The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
THE NATIONAL GAME.


THE Washington Club is complete.
THE Memphis Club has reorganized.
= BATES will pitch for Havard College,
BARLEY has signed with Kansas City.
CLEVELAND is the League baby this year
rutland is to Captain the Havard College
nine.
BosroN1ANs begin to think their outfeld il
weak.
THE four ball rule makes the pitcher
work.
PHENOMENAL SmTa 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 a
second basenan.
PRESIDENT HARRISON thoroughly enjoays
game of baseball.
ELxER SMITH, of Cincinnati. is styled the
dead arm pitcher.
OBRIEN, Of the Brooklyns, made the frs
three-bagger Of the year.
TIE Pittsfield (Ndass.) High School girls
have organized 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 q
defeat
The first man to make two home runs in
single game this season was Duffee, Of st.
Louis.
THE Pittsburg Club has put its 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.
THE largest and finest baseball grand stand
in the country is the one at the Philadelphia
baseball, grounds.
NINETEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS were divided
among the New York players as result OF
the Brooklyn series.
HUTCHINSON, Chicago's new pitcher, IS I'D
finer form than he ever was in his life, and
his speed is simply terrific.
The salaries and travelling expenses OF ths
years Kansas City team Will cos1 tne
management about SAC, 600.
Gross, of the st. Louis Browns, is the most
agile catcher in the business. he Is periectly
CdU-l1he duu quuCh a. hSn'ao
IT is predicted that the largest leather
failure in Chicago this year VIII be the 1ahure
Of the Chicago team to hit the ball.
WILLIAMS, Of last years Buffalo On. ~
team, is beyond doubt the smallest caOcner
who ever played in professional team.
ED. WILLIAMSON, the famous shortstop Of
the Chicago Club, who was injured during
the game in Spain, has returned to America
AMANwho contributed $1,000 to the stock
of the New Yorks when the club was organ
lied has since drawn SO, 600 dividends tnres
years in succession.
A PURSE is to be presented to John Morrill,
upon his first appearance with the Wasnng.
ton Club at the Hub" by his Boston 1r1enU
as token of appreciation.
THE League magnates are quite unanlmou.
in their intention Of passing resolutlon MOI
to engage ball players who are ln tne liquor
business during the winter.
PRESIDENT SPALDNG, of Chicago, is op
posed to the three-strike and four-bal RUE.
He favors last years rule With tne pltcnei
put few feet further back.
MANAGER HART, of the Bostons, has taken
charge of the team. He will control the
PLAYERS on and off the field and Will be nelc
Solely responsible for their doings.
The defeat Of LOUISVILLE ana Baltlmore ny
the Kansas City and Columbus teams, re-
sRsctaSey nnd siso to have S W say in TIT
pennant race.
The. Chicagos and All-Americas broke
even in the ten games played in this country:
Altogether the teams played 53 games. Al,
America won 2s, Chicago won 70 and
games were tied.
OWEN WILLIAMS, the young player who
PLAYED right field for Canton, Ohio, ias,
season, and whose sale to Lima for one dollar
has gone down into history in the company
with the Kelly $40, 900 deal, hassigned to play
centre field fol-, Hamilton, Ohio.
Governor HILL vetoed the bill which
would have enabled the New Yorks to play
anothor season on the famous Polo Grounds
This Compelled the New Yorks to play theiI
opening game of the League season in Jersey
Citv n J.