Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-08-04
THE NATIONAL GAME.

EHREr has suppIanted Terry as Pittsburs'5
winning pitcher.
THE Boston Ciu5 has signed Pitcher Cast
right. late OF Pittsburg.
THE Brooklyns are worse off for pitchers
than any of the League clubs.
PHILADELPHIA is in tbs test shape for pen
nant ball of ali the League teams.
The pitchers have lost more in accuracy
than in efficiency by the increased pitching
distance.
The PittsburS-C Cleveland series is the first
10 be finished and the CIevalands 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 IRON
Louisville.
LARKIN of the Washingtons, played in
ffty-four games without striNIng out once.
His first offense in that line was in his fifty
fifth game.
IT is a singular fact that in spite of the un-
favorable business conditions Of the country
the baseball clu0s are having the heaviest
patronage since 1899
MULLAEE is the only pitcher who played in
the Association in 1882 who is now in the big
League. Eleven years hard work in the box
is a severe test of man s ability.
IN the nineteen games played with the
Western teams on the late trip the New Yorks
102 runs to their opponents 119.
IT is a clever idea going to the South to get
young ball players to streng CITIZEN 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 Conner are the only members of
fha I1rG cont Nav orr foo 19f M
bers Of the great team that played under the
name Of Chants when it was first applied
to it.
CINC1NSATIANs regard their present out
field. Caravan. Halliday and Smith. as the
fastest they have ever had. Smith. 1.-The
mountain wonder" is the fastest Splinter 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 Pitts5urgs.
IT is no easy thing to get a team of baR
players to play welltogether. 1t takes months.
All of the college teams worked hard together
since March, but none of them-nOt even
Harvard or Yale-1evelope1 any team Wo-k
worth mentioning.
BROUTHERs, of Brooklyn is the same old
terror with the bat as Of yore. He is a VERT
able wonder. Other players lead the batting
of the LeauSe by spurts, but for a 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 thoS-
ough contempt for sore or broken fingers. It
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 a team Of great staying
powers. and although it may be behind in
game, there is no telling when it will make
squirt and come out ahead.