Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-06-05
TIE NATIONAL GAME.

Kinsiow, the eI-BrO0kiyn catcher, has
signed with Louisville.
Stencil, OF Pittsburg, went TO bat six
times May "A and made six hits.
The Washington team mas won but two
games in Cincinnati in five years.
n!aglunatt Is the only CLUB IN tue League
which has no left-handed pitcher.
Plefler claims that the Chicagcs used the
hit-and-run idea as long ago a. 1885.
Campbell, New Yorlt's new pitcher. is a
poultry doctor, physician and surgeon.
Bannon, of the Metropoltans, at pres snt
ields the Atlantic Association Ia batting.
Stiyet $. the Boston pitcher. won five
Straight games, four Of them in the West.
1t looks Is if New York had unearthed a
star pitcher in the Vermont lad Doheny.
Lowe, Of Boston, is playing by far the best
baIl "I any man covering second base at the
present time.
Brooklyn's star battery, Kennedy and
6Hm, has not been up 10 the mark al all so
TAR this season.
stafford, of the New Yorks, Will be unable
70 play Tor some time to come owing TO a
sprained ankle.
Daley, the Brooklyn catcher, had the dis
tnetion Of being the first veteran to get q re.
lease this season.
There is hardly pitcher in the business
VINO does not wear glove now, though the
practice is only two seasons old.
Farrell, of the New YorKs, is hitting better
this year than he has batted since he played
IN Boston when he led his team
Pond, the Baltimore pitcher. has speed,
beautiful curves, understands working a
/ Dalsman and can put them over at will.
t'lTfniD ufpp Of Z,
TO bunting or sacrificing, except on very rare
occasions, and prefers the hit-and-run game.
McPhee, the Cincinnati second baseman.
has record Of playing fifteen successive
games this senson without an error of any
kind.
The League players claim that the Boston
ground has the poorest infield In the League:
one on which it is impossible to Judge
ground ball
Mccarthy has not comet up to expectations;
IN iact he has fallen off until the patrons of
the game in Brooklyn are bowling for his re-
/ Iirt cent to the bench.
: rangely enough, Breitenstein, of st.
/ Loais, has no terrors for the New Yorks.
/ They won six games from him last year, and
have already this season knocked him out Of
/ the box twice.
With Latham's departure from the League
another historic figure drops out of the
National Game. One by one the real char
acters OF the sport are passing away without
leaving any successors so far as quaintness
and originality go.
Manager Frank Bancroft insists that
Pitcher Radboune was the first player to
hunt successfully in 1894 He should 60 back
at least dozen years, as McMullsn. OF the
old Athletics, was one Of the most skillful
/ bunters the profession ever had,
correspondent who is travelling with the
Baltimore team says that betting is done on
the Pittsburg grounds to a larger extent
than on any other grounds in the country.
10 this practice, and to no other can the acts
oil rowdyism which frequently disgrace the
/ city be attributed,
Should Hamilton, of Boston, lead the
League in base running this season Long
should be given great part of the credit.
Hamilton Is fast as to his feet and Herman is
last as to his generalship. As soon as Ham
ilion reaches first base he goes down on the
first ball pitched Long "unconsciouslyn in
ter,eres with the catcher and the base il
stolen.