Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-09-05
THE NATIONAL GAME.


.OcoxSoa az Columbus leads the ASso
citation catcherA
THIRTY B0otherhcod players have battina
averages OF over 800.
BRoDTE of the Boston League team ha,
only struck out once this season.
WEIGH Is the only one of the Nezx YsrA
League pitchers 10 win half OF his ganes
No club now in the PLAYERS Iaarue cir
cult viii DC out OF il in 1901, unless bought
cut.
JAKE Bromley is the most reliable man a.
the bat IN the PittsburG Cub with men %
bases.
THERE has recently been woeful lack O,
discipline among two or three National
League clubs.
HUTCHINSON. OF Chicago. has pitched In
more games and won more than anr pitcher
in the League.
The regulation Of the batting order Of many
OF the clubs on the percentage system q
working like charm.
CHARLIE CAMEL is no longer captain OF
the Boston National League Club. Pop"
Smith is Eow the boss"
NEVER was the baseball situation more
unsteady that IL il at present. The magnates
90 not know what TO expect next.
SYRACUSE and the Pittsburg League clubs
are running race to see which can sign and
release the most players this season.
THE Boston Herald refers TO VIEWING
and klnslow, of the Brooklyn Players Club,
as the star kicking battery OF the country.
RHISEs and Harrington, the crack battery
OF the Cincinnatis, are playing & wonderful
game, winning nearly every time they are
put in.
ONE of the unique features of the season
was that Louisville should beat Brooklyn
three straight games each by the same
score, seven TO two.
JIM DURYEA, OF the Cincinnati League
team, was paid 300 for pitching game and
fractionil one month Pretty big pay for
about three hours WORK.
THE Cincinnati park is the hardest in the
country to take care of because il is covered
every year by the backwater of the spring
and fall treshets in the Ohio River.
BRooKLYN's infield leads the Players
League in making double plays. This was to
be expected, with lightning infielders like
Ward and Bierbauer to work together.
EHRET and Stratton have been the most
effective pitchers in the Association. No
wonder Louisville with two such pitchers
and lively team, should gain and hold the
lead.
RADBoURN and Daily have been doing tho
best pitching for BostonS Players Club, but
Gumbert is now doing his share of the work
in great style. Kilroy and Madden alone
are not up to the mark.
In the New York League team but three
have batting averages slightly above 300,
while in the New York Players team seven
men have more than 300, and five of them
are far beyond that mark
CATCHER ZDIMER, of the Cleveland
League team, recently caught his Tooth con-
secutive game. He has already beaten all
previous catching records and intends to
catch in all the remaining scheduled games
this season unless he meets with an injury.
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showed the kind of pluck that is in him by
standing rcbly at his post of duty even when
his finger was broken and the bone pro-
truded. He is one of the very few players
who have the interest Of their employers at
heart
Poor Billy Rhines" is the way the Gin
cinnati Enquirer refers to the pitcher whose
good work enabled the Cincinnati team to
show SO well in front in the race for the
League pennant. He was ''phenom" then
and an object of alteration. Now he is being
pitied. Truly, the career of greatness is
brief