Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-07
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE Bostona lead the League In batting.
BRE1TENsrE1N, of st. Louis, is great
pitcher.
THE Bostons and Baltimores are playing
great ball.
Boston is now very strong IN the pitching
department.
The Brooklyn Club has recalled Pitcher
Daub'S release.
Brown. of Louisville, has struck out fifty
times this season.
THE Bostons humbled the Plttsburgs by
winning the entire series.
JENNINGS, of Baltimore, has been playing
phenomenal short field.
THE rule designed to prevent the discol-
oration of new balls Is universally disre-
garded.
AS now constituted the Cleveland team Is
probably the weakest set Of batsmen in the
League.
STEIN Is Brooklyn's winning pitcher. He
Is doing as effective work as any whirler in
the League.
The New Yorks were the first team to win
ten games from an opponent. Washington
was the victim.
Ely is putting up the game Of his life
for st. Louis this year. Few shortstops are
uOlnS any better than he.
THE Washington Post thinks 1t would be a
good thing to expel about fifteen rowdy ball
players now in the National League.
MEEK1N, of New York, has q record Of
twenty-three games without an error. He
has become one of the best fielding pitchers
in the business.
The scarcity of pitchers games Is attested
by the remarkable scarcity of shutouts.
Never before have whitewashes been 50 few
and so far between.
EHRET, of Pittsburg, has been wonderfully
successful against the Clevelands this year,
having won all the games he has pitched
against them-seven.
THE Bostons' endurance and their remark
able immunity from sickness and injury are
attributed to the fact that they are all short
and stockily built men.
The games are getting entirely too long.
They are averaging close on two and half
hours Something will have to be done to
shorten them. Deaden the ball slightly, is
suggestion.
STIvETTs of Boston, has q flannel sleeve
that he pulls over his pitching arm when the
champions are at the bat. He says 1t keeps
up the perspiration and prevents cold or
rheumatism.
"NEw FACES is the cry In Pittsbug and the
Smoky City magnates are hearkenfng to tie
wall of the fans. They are Offering to trade
several of their players to any town that Will
make the highest bid.
THE Bostons are being given harder run
for the championship than they have been
accustomed to In recent years. At least two
teams are making a driving race, with every
Indication of a Furnishing finish.
MULLANE announces that he will not at
tempt to play again this season. The index
finger OF his left hand is in bad shape. Blood
poisoning set in from an ingrowing nail, and
it is possible that he may lose the affected
finger.
Nor since Davfs's discovery has a more
promising player than young Blake been
yanked out of obscurfty. He is doing
splendid work for Cleveland, and no young
sterin the League gives greater promise Of
more brilliant career.
THE Baltimore club got Keeler for Shin
die. 1t also got Kelley for Van Ealtren.
Jennings and Taylor for O'Rourke, who has
Tredway and claim upon John Clarkson
for Mullane. Manager Hanlon hasn't got
left in many of his deals.
BRoUTHERs, of Baltimore, fatters himself
that he knows about as much about baseball
bats as the next man, and he is seriously
considering going into the business OF man
ufacturing them when he quits the dia-
mond. He has plenty of fine ash on his farm
ct Wappinger Falls, N. Y.
The League pitchers almost to a man ad-
vocate the return Of the old pitching rule,
as they claim that the hitting Is altogether
too heavy. The development Of batting
has been so marked that the players will hit
the ball almost as hard under the old rule.
But the magnates a0d the public don't seem
tc think SO.