Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-09
THE NATIONAL GAME,

AA " u 4ON AL
THE Cleveland Club has released Pitcher
EWING is now New York's most reliable
pitcher.
THE st. Louis Club has released Catcher
Darling.
VIAU has of late been Clevelands only win
ing pitcher.
BROWNING. of Cincinnati, is troubled with
lame throwing arm
WARD. OF Brooklyn, may cover second base
regularly next season.
THE Bostons say the Louisville grounds are
the finest TO play on in the Association.
WILNoT and Pfeffer carry OF the bulk
OF Chicago's base-stealing honors.
PITCHERS BARR and young GARRISON have
been released by the New York Club.
FoCTZ, OF Brooklyn, seems to have re-
tanned considerable of his former pitching
skill.
No money is to be spared to make next
seasons Cleveland team as strong as any in
the land
WITHOUT Rusie and Buckley the New
ork team would have been a sorry spectacle
this year.
THE most reliable pitchers in the country
to-day are Rusie, Nichols, Mullane and
Hutchinson.
In addition to Quinn, Staley and Stovey
have resigned with Bostou'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 the baseball world. His
name is scarcely ever mentioned.
RADFoRD's luck still clings to him. He
VIII once more be a member of a champion
boston team, lust : he was hack in
1888
IEBEAU, of Cleveland. and Bassett OF
New Y ork, are the only League third base
men who are accepting over ninety chances
in 100.
IN Boston the memory of George Wright
is so enshrined in the hearts of old-timers
that his work is still made the standard for
all short-stops
HE star system has received crushing
blow this year Hereafter mon who play
ball will be the "stars," and not men who
have played bal.
IN Lynch, Gaffney, McQuade, Hurst and
Ensle the League has the finest and most
efficient staff of umpires it ever had 1t
would be hard to excel
TEN of the New Works have not made a
home run this season, six of them have yet to
make triple and five of them are without
double to their credit.
kITTRIDGE, of Chicago, is one of the quick
estthrowlng catchers playing ball. With
him behind the bat, runners generally hug
their bases pretty tightly.
SHAROTT, the clever New York League
pitcher, who broke his arm early in the sea-
son, says he is all right now and will be able
to pitch as Well as ever next year.
Young TAYLOR, who dwells on Staten
island and has the making Of a great pitcher,
has signed with New York The boy pitched
a grand game against the Pittsburgs.
ANsoN's friends are shocked at the old
war horses recent work. The great captain
IS unquestiOnably getting old and stiff, and
he does not handle grounders SO well as of
old.
The most remarkable feature of the
League season has been the inexplicable and
absolute iet-down of the New Yorks in bat
ting. No team in the League has been bat
ting so weakly.
THE luckiest man in baseball this year has
been Buck" Ewing, of the New Yorks.
What other player in the profession could
have drawn about 800 per month for doing
practically nothing?
AT Carson, New, Ralph r. Stanley was
killed at baseball game by being struck on
the neck by ball. He fell on his knees,
arose, tried to run, but pitched forward on
Ills face and died in three minutes.
GERMoN, the popular little Maryland
pitcher, won twenty-six of the thirty-three
games he pitched for Buffalo, N. Y, this
year. This is a record unequaled by any
pitcher in any league, except Hutchinson, of
Chicago.
wELL-KNowN playwright has presented
to Captain Arson, Of the Chicago League
team, plan to write play founded on
baseball, just as Boucicaults "Jllt' is on
horse-racing, and has suggested that Arson
play the hero. He says that Arson seemed
to fall in with the idea.
NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.