Passaic City record., 1893-07-22
THE NATIONAL GAME.

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EHRET has supplanted Terry as Pittsburg's
winning pitcher.
THE Boston Club has signed Pitcher Cast
right, late of Pittsburg.
THE Brooklyns are worse off for pitchers
than any of the League clubs.
PHILADELPHIA is in the best shape for pen
nant ball of all the League teams.
The pitchers have lost more in accuracy
than in efficiency by the increased pitching
distance.
THE Pittsburg-Cleveland series is the first
to be finished, and the Clevelands won nine
of the twelve games.
BASEBALL has its singular phases. st. Louis
has taken five straight games from Chicago,
but it could capture only one in three from
Louisville.
LARKIN, of the Washingtons, played in
fifty-four games without striking out once.
His first offense in that line was in his fifty
fifth game.
IT is singular fact that in spite of the un-
favorable business conditions of the country
the baseball clubs are having the heaviest
patronage since 1889.
MULLANE is the only pitcher who played In
the Association in 1882 who is now in the big
League. Eleven years hard work Ill the box
is severe test OF a man 8 ability.
In the nineteen games played with the
Western teams on the late trip the New Yorks
won six, lost eleven and tied two. They made
102 runs to their opponents 119.
IT is a clever ideagoing to the South to gel
young ball players to strengthen the National
League. Both National and Southern
Leagues profit by the innovation.
HUTCHINSON, of Chicago, has one of the
best pitching feats of the season to his credit.
He let only twenty-nine men face him in the
game in which he shut out Boston.
WARD and Connor are the only members OF
the present New York team that were MEM
bers of the great team that played under the
name of ''Giants" when it was first applied
toit.
CINcINNATIANs regard their present out
field, Canavan. Halliday and Smith. as the
fastest they have ever had. Smith, ''the
mountain wonder" is the fastest sprinter of
the trio.
THE Cleveland team is the greatest aggre
cation of south-paw players in the country.
More than half of them bat left-handed, while
two of them throw with the left. Their
nearest rivals are the Pittsburgs.
IT is no easy thing to get team of ball
players to play wefltogether. 1t takes months.
ALI of the college teams worked hard together
since March. but none of them-not even
Harvard or Yale-developed any team work
worth mentioning.
BRoUTHERs, of Brooklyn, is the same old
terror with the bat as of yore. He is a verit-
able wonder. Other players lead the batting
of the Leauge by spurts, but for good,
honest hard hitter, year in and year out,
big Dan" shows his heels to all of them in
the race.
DEAsLEY was the catcher who had a thor
ough contempt for sore or broken fingers. 1t
is on record that he once caught thirty-eight
games with two broken fingers rather than
let rival catcher have chance to go be-
hind the bat And he caught great ball in
that time. too.
THERE is no team in the League that plays
such steady all-round games as the Bostons,
and there is no team that is so feared by its
opponents. It is team of great staying
powers. and although it may be behind in a
game. there is no telling when it will make
spurt and come out ahead.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS,