The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-12
THE NATIONAL GAME,

ALL of the Western Association teams are
strong.
Wow DER AuE, of St. Louis, is losing money
ON his team.
WASHINGTON has record of eleven con
secutive victories
THE expenses Of the Chicago League team
are over $500 game,
| PRINCETON defeated Yale at baseball, by
one run to none at Princeton,
BIRD, of Washington is said to be mar
Vicious thrower from right field,
| POWERS is as quick as a fash in handling
the ball for Baltimore on first,
DALRYMPLE is once more to be member
of the Pittsburg League team.
THE attendance of ladies at ball games ex
GELS that of any former season,
SHINpLE refused the captaincy OF the Phil
adelphia Players League Club.
ROCHESTER has gotten team work and sac.
riilce hitting down to a fine point.
GEORGE MILLER is doing decidedly the
best playing for Pittsburg's League team.
LADIES' DAY is becoming general institu
ton in many of the large baseball centres
THE Cincipnatis' old nickname, "quitters,'
has followed them into the National League,
| ARcHITEcTURALLy, the Brooklyn Brother
hood grand stand eclpsss anything in base
ball.
ONLY two errors in fourteen games is
| Bauers record on the Brooklyn Players
| team.
1T is claimed for Widner, of Columbus
| that he is the best fielding pitcher in the
country.
BosroS has more left-banded pitchers than
any other Brotherhood Club-Madden, Kill
roy, Daley
PETE BROWNING, of the Cleveland Play,
ers' team, uses the longest bat OF any one
playing ball.
In Kelly Stovey and Brown, Boston has
trio of base runners unequaled in any other
Brotherhood Club.
BROWN, of the Boston Brotherhood, has
made more runs than hits. He has patience
and waits for the ball.
IT is about settled that Dick Johnston, OF
last years Bostons, will be a member OF the
New York Players team.
CAPTAIN ANsoN, of Chicago, is still the
hard worker of old He is or the coach line
all the time when his team is al bat.
ORoURKE, of the New York Players
team, has played big ball in past seasons,
but this year he surpasses all his previous
work.
JOYCE, of the Brooklyn's Players team, is
one of the most serviceable men in the base
ball business. That is the way Ward speaks
well of him.
PETE BROWNING is as much feature of
the Cleveland Brotherhood team as Latham
is of Chicagos. He is big favorite with
the crowds, too.
ONLY one man has stolen base with
Kelly, OF the Boston Brotherhood Club team,
behind the bat. He caught in seven games
without an error.
THE probability is that Washington will
never again be found in National League
company. The American Association is the
proper place for Washington.
DESPITE the poor showing which the Chi.
cago team made in Brooklyn and this city,
the opinion prevails that they will win ths
Players League championship.
CANTON, Ohio, has the two tallest men
acting as battery in this country. Their
combined length is thirteen feet. Young IS
the pitcher and Kellogg the catcher
WARD, Bauer, Joyce and Orr, of the Brook
lyn Players team, make wonderful infield
and prove that team work will win against
the finest singe-hand players on earth.
NOBODY that goes to the Players League
games need expect to see dull pitchers
Strike-out game. The batting is such as to
make lively game certainty always.
THE stockholders of the Pittsburg Ma.
tional League Club are considering two offers
for the purchase of their franchise and team.
The offers are said to be from Columbus and
Indianapolis.
PITCHER COUGHING, of the Chicago
League Club, has a very deceptive outcurve
1t is so much so, in fact that Catcher Kit
fridge often miscacuates how far the ball
is going from the plate