Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-22
THE NATIONAL GAME.

MENEFEE is pitching splendidly for Louis.
vile.
LANCE. the Chicago centre fielder, weighs
22O pounds.
KELLER, OF Baltimore, was the first player
to make 100 hits.
LONG, of Boston, has yet to be credited
with a strike-Out.
EWING, of Cleveland, improves with each
season as an outfielder.
ELY, the st. Louis shortstop, makes some
wonderful stops and throws.
CONNoR, recently released by New York,
Is doing great work for st. Louis.
In Young the CIevelan1s come very near
having the best pitcher in the country.
ITlooks very much as if Boston had but
two reliable pitchers-Nichols and Lovett.
WEIDMAN, Derby, Clarkson and Nichols,
Bennett says, are the greatest pitchers he
ever caught.
TEBEAU, of the Washingtons, is one of the
few men playing ball to-day who does not
wear glove.
DoYLE's play at first base has been first
class. He and Davis are doing the best bat
ting for New York.
MoKEAN and Childs. for the Cleve!ands.
are working more double plays than any
two infielders in the business.
SEVERAL professional clubs will make Car
ter, Yales long-limbed pitcher, handsome
offers to become professional player.
RIGHTFIELDER MCCARTHY is playing first
base in good style for Cincinnati and l.
likely to become fixture in the position.
QUITE number of managers must by this
time be convinced that ball team on paper
and one On the field arc entirely different
things.
APRoPos of battery work, it Is a curious
almost n9F11OyicaI Jrb
batter has been favored with three balls he
seldom makes a safe hit.
PERSONAL conflicts on the field between
ball players are becoming disgracefuIly fire.
quent this season and the League magnates
should put ia stop to them.
THE race for piching honors between
Rusie and Meekin, of the New Yorks, will
be interesting. This is the first year that
Rusie has not had matters all his own way
THE day has gone by when a ball player
can play indifferently for the purpose of get
ting his release. The medicine now dishe
out to the player for carless work is q layoff
without pay.
RUs1E, of the New Yorks, seems to bo at
his best after three balls have been called on
him. In nine cases out of ten he either
strikes the batter out or causes him to land
the ball squarely in fleider's hands.
THE season has already seen three first
basemen replaced in the big League. Wer-
den in st. Louis Brown in Louisville, and
Connor il New York, while Boyle in Phila-
delphia came within an ace of being re-
moved.
SOME of the most remarkable batting in
the history of baseball occurred during the
two games in Boston on Decoration Day.
Nine homo runs were made, and four of
them by one player who made two of them
in one inning. As Lowe joined one singh to
his four home runs he hit for total of sew
enteen bases, which establishes new rec
ord.
The rivalry between Pittsburg and Ceve-
land for first honors in the Western division
of the League is as bitter as can be. The
Pittsburgs are regarded as one OF the most
evenly balanced, hustling teams in the
League, and Cleveland is made up of the
same kind Of stuff. Every meeting between
these two teams has been filled with exciting
incidents, and it is difficult to designate an
umpire who will give entire satisfaction to
both of them.