Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-28

GRIFFIN, Of Brooklyn, leads the League in
sacrifice hits.
In Cincinnati they consider Dickey John
son the king of outfelders
=, BOTH of the Boston clubs are ahead of
tnelr expenses 50 far this season.
LONG JOHN EWING, of the New Yorks, has
pltcned three complete shutouts this season.
THERE are four players in the Chicago
CIuo who have made one hundred hits this
season.
In Merritt the Chicagos have secured an
otter promising catcher. He is cool, pIucky
and reliable.
BOB BARR, the new pitcher secured by the
New York Club comes from the Buffalo
Eastern League Club.
TIN KEEFE, released by the New Yorks,
has been signed to pitch for the Pkiladel-
phias the remainder of the season
SINCE the palmy days of Ezra Sutton no
man has ever thrown to first with the speed
and accuracy that Nash of Boston has this
season.
ONE OF the Chicago players said that
Hutchinson had held the team up this sea-
son, and that without him Ansons men
would not be better than fourth.
HE Plttsburgs have been defeated sixteen
times by one run. aud been victorious six
times. They have played seven ten-inning
games this season and won only one of them.
DAHLEN has proven to be another great
al-around player. He has been PLAYING
third base, left field and short stop for the
Chlcagos. In Boston he made some heavy
hits.
Ii pitcher gives Hamilton base on hits
it Is almost certainty that he will steal
second. He is the high-pricad man of the
Phlll1es, but he is winning ball player and
worth the money.
The fight for the National League cham
n in I,
game A few days ago but four points sepa-
rated the three leaders-the Chicagos Bos-
tons and New Yorks
CATCHER DALEY, of Brooklyn, has taken
wonderful up among League batters, and
ne Is not only leading his team but he is only
surpassed by Hamilton, of Philadelphia, and
Herman, of New York
to see who will catch the most games this
season. The Philadelphia, up to recent
date, had caught in seventy-six and the
Cleveland backstop in seventy eight.
In the League there have been eighty-two
single run victories. eighteen extra inning
games and thirty-three shutouUs. The Asso-
cation clubs have had seventy-nine single
figure victories, twenty-five extra inning
games and thirty-three shutouts.
JAMES WOLF, of the Louisville Club has
been given his unconditional release He
was found inefficient in batting and fielding
on account of being too fat. Shelhasse, the
Evansville catcher, has been signed. He
caught part of last season with the Boston
Brotherhood team.
THERE has been good deal of experiment.
Ing this year among the Association teams.
Baltimore, however, has tried the fewest
players, having signed but fifteen. Columbus
has had eighteen, st. Louis nineteen. Boston
{ and Philadelphia twenty each, Cincinnati
twenty-five, Louisville twenty-nine and
Washington thirtv-tWO
A MOST amusing incident occurred at
Ebensburg, Penn, che other day. The home
team was three runs behind in the ninth l..
Two men struck out, three men on bases,
when the ball was struck bv the batter over
the fence on to the road close by where
Father Christy's big dog lay The centre
fielder jumped the fence and after the ball,
but the dog would not let him touch it.
While all this was taking place the three
men on bases as we'll as the batter went home
and won the game
NATIONAL. LEAGUE RECORD