Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-06-13
THE NATIONAL GAME.

ALL OF the " eSterl ASSCclallCn teams are
strong.
Tox DER ALE. OF s.. Louis, is losing money
On his team.
WASHINGTON has = record Of eleven con
secUtlVe victories.
THE expenses Of the Chicago League team
are over 500 game.
PRINCETON defeated Yale at baseball BY
one run TO none. at Princeton.
BIRD, OF Washington, Is said 10 De a mar
velOus thrOwer from right field.
Powers is as quick as a fash in handling
the bail for Baltimore on first.
DALRYMPLE * once more 20 be a member
of the Pittsburg League team.
THE attendance OF ladies at ball games e1
GELS that of any former season.
SHINDLE refused the captaincy Of the Phil
adelphia Players League Club.
ROCHESTER, has gotten team WORK and sac
rlfce hitting down TO a fine point.
GEORGE MILLER is doing decidedly the
best playing for Pittsburgh League team.
LADIES DAY is becoming a general institu.
ton in many Of the large baseball centres.
THE Cincinnatis' old nickname, CUTTERS
has followed them into the National League.
Alphabetically. the Brooklyn Brother
hood grand stanu ecipses anything in base
bail.
ONLY two errors in fourteen games is
Bauer's record on the Brooklyn Players
team.
& : claimed for Widner, of Columbus,
that he is the best fielding pitcher IN the
country.
Boston has more left-handed pitchers than
any other Brotherhood Club-Madden, Kill
roy, Daley
PETE BROWNING. of the Cleveland Play
ers' team, uses the longest bat of any one
playing ball.
In Kelly, Stcvev and Brown, Boston has
trio of base runners unequaled III any other
Brotherhood Club.
Brown, Of the Boston Brotherhood, has
made more runs than hits. He has patience
and waits for the ball.
IT is about settled that Dick Johnston, OF
last years BOStOnS will be a member of the
New York Players team.
CAPTAIN ANs0N, of Chicago, is still the
hard worker of old. He is on the coach line
all the time when his team is at bat.
OROURKE, of the New York Players
team, has played big ball in past seasons,
but this year he surpasses all his previous
work.
JOYCE, of the Brooklyn's Players team, is
one of the most serYiceable men III the base
ball business. That is the way Ward speaks
we'll of him.
PETE BROWNING is as much feature of
is of Chicagc's. He is a big favorite with
the crowds, too.
ONLY one man has stolen a base with
Kelly, Of the Boston Brotherhood Club team,
behind the bat. He caught in seven games
without an error.
THE probability is that Washington will
never again be found in National League
company. The American Association is the
proper place for Washington.
DESPITE the poor showing which the Chi
cagO team made in BROOKLYN and this city,
the opinion prevails that they will win the
Players League championship.
CANTON Ohio, has the two tallest men
acting a battery in this country. Their
combined length Is thirteen feet. Young is
the pitcher and Kellogg the catcher,
WARD, Bauer, Joyce and Orr, of the Brook
lvn Players team, make wonderful intield
and prove that team work will win against
the finest sinGle-hand players on earth.
NOBODY that goes to the Players League
games need expect to see dull pitchers
strike-out game. The batting is such as to
make lively game certainty always.
The stockholders of the Pittsburg Ma.
tiOnal League Club are considering two offers
for the purchase Of their franchise and team.
The offers are said to be from Columbus and
Indianapolis.
PITCHER COUGHLING, of the Chicago
League Club, has very deceptive OutclTve.
1t is SO much SO, III fact that Catcher Kit
fridge often miScalculates how far the bali
is going from the plate.
PLAYERS LEAGUE RECORD.