Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1886 — GENERAL SPORTING NOTES. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

The Bostons lost tlpee out of their first four games in the last inning! ~ The two longest base ball throws on record are: Ed Crane, Boston Unions, 135 yank l fooLiinch, and 134 yards 5 inches-Base-ball players will probably not join the strike for eight hours as the limit of a day’s labor. They are perfectly contented with two hours. The National League was organized ten years ago, and the championship haS been held by three clubs, as follows: Chicago, ’76, ’BO, ’Bl, ’B2, ’BS; 805t0n,’77,’78,’84; Providence, ’79, ’B3. An agreement has practically been concluded by which Teemer and Gaudaur will row their contemplated race at Pullman or Lake Calumet about the Ist of June. The work of Andrews, of the Philadelphias, has been terrific. He is the only league player who has batted safely in every one of the first seven league games. He. made eleven runs and thirteen hits, with a total of seventeen in those contests; and his batting average was .433, with a total of .506. ; ' . . An attempt was made last week to intro-„ duce ball-playing indoors in Chicago. The plan is quite elaborate and expensive—top much so,- we fear, to prove remunerative to the projectors, two young men from Nashville, Tenn. By means of a special wire leadinginto Central Muoic Hall and connecting with the League grounds in St. Louis, full particulars were given of the game in progress between the Chicago and St, Louis clubs. Every play was illustrated upon a canvas screen twenty feet square containing a picture of a ball field. The small audience present was pleased at the novelty of the thing, but there is no reason to anticipate that the enterprise can be made to succeed in Chicago. The North Springfield (Mo.) Southtcestem reports a local base-ball game with the following new and unique table of points in its score: K.—Buns. O.—Outs. F, D.—Fell down. M.—Muffed the ball. Umpires —Sperry, Gates, Freeman, Meischbach and others. One player had eighteen “F. D/s” marked against him/and another had “M. 36” opposite his name. The large number of umpires shows that the game was an exciting one. , From the crowds attending the ball games this season it is evident the game has found many new admirers.