The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-06-07
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Bosrox released Catcher Merritt.

| BosroS released Catcher Merritt.
MEtKIS is New York's star pitcher.
| PirrsBrRs has the baseball fever very
badly.
HUTCHINSON is leaiing the Chicago Clui
In batting.
DoYLr Is hitting the bail harder than any
other New York player.
Sr. Jouis has gone wild over Breiten.
stems work as a pitcher.
THE Philadelphias have had harder luck
than any other team on account on rain.
In his hrst fifteen games Turner. OF the
Phtladelphias, had a batting per centage o.
| .456.
| BALTIMORE is entitled TO the first triple
plav made in an 1894 League championship
game.
WARD. OF the New Yorks. has struck out
but once this season. Last year he famed
out three times.
TIE accident to Pitcher weyhlng. OF tho
Pniladephlns. is likely TO keep hin or the
| ueld 70, some time.
SHoRrsroP GEORGE Sxrru OF tho Cincln.
natis. has played In fourteen consecutive
games without an error.
The Bo'tons have bu. one really reliable
pitcher, Nichols. Lovett has done well, but
he is pitching In great luck.
ing over six feet in their stockings, It Is a
misnomer TO call them the "colts."
| Hoy has made n hit with Cincinnati. Tho
newspapers declare that the deaf mute Is tho
, only outticlder VINO plays his position prop
erly.
BosroStASs have never ccasel 10 regret
| the release, two years ago, OF Outnelder
Brodie. who Is doing such splendid work Tor
Baltimore.
The Chicago Club has triel f'teen men nj
second base in two years. Each OF these
men cost as AN experiment from 800 to
$500. The grand loss in this respect alons
Is $500.
MULLASE. OF Baltimore, is distinguishing
himself. He was tho first pitcher in the
League this season to hold team down to
one hit and also holds tho strikc.out record
OF the season TO date--eight.
The ablest strategic pitcher In the League
this season is pitching the game OF his lite
this season, and that player is John Clark
son. OF Cleveland The "cycone" class OF
pitchers are nowhere in comparison.
In fielding. up to date, zimmer leads III,
League catchers, Tucker the first baseman,
Bonner the second basemcn, Nash the third
basemen. George Smith tho short stops.
Kelly the left nelders, O'Conuor tho centre
felders and Dugan the right nelders.
Or the seventy-iour pitchers In tho League
twelve are leit-hunded, nino made their
debut In the big League this season, thir.
teen during last season. and only eleven
were in the major organization before 1890.
The stars OF tho old association number four.
teen.
BAD throws are very costly on tho now
Cincinnati grounds. II bali gets hy the
first oaseman there is nothing to stop II in.
side OF 100 feet, and oven then chances must
be taken OF its caroming of on nn angle
Base-runnors 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 q
green boy taken or the lots around Balti-
more, without even any experience with n
flrst-class amateur club, much less with
i.professional or minor League team
He knows very little about baseball, but he
has a steel-rlbbed left arm.
ASsoS'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 a ship In a storm at sea without
rudder. II will probably be long time
Dstore tho cago papers set ur srothe-
howl forhim to ''aet out OF the game"