Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
THE NATIONAL GAME.

DUFFY, Of Boston, leads the Association IN
sacrifice hitting.
AMONG the League batters, Browning, Of
Cincinnati is second.
THE American Association has had three
Presidents within year.
PHILADELPHIA has beaten the Pittsburgs
In five games by one run.
GRIFFN was the first Brooklyn man to
make one hundred safe hits.
REILLY, of Pittsburg, is playing by all
odds, the worst first base in the League.
LONG now leads the Boston League team
in batting, run-getting and base-stealing.
CURVED balls have been used less this
season than any time since their discovery.
"GLAss ARM" ball players is the term now
used on man drawing salary on past
reputation.
FOREMAN is the only one of the Washing
ton pitchers with more victories than defeats
to his credit.
MYERS, Philadelphia's second basemen,
has never been know to make a safe hit on
the Cincinnati grounds.
PITCHER McGILL has been effective for
St. Louis, winning sixteen and losing six
games up to a recent date.
WHEN Hutchinson is in the box for the
Chicagos the players move about with per-
feet confidence of winning.
BROOKLYN seems to have gone all to pieces
in the pitching department. Not one Of the
clubs four high-salaried pitchers is doing
good work.
The Cincinnati Leaguars are the hest paid
lot OF ball players Cincinnati ever harbored
and they are playing the worst ball ever
seen on the League grounds.
CLEVELAND, Pittsburg and Philadelphia
have hit Rusie, of New ork, hardest this
season. More recently, however, he has
been roughly handled by all opposing teams.
HAMILTON, of the Philadelphias, is leading
the League in batting with percentage OF
$40. He has stolen seventy-six bases in
100 games. Latham, of Cincinnati, Is eight
behind him.
MANAGER MUTRIE, of the New Yorks,
says more glass armed and MANNED baseball
players are being carried along on the pay
rolls OF the different Association and League
teams this year than has ever been the case
since he has figured in the baseball arena.
The Boston Association team can fairly
claim to be model organization The men
have all been sobriety itself, and not player
has conducted himself in an improper or un-
seemingly manner. This will also apply to
the Athletic, New York and Chicago teams.
JOHN EWING, of the New Yorks, has
better percentage of victories than Rusie.
ssLong john has won sixteen out of twenty.
out of forty-five. Chicago's reliable Hutch
inson has the best record. having won thirty
five out of forty-seven games.
CATCHER HARRINGTON thinks Crane, of
Cincinnati, one OF the best pitchers he ever
supported. ''It's a pleasure to catch his
pitching" says Jerry, '.for he can put the
ball where he wants it. From his easy
movements you wouldn't think he was going
to send the balls over with any speed, but TIL
promise you they come sailing in like a
rocket"
THE New Yorks have been practicing all
this season at placing the bali with man on
first base, and have been fairly successful.
The batter, with man on first base, can tell
pretty well vino is going to cover second
base, whether the second baseman or short
stop, and that leaves him either one loophols
or smother. The Boston Association team
has this style of playing down finer than any
other team.