Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-05-11
THE NATIONAL GAME.

MrssIssIFrt has the baseball fnvar.
Bosrox has started out ut the top OF tho
heap.
TIM Baltimores were the frs, to play an
crrorlrSs game.
Az intentional sarrih,n ia the only Kin
that is recognized this year.
"YALt' MrRPHy is nlavtn, the greatest
game Of nny Of the New NorSers.
"PrrE' BRowNtxa Inns nj last afn,ntr |
Kellv- Offer. AMI will play In Allentown,
Penn
THr Washington Club releaae ShortS'nr
Mcmahon, Pitcher Black and Thirl Baseman
Mulyey.
DEcKER is PLAYING first base for CHICAGO.
Arson contcntins himself with coaching
from the lines.
BRooErYN has SIX ev-Btltinores on its
c'uh-Shinhle. Treadwiy, Gilbert. GrInln,
Burns ant Shot,.
THE Baltimore and Cincinnati players are
In better condition than all the other play
era OF the League.
INDtASAPdLIs has n hall team compose ~
policemen. AMI they intent to make Il tour
OF neighhorng cities.
WAsHINaroS now has IN Joyce wha. II
never hal before IN Intelligent. energetic
and aggressive ciptaia.
EspER. OF Philadelphia. was tho first
League pitcher 10 hH knocked out OF tho
box In "a championship game this season.
CRANE, the famous New YORK authority on
baseball has joined tn. cru4aiers in this
fight for thu restoration o. the trapped fly.
BosroN ani Cincinnati were the first
teams TO apply the whitewLsh brush,
while BrooklyR and Chicago were compan-
Ions In misery
SUNDAY games wilt be very frequent in tho
League this season. and all the teams but
Boston, Pittshurg. New Yorc AMI Pnilalel-
phta will play.
The Boston team work ia certainly ex ell
lent. Their iniielders are cool and collecte !,
and when there Is a chance given to makea
double play they do 1t neatly.
Such star pitchers rs Young. Rusie. Kill
len Weyhing, Hutchinson Kennedy. Glea-
son and Hemmlng all had tn" modification
OF losing their very first games.
MANAGER HANLpN says that II the Brook
Ign Club has any more "haS beens' like
Btouthers they should send them to Baltl-
more. and he will make use OF them.
REPORTS from all over the country indl-
cate that the game Is as popular today, II
not more so, than 1t was In 1889, which was
the banner season In baseball history.
RAMSEY, the noted twirler OF the Louisville
Club some seasons ago seems TO have re-
gained his old-tlme effectiveness ami Is puz-
zling all the teams that run up against his
club-Sayannah.
CAPTAIN CoMIsKEY will be In uniform AMI
on the coaching line in every game the Gin
clnnatis play this season at home and abroad.
The team will have the benefit OF his brains
II they are minus his fielding and batting
ability.
Or the seventy-four National League pitch
ers, twelve are left handed, nine have never
played In the big organization before. thir-
teen made their debut last season, and only
eleven were In the League before 1890. Tho
old American Association stars are fourteen
IN number.
LYSCH was the first League umpire to en-
force the new rule against obnoxious coach
ing. In the opening game at Baltimore,
Clarke, OF Baltimore, began believing from
the coaching lines when the bases were
empty. Lynch didn't wait more than min
ute before he put the bowler out OF the game
for the rest OF the day.
BASEBALL Is one OF tho few sports that has
stood the test for years without its popularity
being destroyed. Not even strife and wars
among the players themselves have been abls
TO sound its death knell. 1t il to-day, as IL
was decade ago, the typical sport OF tho
American people, game replete with excit-
ing and pleasing features.
The Canadian Government has sent the
powerful Government ram Petrol to Lake
Erie to prevent United States fishermen
from placing their nets In Canadian waters
SERIOUS state OF n'fatrs prevails at Marsh.
capital OF the province OF hhorassan Persia,
Bread riots are o; daily occurrence thera
and much distress exists among the SO. 00l
inhabltants OF that city.