Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-01
THE NATIONAL CAME.

Phenomenal Work Being Done by she
 New Havens-Batting Heavier Than
 Any Other Team In the LeaGue-Ten
 Games Won Out Of she Last Twelve
 Played-Sworbaek, Doran and Hor.
 ner Doing she Moss Effective Kind Of
 Work in che Box-Only one Game
 Lost in the Series With the Western
 Teams-Lally's Great Batting Ave.
 rage.
 The New Ravens are still marching on to victory. They know no such thing as defeat nowadays, whereas in former days they knew not what the word victory meant. It is the reorganization, with man at the head who knows every point regarding base ball, that has brought about this change. After an inc ming the other day where an error had let in a run some were inclined to critioise. "Never mind," said Captain Burdock to his men, "we are playing to win, no matter how many errors wo have. All you have got to do is to do the best you can." And they went to work and won the game.
 There is growing tendency to say ungen- tlemanly things about the players when they fail to make hit or play that would ads vance the New Ravens. Especially is this 90 when fielder makes an error. It is tolbe hoped by all who are fair minded that Sthis will stop right away. Walter Hackett was driven out of the Lowells by just >s6ch work from the crowd. For example,, take Satur- high balls, when @ man was on a base, and several hissed. The next instant Burdock made pretty single and brought in the tieing run. Thera he was 8 veritable "dandy" in the eyescl those who had expressed their sentiU.ent rather strongly. Again, it seems queer that 1t cannot be understood that but for errors there would be no base ball. Itis the uncertainty of the game, the lack of 8 hit here or an error there that makes base ball what it is. But there are some who think the home team should never make an error. The fact is, there should be no such thing in @ score as an error column. People also can not understand that our diamond, although it looks pretty, is the toughest in the whole league. 'I would die if had to play here all the time," said Captain Gerhardt of the Jersey Citys the other day. That is the sen- timent of every player who visits here. The New Ravens, in the series of games between the eastern and western teams in the east have done by far the best work of any team. They have lost but one game, and have won ten out of the last twelve played. This is certainly record to be proud of. The Boston Herald says that the New Ravens are now playing the finest ball of any team in the Atlantic association, It also gives Burdock complimentary notice.
 The COURIER has prepared a record of what our players have done in this series. Some of them would have had better batting averages, but they were playing to win and made sacrifice hits to advance base runner base. A while ago no one knew how to sacrifice. Cahill and O'Rourke played third 1 base. but their fielding average behind the I~ok I~a rsr Horner pitched in three games, and swor- | back in two and half. The following will show how many times the home players and \ their visitors reached first base in the nine games played with the western clubs-one @ postponed one with Newark-the number of | sacrifice hits, stolen bases, put outs, assists | and errors: