Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-09-08
THE NATIONAL GAME.


THE Brooklyns have not been shut out tbs
cecson.
SLOWLY but surely the pitchers are getting
top agai1-
KENNEDY has succeeded Stein Cs BOOK
.yns winning pitcher.
A BASEBALL player in Independence, kan,
can throw ball 290 feet.
HATFIELD has replaced Schoch ct third
:&se on the Brooklyn team.
THERE is no catcher in the business who is
surer on high fouls than Gunson, OF Cleve-
land.
No pitcher seems TO have suffered so much
rom the new pitching rules as HUTCHINSON
OF Chicago.
-McGARR, of Cleveland, is playing third
base better than any man in the League ex-
cept Nash, OF Boston.
BALTIMORE has never had q short stop in
many wears that could play the position with
in "a mile OF McGraw.
IL all Pittsburg's history it has never been
represented by so strong an organization as
this years League team.
CINCINNATI has wearied of the player-man-
ager idea and Comiskey is now on the bench.
Washington is thinking the same way.
DELEHANTY, of the Philadelphia. leads the
League in home runs, having made sixteen.
Herman of the Giants. is a close second.
KENNEDY, of Brooklyn. by holding the
hard-hitting Nav Yorks down to one hit. ac-
complished one Of the rarest pitching feats
Of the season.
The feat of Donovan, Of Pittsburg. in play
ing forty-nine successive games without an
error will probably be the outfeld fielding
record of the year.
MULLANE, ot Baltimore, tried to hunt and
the ball glanced from the bat and struck him
a severe blow Cd the nose 1t is strange more
players are not injured in the same play.
THINKING ball players in other teams say
that they cannot understand why the New
Yorks are not nearer the front. They say
that the Giants are the fastest team in the
League.
GERMAN. of the New Yorks, has what is
| known as a "moist hand" It perspires
freely. That is why he nearly always has a
| lot of sawdust near the ''box." into which he
dips every time he gets ready to pitch
The Louisvilles have not done so badly
| this season when their work is compared
| with that of other clubs. They have lost but
| ten games more than the New 1orks and but
few more than the Baltimores and the st.
| Louis.
THIS has been an unusually destructive
| wear to old time pitchers or rather to the
| stars of two or three years ago. Among the
| notable failures are numbered the names or
Keefe, Crane, King. Clarkson, Lovett, Had
| dock, Staley and Mulane.
| HE complete understanding tnat exists
| among the members of the Boston team is
| simply superb. The men know each other
| thoroughly, each has his particular work to
| do and there is no friction. Therein lies the
| secret of the success of the team.
CAPTAIN WARD, of New York, is the king OF
base stealers with forty-four. Then come L.
Brown, Louisville, forty; Hamilton, Phila-
dephia, thirty-nine; Mccarthy, Boston
Ewing. Cleveland, and Dowd, st. Louis,
thirty-six; Burke New York, and Radford,
Washington, thirty-fve
| The Cleveland team contains mora men
| than any other team who are very fast in get
| ting to first base. Childs. Burkett, Mexican,
Ewing and McAleer are hard men to retire
at first on any kind Of slow hit. The first
three have the advantage over the last two
because they are left-handed hatters.
THE success of the Baltimore Club with
| young players has attracted the attention Of
| managers all over the country. Manager
Hanlon began unloading his veterans a year
ago, and by judicious selections replaced
them with vigorous, ambitious youngsters
who have their greatest fame before them.
The playing of that team has attracted atten
ton and admiration everywhere they Went
| whether they Won or lost.