Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-05-09
THE NATIONAL GAME.
erSDAY is the Pittsburg's Captain.

ECSDAY is the Pittsburgs Captain.
THE baseball season has opened brilliantly.
BosroNs League team is weak at third
base.
DE-. OLIvEE WENDELL HOLMES is fond of
baseball.
SCHIxHIcK is the fastest sprinter in the
Louisville team.
SECOND base is week point il the Chi
cago League nine.
VETERAN EZRA SUrToS is to play second
base for Hartford.
A CHINAMAN is said TO be Stockholder IN
the Peru Qndl Club.
THE Philadelphia Players team mas an out
field that is hard TO Eeat.
LkRKIS mas been appointed Captain OF the
Cleveland Players team.
BROOKLYN was the first League club to
play ga u without errors.
THERE are five professional baseball mines
in New York and Brooklyn.
KELLY, Ewing aud Comiskey have few
superiors as baseball generals.
McPHEE has positively declined the cap
taincy of the Cincinnati team.
New YoRKs League club is carrying just
eighteen men upon the payroll
SHoRrSroP LONG, OF Boston is probably
the smallest man in the League.
THE score card privilege on the Boston
Players Ground was sold for $270O.
Hoy, the deaf mute outfislder OF the Buffa-
10 Players League Club, is learning to talk.
THE best sacrifice record in the Brooklyn
Brotherhood Club Is to be rewarded by
prize,
PITCHER CLARHsoy, Of the Boston League
Club, has become an inveterate cigarette
smoker.
YouNG RusTE, pitcher of the New York
League team, is one OF the brightest stars
of the season.
THE young players i'll .he National League
and the American Association are filling tbs
bill to perfection.
SEVERAL hundred Indian boys have organ.
, lied a baseball team at the Government
schools at Carlisle Penn.
ALL the National League and American
Association teams have been beaten by
clubs in the minor associations
JOE HoRNUNG is the oldest and Rusie tho
Youngest man on the New York League team.
| They are thrty-two and nineteen respec-
lively.
The old National League, the senior bnse-
ball organization of the country, has entered
upon its fifteenth consecutive championship
campaign
No player who ever put in full! season with
| the Chicago League or st. Louis Association
Clubs ever had much difficulty in securing
an engagement
THE new rule in the Players League, re-
! quiring the pitcher 10 step out Of the box be-
fore throwing to a base, gives great satisfac-
ton to the players.
| THE outlook for successful year in the
| American Association is encouraging. All
of the clubs seem to be doing well, both
financially and artistically.
As all indication of the friendly spirit eK,
sting between the Players and President
| Spalding, the Chicago Limited had the
teams uniforms made by the League clubs
| President.
COLLEGE graduates have taken to joining
professional baseball clubs, very much to tbs
salts action OF the managers, who appreciate
their gentlemanly behavior. Louisville has
two of them this year Taylor and Shinnick,
THE total attendance at the sixteen game
playei in the four leading associations or
the opening on Saturday was 6t,S56. Th'
Players League took ths lead, with 81 ,SS5
nearly half OF all. the Maternal League came
next, with l7,2OI, the Atlantic Association
third, with 1890, and the American Asso
ciation last, with 546j.