Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-11-07
THE NATIONAL GAME.

CINCINNATI lost SIS, 600 on the season.
THE baseball war Is probably at an end.
Next season the Players will not use the
lively ball.
DETROIT won the American Athletic
Union pennant
DEAF MUrE7 HOY win play with Gin
cinnau next season.
CALIFORNIA viii be once more overrn
with ball players this winter.
GKrzEIS of the Boston League team, VIII
wear Players uniform next season.
THERE were more tie games in the Ameri-
can Association this year than ever before.
BosToN's League Club has offered Pat To
beau 5000 to play in the Hub next season.
PITCHER GARRISON of the Boston League
Club, wound up the season most ingloriOusly.
PRESIDENT ANDREWS, Of Brown Univer-
sity, has given $50 TO the college baseball
club.
IT is estimated by the Pittsbnrg critics
that the Players team Of that city lost about
$4,000
THERE is some talk OF getting Ed VIII
hanson to pay short stop for the Boston
Players League team next season.
MEssRs. CURRY AND McQUAID were
agreed upon as umpires for the worlds series
between the Brooklyns and Louisvil!es.
THE season of 1890 finds the game almost
III the NuSl, dLltA llLC pldttl VI
less Importance than they almost ever were.
LOUISVILLE was not permitted to hold the
record long with Ill defeats, but il is not
likely that any team will soon pass Pitts
burg's lib.
THE famous ex-pitcher Of Yale. Stage, is
at present in charge Of the athletic depart
ment at Williston, and coaches the foot ball
team four times a week.
In the National League there were four
II.
of twelve four of thirteen and one Of tif-
teen, making twenty-nine in all.
DAVID ORR. first basemau Of the Brook
lyn Players Club, was stricken with partial
paralysis while at Remove, Penn, where the
club was to play ali exhibition game.
TRERE are nine National League pitchers
who held their opponents down to less than
two earned runs per game, while only one
Players League pitcher has such record.
IF old Pete Browning, of Cleveland, Is
able to stand third among Players league
batters does it not show that the Players
pitchers are not bit better than those the
Association has had?
LUBY, of Chicago, leads the League pitch
ers in the matter of consecutive victories,
having twenty straight to his credit. This
surpaSses McCormick's famous record OF
nineteen straight for Chicago.
STovEY, of the Boston Players, again
demonstrated this season that he is the
champion base-runner of the country. He
stole about twenty more bases than any 9TH
er player in either of the three big leagues.
THE League has come out of the fight with
its colorS still at the masthead. 1t must be
taken into consideration that not quite a
year ago the League was baseball organ
ization without players. To-day it has as
many players as ever, and some OF the best
baseball talent that ever played profession
ally.
THE managers of both the New York Ma.
tional League and New York Players
League Clubs met together recently and con.
solidated. So far as that city is concerned
there will be but one baseball club next
year. The financial arrangement Of the
consolidated clubs, it is said, capitalizes them
at $3.50, 900, each club having an equal share
of stock