The Opelousas courier., 1893-01-21
THE NATIONAL GAME.

SArvINI. the actor. is a baseball crank
CLEAN scores in the error column are fire.
quentd
The Pittsburgs have seven l~eft-handed
batters.
YOUNG, Cleveland's winning pitcher, is
wonder.
BROWNING has been Internationally re-
leased by Louisville.
MAILMAN is playing a phenomenal second
for the Philadelphlas.
LOUISVILLE was the only home club that
won the opening game.
THE arm of Pitcher Clarkson, of Boston,
shows no signs OF weakness.
harvard has shut out four teams with
out a run and two without a hit.
CAPTAIN ANsoN, of Chicago, a few days
ago celebrated his fortieth birthday.
GLEASON, of st. Louis, was the first
pitcher to be knocked out of the box.
The bitter rivalry between the Cincinnati
and Pittsburg clubs is something awful.
BALT1MoRE's most promising pitcher is a
youngster-Cobb, from the Pacific slope.
In Louisville they think Meekin and Grim
will be one of the star batteries of the
League.
JUDGING from the game Keefe. of Phila-
delpbia, pitched against Boston, he is all
right again.
HANLoN, OF Pittsburg, has an old-time
Charley horse" and will be unable to play
for some time.
JOHN F. MORRILL,, the old Boston player,
has been secured as coach for the Harvard
College baseball team.
COOP judges say hat Meekin, of the
Louisvilles, is one of the hardest pitchers in
the league to hit safely.
LATHAM, of Cincinnati, never played bet
ter ball than he is putting up this season.
His batting is especially fine.
Four players were seriously injured in the
opening championship games-Bassett, Della
hanty, Hanlon and Gumbert.
GLAsscoCK has been removed from the
captaincy of the st. Louis Browns. Striker
is now in charge of the team.
The reports that Arson, of Chicogo, has a
''glass' arm are false; he is lining ~the9ball
from first to third in great shape.
In consideration of the exchange of Pfeffer
for Canavan the Louisville Club is to pay
$1,000 to Chicago in three instalments.
WITH Daily, Daily and Kinslow the Brook
lyns are as strong behind the bat, if not
stronger, than any team in the country.
In will be a great race between Hamilton,
of the PhiladeIphias, and Brown, of Louis
vile, for the base stealing record this
season.
BALL players are astonished at the good
work of Pitcher Calvin, of the Pittsburgs.
He is apparently as effective as the best of
the youngsters
IT is quite probable that Boyle will do
the bulk of the catching for New York.
Manager Powers counts on him for over 100
games, bar accident.
McFwsE1 of Cincinnati, ex-king of second
basemen. .:4playing his old time game again.
In a recent contest ne took part in five
srapidly-executed double plays.
THE silk banner won by the CleveIands
at Hot Springs. Ark, for defeating the
Chicagos II a series of games will be fioated
from the Court House tower in Cleveland.
CANAAN. Chicago's new man, is twenty
six years old. Last year he played in 1S5
games, made 103 runs took bases on balls
forty-ive times, stole thirty-six bases, made
thirty-six sacrifice hits and had a batting
average of .249.
WILLIAM EDWARD DURRELL recently
died at Rome, Italy, of congestion of the
brain He had been tor five years the great
est Princeton College baseball player, and
for three summers past the star of the Cape
| Nav IN, J1 Club.