Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-02
Notes from the Diamond.

NStcS AFOIh the D1a"Onds Tim Keefe has again signed contract with the New York Giants.
 Manager Powers has signed shet1ier as fielder for his Buffalo club.
 A. M. Potter of Stony Creek has signed with West Haven for the season.
 The Cuban Giants open the season April IS at the Polo grounds, New York.
 Portland is anxiously trying to secure O'Con. nell Of Merlden to fill the box.
 Manager Burnham has been disappointed in losing many players he had signed, but he has a lively nine at that.
 Captain Billy Hill of the local polo team is negotiating with the Waterbury team of the Con, necticut state league.
 The New Haven team is badly crippled by the loss of Doran, Cahill, Carney and Pettee, who have ''jumped'' to the Association.
 Here are four fine second basemen not engaged: Bassett, Smith (''Pop'D GerhardA, Bastian. A few in big demand.
 PHILADELPHIA, April 1.-E. Harry Decker, the base ball all player was taken to Moyamensing trial on three charges of forgery and larceny. His trial will probably come up next week. ', Manager Mutrie is contemplating playing in New Haven again next week. It would be good move for New Haven, as minor base ball city, is one of the best, and another big crowd would surely turn out, knowing, as they do that tho stars would appear.-New York Sun.
 The New Haven club will in all probability get out an injunction restraining Carney from play ing with the Cincinnati Association club. That player signed an agreement 10 play with the New Haven club, which Manager Burnham showed to a Sun reporter yesterday. It is hard to see how Carney can play with the Association team, if the New Haven club is determined to hold him to that agreement, which they certain ly will do.
 Newark will not have professional base ball club this season. The Newark club of the Inter national league will send in it's resignation and forfeit the S1O0 guarantee deposited with the retary of the legue few weeks ago. This league is certainly having hard luck this season in com. pleting it's circuit. Managers Burnham and Pow CTS are h64tling around, however, and will prob ably land the eighth club in the course of day or two. Harrisburg will probably be admitted to fill the vacancy at the meeting in Albany next Monday.
 The New York Herald in it's report of Tuesday $ game says: There was one thing about the New Haven players that caused the uninitated ob- server to pause in wonderment, and that was the hosiery worn by Captain Cudworth. The things were of a brilliant green, which caused the so called grass upon the diamond to also turn pre- maturely green from envy. Just where "Cuddy'' got his stockings was explained later by Manager Burnham, who said that during recent drive in New Haven one of his men, who is particularly superstitious, saw the gems dangling from a clothes line and bagged them for a case of emer- gency. Their mascotic influence was made ap- parent to Cudworth, who after the frightful slaughter of Monday decided to wear them yes- terday no matter what came of it all. If stray band had been on hand to play ''St. Patrick Day in the Morning New Haven might have had more luck, but as it was they were trounced again.