Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-09-12
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THERE have been seventeen. whitswashes I'm
! the Players League.
| THERE have been thirty-seven shut-outs in
/ the National League.
| CRANE and Connor now lead the New
| York Players In batting.
THE Omaha Club has released Pitcher Sow
| ders of last years Bostons.
THE New York Players Club has more
than paid expenses I'D to date
THE Boston League team has been good
drawing card only in Chicago.
IT cost the Cincinnati Club $500 TO secure
Catham's release from st. Louis.
GETzEIS, OF the Boston Leagua has an
1nlucky inning in about every game he
pitches
THE Pittsburg Club, OF the National
League. sent but nine men upon the recent
trip TO Chicago.
LOUISVILLE Is so baseball crezy that even
the one-legged boys scale the fence and fall
into the grounds.
WITH another strong pitcher Brooklyn
would stand a splendid chance for the Play
srs' League championship.
THE Cuban Giants the famous New Jer-
sey colored club, are going to California, and
they may keep on to Australia
PITCHER GUMBERT'S contract with the
Pittsburg League Club stipulates that he
shall only pitch In home games.
AS the season draws to a close there seems
to be noticeable increase in the attendance
at both the National League and the Broth
erhood games.
THERE is quite friendly dispute in the
Players League over the beauty of its vart-
Gus parks. Cleveland, Chicago and Brook
Ign all claim their own as the prettiest.
THE total attendance for the first 1863
Players League games played this year, ac-
cording to tQrnstile count, is T3S els, and for
the first 36S National League games
561, All.
MCPHEE, of Cincinnati, has probably
made more two-base hits than any other
League player. He Gas knocked out twenty
seven. He also made thirteen triples and
two home runs.
PHILADELPHIA, in the National League
has had the largest total attendance, 2O6, Ol6,
but, as this is a twenty-five cent city, 10000
wants to be taken away to bring them to the
same financial basis as the others.
DENNY, Glasscock and Bassett have fallen
off woefully in batting. The men who are
doing the best work for the New York League
Club ARE the youngsters who have no three
ysar contracts and princely salaries.
CAPTAIN RAYMOND, of Louisville, would
rank high as batter if hs did not work SO
much for the interest OF the club. He never
fails to make sacrifice, or at least attempt
games.
In the pitchers box John Ewing, of the
New York Players team, is without a rival
in exemplifying the poetry Of motion. Moth
ing could be more graceful than Johns evo-
lutions in the act of pitching the ball to the
batsman.
THE Boston team is the best home attrac-
ton, leading the Players League In total
attendance, but Wards Wonders, of Brook
Ign, are the best road attraction, having
drawn a larger total attendance than any
visiting team.
MANAGER HEcKER, of the Pittsburg
League Club had trouble finding uniform
for Pitcher Gibson. The lad is six feet two
inches, and weighs 100 pounds. If a ball
ever strikes him, the players will examine
the ball to seeif it cut.
ULASSCuCk, or EAa New York Traaoue
team, has a trick of running toward the
home plate when a man is on third and a
ball Is hit to the field. The idea is to confuse
the fielder and make him throw home with
the idea of retiring what he supposes Is the
base runner. Then the man on first can
easily get to second on the throw in.