Passaic City record., 1891-09-05
THE NATIONAL GAME.

4 CHICAGO seems invincible.
s THE market for ball players ia becoming
glutted.
CnIcAeos new pitcher, Nicol. is quite
batsman.
SHANNON has taken charge of the Wash.
ington team.
BENNETT, OF the Boston League Club, has
been catching since 1875.
In Boston they think Stricker is the quick
est man now playing ball.
DENNY, once the king Of third basemen,
has been released by Cleveland.
IT interferes with most baseball players
good work to be captain Of a team.
DALRyMPLE, who once led the League
batters, is hitting harder than ever.
HAMILTON, of Philadelphia, leads the
League in batting and base running.
SUTcLIFFE, of the Washingtons, leads
the country in batting. He has an average
of over 400.
CALVIN. of Pittsburg. has been pitching
ball since 1874, and never knew what it was
to have lame arm.
LOUIS BIERBAUER, Captain and second
baseman of the Pittsburgh League Club, has
asked for his release.
BASEBALL has taken q strong hold on the
Cuban public. There are over seventy-five
clubs in that little island.
THERE is trouble in the New York team
and Connor and Glasscock want their re-
leases. They don't like Ewing.
ANsoN, of Chicago, is generally very
lucky in his finds" His last, Vickery and
Shriver, apparently are one Of his luckiest.
DESPITE the Rusie-worship of the New
Workers, John Ewing, when in condition, is
the most effective pitcher in the New York
team.
THE New York Club has signed Pitcher
Arthur Clarkson, late OF the New Haven
Club. He is brother of the famous John
Clarkson.
BROWNING, of Cincinnati, has lined 'em
out this year in great style. and now holds
third highest place in the batting list of the
National League.
THE quickest game on record was played
at Albany, N. Y, the other day. 1t took
only twenty seven minutes. Five innings
were played when rain interferred.
Two years ago, three pitchers did all the
twirling for the New York team, and did 1t
effectively, too; but now 1t has six pitchers
and the management is cropping after more.
WEIGH, of the Baltimores, still maintains
his reputation as one of the greatest CENTRE
felders ever seen on bali field. Some Of the
catches made by him in Boston were Of
phenomenal character.
BosToN's Association team have now a
string of heavy hitters in Brouthers Duffy,
Farrell, Joyce, Richardson and Brown that
will compare favorably with that of any
seven men in any club of the League or As
3ociation.
Harry Wright, of Philadelphia, has somc
unique ideas about handling his pitchers.
He makes all of them put the ball oyer tie
plate and inveighs against bases on balls.
He insists upon speed and makes a
particular point about watching base rum
ners.
FREEMAN, the phenomenal left-hander re-
Gently signed by the Washingtons, is proba-
bly, the youngest pitcher in the professional
ranks to-day. Before he was signed by the
Washington team he had pitched but twenty
four games, and had not yet reached his
twentieth year.
'sMIKE' KELLY of the Boston Association
team, has signed contract to play with the
Boston League Club the remainder of this
and all of next season. This contract calls
for a salary of $4,000 per annum and an addi :
tional sum in case of the success of the club.
Kelly said he was to receive $22, 500 from the
League.
OF all the players who have talked about
quitting only two have made their words
good by retiring from the diamond when
there was an engagement in sight. They are
Mccormick and Sunday. The magnates that
drew them away from the diamond differ
widely. Mccormick went to the race track
and Sunday to the pulpit