Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18
THE NATIONAL GAME,

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HAsLoS, OF Pittsburg. has playei in centr
held for eleven years
CoSSoR has struck out more times tGar
any OF the New Yorks.
HE Baltimore Club has reeasai Second
baseman Wise and Pitcher Blakelv.
The colored Gcrham team is credited with
having won forty-one successive games
LOUISVILLE has been cripplea through III,
SICKNESS OF Stratton and the lameneSs o,
Donovan.
The only uss Cleveland's team has been
this season was 20 help Chicago win the
League pennant
RHISEs, of the Cincinnati League, has not
pitched a winning game against the Pitts
burgs this season
DAVIES, the crack pitcher OF the Milwau.
kee Club is the son OF a minister ami will
not pitch on Sunday.
AN iron-bound contract with John B. Day
Is the thing that keeps Pitcher WEIGH on the
pay roll OF the New York Club
MCGILL. of the st. Louis Association, is
a great pitcher. He has the most per
picking curves of any left-hander in the
country.
ARTHUR CLARKsoS, of the New Yorks,
pitches good deal like his famous brother
John, OF the Bostons and also affects his
mannerisns.
The Cincinnati League Club released
Pitcher Radbourn too high salaried) and
signed Crane, upon many promises TO alb
stain from liquor.
BROUTHERs still leads the Boston ASsocia-
ton Club in batting, but Brown and Duffy
are close b ehind him. Five of the team have
over 300 in batting.
FIVE of the Boston Leaguers have now
over one hundred safe hits each: namely.
Inr1ry rob lta Nnuh
The latter leads the team in batting.
No more young players will be tried by
Chicago the rest of the season With
Hutchinson, VicSery and GumDert doing
good work the club is well fixed ell round
now.
MILLER, of Pittsburg, is the only major
league catcher who doesn't wear a chest pro-
tector. He persistently refuses to wear it
because he thinks it interferes with free
dom of movement.
THE New York Club has Pitchers Rusie,
John Ewing WEIGH, Sharrott, Barr, Clark
son and Coughlin under contract and has
made an offer to Daley, late of Boston, and
all this after allowing Keefe to go.
WHILE Baltimore and Washington were
disputing over Short Stop Ely, of the de-
fnnct Duluth Club, the Brooklyn League
Club stepped in and signed him; also Pitcher
Inks whom the Washington Club thought it
had secured.
BROUTHERS, Of the Boston Reds, is hitting
the ball this year as in the old Detroit days.
On the last Western trip he made record
for the longest hit at Columbus and Cincin-
natl. and recently he twice put the ball over
the right field fence on the home grounds.
THE value to pitcher of having strong
team back of him has been illustrated in the
case of EastOn, who was not able to do any
thing while in Columbus, but as soon as he
had a steady team like the ST. Louis Browns
back of him he is able to do excellent work.
WHILE Arson bears the reputation of be-
ing great baseball general, and is the all
towering element in the Chicago team, yet
the fact is that much of the brains or the
team are to be found in the man who plays
third base. If the history of this remarkable
club is ever written the chances are that full
credit for its success will not be given to that
sturdy and brainy ball player, Tom Burns,
to which he IS entitled.
THERE was a great eleven innings fight in
Chicago the other day between the local
team and the New YorkS, and darkness put
an end to the game, neither side having
scored a run. There was only one error
made on either side, and that was a ball
dropped by Pfeffer after a long hard run.
There were no passed balls and no wild
pitches; in fact, the game was as nearly per-
feet as has been seen in some time.
NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.