Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-12

ers-HOrner, La1y and SOmmer
Lead In the Good werk-lrhe Game
Decidedly the Best OF the Season
Heavy Battling Earns Four of the
Five Runs Made by the Home
Team. .
The hitherto victorious ttBisons'' came
to New Haven yesterday, they saw the
local players and the ]; 300 or more specta
tors, and were finally conquered by the
superior prowess of the home team by a
score of 5 to 8. The faces of many of the
navy blue-suited Buffalos were familiar to
the local cranks, and each man was greeted
with applause as he stepped into the field.
There was Freddy" Mack, the famous
second baseman, and Pitcher German of
last seasons Baltimore club, and "Big
Jim" Fields and his little side partner, Leo
Smith, of last years Newark club. Harry
Lyons, Shelter and Hornung, three of the
best all around felders in the business,
were attending to all that came their way
in the outer gardens. The only Knowles
held down the third bag and genial Pat
Murphy took care of the receiving end of
the battery. Thus it will be readily seen
that it was an unusually strong aggrega-
ton against which the local men were
called upon to do battle, and on this &C
count their victory is all the moro credita-
BILE.
Both clubs put large amount Of vim
and snap into their play and in conse-
quence the game was one of the most bril-
liant seen on the local grounds in many q
day. Horner's work in the box for the
home team has never been excelled in this
city, and Joe Sommer was veritable stone
wall at third base, one of his stops of a
hard hit ball being of the phenomenal Or
der. Lally did brilliant work in center
field and led at the bat with home run
and single to his credit, closely followed
by Horner with a three Dagger, a single
and sacrifice.
For the visitors, German did good work
in the box and was ably supported by the
entire team, the fielding of Mack, Smith
and Knowles being features.
The game opened as usual with New
Haven at the bat Umpire Doescher threw
nice clean ball to German, who deliber-
ately threw it over Fields head with the
purpose of soiling it. Umpire Doescher
Immediately called Mr. German down and
threw the second clean ball into the game.
The game then commenced with Sommer
at the bat. He was sent to first base on
called balls, but few moments afterwa1d
both he and Farrar were retired on a neat
double play. Lally then died at FIRST base,
the pitcher assisting in the obsequies. The
local men scored and earned their first
run of the game in the third inning,
when Cudworth secured first on an attempt
at double play, went to second on Horner's
nice single, which was also the first hit
made by either team in the game; third
was immediately purloined by the willy
captain. and the plate was reached on
Sommer's nice sacrifice. The next inning
| resulted in a blank for the local men, but
| in the fifth they went in and won the
game, scoring three runs and earning two.
Cudworth was the first man up, and be.
fore many seconds had elapsed he was rest
| ing quietly on first with nice base
hit to his credit. The second bag was i'm
mediately stolen and "Cuddy" was next
| advanced to third by we'll placed sacri-
bat and poked beautiful two-bagger, on
| which Cudworth scored. Farrar then fol
| lowed with single to left field, on which
Sommer went to third, and as Hornung
kindly fumbled the ball at this point the
runner kept on his mad pace and crossed
the plate in safety. Farrar than stole Sec
ond and few minutes afterward crossed
| the plate on Lally's single. Lally, how
ever, was put out at second and Pettee
| at first on a neat double play, retiring the
| side. No more runs were scored until the
eighth inning, when Lally, who was the
| first man at the bat, lost the ball some
where near the Waddingham mansion, and
before it could be found he had crossed
| the plate. This ended the run-getting for
| the home team.
The visitors secured all their runs in the
| first inning. Shelter went to first on an
error by Sales and was at once advanced to
| second on an error of Pettee. The third
bag was then stolen and the plate crossed
on a sacrifice hit by Knowles. Mack was
hit by pitched ball and forced to second
on Lyons base on balls. Both players
we're advanced base by Knowles sacri-
| fee. Mack was shortly afterward sen,
across the plate on a nice sacrifice by
Fields, on which Lyons went to third, and
the latter player soon scored on an errol
by Sommer. For the next eight innings
the Bisons were retired without scoring,
the playing of the home team being clean
and sharp throughout.
| The same teams play again this after.
noon, when Gilliland will probably of6ci-
ate for the local men and either Barr OF
Goodall for the visitors. Another large
crowd will undoubtedly be present, as the
work of yesterday: was of such high
order.
The score: