Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-07-24
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Baltimore holds the record for stolen bases.
The Philadelphia Club Is hard up for
pitchers.
The New Yorks have not won a straig ght
series this season.
Cllngman is reported as playing a great
game at LouisviIle's third base.
In Brooklyn the pavilion is termed "sec-
ond cabin" an / the b!eaChers "steerage,'
The Cleveland Club is looking for grounds
on which to play Sunday games next season.
Boswell the Columbus pitcher, does not
play Sunday ball. His contract exempts him.
Umpire Keefe tended his resignation to
President Young, and the latter accepted it.
Pitcher Figgemeier, of Des Moines, Iowa.
is credited with eighteen successive victories
this season.
Dowd has been appointed manager of the
st. Louis team to succeed Won der Ahe who
succeeded Connor.
Bradley has been reelected captain of the
Princeton team for next season. The team
loses Gunster, Titus aud Ward.
Jennings, OF the Baltmores, is pushing
Burkett, of Cleveland hard for the bat
ting championship of the League.
Plttsburgs share of the receipts for three
games at st. Louis amounted to less than
3l25, not enough to pay railroad fare.
Out of five times at bat in Chicago Dele
hanty, of Philadelphia, made one single and
four home runs. And yet Chicago won.
ritcner roretnan mas been reinstated by
the Pittsburg Club. Foreman missed train
recently and was fined $50 and suspended.
The veteran second baseman, Quinn, has
been released by st. Louis. He had plenty
of offers, but finally signed a Baltimore con-
tract.
O'Connor, of Cleveland, caught twelve
straight games while thinner was laid Off,
and did not have an error or passed ball in
the dozen.
The disappearance of Brouthers, released
by Philadelphia, from the diamond takes
away the last of the Big Four of the old De-
troit team.
Manager Tebeau and the rest of the Cleve-
land team are undoubtedly encouraged in
their actions on tho ball field by lack of re-
buke from the Cleveland press, rs whole.
The New York Club officially announces
that money will not buy George Davs's re-
lease, and no other third baseman in the
country will be accepted in exchange for him.
Bierbauer is laid up with a sprained ankle,
which will keep him out of the game for u
month. Pittsburg claimed Tecond Baseman
TRULY, of Chicago. and put him in Bier
bauer's place.
Ehret, of Cincinnati, at present leads tn e
pitchers of the National League. He has
pitched in thirteen games and less than one
run per game has been earned. To be exact,
eleven runs were earned off the rosente-
haired twirler in thirteen games.
1t is astonishing to look over the list of the
new material which was brought into the
National League last spring and notice how
small part of 1t has been able to keep ''in
the swim" Every day one hears that some
Younger player has been released or that
another has been loaned or farmed to a
minor league club.
"The magnates will learn after few
weeks" said Cuppy, the Cleveland pitcher,
''that it Is impossible for any man to pitch d
good ball and to keep his pivot foot tight on
the ground. l can do it If any man in the
League can, so the change will not hurt me
any more than 1t does others. But the rule
is foolish, and before long they will be GLAD
to allow pitcher to raise his foot as high u:
ballet dancer.