Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-01
THE NATIONAL GAME.


PLAYERS are not purchased 50 freely these
days.
CHICAGO still leads the National League In
home runs.
THE Buffalo Players team Is practically
pitcherless.
BURNS is now captaining the Brooklyn
League team.
THE Boston Players League Is on the look
out for short stop.
A REDUCTION in the price Of admission il
being discussed once more.
FARRELL. the catcher, is the best batter
in the Chicago Brotherhood nine.
FARRAR, of the Philadelpkia Players Lea
que, has fielding average of 9S1.
THE New York League pitchers have
struck out the most men tnis season
THE attendance Is increasing everywhere
and baseball is not dead by long shot.
LEFTY MARI is considered the most relia-
BILE player on the Cincinnati League team.
BosroN's League trio, Long, Smith and
Tucker, are making lightning double plays.
Or all the New York League Clubs play
ers, Tommy Esterbrook is the most popular.
No man in the country is excelling Beck
ley, of the Pittsburg Leaguers, at first
base.
CAPTAIN ANsoN, of the Chicago League
Club, is now playing his twentieth season Of
baseball.
PITCHER DURYEA, of Cincinnati is said to
be careless and they threaten to put him on
the bench.
the largest home attendance and the New
Yorks abroad.
In seventy games Joyce Of the Brooklyn
Players Club, went to first base on balls
eighty -four times.
NASH was the first man to knock a ball
over the right field fence Of the new Boston
Brotherhood ground.
MANAGER JOHN BURDoCK has been fined
and suspended by the Jersey City IN. ~
Club for intoxication.
VIsNER who deserted the Brooklyn League
Club, is doing very heavy work with the bat
for the Pittsburg Brotherhood team.
THERE are seventeen pitchers in the
American Association who have averaged
less than two earned runs per game from
their delivery.
THE established price to see a baseball
game in Great Britain has been placed at
twelve cents. A seat in the pavilion costs
twenty-five cents extra.
CAPTAIN EWING is telling New Workers
that President Stern offered him 5000 year
and half-interest in the Cincinnati team to
take charge of it in 80.
CINCINNATI and Philadelphia swell the
League totals in attendance wonderfully.
Without these two cities the senior organiza-
ton would have made a very roor showing
THE longest game Of the season, and one
of the most remarkable on record. was
played at Catasauqua, Penn, July s. be-
tween the Catasauqua and Ardmore teams
Eighteen innings were played before victory
perched on the Catasauqua banner by six to
five.
In the Players League, Boston relies upon
Kelly to do almost all of the catching, New
York on Ewing, Buffalo on Mack, Chicago
on Farrell, Cleveland ON Sutcliffe. When
these men are not of the nine the chances
for victory are greatly impaired, as far as
their respective clubs are concerned.
CINCINNATI has a wonder in Pitcher Null
lane. He is one of the first of few pitchers
who have gone into the box at their own re-
quest and then Won the game. The feat was
accomplished against the New Yorks. The
"Only" Tony's confidence of winning was the
fact that he was always an enigma against
the Hoosiers which Mutrie's team is largely
composed.