Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-07-12
A GOOD SHOWING.

The New Haven8 Return From Their
Second Eastern Trip-Winning Two
Out of Four-Not n Short Lived
Spurt-They Pull Themselves Out of
Last Place For Once This Season.
The New Haven base ball team returned
from it's second eastern trip Wednesday
morning with two victories and two defeats
as the result of their work. The showing is
certainly a good one and should be appreci-
ated by lovers of base ball in this city. The
work of the team is exciting comment in
the whole base ball armament.
1.-THE squirt of the New Ravens is the feat
ure of the play of the last MONTH" So said
the Boston Herald yesterday morning.
One reason of this success is heavy batting,
aided by plays that the team had never made
before Burdock took hold. On several occa.
sions, with man on first, just as he started
to steal second the batter would push the ball
into right field, It going past just where the
second baseman had stood before he started
for second base to catch the runner. Had
the hit not been made just at that time the
batter would be out, but instead he gets a
base hit, and the man on first gets to third.
This does not always work, and it is not adj
visable to try it too often.
The men are doing some pretty sacrifice
hitting. Anyone Of them will sacrifice to
bring in run and that is just where thew
are doing different from the other teams,
There is one thing that could be improved
upon, base running. The boys are not run
ming bases with that vim that characterized
them some time ago. Brady has fallen away
off, and where he awhile ago he seldom
missed stealing second base he rarely gets
there now. The trouble is that he fails to
get start.
The most reprehensive thing to be noticed
is that two or three of the men will not run
hard to first base when an easy fly is knocked
or the ball goes to the infeld. There is of
course only one chance in ten that the OBJ
posing player would make an error, but no
one can tell when that tenth canoe will
come. Lally is the principal offender in this
respect.
Our pitchers on this trip have not done
one in Worcester that Sworback pitched. But
then, they can't do good work all the time.
They seem to forget that they have eight
good men behind them, and instead of max
ing a man hit the ball every time, give bases
on balls at just the wrong time. That was
just why Doran lost the second game In
Worcester.
It is no wonder that base ball doesn't pay
in Lowell. Their grounds are probably the
worst in the country. 1t is a regular band
box, and the ielders don't have a chance to
move about. The river runs along one side
and every few minutes foul is batted over.
They you will see man in
boat go out, fish the ball out of the river and
throw the ball into the enclosure. Imagine
how visiting pitcher can do good work.
One minute he is pitching ball that weighs
81 ounces; the next one weighs an ounce
more. There is netting stretched along the
river side, about ten feet above the fence,
which prevents many fouls from going over
the fence.
The right fielder has to stand clear to the
fence and can cover no ground. Half way
between right and center fields is big white
pole attached to the fence. A ball hit over
the fence on the right side is good for only
one base hit, but if the ball goes over on the
center field side it is good for a home run
1t is easy to get record for home runs on
these grounds. The Lowell players have it
down fine and put nearly all their hits into
right field.
All this talk about 5000 people seeing
games in Lowell is all bosh The ground
will not accommodate more than half that
number.
been uncertainty in Lowell. At the COM
of the season President Howe
said that just as soon as he began to lose
money he would get out. Two weeks ago it
was said Lowell would disband after the
Fourth, but Manager Cosgrove denied it
most emphatically, and even did SO the day
before the sponge was thrown up. He acted
In perfect good faith, for he was not &C.
quainted with the real inside doings
Ms. Cosgrove, who is one of the most
genial and honest men in base ball, was
nearly heartbroken when Howe refused to
keep on. So Cosgrove Immediately set to
work and had meeting, got ex-Alderman
Donaghue and Editor Sullivan of the Lowell
News to back the enterprise. and they bought
out the franchise. After the team returns
from the western trip games will be played
IN the fair ground. This change will be
largely beneficial. The old place was not
attractive.
Burdock made his first appearance in Hart
ford, Worcester and Lowell and received an
ovation in every place.