Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-06-27
THE NATIONAL GAME.

PHILADELPHIA is the banner city for at
tendance.
Nanti-mustache epidemic israging among
ball teams.
Ex-AssOCIATLOs timber has shown UP we'll
this season.
NEW HAVEN is playing the strongest gains
of all the Atlantic clubs.
EXPLAINING games abound in the Amer
lean Association this year.
THE best of feeling and entire unity of
purpose prevail in the Players League.
DUNLAP, recently released by the Pittsburg
League Club is still gentleman Of leisure.
In Denver, Col, a batsman making a
home run hit receives shower Of silver dol
lars.
VIAU, of Cincinnati, has recovered the
drop ball he used so effectively two years
ago.
SEVENTEEN men now playing with the
League have been in the business ten or more
years.
EsTERBOOK is the most timely batsman on
the New York League team if not in the en-
tire League.
SIX offers were made for Kelly, the Pitts
burg League left-felder, as soon as his release
was made public.
DENNY, of the New York League team,
has fallen off in batting. In nine games he
only made one hit.
THE admission at st. Louis has been re-
duced to twenty cents. This is done by sell
ing ticket and score card for quarter.
THE feat of running from first to third
base on an infeld hit is one Of the plays of
which Long, of the Boston League team,
boasts.
Tom DAILY is catching in great form for
the Brooklyn Club of the National League,
and he strengthens that team in a heretofore
weak spot.
TIM KEEFE, of the New York Brotherhood
Club, is pitching better ball this season than
ever. His slow ball with fast motion is do
ing the work.
GLAsscocK pays shortstop Long, of the
Boston League, big compliment. He says
Long is the best man that ever played short
Tor any team"
RUsIE is getting to be the terror of bats
men, who say that to be hit by the New York
League Clubs star pitcher, is almost as bad
as being punctured by MIME ball.
New HAVEN Conn, is just at present the
best drawing city in the American Associa-
ton. The crowds there number from 20GO
to 5000 in these palmy days Of leadership
JOYCE, of the Brooklyn Brotherhood, has
got 80 bases on balls in % games. This is
record for the country. He had made q
runs on IS hits. His hits include three
doubles and four triplets.
WARD, Of the Brooklyn Brotherhood team,
mas Oeen nned $50 by GunnIng-$2O IN the
New York and SO in the Boston game. The
shortstop has been playing ball twelve years
and this was his first experience.
A CROWD of 1000 saw the worst umpiring
ever done in Denver, Col, in game between
Denver and Minneapolis, and at the con-
cluson of the game the author of the un-
popular decisions was chased out of town.
His name was Blogg, and he used the fire
marshars horse and buggy, driven at full
speed, to aid in his escape.
ANOTHER evidence of the uncertainties of
baseball In the New York Brotherhood
team, Whitney voluntarily, actuated simply
by friendship, exchanged places with Short
stop Hatfield so as to give the latter a final
chance to redeem himself. Now Hatfield
seems to be fixture at third, and Whitney
is resting himself on the shelf.
IN 1889, at its first AS games, the National
League clubs drew 430 033 people-an aver
age OF 302S. At 147 games this year the
same League has drawn 21S, 913, an average
of 14SS, and the Players League at IA games
has drawn $50, Isl, an average of 233S people
to game. Over 100. O00 more people have
seen the games this year than did in 1889.