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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE NATIONAL GAME. /
PrrsBuRe leads the League IN homs tuns
PITTsBURG's recent defeats aredue to veal
batting.
RApBouRNE, Of Boston, has made only on1
wldpitch this season.
CMc1NNAT1's poor position is largely du4|
to very weak batting.
best catchers In the League. !.
NEXT to Brouthers, Joe Quinn Is the mose
timely batter in the Boston team. s
YALE comes out of the college champion7
ship once more with flying colors.
BRouTHERs's batting has efaced all rel
grets in Boston for MorTilrs release.
Few pitchers have as good control Of tna
Dali as McCarty, OF the Kansas Citys. &
KEEFE, Of New York, leads the League
pitchers so far this season in strike-outs.
PITCHER You've, Of Princeton, has madd
great record in the college championship. i
JUST now Pitcher Gumbert, Of the Chf3
Cages, is the home run getter Of the Leagua5
Boston has lost six games by ona
run; three Of these were won by the NeM
Yorks e.. -
BIG JIM WHITNEY has not given satisfaci
ton, and the Indianapolis management has
released him. =
THERE is nothing in the League to equal
the Clevelands' fielding. It is maryelons5
and takes lots Of batting to beat it.
DURING game of baseball at Tunbrights
Tenn. W. 2. Staples, the umpire, stabbed
and killed his cousin, Davidson Hall. sas
New ORLEANS is unloading its crack play4
ers In order to equalizs its strength with that;
Of the other Southern League clubs.
CLARKsoN, of Boston, takes great care o.
his mighty right arm, and directly the fnnin&
is finished he carefully tucks it under his red
sweater.
Few players have been more disappointinH
this season than Hudson, Of St. Louis, I'd,
has pitched only one game and since then hfS
arm has not been in condition. it
Il ell the Louisville players were holding
up their ends as well as Cook, Stratton, Wolf
Hecker and Weaver, that club would bel
among the leaders and not at the tail end s55
DICK JOHNSTON, of Boston, has not made
an assist this year. He had seven in first
twenty games Last season. Fogarty has sup3
planted Dicky as the Leagues star center
fielder.
The Western clubs are having their annual
harassment over Sunday playing, and mat1
ters are being made uncopf Portable for the ST.
Louis, Cincinnati, st. Paul. Kansas City andi
other clubs.
SO frequent have been the rainy days, thisf
season that already there have been more in
terruptions than there were all last seasou:d
causing very severe financial loss that can't
not be repaired.
MANAGER HART has issued orders requir-l
ing all the members of the Boston Club to rel
tire before half-past eleven and to report all
eight o'clock. No wet goods shall be sent toi.
the players rooms.
PRESIDENT Wow DER AHH's innoyativei.
plan Of admitting ladies free in st, Louis3
when accompanied by escorts, one escort hav3s
ing the privilege Of two ladies is meeting with
a great deal of favor in the West. ! |.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, and Charleston, SCI
having retired from the Southern League, anl
attempt will now be made to 60 on as fourf
club rganization-Atlanta, New OrleansJ
Mobile and Chattanooga remaining intack
BOBBY MATHEWS, the veteran pitcher,3
has at last caught on He is coaching twuI
teams Of amateur players at Lebanon, Penn.,I
made up Of employees Of the Cornwall Raili
road Company. President Coleman Is pay-i
ing Matthews good salary. e
THE strongest batters Of each Of the League.
teams, according to recent averages, arel
Brouthers, of the Boston; Gore, Of New!
York; Clements Of Philadelphia; Denny, Of
Indianapolis; Beckley, of Httsburg; Hoyt
of Washington, and Duffy, Of Chicago.
WONDER is often expressed that pitchersdoI.
not make better batsmen than they do. II any3i
body is able to judge a curved ball, It seems
that the man who is constantly curying IL
should be. AS matter of fact, however, the!
pitchers are the poorest batters Of the lot.
JAMES MANNING, the Captain Of the Kan-i
sas City club, is a universal fayorite with
players and umpires. Besides being q sbalH
player of more than ordinary skill be issi
department and appearance. AS an 9ont5
fielder Manning has few superiors. q
JEAGIIE RECulD. s,a.-as+J X