The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-08-16
THE NATIONAL GAME.

HE fttsDurg team iS full OF crippIes.
BRooKLys now has tho most players under
contract.
JENNINGS Is playing great game at short
for Baltimore.
THIS Is McPhee's thirteenth season on the
Cincinnati team.
MonE PLAYERS are being injured by pitched
balls than ever before.
THE strength OF the New York team lies in
Its pitching department.
SHocH, OF Brooklyn. Is tho star general
utility man OF the League.
WARD, OF New York. is getting TO be a
timely hitter In close pinch.
The Pittsburg Club has secured Ritz, tho
shortstop OF the OIL City Club.
KLErSFELDER. the old time Athletic player,
died recently in Philadelphia.
MERCER, OF the washingtons, is the phe-
nomenal colt pitcher OF the year.
The Cleveland Club has signed Pit cher
"5ilver" Braun, late OF New Orleans.
CANCEL. released by Boston. has been re-
signed, owing TO the injury to Catcher Ryan.
THERE is no League catcher who is doing
| such remarkable work as Farrell, OF New
York.
The third basemen are all catching Il this
season. Most OF tho cannonadlng is in their
direction.
LANCE, OF the Chicagos, Is ono of the
longest and most accurate throwers playing
baseball to-day.
CARTWRIGHT. OF WASHINGTON. was tho first
man TO knock ball over the Brooklyn's
right field fence.
WHAT most OF the League clubs will need
next year Is pitchers. New York Is nn ex-
ception. however.
THosE twelve runs in one inning which the
Bostons made OF Maui OF Pittsburg, IL the
single inning record OF the year.
Nichols. OF Boston. has been Knocked out
OF the box three times this season--by the
New forks. Baltimores and PIttsburgs.
Ex-GovERSoR RUSSELL. OF Massachusetts,,
played In u recent game mt Boston and made
three hits of George Wright's pitching.
GLADIATOR BRowSISa. once tho leading
batter OF the world. II now first basemnn aud
captain OF the Georgetown (ky.) team in the
Blue Grass League.
DAHLEN. OF Chicago. has played thirty-two
straight games without failing TO hit safely.
and during that time has scored fiity-six
runs and sixty-two hits.
TIE Cinclnnatis can win moro straight"
games and turn right around aud lose moro
consecutively than any other team in tho
League. They play like u team OF balky
horses.
BosroS's cx-college catcher. Tenney, has
Boston. His manneflsms amuse and his
vigorous style OF playing delights the spec
tators.
IT IL the testimony OF many baseball lovers
outside OF New York that Germans delivery
is clearly Illegal. but somehow the umpires
do not think so or else have not the courage
TO call him down.
PrrcHER JoHS CLARHsoS announces his
retire ment from tho diamond. He has de-
Iphs
and other clubs and has made arrangements
to go into business at Lansing. Mich.
Ir seems absurd to class Anson, of Chicago.
rs n back number. for he Is playing as good
II not better ball than he has put up IN two
or three years. The veteran. In spite OF his
years. works harder than any player on his
team.
CAPTAIN ASsoS, OF Chicago, is quoted ns
saying "Many managers are prejudiced
against left handed pitchers. am not. The
theory that a leit-handei pitcher wears out
rapidly because his heart is nearer to his arm
ts ridiculous.
The feat OF shutting out q team without
hit was accomplished for the second time
this season July 25. singdiarly enough the
Pennsylvania League was again the scene
OF the achievement. Clare, OF Hazletop,
turning the trick against Pottsville.
WHILE pitching in game at Johnstown,
Penn. between Johnstown and Amsterdam
clerks, y. Glynn, who was In the box for
Johnstown, broke his arm In a peculiar
manner He delivered ball. which was a
strike, AMI his arm fell to his side, broken
between the shoulder and elbow and at the
wrist.
IS view OF the grand stand fires at Boston,
Chicago and Philadelphia, metropolitan
baseball enthusiasts will be surprised TO
learn that during one OF the recent New
York Baltimore games at the Polo grounds a
fire was discoverei under tho grand stand
By the ground keeper. Only for his quick
action In throwing several pals OF water on
the blaze, there might have been u serious
connagration.