Passaic City record., 1891-10-03
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE NATIONAL GAME.
THE Cleveland Club has released Pitches
Beatin.
EWING is now New Yorks most reliable
pitcher.
THE st. Louis Club has released Catcher
Darling.
VIAU has of late been Cleyeland's only win
ing pitcher.
BROWNING, of Cincinnati, is troubled with
lame throwing arm.
WARD. of Brooklyn, may cover second base
regularly next season.
The Bostons say the Louisville grounds are
the finest to play on in the Association.
WILMoT and Pfeffer carry off the bulk
Of Chicago's base-stealing honors.
PITCHERS BARR and young Clarkson have
been released by the New York Club
FoUrz, of Brooklyn, seems to have re-
tanned considerable of his former pitching
skill.
No money is to be spared to make next
seasons Cleveland team as strong as any in
the land.
WITHOUT Rusie and Buckley the New
York team would have been sorry spectacle
this year.
THE most reliable pitcher: in the country
to-day are Rusie, Nichols, Mullane and
Hutchinson.
In addition to Quinn, staley and stovey
have resigned with Boston's League Club for
next season.
PITCHER BALDWIN, of Pittsburg, won
eleven straight games from the Pittsburgh
and then lost one to'the Bostons.
KELLY, of the Boston League team, is no
onger the idol of the baseball world. His
2ame is scarcely ever mentioned.
RADFoRD's luck still clings to him. He
will once more be a member of a champion
Boston team, just as he was way back in
1883.
TEBEAU, of Cleveland. and Bassett, of
New York, are the only League third base
men who are accepting over ninety chances
in 100.
In Boston the memory of George Wright
is SO enshrined in the hearts of old-timers
that his work is still made the standard for
all short-stops.
blow this year. Hereafter mon who play
ball will be the ''stars," and not men who
have played ball.
In Lynch, Gaffney, McQuade, Hurst and
Emslie the League has the finest and most
efficient staff of umpires it ever had. 1t
would be hard to excel.
TEN of the New Yorks have not made
home run this season, six of them have yet to
make triple and five of them are without
double to their credit.
KrTTRIDGE, of Chicago. is one Of the quick
est-throwing catchers playing ball. With
him behind the bat, runners generally hug
their bases pretty tightly.
SHARoTT, the clever New York League
pitcher, who broke his arm early in the sea-
son, says he is all right now and will be able
to pitch as we'll as ever next year.
Young TAYLOR, who dwells on Staten
Island and has the making of a great pitcher.
has signed with New York The boy pitched
grand game against the Pittsburgs.
ANsoN's friends are shocked at the old
war horses recent work. The great captain
Is unquestionably getting old and stiff, and
he does not handle grounders SO well as of
DID,
THE most remarkable feature Of the
League season has been the inexplicable and
absolute let-down of the Now Yorks in bat
ting. No team in the League has been bat
ting so weakly.
THE luckiest man in baseball this year has
been "Buck" Ewing, of the New Yorks.
What other player in the profession could
have drawn about 500 per month for doing
practically nothing2
AT Carson, New, Ralph r. Stanley was
killed at baseball game by being struck on
the neck by ball. He fell on his knees,
arose, tried to run, but pitched forward on
his face and died in three minutes.
GERMoN, the popular little Maryland
pitcher, won twenty-six of the thirty-three
games he pitched for Buffalo, N. Y, this
year. This is a record unequaled by any
pitcher in any league, except Hutchinson, OF
Chicago.
A wEL-KNowN playwright has presented
to Captain Anson, of the ChicaSD League
team, a plan to write play ounded on
baseball, just as Boucicault's Jilt' is on
play the hero. He says that Anson seemed
b fall in with the idea.