Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-07
BASE BALL.

News and Gossip from the Local Dia- mond and What ls Going on in General Tn she Atlantic AssociaSlOn- Notes of Interest to Base Hall Readers What she New York Players are
 DoInG-Worcester To-day.
 Rain caused postponement of the Hart- ford-New Haven game, which was to have been played on the Howard avenue grounds yesterday afternoon, and the management are accordingly out $400 or $500. The bad weather was undoubtedly . good thing for Hartford. for it saved them from another drubbing at the hands of the local team. These two teams will not meet again until May 16, when they will play in Hartford. Then there will bs . game worth going . long way to see.
 The Now Haven players were paid of for the first time this season yesterday.
 The Worcester team arrived in New Haven late yesterday afternoon and put up at the Aldrich house. All the players are looking we'll and they will make the local team hustle to down them.
 Doren and Ho6ord will probably be the battery for New Haven In the game to-day with Worcester.
 Worcester at { o'clock this afternoon.
 President Bradsn of the Atlantic associa- tion, President Shoemaker of the Newark club and Secretary Munson of the New Ha- ven club arrived in Worcester yesterday. in the Worcester club owned by the Atlantic association syndicate to Worcester parties if arrangements can be made. If not, they will take the team away from Worcester and locate it elsewhere. There appears to be money there to back the team, but the trouble is to find responsible parties who will take the active management of the club.
 New York Notes.
 Both New York teams cling to the tail end Which one will get away first.
 Pickhey has made but one error since the cham pionship season opened.
 Caruthers leads the Brooklyns in batting witt A Collins n is second with S4A and Burns third Glasscook has not got his eye on the ball yet H1s nsing g whe timely, has been spasmodic H
 Esterbrook's batting average in six games is .25o and and he h has made but one error wild throw, ir
 In ten games the New York League team ha. made seventy nine base hits and thirty errors. The Brotherhood team has made ninety-eight hits ane Roger Connor is playing the best ball of his ca- reer at first base according to the record His aver | out of ;0l chances.
 Ed. Crane leads the batting averages of the New Yorks Qimited) with .75O; Slattery is second, witt | with .333, and W. Ewing fifth, with 300. Of the regular men who play every day, young Clarke leads the New York League team in batting or, with an average of BOO in two games. Tiernar has .2ss, and stands next to Clarke.
 The fielding of Bassett and Denny in the first tel is 941 and Bassett's 948. In view of the fact tha | both these men have been chasing everything il | sight, these figures are remarkable. | The New York club has released Tom O'Rourk | and First Baseman Scanlan. O'Kourke neve caught better ball in his life than he has been do ing for Manager Nutrie. He was released simpl, | because the cub did not need five catchers. Hatae1d has played some great ball at short field 1 and his eleven errors and small percentage. .79s arc somewhat mineadinE to the game he Is play | ing. What tells against him is his batting Elgh hits in fhirtysix times at bat is poor showing fo shortshop yet Glasscock has done very little bet ter. His batting Is only nine points above that o l