Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-08-10
THE NATIONAL GAME.

BURNS is the slosger OF the Broo.!\n> w.
yond doubt.
ST. LOUIS has the poorest batting T. ;rA -
In the League.
DUFFY, OF Boston. l. now at the mead q
the League batting list.
PHILADELPHIA how has more pitcher 7ta'n
any club In the League.
DOYLE. OF the New Yorks. ht, iev '."p''
into great first basemau
THE new blood seems to hlN' doar ~"
Louisvilles a world OF good.
THE secret OF the heavy httnI in ;A'
Western League is lively bait.
CIScMSATI has won Just one game ifon
Cleveland at Cincinnati this Year.
TESSEY, the Boston bacsstop. wears u -
ulation football crop OF black hair.
ANsoS, OF Chicago ia actually lea lin
Brouthers, OF Baltimore, in hatt'n'
McALEER, OF Cleveland Is the uuluckieS
player In the League. as he is maine every
season.
In Tenney Boston has unquestionlhlv. g.,
cured fine catcher. He throws left -hsud"J,
like Clements.
EIaBT teams with q winning percentage
OF 500 or over is record never before made
In this country.
FARRELL, OF New York, has eau ght in more
games this season than any other man who
wears the mask.
TREADwAY, Of Brooklyn, Is the most pecn-
liar runner In the League. He doubles him
self up and lopes.
BUCKLEY. of Pittsburg, says that three
years is the average Of a left-handed players
life in the big League.
THE Brooklyn Washington series has
closed. Nine games belong to Brooklyn aud
three to Washington.
GOOD ball player, thoroughly alive to
the interests of his clu5, will always run out
a ball, no matter where II is hit.
THERE are still eight pitchers on the Cleve-
land staff-Young, Cuppy, Griffith, Fisher,
Dewald, knauss, Braunn aud Mullane.
ONLY three clubs have succeeded In win
ming two games out OF three In Baltimore
this season-Boston, Philadelphia and Pitts
burg.
NEITHER the Bostons nor the Phladelphias
have been shut out this year. The pitcher
who accomplishes the task against either
should have prize.
Ex-PITcHKR tim" KEEPE, OF Phila-
delphia. has been appointed League um-
pire In place of John McQuade, who resigned
on account OF i'll health.
THOSE baseball cranks who last season OBJ.
Iected to pitchers battles" and who de-
manded more batting certainly ought to be
satisfied with the cannonading that is going
on all over the country.
THE lads OF Eton and Rugby, "Merrie
England" have temporarily abandoned
cricket Tor baseball, and some OF the games
recently played would do credit to the
mines OF American universities.
HARRY WRIGHT, chief OF the National
League umpires, says that the umpIres are
all TOO lenient regarding the balk rule and
that many pitchers constantly violate the
rule without as much as caution.
| THE race for the National League pennant
] is unquestionably the best on record, and
| this accounts In measure for the heavy at.
tendance at the games and the general en-
thusiasm manifested all over the country
TED SULLIVAN, a Southern League man.
ager, says the sight Of the year was Ester
brook trying to play ball. Helasted but one
day with New Orleans. He played in the
outfleld and didn't come within thirty feet oil
a single fly ball.
EWING says that Clarkson's arm Ia hone.
lessiy gone. The muscles are so tied up
that he will never be able to again pitch
winning ball. II this is true, the once great
battery, Bennett and Clarkson, will drift
into retirement the same season.
| Now comes the Kansas City Club with a
record OF thiry-nine runs captured from
Grand Rapids. Nothing like this has beer
seen since the Red Stockings toured IN,
country mopping up local clubs with score,
OF l1b TO or thereabouts. Ifit IN TO con
tinue the pitching will have to be done :,
machinery.