Passaic City record., 1893-08-26
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE Brooklyns have not been shut out this
season.
SLOWLY but surely the pitchers are getting
on top again.
KENNEDY has succeeded Stein as Brook
lyn's winning pitcher.
BASEBALL player in Independence, han,
can throw a ball $50 feet.
HATFIELD has replaced Schoeh at third
base on the Brooklyn team.
THERE is no catcher in the business who is
surer on high fouls than Gunson, OF Cieve-
land.
No pitcher seems to have suffered so much
from 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 short stop in
many years that could play the position With
in mile of McGraw.
In all Pittsburgs 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 Philadelphias leads the
League in home runs. having made sixteen.
Tiernan. of the Giants, is a close second.
KENNEDY of Brooklyn. by holding the
hard-hitting New 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, o: Baltimore. tried to bunt and
the ball glanced from the bat and struck him
a severe blow on 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 '.moist hand" 1t persE:-es
freely. That is why he nearly always has
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 Yorks and but
a few more than the Baltimores and the st.
Louis.
THIS has been an unusually destructive
year TO old time pitchers or rather to the
stars of two or three years ago. Among the
notable failures are numbered the names OF
dock, Staley and Mullane.
THE complete understanding that 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. Phia-
delphia, thirty-nine Mccarthy, Boston;
Ewing. Cleveland and Dowd, st. Louis,
thirty-six Burke, New York, and Radford,
Washington, thirty-five.
THE Cleveland team contains more 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 batters.
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 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-
tion and admiration everywhere they went
whether they won or lost.