The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-05-27
THE NATIONAL GAME,

TIE Clevelands have six left-handed h.tz
ters. O"''
game. LII
GRIFFIN is the best center fielder BROOKLYN
ever had.
GLAsscocK is doing great all-rourd work
for the New York Club.
KID" MADDEN, released by Boston, has
been signed by Baltimore.
l, GLASS arms are very fashionable among
the ball players at present.
The Columbus pitchers are to be PLAYED in.
turn this season, win or lose.
MINIATURES star pitcher, Davies, is
Known as the shadow twirler."
The team work of the Boston Association.
aggregation is well nigh perfect.
The once noted catcher, John Clapp, is
now policeman in Ithaca, N. Y.
CLEVELAND claims the fastest outfield in
the League in McLeer, Davis and Johnson.
The trouble with Mike Keliy's team; the.
Cincinnati Association club, is poor pitchers,
CLEVELAND objects to the hideous old
title Spiders" for her present tight little
team.
CAPTAIN ANsoN. Of the Chicagos,. is, do
ing well for his twenty-6r year on ths.dia-
mond
The famous Silver King, of st. Louis, will
receive salary Of 5000 for playing with
Pittsburg.
THE experiment OF baseball by electric
light, which has failed so often. is TO- beonce
more tried ia Dover, N. 81.
JERRY DENNY has been laid off by New
York for inferior work. Bassett is playing
third base for the present
JIM O'RoURKE, of the New Yorks, has
never been released by any club and he has
played for nineteen seasons.
CATCHER ROBINSON, Of Baltimore, was
the first player in the country this year to
make two home runs in one game
A CoNNELLsvILLE PENN fifteen-year.
old boy named Frank Murphy is reported
as able to throw ball l05h yards easily
THERE are three outfeld captains in the
ssociation-Duffy, of Boston: Wood, Of
the Athletics, and Visner, of Washington.
CLARKsoN, Of the Boston League, and
Radbourne, OF the Cincinnati League, have
received the worst drubbing SO far this
season.
The Association clubs seem to be divided
into two groups, and the battle for the lead
is between Baltimore, Boston, Louisville and
st. Louis.
The baseball season. which commences in
England about the middle of June, promises
to be far more interesting than any Of its
predecessors.
EVERY player on the New York team is a
offer any advice to anybody else as to what
, be should do.
HOY, che deaf-mute center fielder of the
o,,so auy, foil owl
ing gradually learned it by the new method
Of lip imitation.
OUTFIELDER DAVIS is doing great work
for Cleveland in the field and at the bat. He
is one of the few great players developed by
the League in fateful 1890.
mike" KELLY, Captain of the Cincinnati
Association team, was presented with q
horse and buggy at a recent game IN Bos-
ton. The present is the gift Of his Boston
friends.
IT doesn't seem to make any difference
what company Dan Rrouthers, now of the
Boston Association is in, he is always found
at or nesr the top Of the batting list. To-day
he leads the Association.
PITCHER STAGG, formerly Of the Yale Col
lege team, who has been secured as instruc-
tor of the Chicago University, will train a
team to represent the university in pro-
posed college league in the West
The games thus far this season in the Ma
tional League have shown that the clubs,
with, possibly. the exception Of Cincinnati,
are evenly matched, and the race for the
pennant bids fair to be the closest ever seen.
HARRY WRIGHT says Calvin will outlast
some of the young pitchers now coming to
the front. His pitching motion, he says,
does not wrench the arm. He has an easy
delivery, something on the straight arm
style