Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-03
BASE BALLIN EAsToN.
Description of lhe RastoR Grounds Facts About the Two Easton Games

Description of Ihe EastOR Grounds- Facts About the Two Easton Games. Especial to the CouRIER.l EAsroN, May 3-For the first time since leaving home the sun shone out brightly yes terday but for all that it was cold on the ball ground The diamond is situated on the top of hill, and the wind is, in the spring-time, always raw and keen. never saw such a crazy crowd as that ore which assembled on Tuesday. If one of the New Ravens had broken his neck they would have laughed over it. If New Haven crowd should act as this one did it would be called on the verge of extreme lunacy. But our men bore up bravely and never for one minute lost heart It seemed to stimulate them to great CT efforts.
 The diamond is very poor one, and it bothered our players. In the first place it is not level, and again. it is not turfed. Man. ager Putnam has graded it 50 that the pitch CTS are pitching down hill at a small grade, which was done to give Turner more eff fectiveness while in the box.
 The outfeld-well the less said about it the better The grounds are inside the race track, and the right6elder is obliged to stand in u hollow on the track. Were you ever in 8 woodland where trees had been cut down and you had to go this way and that to get around B stump? Well this is just the way the outfelders must work here on account of the uneavenness of the ground and the little hillocks that project here and there. This it was that caused Brady to misjudge the fly in the first game, and Galligan to make two errors. as the ball struck one of these projec- tions and bounded away.
 The Wilkesbarre diamond, although skinned, is much better than Easton's. The
 grand stand here will hold about 300 people. One wing is divided off by a partition for
 ladies, and on Tuesday that section was packed The ground will not accommodate
 more than 5000 people.
 Easton is quite lively place and it's streets
 are very pretty. There are numerous hills,
 but tEis only adds to the attraetiveness of
 the scenery.
 In the first game when Fitzgerald went into
 the box the Eastons could not hit him, go
 Manager Putnam nonchantly walks over be-
 hind the catcher to see what kind of ball
 he was pitching, so as to post his players.
 But Manager Spence was looking, and the game was stopped by him until Putnam
 was ordered away by Umpire Clinton.
 A neat trick was played by Dave Corcoran. He was on first base, when Sullivan hit to Doyle at second. Dave saw that he was forced out at second, so he began to run first this way and then that way on the base line, which SO confused Doyle that he threw wild ~>SSs Spence also gotin pretty trick that, but for hard luck, would have won the game. He He stood near first coaching. A wild throw was made of Sheehan's hit, which went past Spence. He didn't move, but threw up his hands and yelled to Sheehan to go on, not noticing O'Connell, who was trying to push him to one side to get the ball. When he did succeed in getting past Spence Sheehan was on third.
 The eastern clubs have not done well on their western trip. Nine hits for total of twelve bases off Nick Handiboe, one of the best twirlers in the league, is not very bad for the team that has been put down as the weakest hitting players in the league.
 I must confess that after seeing Fitzgerald pitch four innings in the first game l have great admiration for him as pitcher. He uses his head, has speedy ball and fields his position finely. He made one stop by leapipg into the air that was so good that even the spectators had to appland.
 Jimmie Clinton may be good umpire, but his work has been terribly against New Ha- ven. He doesn't run to the bases to see if man is out. If he did Sheehan would not have been declared out at first base when O'Connell failed to have him by 8 foot in Tuesdays game, and we would have won. l always deprecate the cry of 'trobbed by the umpire" but when I sit but ten feet away from first base and see men called out when the first baseman is not within two feet of his bag and fails to touch the runner, then I object-and strongly, too.
 The Hartford team is doing great bragging. There isn't team in the league that has that uncurable disease known as "swelled head" so strongly as the Capitol City boys. They made themselves very unpopular in Easton by their bragging. They said Easton had no license to beat them, and that they were sure of winning the pennant.
 The second game at Easton was lost by miserable fielding. Carsey pitched well, but lost his head several times. He told me that he was somewhat nervous, as he wanted to win the first game.
 What do New Haven people think of Burn hams great aggregation?