Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Bosrox released Catcher Merritt.

MEEK1N is New York's star pitcher.
P1rTsBURa has he baseball fever very
badly.
HUTCHINSON is leading the Chicago Club
In batting.
DOYLE is hitting the ball harder than any
other New York player.
ST.. LOUIS has gone wild over Breiten-
STEMS work as pitcher.
The Philadelphias have had harder luck
than any other team on account on rain.
In his first fifteen games Turner, of the
Philadelphias, had batting per centage OF
.456.
BALTIMORE Is entitled to the first triple
play made In an 1894 League championship
game.
WARD, of the New Yorks, has struck out
but once this season. Last year he famed
but three times.
THE accident to Pitcher Weyhing, of the
Philadelphias, is likely to keep him OFF the
field for some time
sHoRrsroP GEORGE SMITH, of the Cincin-
natis, has played il fourteen consecutive
games without error.
THE Bostons have but one really reliable
pitcher, Nichols. Lovett has done well, but
he is pitching in great luck.
WITH half a dozen of the Chicagos stand
ing over six feet in their stockings, 1t IS
misnomer to call them the "Cots."
Hoy has made hit with Cincinnati. The
newspapers declare that the deaf mute Is the
only outfelder who plays his position prop
erly.
BosToNIASs have never ceased to regret
the. release, two years ago, of Outielder
Brodie who is doing such splendid work for
Baltimore.
THE Chicago Club has tried fifteen men at
second base in two years. Each of these
men cost as all experiment from S4OO to
1z11 kfRi nl.NoI
is $500.
MUILANE, of Baltimore, is distinguishing
himself. He was the first pitcher in the
League this season to hold team down to
one hit and also holds the strike-out record
Of the season TO date-eight.
The ablest strategic pitcher in the League
this season is pitching the game of his life
this season, and that player is John Clark
son, of Cleveland. The 'cyclone" class OF
pitchers are nowhere in comparison.
In fielding, up to date, thinner leads the
League catchers, Tucker the first basemen,
Bonner the second basemen, Nash the third
basemen, George Smith the short stops,
Kelly the left 1elders, O'Connor the centre
felders and Dugan the right 1elders.
OF the seventy-four pitchers in the League
twelve are left-handed, nine made their
debut in the big League this season, thir-
teen during last season, and only eleven
were in the ma jor organization before 1890.
The stars OF the old association numDer 1our-
teen.
BAD throws are very costly on the new
Cincinnati grounds. If a ball gets by the
first paseman there is nothing to stop it in
side of 100 feet, and even then chances must
be taken of its caroIning off on an angle.
Base-runners can take two or three bases in
such cases.
The work of Baltimore's young pitcher,
Brown, is the surprise Of the year. He is
haxy fob Off ha
more, without even any experience with
first class amateur club, much less with
semi professional or minor League team.
He knows very little about baseball, but he
has steel-ribbed left arm.
ANsoN's team may not be very high in the
race, but his own personal triumph is over
whelming, says Sporting Life. He has de-
monstrated that without him at first base his
club is like ship in a storm at sea without
a rudder. 1t will probably be long time
before the Chicago papers set up another
howl for him to ''get out Of the game"
RECORD OF The LEA3JE CLUBS