Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-09
THE NATIONAL GAME.

CHICAGO won the penant six times.
EWING leads the New York batters.
BAsTIAN has been reinstated by Chicago.
CAPTAIN ANsON is once more batting well.
THE Bostons have fallen off greatly in bat
ting.
RYAN, of Chicago leads the League in run
getting.
WAGENHURsT, the collegian, has been re-
leased by ST. Paul.
SHANNON has succeeded Wolf as Captain
of the Louisville team.
ROGERS, of the Houston Texas team, has
caught in sixty consecutive games
CHANGE Of speed is now more effective
than all the curves in the category.
WILLIAMSON, of Chicago is the champion
long-distance thrower Of the League.
BIG Ed. Williamson, who is on the injured
list, made $500 of his benefit in Chicago.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, is pronounced the
best ball city in the Atlantic Association.
Boston won thirty-one of the first thirty
seven games played on their own ground.
DENNY, Of indianapolis, has made more
home runs than the whole Cleveland team.
The st. Louis Club has traded Pitcher
Hudson for Ramsey, OF the Louisville Club.
DAILY, the young Jersey City N. j. pitch
er, recently released to Boston, is only twen-
ty years of age.
BENNETT of Boston, Ewing, of New York,
and Farrell, of Chicago, seem to be a trio Of
t1reless CatcherS.
AT twenty-five cents Detroit is making far
more money than it made in either of the two
past League seasons.
IT is notorious fact, alleges baseball pa
per, that Pfeiffer, of Chicago, has had to
cover both Ansou's and his own territory for
years
ONE of the most unfortunate players in the
business is Rickley, of Toronto, Canada.
Hardly game but what he is more or less
injured.
GORE, Of the New Yorks, has SO far been
playing great ball. He has had the laugh on
the ex-colts who used to jeeringly call him
papa"
THE Pittsburg Club has purchased pitcher
Sowders's release from Boston, and he has
signed with the club. White and Rowe were
laid off.
THE only players now in the League who
were members of the organization when 1t
was formed are: Hines, Arson, O'Rourke
and White.
ROCHESTER,, n Y, is to lose it's Interna-
tional League club, which is $1,000 behind.
The club and franchise are to be sold to the
highest bidder.
PHILADELPHIA won three straight games
their own grounds from New York. OF
late the ''Phillies' have been playing the
AT the end Of the season Syracuse, n. V.
is to lose the services of Jack Chapman, who
is to manage and have entire charge of the
Louisville club next season at a salary Of
$500.
MURPHY, of the Syracuse IN. W team, has
the portrait of his best girl tattOOed upon his
right arm. When the opposing team are hit
ting him he seeks inspiration by studying the
picture.
THE new Chicago ball ground will be $50
feeC long and 632 feet wide and has been pur-
chased for $105, 000 The field will be enclosed
by brick wall and will be the prettiest in
The country.
The following cities have been represented
in the National League in the past: Kansas
City, st. Louis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati,
Louisville, Syracuse, Troy, Worcester, Provi-
ience, Hartford and Buffalo.
BOSTON has played less men, fifteen, than
any other team. Chicago has used sixteen,
indianapolis and Cleveland seventeen each,
New York eighteen, Philadelphia nineteen,
Pittsburg twenty-one and Washington TWEEN
ty-three
ABOsToN paper is authority for the state
ment that ''Hardie Richardson's wife is
constant attendant at the ball games. 1t
costs Rardie 81 for every strike out and every
error, while Mrs. Richardson is taxed 81 for
every base hit Hardie has decidedly the
best of it thus far"
BEN BATES while umpiring ball game
near OwensbOrO, KY, for two clubs of boys,
made decision in the sixth inning to which
Frank Morris, who was at the bat, objected.
A quarrel and fight followed, resulting in
Bates fatally stabbing Morris with pocket
knife Bates was arrested and Morris soon
fterward died. Bates is but sixteen years
DID,
The Cherokee Indians are the ''boss' ball
players of this continent. Fifty or sixty
years ago, when they lived in northern GeoT-
gia, they used to meet once year on a large
plateau among the mountains and have
grand ball game festival. The Indians came
from hundred miles around. A hamlet
lear by retains the name of ball ground" to
this day
PAUL HINES of indianapolis, the only ball
player who completed triple play alone,
made his first appearance as a professional
under the management of Nick Young at
Washington in 1872. The phenomenal play
made by him was in close game in PrCvi-
2ence in 1878 against the Boston club with
men on second and third and he made mirac-
1lous running catch, close to second base.
Both men had started for home, and Hines,
With ball in hand. touched third and second.
LEAGUE RECORD.
Won. Lost Percentage
4ooSoOA' 80 20 .6O2
New Y ork. ......,., II 90 6O3
Philadelphia ....~...43 "a .55S
Cleveland. ...........- 43 "a 55S