stop.
No baseball organization has had more
ups and downs since its organization than
the Pittsburg Club
DEAF-MUTE HOY is the only Washington
Ian who has played in every game and Con-
nor the only New Yorker.
LAST season Clarkson won only one game
Of the three against Pittsburg. This year he
has made it seven straight.
THE New Yorks have as a team ND to late
date, made thirty-three home runs, tifty-two
three baggers and 132 doubles.
CAPTAIN IRWIN has introduced discipline
Into the Washington Club, quantity here
eofore almost unknown among the Senators.
BOBBY MATHEWS, the first pitcher to in
troduce the raise ball, made his first appear
ance in Boston in 1871 and was hit hard for
twenty-one runs.
The only players now in the National
League who were members of the organiza-
ton when ii was formed are Hines Anson,
ORourke and White.
GEORGE WRIGHT is the only man who has
ever mastered the science of both baseball
and cricket, and who is looked on by most
ball players as being without rival.
ARTHUR CUMMINGS, a Brooklyn boy, was
the first to make use of the out curve as far
back as 1869. He could make ball sail like
acurving clamshell when thrown against the
wind
A MORE patient player is not to be found
In the Association than Robinson, of the
st. Louis team He has been sent to first
base on balls seventy-seven time in as many
games.
THRTY-EIGHT games have been played by
League clubs this season without making
fielding error. Washington and New York
were, however, the only teams that played
perfectly in the same contest.
SATURDAY is known throughout Connecti-
cut as baseball day." all the important
games being played on that day This
arrangement accommodates the men in the
factories, who are great lovers Of baseball.
WHILE the Bostons were in indianapolis
Manager Hart tried his best to buy the re-
lease Of short-stop Glasscock, but President
Brush wouldn't have it. Hart offered $1,000
cash and two players who, Hart says, are
worth $1,000 each.
THE ten leading batters of the American
Association up to a recent date were: First,
Tucker, 1858; second, Burns (Brooklyn), .345;
third, Lyons .341; fourth, Orr, 1856; fifth,
Holiday, $3.50; Larkin, $50; O'Neill, 800;
eighth, Miligan, .233 ninth, Hamilton, .320;
tenth, Comiskey. .315.
AS far back as 1870, 20,O 600 people went out
to see the national game played. The con-
testing teams were the Red Stockings of Gin
cinnati, and the Atlantics, of Brooklyn. The
latter administered to the ''Reds" their first
defeat after they had gone through their pre-
vious season without being vanquished
LEAGUE RECORD.