Passaic City record., 1892-05-14
THE NATIONAL GkME.

THE NATIONAL GkME.
BASEBALL is booming in Pittsburg.
THERE is not a weak hitter on the Brook
lyn team.
F1REMEN are nearly all great baseball en-
thusiasts.
BRoUTHERs, of Brooklyn, has had more
assists than any other first baseman
THE crowds at the games in the West are
the largest in the history OF baseDaii.
JoNEs, of Louisville, is decidedly the pitch
ing phehomenon of the season thus rar.
THIS is the Pittsburg veteran pitcher,
Galvin's nineteenth year on the diamond.
THE chief trouble with the st. Louis team
Is said to be an almost total absence OF team
work.
PRESIDENT YOU'VE says the present Bos-
ton Club is the strongest ball team ever or
ganized.
PITCHER INKS. of Brooklyn, is q poor
fielder in his position. He lacks nerve to face
hot hits.
CLARKsoN, the Boston pitcher, says his
arm feels stronger this year than for the past
two seasons.
RAMSEY, once the greatest of left-handed
pitchers, is now tending lunch-counJer on
the Louisville grounds.
The first pitcher this season to shut an
opposing team out without hit or run was
Highlands, of Harvard.
NEVER before did the ball players as q
whole take such good care OF themselves
and work as hard as this season.
HARDIE RICHARDSON, released bY Wash
ington. has been signed by New YORK. ne
will play either second base or left field.
WASHINGTON games have been better
patronized this year than at any time since
Washington was connected with baseball.
NOTHING so makes crowd of enthusiasts
weaken on favorite pitcher as seeing him
giving an opposing batsman base on balls.
The Bostons have thus early won their
series from the Baltimores. The Louisvliles
have also won their series from the Chicagos
and the Pittsburgs from ST. Louis.
CROWDS attending baseball games this
season have been well up to comfortable
average and the interest in the sport is not
likely to abate If the double championship
season does what is expected OF it.
MULLANE, of the Cincinnati Club. proba-
bly, fields his position better than any other
pitcher In the country. He faces the hardest
hit balls without vince and gathers in nine
out of every ten of them. He never lets q
ball pass for the infielders that he can possi-
bly, get his hands on.
Or the players who were in the American
Association during the first year of its exist
ence, only Brown, Browning, Mullane, Nc
Phee, Swartwood, Stricken and Comiskey
are now in the major organization. ALI the
others have drifted into minor leagues, seme
have given up baseball and many have died.
KEEFE AND CLEMENTS, of Philadelphia,
do not work well together as battery.
Clements has been accustomed to do all the
signaling for his pitcher heretofore, and
thinks he ought to with Keefe. Keefe knows
the weakness of every League batter, and
should do all the signaling himself. He is
certainly more capable than Clements to
Judge his own delivery, and until he COM
mards the battery he cannot do his best
work.
GREAT BRITAIN, the land OF athletes and
the home Of cricket, is to have baseball this
season. A meeting was held some days ago
at the Royal and Commercial Hotel, in Sal
ford, and steps were taken toward organ
ization of English leagues and associations.
The country was divided into ten districts,
Birmingham, Cleveland, Derby, Liverpool,
London. Manchester, Newcastle, Noting
ham, Preston and Stoke. Each of these dis
tricts reported the existence within its bor-
ders of several clubs-twenty in the Cleve
land district alone.