Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-24
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE Pntsburg team is full OF cripples.
BRooKLYS now has the most players under
contract.
JENNINGS is playing q great game at short
for Baltimore.
TINS is McPhce's thirteenth season on the
Cincinnati team.
MORE PLAYERS are being injured by pitched
balls than ever before.
THE strength OF the New York team lies in
As pitching department.
SHocH, OF Brooklyn. Is the star general
utility man of the Leagne.
WARD. of New York. 3 getting to be
timely hitter in q close pinch.
THE Pittsburg Club has secured Ritz, the
shortstop of the Oil City Club.
KLEINFELDER, the old time Athletic player,
3ied recently in Philadelphia.
MERCER, of the washingtons. Is the phe-
nomenai colt pitcher of the year.
THE Cleveland Club has signed Pit cher
'Silver" Braun. late of New Orleans.
CAMEL, 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 1t this
season. Most of the cannonading is in their
direction.
LANCE, Of the Chicagoa. IS one OF the
longest and most accurate throWerS playing
baseball to-day.
CARTWRIGHT of Washington, was the first
man TO knock Il ball over the Brooklyn's
right field fence.
WHAT most of the League clubs will need
next year is pitchers. New York IS an ex-
ception, however.
THOSE twelve runs in one inning which the
Bostons made off Maui, of Pittsburg, is the
single inning record of the year.
NICHOLS, of Boston, has been knocked out
of the box three times this season-by the
New Yorks, Baltimores and PittsburSs.
Ex-GovERNoR RUSSELL, of Massachusetts,,
played in recent game at Boston AM made
three hits off George Wright's pitching.
GLADIATOR BROWNING, once the leading
batter of the world, is now first baseman and
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 f1fty-six
runs and sixty-two hits.
The Cincinnatis can win more straight"
games and turn right around and lose more
consecutively than any other team in the
League. They play like a team of balky
horses.
BosroN's ex-colEege catcher, Tenney, has
developed into a great drawing card in
Boston. His mannerlsms anus" and his
vigorous style Of playing delights the spec
tatOrS.
IT is 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.
PITCHER JOHN GARRISON announces his
retirement from the diamond. He has de-
clined offers from Baltimore, Philadelphia
and other clubs and has made arrangements
to go into business at Lansing. Mich.
IT seems absurd to class Arson, of Chicago,
as a back number, for he is playing rs good
If 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 ANsoN. of Chicago, is quoted as
saying: ''Many managers are preiudced
against left handed pitchers. am not. The
theory that a left-handed pitcher wears out
rapidly because his heart is nearer to his arm
is ridiculous.
The feat of shutting out team without
hit was accomplished for the second time
this season July Is. Singularly enough the
Pennsylvania League was again the scene
Of tho achievement. Glare, Of Hazleton,
turning the trick against POttsville.
WHILE pitching in game at Johnstown,
Penn, between Johnstown and Amsterdam
cIerKS, N OlyuH, WHO WIS III INC DOS lOE
Johpstown, broke his arm in a peculiar
manner. He delivered a ball, which was
strike, and his arm fell to his side, broken
between the shoulder and elbow and at tho
wrist.
In 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-Batimore games at the Polo grounds h
fire was discovered under tho grand stanl
by the ground keeper. Only for his quick
action in throwing several pals Of water on
the blaze, there might have been serious
condagration.