The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-05
THE NATIONAL GAME.

PrrssuRa is searching the earth for a
abort stop.
DAILY, of Brooklyn, is the highest -salaried
catcher in the profession.
CARUTHERs, of Brooklyn, is the heaviest
, batter of any Of the League pitchers.
WEAVER, Of the IIouisvilles, has more
,, assists than any Association outfelder
! DALRYMPLR, the old-time Chicago fielder,
leads the Western Association in batting.
THE League leader, New York, is also at
the top in batting. Brooklyn is second.
SrovEY's batting is winning the small
score games for the Boston League team.
THERE are few men who reach first base
as often in a season Of Hoy, OF the ST..
Louis.
PITCHER STAGe, late Of Yale. is to be
physical director at Mortified University,
Chicago.
THE Washington Club has released Paul
Hines. He was charged with making trouble
in the team.
MILLER, of Pittsburg, has lost more games
for his team than any other one player in
the League.
TKRNAN, of the New Yorks, has more
total base hits to his credit than any other
player in the League.
JOHN BURDoCK, the we'll known second
basemen, is playing finely for Salem, Of the
New England League.
LATHAM Of Cincinnati, leads the League
in the number of bases stolen. Hamilton,
of Philadelphia, ranks next.
THREE-FoURrHs of the players Of the West
ern Association are ex-players Of the League
! and American Association.
THERE are said to be seventy-eight base
ball cubs in England and seventeen in
Scotland In Australia there are over one
hundred.
V1AU, of Cleveland, recently performed
the feat Of striking Anson, Of Chicago, out
on three pitched balls All of the strikes
were called.
HUTCHINSON, Of Chicago, still leads the
Leagues list Of winning pitchers, with
Clarkson, OF Boston, and Rusie, of New York,
close behind.
AN umpire who recently came sailing out
of the West is authority for the statement
! that baseball players in small Kansas towns
wear revolvers in their belts
WHAT hole New York would be in now
bad the club released any one Of It's many
players! It would seem as if even eighteen
men were none too many to win pennant
CINCINNATI has three best advertised base
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written about mike" Kelly, "Arlie" Latham
and "Pietro Gladiator" Browning than
any other three players in the business.
DONOVAN, Of the Louisvilles, who has been
batting so finely this year, was the first man
in the country to make 100 hits. Donovan
batted safely in eighteen straight games this
year, and this record was made of hrst-class
pitcners.
ALTHOUGH q mute, Hoy, Of st. Louis
makes great efforts to speak and has many
peculiar cries and mutterings by which he
makes himself understood. His attempts at
kicking at the umpire's decisions are uniqde
and amusing. He can now say rotten" to
the umpire when bad strike is called.
LATHAM, Of the Cincinnati League, is re-.
marsable In that he seldom is incapacitated
for play, He is never troubled with glass
arms, bruised hands or Charley horse, the
affections which most baseball flesh is heir
to. One reason for this is that he is an ath-
lete from tip to toe, and always keeps in con-
dition.
THE Boston Association team have made
more long hits than any other club in the
country, 1913 Of them, including ninety-nine
doubles, sixty-nine triplets and twenty-five
home runs. St. Louis has made 102 doubles
and thirty-two home runs, but only twenty
fve three-baggers. The Athletics rank sec
ond In home runs with twenty-six, and Sec
ond in three-baggers with ffty-sevsn.
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