Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-23
Notes From the Diamond.

Ravens, is about to sign with the Grand Rapids club.
 The West Haven team has improved wonderfully of late, and is now in a condi- tion to make any team in the league hustle in order to win 8 game.
 Delehanty of the Philadelphia club has been fined $100 and suspended by Manager Wright, with whom he had some hot words and afterwards refused to play.
 Manager Randall of the Lebanons, has signed Catcher Touhey, who was released by the Troys. Touhey caught for the Min neapolis club in the Western association last year.
 Delahanty has made written apology for his bad conduct, and said if reinstated, he would not repeat the action. Mr. Wright has reinstated him and reduced his fine to $25.
 The New Britain team was the first one to weaken and talk about throwing up the sponge, but happily the "crisis" has been averted by the directors agreeing to call in all the stock.
 Stovey and Bell have jumped the Cubans and joined the Gorhams. It is dollars to doughnuts that it will not be long before the Gorhams are in the Connecticut league instead of the Cubans.
 The Waterbury management has re- leased Hobe Whiting, who was released at his own request Last year he played with Troy under old Jack Remsen. This year Remsen is in Ottawa, Ill.,, and he wired ''Hobe" if he would play with him behind the bat, and as Whiting could get consid- erable more money there than here, the management kindly let him go. The Troy team, says the Sporting Life. is the first professional team to play the baby act in championship game, Cam pau withdrawing his men from the Lebanon-Troy game of May g.. The fine of $500, as provided in the rules of the Eastern association, should be enforced, as an example and deterrent to other foolish captains. A game should always, and un- der all circumstances, be played out. That much is due to the public, at least, which pays good money to see game won or lost on it's merits.
 The New York National league club is just now in 8 mighty bad way for catchers l and in casting his eye around the country for material with which to strengthen, John B. Days eye fell on Bowman of the l Rochesters. Yesterday afternoon tele- agement offering $2, 800 for Bowmans re- lease. Whether or not the offer will be | accepted has not yet been decided, but one director last evening said that he should vote against letting him go. The deal that has been on for some time | between the Rochester management and Bob Gilks has been complered and Gilks has been signed. Gilks for the past three years has played with the Cleveland club
 He is a clever all around player and will probably be utilized in right. He played | in the field for Cleveland last year. He is l a fair hitter, having an average of 213 last | io ot>oh f1ot 1>o leased. Begy has done some good fielding and some bad fielding, but at the bat has been practically useless.
 In reference to the college base ball mud l dle the New York Sun in recent issue | says:
 l Captain Calhoun of the Yale college base
 ball team was in very amiable and pleas ant mood after his team had applied so disastrous defeat to the Crescents at Eastern park, but the victory did not work | on him to such an extent that he was will ing to talk on Yale's chances for defeating
 Princeton in the series of games between l them to commence tomorrow at New
 Haven. In talk with Sun reporter he
 said:
 "As captain of the Yale team I have no public opinion. Of course have an idea
 of how the series may possibly turn out,
 but there are many conditions connected
 with base ball that are likely to come up at
 almost any moment and render the chances l of victory for one team or another useless.
 A player may get injured or something else
 may occur entirely unlooked-for. The 1 Princeton team is this year very strong.
 We all recognize this fact It will take
 good, steady playing to defeat them. All
 can say in conclusion is that Yale will ,as | ever, put forth her best endeavors to win
 the intercollegiate championship" | Captain Calhoun deplored Harvard's
 stand in refusing to play Princeton, as it
 places Yale in rather peculiar position.
 "We tried" said he. ''to bring about the
 old condition of affairs in having Harvard,
 Princeton and Yale contest for the cham pionship, but Harvard prevented it." l BOSTON, May 21.-"The present condi-
 tion of affairs regarding the base ball in terests of Yale, Princeton and Harvard" said member of the Harvard Advisory 1 committee to-day, twill have no effect on | athletic contests between Yale and Har- yard. They will take place just the same. The explanation of the base ball difficulty is this: Harvard had originally taken the position that she did not wish to go into a league with other colleges, but young man, Captain Dean, who held some posi- tion on the base ball team, made the mis- from Yale and making appointments for games for the future, which he was not authorized to make. He then came back to Cambridge and announced that he had committed Harvard to these arrangements. This placed the advisory committee in an embarrassing position. Some Harvard men think that Yale's position is correct, and others do not. It is 8 debatable question of college ethics."