The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-07-29
THE NATIONAL GAME.

CHICAGO has won all her extra-inning
games.
Noisy coaching occasionally rattles Rusis,
os the New Yorks.
WHISTLER is once more playing brilliant
game for New York
BALTIMORE draws the largest grand stand
attendance in Boston.
WARDS WONDERS" are beginning to
show staying qualities.
BUFFINToN has recovered his skill and Is
pitching good ball for Boston.
In Bennett and Camel the Bostons have
the best pair of catchers in the League.
TIERNAN, Of New York, has made mora
home runs than any player in the League.
BOWMAN, Chicago's new catcher, is said to
look enough like the old man to be his twin
brother.
The Boston League Club has quite quar-
tet of pitchers in Clarkson, Nichols, Getzein
and Stanley.
ONE of the stipulations Of Pitcher STRAIT
tons contract with Louisville is that he need
not play on Sunday.
KELLY and Comiskey, Of the Association,
now excel Anson and Ward, Of the League,
as drawing cards in Boston.
A PHILADELPHIA-NEw YORK game was
remarkable for the fact that first baseman
Brown had only two put-outs
THOSE who are in position to know what
they are talking about say that young
Sharott, of New York, will never be able
to pitch again.
The Louisvilles have played twenty -four
different players this season and the Wash
ingtons have tried twenty-seven, and the
season is young.
DENNY is once more fielding in something
like his old form, but his throwing Is still off
color and uncertain. He seems to lack cont1-
dence in his accuracy.
NICHOLS, Of Boston, has copied Rusie's
swing in delivering the ball. Sanders, OF
tho Athletics, occasionally employs the same
delivery. He calls it the Nashville deliV-
cry"
For Stovey, of tho Boston League, to
strike out five times in one game is some
thing unprecedented. 1t is also record for
the season. 1t happened in Boston-Brook-
lyn game.
BUCK" EWING, of the New Yorks, has
had his muscle-bound arm singed by a
veterinary surgeon, and thinks he will soon
be able to play ball again. Blistering is al
ways the last resort.
THREE men on the Boston Association
team-Brown, Joyce and Duffy--have stolen
1876 bases up to a recent date, while the
fifteen members Of the Boston League team
had, at the same time, but ninety-ive to
their credit.
RosToN's team is the highest salaried in
the League, followed by Brooklyn, New
York, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Cleveland,
Cincinnati and Chicago, in the order named.
Between the first-named and the last there is
q vast difference.
THERE have been fewer releases in the
major leagues this season than ever before,
due to the fact that althoug gh many clubs
are carrying unsatisfactory men, they are
unable to release them owing to the dearth
of rising talent with which to replace the old
men.
COLUMBUS has developed one az the pitcn-
ing surprises Of the year. 1t is young Dolan,
whom TIE Cincinnati League Club tried late
last season and then released. His chief de-
pendence Is great speed, and he knows a trick
or two about deceiving batslnen. He Is sue
cessful against big and little alike.
WARDS errors on foreign grounds have
been due to the fact that short field at East
ern Park is hard as a rock, and hot balls
have to be taken on the second bound. On
other grounds the short field is different, and
to attempt to play the position the same as
at Eastern Park causes the errors. All OF
Wards errors in Boston were due to the ball
getting away on the second bound.