Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Buavss. Of Brooklyn, now leads the Leagus
In home runs
LOUISVILLE has lost but one extra-innins
game this season.
TIE Boston Players have new uniform OF
gray, with dark blue caps
NICHOLS is considered the fastest runner
Of the Boston League team
BRooKLYN was the first club In the Play
ers' League TO win fifty games
WHERE Is the pitcher who can go into Q
game and count on a victory this year.
RADBoURN has done the steadiest work Of
the Boston Players quintet of pitchers.
BOYLE and Conway. of the New York
League Club, have not pitched game this
season.
THE Brotherhood has already forced one
of the League clubs (PittsburG from its own
grounds
GIBSON, the Pittsburg League pitcher, Is
six feet two inches in height and weighs only
40 pounds.
SOME of the present National League play.
ers are booked already for Players League
berths next season.
NOTICEABLE is the frequent employment
of the double umpire system among minor
clubs. It's growing.
SYRACUSE is the best road team in the
Association. They can win far more games
abroad than at home.
FOURTEEN players in the Players League
have better batting average than the best
in the National League.
mo pitcher in the country uses many
curve balls with command and success as
Gus weighing, of the Brooklyns
PITCHERS, as rule, are not symmetrical;
they are more strongly developed on their
pitching side than on the other.
IT cost S45, 500 TO get the present Brooklyn
League Club together, that amount being
expended for players releases.
THE Players League umpires and captains
have again been instructed to do all within
their power to shorten the game.
THE New York League team Is now re-
duced to thirteen players, which is as many
players as any club ought to carry.
BESIDES the under studies and the super
numeraries the Players League has forty-fom
pitchers and the National sixty-one.
In the Players League the New York
pitchers have the most strike outs, 264; Chi
cago is second with 229 to hercredit.
ROGER CONNoR, of the New York Players
team, has the distinction of hitting the first
fair ball over the Cleveland grounds fence.
CLEVELAND has the poorest base-running
team in the League. The entire team has not
yet purloined anything near one hundred
bases.
JERRY DENNY, Of the New York League
third base this season. ehas made thirty
three errors in sixty-seven games.
WHILE the other fielders Of the Brooklyn
Players Club go to pieces at critical stages,
Second Baseman Louis Bierbaur stands up
like stone wall. He is playing magnificent
ball.
UNDER the contracts signed by the Players
q man Is fined $25 for his first offence in
drinking to excess $50 for the second, 500
for the third and expulsion if he does not
abandon his habits.
THE Cincinnati CLUB in Holiday, Nicol
throwing outfeld it ever had. Not one of
those feeders is sure Of getting man at the
plate, even on short throw.
ANsoN's number, twenty-one, in the bat
ting list of the National League this season,
with the greater part Of the famous old bats
men replaced by new and lighter men, Is
sight to make even the angels weep.
BASEBALL is getting a terrific hold in
Cuba, and promises to unsoat even bull
fighting. 1t is said to be strange to hear all
the terms of the game used in English by
q people who otherwise speak only Spanish.
J. B. MCCORMACK, who writes under the
non de plume Macon" declares that but
for slight imposed upon Mrs Helen Dauv-
ray Ward by Mrs. A. g. Spalding the Play
ers League movement might never have
been inaugurated.
MIKE KELLY, Captain Of the Boston Play
ers' team, has received the $40, 900 house and
lot which his friends and admirers purchased
for him. A fine-Iooking horse and carriage
billiard table, and bowling alley are also
included in the gift.