Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-15
A FAREwELL CONTEST.

The DiEOrganfxed New Havens Drop
 one Game to Syracuse Before Dis-
 bandment-Weak Stick Work and
 Listless Playing Loses a Slow Con.
 test-Lang,s Tiff With the Umpire.
 The New Haven base ball team met the Syracuse Stars for the last time as an or ganized nine yesterday, and after eight innings and g half of listless play lost their final game by score of 6 to 1. About 250 spectators journeyed out to the Howard avenue grounds to pay farewell to the familiar faces of the men who have upheld New Haven's reputation on the dia- mond for the last three years. Everybody at the game seemed to feel out of sorts. The players were quick as ever on the field, but wore careless expression and walked back and forth in front of the grand stand in g listless way as if the vital functions were paralyzed. The umpire gave unusually "yellow" decisions and
 watched the bases with uncertain, hazy eyes. The spectators were exceedingly disgruntled, and together with one or two of the players seemed spelling for fight with the umpire or the opposing team. Even Manager Burnham, less cheerful than usual, let his players go their own way and kept meditating expedients how he might escape without financial loss out of the general ruin; Altogether it was a
 rather "glum" affair, broken only by the kicking of the players and the howls of the scattered bleacheries.
 The first three innings were marked by very clean work on both sides. In the fourth Syracuse struck 8 big batting streak, gained long lead and was never passed. Big Say Faatz started off with a line hit to left. Slow work of "Chie" Hof- ford carried him around the bases and he trotted home when Carroll missed a high fly in right field. Then the batting began in earnest. Quinn and Pitcher Coughlin sent successive drives into Sommers ter ritory and Hoford let two rather difficult balls go by him. Then with men on sec ond and third Simon put a pretty fly in short center field just out of Lally's reach and two further runs were scored. The Syracuse Stars took another turn at pounding Clarkson in the eighth inning when the single earned run of the game was tallied. D. Coughlan hit sharp drive between Pettee and Far
 rar Quinn followed with clean ground hit that went over first base and past Far rar like shot. The the pitchers cap was knocked off by an eccentric curve and the
 bases were full with no one out. Simon then cut huge pieces out of New Haven either in his efforts to touch Clarkson's | speedy drops. Friel sent an ugly bound ing grounder to the infeld, which both Clarkson and Lang missed, D. Coughlin safely scoring on the play. A moment
 later West'knocked 8 long, sailing fly to right field which Carroll pulled down, and by quick throw in ''nabbed" Pitcher Coughlin at the plate, thus preventing further runs. It was an exciting inning
 and only sharp work by New Haven kept down the score.
 one, two and three order in nearly every
 barely failed to tally run. Sales was on first base and made @ plucky attempt to | steal second, but was declared out on a 1 close decision by Umpire Connolly. In stantly every bleacher set up yell of in | dignation and "Snap' Lang, who was on
 the coaching line, began to denounce Con- | nelly in unmeasured terms. The latter or dered "Snap'' to his seat, but, backed by | the crowd, he stood his ground and re- | fused The players drew together, pre- l pared to stand by their fellow player, and
 the crowd kept up it's bowling and abuse | of the umpire. For time things looked squauy, put coolef neaus sent Lang pack | to the bench and the storm was shortly l over. After Sales retirement at second l Pettee and Hofford's pretty hits to left | field were of no avail.
 In the sixth inning New Haven scored | a solitary run on a couple of tripple bag | gers and sacrifice. After that no one got | past second base, and it was relief when
 the last man had been put out in the last | inning. The home teams batting was de-
 cidedly weak, due perhaps as much to oarelessness as anything else. Joe Som,
 mers distinguished himself by two brilliant
 running catches in deep center field. Hof ford had an off day and Sales made two | excusable errors on hard hit balls. For l Syracuse, the clever batting work oi 1 Coughlin and Quinn was the feature, to- l gether with some fine catches in the out field The score: