Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-03
NO. 3.
THE NATIONAL GAME.


THE Cleveland Club has released Pitcher
Beatin.
EWING is now New Works most reliable
pitcher.
THE ST. Louis Club has released Catcher
Darling.
vIAu has Of late been Cieveland's only win
ing pitcher.
BROWNING, of Cincinnati, is troubled with
a lame throwing arm
WARD. of Brooklyn, may cover second base
regularly next season.
THE BoStons say the Louisville grounds aro
the finest TO play on ia the Association.
wILNoT and Pteffer carry of the bulk
OF Chicsgo's base-stealing honors
PTcHERs BARR and young GARRISON have
been released by the New York Club.
FoUrz. OF Brooklyn, seems 10 have re.
tanned considerable Of his former pitching
skill.
No money is to 30 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 pitchers in the country
today 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 Pittsburgs
and then lost one TO the BostonS.
KELLY OF the Boston League team, Is no
longer the idol Of tho baseball world His
namo is scarcely ever mentioned.
RApFoRp's luck stiI ohngs TO him. He
will once more be member Of a champion
Boston team, just as he was way back In
1883.
TKREAU, OF Cleveland. AMI 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 enshrned In tho hearts Of old-timers
that his work is still made tho standard for
all short-stops.
THE star system has received crushing
blow this year. Hereafter men who play
ball viii be the stars and not men who
have played ball.
4 In Lynch Gainey. McQuade. Hurst and
/ Emslie the League has the finest add most
efficient stat OF umpires it ever had lt
would be hard to excel.
Ten Of the New Works have not made n
home run this season. six Of them have vet 10
make triple and five Of them are without
/ double TO their credit.
KrTRIDGE, Of Chicago Is one OF the quick.
est-throwing catchers playing ball With
MIN behind the bat, runners generally hug
their bases pretty tightly.
/ SHARorT, the clever New York League
I pitcher, who broke his arm early In the SEA-
I son, says he is all right now aud will be ablo
to pitch as well rs ever next year.
/ You've TAYLOR, who dwells on Staten
/ island and has the making Of 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 unquestionnbly getting old and stin, aud
he does not handle grounders 80 well as Of
old
TuE most remarkable feature Of the
League season has been the iuexplcabe and
( absolute let-down Of the New horlts in bat |
ting. No team In tho League has been bat
ting NO weakly.
The luckiest man Ia baseball this year hAsI
been Buck" Ewing, Of tho New Yorks
What other player In the profession could
have drawn about 500 per month for doing
practically nothing2
AT Carson, Ne7., Ralph r. Stanley was
killed at a baseball game by being struck on
the neck by ball lie Tell on his knees,
= arcse, tried TO run, but pitched forward on
his face and died in three minutes.
GERMoa, tho popular little Maryland
pitcher. won twoHty,siy Of the tbirty-thrse
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 wELI~KNowS playwright has presented
N Captain Anson, of the Chicago League
team, plan 20 write n play founded on
baseball. just as Boucicaulrs "Jiiti Il on
play the hero. iIe says that Arson seemed
. 10 fall In with the idea