Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-09-28
THE NATIONAL GAME.

G!ASscoCHs rctr ,nent left hole in Pitts
bGyE,s lnHeli.
BALIMoRE won the srres with Louisville
by tn games 70 two.
TWELVE o. the thirteen lowest averaged
battrrs iu the l. aguU are pitchers.
BEcKLEY. oi Puts ur;. during the season
WAS hit by ptcI9l balls nineteen timNs.
THE recor lor base stealing is held by
Hamilton, or Philadelphia a-seven IN one
game.
AN-oN, o; Chicago, says there was more
real ,ciruc" in baseball eighteen years ago
than to-day.
lHE Loulsvilies won but two Pames In the
Eas. this season one in Philadelphia. the
oh"r in Boston.
DurrT. OF Boston, Vas the first player in
the L-agu" TO make 100 hits also the first
TO make his 20J "a.
CATCHER TE.NLY, of Boston, throws left
han ted. H. j. one 0. the few prominent
backstops that do.
ONE Of the surprIs IS o! the season is the
great gam" that l. Llcnance, Of Brooklyn, has
| played at iir-t bas-.
Vas hALTREN is the only member OF the
New iorSs who participated In every game
| plnyet by taat team.
IT Is reported that tho Boston team will
have about three now faces next season, aud
two OF them will he pitchers
Is lhe list 81 seven,v-hve League players
! haVlnS u batting average OF 800 and over
the Boston Club has ten rcpres sntatiycs.
HAHLoN, o! Baltimore, says he will have
! exactly tao same team next season, rein
forced by another pitcher and cntcher.
MANNINd. tho solo proprietor. manager,
| cap'an and second ha-rman OF the Kansas
City C.uo. Will clear s7j0O on the season.
QUlcK-wITrED, active and reliable players
are t'qutrri to execute Intricate comblna-
ton plays that Hro necessary In n winning
| team
IouNo. OF Cleveland. holds the strike out
! record o. the season, made at Now York.
He accomplished tho telt by striking out ten
ofthe New Yorks.
The baseball players are tnkin tho live
Hest interest in the Professional Football
League. varaI plnyers have signed and
many more want to.
Now is the time OF yolr when the young
ball player will wanler blcEto the old home
with high hat and cane, md 1.-Two all wlnt er
in hopes oI big things next season.
kELLEY, OF tho Baltlmores in one game
mado nIno hits, with a total OF fourteen, out
OF ninc times at the hnt--au average OF !. .00O
1t was the batting record OF tue season.
Is view OF the experience OF the Bsltimores
this season, Southern practice trips vii
probably be all tho rago next year. Hanlon
stole march on the whole League last
spring.
WoRcRSrER Mass man has invented a
machine on the electric principle which, he
says, will register balls and strikes correctly
and contine the umpires work TO decisions
on the bases.
The pitching recorl q tho season shows
that the lcit-handed twlrlers have beer
handicapped more than tho riSht-hander
by the pitching rules. Breitensteln, OF St
Louis, Is the only notable exception.
The nrst and second clubs In the League
, race play II series OF seven games for tn,
Temple cup. The players reeeieve all tn,
gate money, and II IL estimated that this viii
amount TO between 500 aud $500 for eac
| man.
IT was undoubtedly the increased pitching
I distance that caused the batting TO be a
heavy ns it has been this season. Some o
the suffering pitchers are slyly advocating
. | The curtailing oil the distance between th
/ "1ox' and the plate. 1t will not be done.
CATCHER DooHUE, OF the Kansas City West
| ern League team, has broken the catchin
t recorl heretofore neld by thinner. Up {
4 August 23 he had caught l26 consecutiy
games and never missed an inning OF one {
: the games. lie promises TO finish the seaso
. behind the bat something no other oatcht
has done since the days OF overland pitch
$ ing
> COLONEL JouN NJ. WILSON, superintendent
OF public buildings and grounds. In his r.
!; port Tor August severely censures Catcht
u Schrivrr and other members of the Chicag
+ baseball team for their feat accomplished o
j their late visit TO Washington OF dropping
t. ral rom the top of tho monument whic
IS Schrlver caught. Colonel Wilson says tt
practice is II "discourtesy' and might resu
In injurng somebody.