Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-22
THE NATIONAL GAME.

1nh ~ u 11UN AL CAm6.
CoLu,nUs has the highest pricsd men In
the Association
VERY few extra inning games have been
played this year.
TIE Players League is stiT outdrawins the
National League.
LEAGUE clubs all around are releasing men
'-to reduce expenses"
THE Brooklyn Players infield is chain
lightning on double plays
LONG. of Baltimore, Is the best run getter
in the Atlantic Association.
SIxTY-oNE Games in the Players League
have been won by single run.
BUFFALO and Cleveland are the poorest
base running teams in the Players League
ZIMNER. Of Cleveland, has now caught i'm
eighty-three successive championship games
RAY, OF Baltimore, is considered by many
the fastest runner 70 first base in the coun-
try.
GORE, of the New York Players was lie
first man in either league TO make 100
runs.
The New York Players in their three
games in Chicago appeared to nearly 1900
people.
BURDocK. the second baseman, has signed
with the Wilmington Club and viii act as
Captain.
JOE GERHARDr and Jack Nelson are play
ing as lively ball as the liveliest kids in the
country.
KRocK, who has been released by Buffalo,
is said TO have received $500 for pitching
three games.
PAUL HINES, once one Of the great League
batsmen, is now away down among the tail
enders in batting.
NIKE KELLY, Of the Players League, Is
doing good work as Boston's short field, de-
spite bad finger.
CAPTAIN HECKER has succeeded President
J. Palmer ONeil in the management OF the
Pittsburg League Club
BENNETT, Of Boston, is Leading the League
catchers, and Ewing, Of New York, holds the
prize among the Players
PITCHER LovErr is entitled TO the bulk Of
the credit for the position Brooklyn occupies
to-day in the League race.
THERE has never been so few exhibition
games played between major and minor
league clubs as this season.
NASH, of Boston, leads the Players
League in sacrifice hits, his record being
thirty-one in eighty-hve games.
RICHARD K. Fox, the sporting editor, who
is now in England, thinks baseball will In
time supplant cricket in the Queens do
mains.
IT is the intention of the Boston League
management to have Clarkson pitch In almost
every game when the clubs come down to the
finish line.
JOHN NJ. WARD. of Brooklyn, has made
more base hits than any man in the Players
League and also more than any League or
| Association batsman.
PITCHER YOUNG, Of Canton, Ohio, now
has the pitching record for the season OF
I 1890. He disposed of McKeesport without a
hit and struck out eighteen men.
ROGER Common, of the New York Players
| team, is making break for home-run batting
| honors. Nearly every game big Roger hits
the ball at least once for four bases.
GUMBERT is about the only Boston pitcher
who is always ready to pitch, and is in good
trim. 1t is hard, indeed, to say where the
Players Club would have been without
| him.
JACK Rowe, player and part proprietor
| of the Buffalo Club, is authority for the
statement that the American Association and
| the Players League clubs will contend for
the worlds championship and that all Of the
| clubs in the former organization will play
exhibition games with the Players League
| clubs at the termination Of the present
championship season.