Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-28
THE BASE BALL SEASON

Opens Very Successfully in This City l Over Five Thousand Persons Witt ness a Tie Game Between the New Haven and New York Clubs-Excel- lent Work Done by the Members or
 the Heme Team-The Game in De-
 tafl-YaIe ,94 Defeated by West Ha-
 ven-Other Games Yesterday.
 The opening of the local base ball season yesterday at the Howard avenue grounds was most suspicious one, both in the matter of attendance and the ability of the local nine to play ball. Fally 5000 per sons braved the bleakness of the atmos- phere in order to be present at the opening game of the season. Long before the hour for the game to commence the bleachers were filled, and when 3 o'clock came and the game was started every available spot inside the grounds was occupied, while all along and clear around the grounds hun dreds were content to stand up, four and five deep, such was their desire to see the opening game of the season. From half past 3 o'clock until long after the game commenced line nearly block in length stood along Howard avenue waiting in turn to secure admission. The grounds yesterday in appearance reminded one of the famous Decoration day of last season between the Baltimore and New Haven teams, when over 1000 persons were pres ent.
 The weather yesterday was not well adapted to ball playing, it being extremely cold and disagreeable, but notwithstand- ing this fact q most excellent quality of ball was put up by the players of both teams. The New Yorks had their strong est team in the field, and the fact that they were only able to play tie game with the local team argues well for the playing ability of the latter.
 The game started promptly at o'clock, with the local team at the bat, Mckee, be- ing the first ~nlaaae ~facer the curves of .1Leng John" Ewing, the only brother of the famous Buck" Mckee waited few minutes until he got ball where he want ed it, and few seconds later the ball was soaring out toward center field. Gore was waiting, however, to receive it, and Mckee walked back to the bench, having achieved the distinction of being the first man to be put out i'll game on the local grounds this season. John Henry was the next man to the bat and he succeeded in plac- ing neat single to his credit He was put out, however, in few minutes while trying to steal second, O'Rourke to Richardson. Lally ended the inning by striking out. For New York Gore led off with a base hit, went to second and was put out for cutting third base while try ing to score on Gillilands wild throw to Lally to catch Corners. Herman went out on fly to Cudworth, and Buck Ewing was easily retired on a ground ball to Lal- ly. In the second inning Doyle secured the first run of the season on his own sin gle, an error of w. Ewing and Forster'e pretty single. In this inning Gilliland hit three of the visitors with a pitched ball, thus giving them their base and two of them scoring on J. Ewing's single. No more runs were scored by either team until the fifth in ming when Fitzgerald and Gilliland each secured run for the home team on Fitz- gerald's single, base on balls and Whist Ier's error The visitors tied the score, O'Rourke securing a run on Doyle's error, wild pitch and a passed ball. The sixth inning was the last in which either team scored. For the home team Mahoney, |swho had taken Wilson's place and Cudworth were given their base on balls, Doyle and Forster followed with singles which, aided by g wild pitch, enabled Mahoney and Cud- worth to score For the visitors w. Ewing was given his base on balls by Horner, whc had relieved Gilliland, and aided by three bases on balls, wild pitch and an error by Mckee, crossed the plate tieing the score. The remaining innings were sharply played by both teams, neither sue ceeding in breaking the tie. Owing to tht intense cold the game was called at the end of the ninth inning.
 From yesterdays exhibition it would
 seem as though Manager Burnham had | succeeded in surrounding himself with 6 1 frst-class team-each member of whict
 did good work. Of the new men Forster played his position very acceptably, whil'
 Mahoney created most favorable impres
 sion behind the bat, as did Wilson, also Henry took excellent care of everything
 that came his way, while Doyle played thu
 third bag we'll as if he had been playing
 all winter. One of his stops of hard hi
 ball, on which he succeeded in putting out
 his man, was as fine 8 play as was eve1
 seen on the local grounds. The score: | NEW HAVEN. NEW YORK;