The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-07-20
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Boston has released pitc;la. wilson to
cleveland.
Lange. Of Chicago. is again troubled Wit
Charlie-horS".
Breitensteir. OF s.. Lc::::. is being hit
very hard of late.
Comiskey has seven !eit-hand@l b1tS",":.
ON his st. Paulte
Pitcher Abbey. late Of Chicago. ha: been
signed By Brooklyn.
Cleveland is doing sacrifice ii tim; la:"y '
that cannot be beaten.
Breitenstein, ofSt. Louis, seems 10 hay" n
terror for the CncinGatiS.
Hawley Of Pittsbur- has hi twc2ty-3nG
men in the games he has pitched this season.
First Baseman Stafford. OF New Orleans. so;
S65 for making 4 home run in 4 recent
game.
The Brooklyn team made seasons re :
ord bv plaviuo four ccaSecutiT., e-rorl"s
games.
Physicians have decided that Holiday. OF
Clncinnati. cannot play bali any more th;;
season.
Griffith. Of Chicago. has won more game:
than any other pitcher of the League this
season.
ever this season. and is fur from weak with
the stick.
The Baltimorcs as GelderS. battcrs anil
base runners have no superiors. bat they arc
weak in the box.
Catcher kinSlow was released uncondition.
ally by Pittsburg, without being given tho
usual ten days notice.
st. LoUis and Louisville are playing goo,l
ball, but both teams seem TO have more than
their share Of hard luck.
Tucker is playing & marvellous first base
for Boston. He and Beckley. Of PittsbUrg.
easily lead all the first basemen.
First Baseman Tebeau. Of Cleveland, is
weakest on hiSh-thrown balls. Generally it
is Just the reverse with first hasemen.
The Chattanooga Club contemp'ates base
ball by electric light The scheme has been
tried many times-alwayS with failure.
Corcoran, Of Brooklyn. is playing the best
short field in the League, not barring Long,
of Boston. and Jennings. Of Baltimore.
President Freedman is giving two men
salaries to travel to all minor league cities
and capture players for the New iorks
Inks is Louisville's starpitcher. His work
this season puts him among the few first
class Southpaw pitchers in the profession.
The PittsburSs arc depending or ''kiliins
the ball rather than scientific batting for
nuns. They have lost ground by the pra"-
tice.
Bancroft now believes that the Louisville
team was organized to go around the coun-
try aud scare ball teams which are looking
for snaps.
Clark, the New Yorks' new first baseman,
has made an excellent impression so far He
rs very clever fielder and seems to be D
promising hitter.
McGarr. Of Baltimore. is now playing third
base in beautiful form. Like all the old
timers. it takes about six weeks for McGarr
to get thoroughly warmed ur.
Thompson. of Philadelphia. never batted
as heavily as he has during the past two
weeks. not even in his palmiest days as ono
Of the celebrated Detroit sluSgers.
The Cincinnati team went to MaysviIle.
Ky.. and with PHILLIPS oitching We're actually
4,essers- hy--ttv country club BY GO 3. :
They were outplayed al Ill points and fairly
whipped.
/, Pitcher Cuppy is so exasperatingiy slow
that the Cleveland management is to be petit
toned by people who want to get their sup
perS warm to commence the games in which
he pitches at . clock.
Anson. of Chicago. has made but two errors
in the last thirtY-eigbt games. In the fifty
sixth games in which he has played he has
failed in but eight to bat safcly-a showing
few hatsmcn can make
Nine eN-Pittshurg twirlers have faced the
Pittsburgs this season. and only twO-Strat-
ton aud Terry--have won their games. The
losers were Ehret. Gumbert. knell. Phillips,
Esper. Maui and Stalev.
No pitcher has stood in the box this year
with the record that Young, Of Cleveland. is
snaLinS for fielding. He helps constantly to
win his own games by getting i'll front OF
everything that comes along.
More scientific base running is what the
New Yorks need. suggests an erudite critic.
More base running Of any sort would oe
gratifying, but more batting would be better
still How is 4 man to do scientific base
SunninS when he cant get to first?