Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-05
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Mack, Murray, Gilmore, Daily, O'Day. O'Brien, Myers, Gardner, Irwin, Wllmot, Hoy, and Shoch of the Washington base bali club, accompanied by Ted Sullivan, as manager, and Secretary Burket and Paddock of the Troys, left on Friday for New Orleans They were undecided as to whether they would stop at Mobile going or coming Neither Deasley, Donnelly, or Whitney was present, but will be on hand on April 1, when the club returns. They will remain in New Orleans week, going thence to Montgomery, Selma, Birming.. ham. Atlanta, Jacksonville, Charleston and Charlotte.
 Pitcher Stagg is determined that the Yale nine shall win every game 1t plays during the coming season. In training candidates for the nine he has devised new scheme for teaching them how to slide bases. He has constructed and placed in the gymnasium pine frame fourteen by seven feet, covered with canvas, drawn tightly, and an overcovering of velvet car pet with it's surface elevated about four feet above the ground. The candidates run distance of twenty feet or so and then h1lrl themselves headlong upon this new machine The famous little pitcher says that the nine will be the best Yale has yet produced.
 Brother Foster of Indianapolis does an injustice to several members of the Indian apolis club when he states that Myers and Hackett were the only members of last years Hoosier team who did not drink 8 drop all season. He would have been nearer correct ifhe had included McGeachy and Healy in his list Both are total ab- stainers. Seery is another man who is perfectly temperate in his habits, and it is doubtful whether he drank a drop of any intoxicants all season. With Denny and Arundel under the restriction of 8 pledge the Indianapolis team does not contain a ''lusher," and in this respect is, indeed, a model aggregation of players.
 Says a Washington correspondent: Ed Daily should be likened to 8 well trained race horse. I>had quite chat with him and he is evidently in prime condition either to pitch or play in the field. He knows nothing about any proposition to sell or transfer him to some other club, and while he is perfectly contented to re- main with the Washingtons, yet he antici- pates no difficulty in securing an immediate engagement elsewhere. On the present trip hetakes his regular turn in the box with Gilmore and O'Day and his work will be watched with more than ordinary interest, as he is we'll thought of by the base ball patrons or w aSu1uSCOu
 Dan Shannon tells Boston reporter that he has not received any advance money, az agreed upon, from Kalamazoo, Mich, and will not play there next season unless they keep their agreement. Shannon has ap- pealed to the arbitration committee.
 Concerning certain rumors about inten- tions of the New Haven polo management Manager Downes said last evening: "We cannot have the New Bedford team under any consideration or for any money. Man ager Bancroft of that team has eighteen games to play; in some instances two in an evening. We are making every effort to secure some new players and hope to sue ceed." It is understood that players from the Salems will be secured if possible and that the New Haven managers have an agent in Boston who will report to them to-day.
 In the game at Hartford on Saturday evening between the local team and the Bridgeports, the former was the winner by the score of to 3.