Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1886 — BASE-HITS. [ARTICLE]

BASE-HITS.

The Chicagos have not lost a game this season in which McCormick pitched. Thomas York, an old League player, has been appointed an official umpire in the American Association.

The Chicagos have the largest number of “stolen bases” to their credit of any League club to date. The Detroits are. undoubtedly, just at present playing the best ball in the league. They are making a greater number of hits, and fewer errors, than any other club. The Detroits have not lost a game or postponed a game on the home grounds this season, playing twelve consecutive games. A most remarkable feat in base-ball annals. The New York Club from all accounts is in a pretty badly broken-up condition. Ewing, their crack catcher, is suffering from a sprained tendon in the left thigh, and other members of the laid up. Comiskey, of the St. Louis Maroons, was recently fined $225 for “6assing” the umpire. Missouri always was a great State for garden “sass," and now seems to be producing a very high-priced article of baseball “sass.”

A retired baseballist, of some literary -skill, was aßked to write an epitaph for a man who had just died, after marrying his third wife. The ex-batter produced the following terse but expressive sentiment: “Out on third.” Nio Young gives it as his opinion that the Washingtons are a better team and will have a much higher place in the race than most people now give them credit for. Nio is a pretty good judge, and his good opinion ought to inspire the new club to greater exertions for a good record. An unusual event occurred in one of the Chicago-Philadelphia games at Chicago, when Daily, pitching for the Phillies, had three Chicagos on the bases, two of them from called balls, and deliberately gave the third one his base, allowing a base-runner to walk home from third.