Morning journal and courier., 1891-07-07
NEW HAVEN WINS AT HOME.

NEW HAVEN WINS AT HOME. The Local Team Wins from Roches- ter in am Interesting Contest-Clark- sonss Good Work In the Box-Thei- sen Creates Most Favorable Im-
 pression Behind the Bat-Annis | and Guinnasso Signed by the Local l Management-Notes. l
 The New Ravens signalized theirreturn | to their native heath yesterday afternoon by defeating the Rochester team in slow but nevertheless interesting game. Clark son and Theisen were in the points for the home team, and both covered themselves with glory. Shreve and Urquhart off ciated for the visitors, but the former was exceedingly wild, giving nine mer bases on balls, which fact materially affected the score.
 The home team when they made their appearance on the field were greeted with applause, and when "Snap'' Lang came to the bat for the first time, the occupants of both grand stand and bleachers rose al most to man and gave the plucky little shortstop most enthusiastic reception. When the team came on the field it was at once noticed that with the other members were four new faces, who had joined the | team since it left on it's last western trip. These four new men were "Snap" Lang of last years team, the fam. ous and popular South paw" member of last years team and started in 1 of the American association; "Billy" An his, who last season played with Hartford, and who, up to g few days since, has been a member of the Providence team; and | Guinnasso, the plucky little Italian catch l CT, who in former years won the plaudits of the local audiences by his fine work at tho receiving end of the battery for Low ! ell, Worcester, Hartford and Providence. Another man on the team who was almost 8 stranger to local audiences was Catcher Theisen, Manager Burnham's greatest find. Theisen is every inch of him ball player and will prove a most valuable acquisition to the local team. Although this is practically his first exper- fence in big league he already handles himself like veteran, and judging from his work yesterday he is undoubtedly one of the best if not actually the best catcher in the league. Not @ single base was stolen off him during the game and the only error credited to him was on a very
 wild third strike on which Urquhart suc- ceeded in reaching first base. During the
 past week or ten days he has successfully
 caught each of the pitchers in turn and
 seems to be just as fresh at the close Of a game as at it's commencement. Another
 peculiar talent which the young man pos
 sesses is the knaok of hitting the ball at
 times when men are on bases and hits
 count for something. Surely Manager
 Burnham is to be congratulated upon his
 new catcher
 The feature of yesterdays game was the
 timely and heavy batting of Annis, Pettee
 Visner and Powers and the fielding oi
 Sales, Clarkson, Sweeney and Mooney
 Clarkson's work in the box for the home
 team was some of the best ever seen or
 the local grounds, and proved him to be
 pitcher of no mean ability. His worl
 yesterday consisted of striking out five
 men, sending none to base on balls, put
 ting out two men, assisting in retiring
 three more and sending run across tht
 plate by we'll placed hit
 Doyle, who is suffering from malaria
 fever, was unable to play in his accus
 toned position, and in consequence Eddie
 Sales covered the third bag in great shape
 Annis covered Sales position in righ
 field. Lang was at his old position a
 short stop, and the way he kept the op
 posing base runners hugging the second
 bag was decidedly appreciated by the 1 ,20' ; or more spectators present. The tean also as whole played with more snap ant
 vim than on some former occasions, a fac
 which was to @ certain extent due to tn ) excellent coaching of Sommer, Lang ant
 Farrar.
 The game did not commence until lonI after o'clock, the delay being caused b, the nonappearance of @ regular umpire Finally player from New Britain name, l Fitzgerald, who happened to be among tn spectators, was agreed upon and the gam began. Fitzgerald made a good umpire : generally, though it must be admitted tha ] he was occasionally off in his judment o,
 balls and strikes.
 ] New Haven was first at the bat, but b t sharp fielding of their opponents, wer = retired without scoring. In the next ir s over the plate. Pettee was the first ma q at the bat and led off with a long tw a base hit to deep center field. Blauvel
 secured the ball after long run an 7 threw it in to Gilks, who attempted - catch Pettee by throwing the ball t l Mooney to head him off at third. Mooney 8 however, could not have reached the ba s even with the aid of step ladder an 8 when it was finally recovered, Pettee ha h the local men. The next two men wer 8 retired in quick succession and then tn
 fun began. Sommer went to first o e an error of Power, was advance l. to second on g base on bal t to Clarkson, and crossed the plate on h l by Lang, Clarkson going to second. Clarl son was immediately advanced to third b b wild pitch and scored on Annis' timel d single. In the fourth inning five mol J. runs were added to the local mems scol @ on four bases on balls, three singles and
 two-bagger, assisted by 8 steal and a g error by Power. In the sixth inning th t final run was made by Theisen, who wer y to first on four bad balls, stole second an tt came all the way home on glaring erre y by Blauvelt, who allowed the ball to g
 by him. A singular coincidence of u @ local mems run getting yesterday was tf h fact that in nearly every inning in whic r runs were made they were secured afte r two men were out.
 Rochester secured and earned two ru1
 in the first inning on Visner's triple an ,- Powers two bagger, one more in the sixt
 on Knights double, Visner's sacrifice an T. Powers triple, and one in the seventh c s Blauvelt's single, Pettee's error, Gilk n sacrifice and Lang's error.
 l. The Buffalo club, the leaders in u a Eastern association race,- will be here t. a day and tomorrow. The local battery if to-day's game will'b Horner and Theisel
 and Horner will attempt to duplicate b
 feat of retiring the heavy hitting Biso1
 with six hits or less.
 The score:
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