Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-15
THE NATIONAL GAME,

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THIS has been a great year for triple
plays.
The Pittsburg League team won Eve
games in six weeks
HALF the season is over now and the clubs
are on the homestretch.
BEIZEIS, OF Bostons leads the League In
the pitching box in fielding.
CAPTAIN WARD. OF the Brooklyn Players
Club, has made rs base hits.
PITCHER CRANE stands at the foot Of the
York Players team in fielding.
TEEpresent Louisville team Is the strongest
which has ever represented that city.
THE Philadelphia League team was the
first to win fifty championship games
ARLIE LATHAM has been transferred from
Chicago to the Players League team.
Won DER ABE says that Cau.pau is the best
captain that the St Louis Browns ever had.
BRoDY, of the Boston League team,
played forty consecutive games without an
error
CAPTAIN KELLY says the Boston Play
ers' Club has made S6O, 600 already on the
season.
THERE have been three tie games in the
National League and but one in the Players
League.
HERMAN LONG, of the Boston League
tsam, continues TO make marvellous plays at
Hhort field.
ming pitcher. Van Haltren seems to have
lost his grip.
THERE is a wonderful dearth of short stops
in the country. Many clubs are on the look
out for good men.
THE Louisvilles are an evenly-balanced
team, who are capable or putting up a DASH
ing, hard-to-beat game.
THE conviction is gaining ground talat the
Players League ball could be deadened some
what to general advantage.
TAYLOR, of Louisville, is one of the finest
general players in the profession, and no
play or trick of the game escapes him, either.
MANAGER JIM MUrRIE, of the New York
League Club, says that the players now re-
ceiving from $1,000 to $4,000 viii be glad to
get $1,000 year hence.
THE season is still long enough to permit
the Pittsburg League team to hope to equal
Louisvilles never-to-be forgotten record of
Ill defeats in season.
KEEFE and Crane, of the New York Play
ers' Club, are poor fielding pitchers. Crane
comes near to losing every game he pitches
by wild throw at some critical juncture.
DAN BROUTHERS, the first baseman Of the
Boston Players, never fielded his position so
well as this season. His batting, though has
not been what was expected under the new
rules.
IN 303 games the National League clubs
scored 5000 runs, and in 293 games the
Players League made 4174 runs. This is
probably due to the more lively ball used by
the Brotherhood.
SECRETARY BRUNELL. of the Players
League has announced officially, that those
three Pittsburg- Boston games in which Hat
field participated have been thrown out and
will be played over October 6, z and 8.
~ ~, h. r
and less than dozen in the National League
had batting averages of 300 or over ND to a
recent date, which proves conclusively how
much harder the batting is in the new League
For the first time in years Won der Abe, of
st. Louis, has a team that needs no watch
ing. There is not drunkard nor tough ON
it, and off the field it is as nice looking q
crowd of young men as one could see any
where.
THE Pittsburg Players League Club has
been changed from cooperative organiza-
ton to a stock concern in order that each
shareholder could be levied upon for assess
ments when the club is not paying ex.
penses.
THE bouquet is fast going out of style as a
present to healthy ball player Out West
they have changed it to plug of tobacco.
The gold-heaGed cane and orioide watch are
now wrestling with the California diamond
in public favor
THE attempt to play ball by electric light
at Hartford, Conn.,, was turned into bur-
lesque. A soft ball was used, and the batters
only hunted it. All the felders played with
In the base lines. A large crowd was present
Duly four innings were playet he score
vas kopt.