Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-07
STOLEN BASES.

STOLEN BASES.
 Mike Mansell.
 Fielder Swartwood of this years Pittsburg club is now with Syracuse
 The NewYork club is after Center Fielder liar ry Lyons of the Athletics.
 Pitcher Dolan of last years Washington club is Elmira's latest acquisition.
 Cronin of Pawtucket made four home runs out of four times at bat in a recent game.
 Troy has signed R. Mcdonald and Pitcher Thornton, formerly of Philadelphia.
 Mike Sattery's wife has just inherited $50 900 through the death of an uncle in Europe
 "The Ciam-eaters" is the latest baseball der it.
 Taylor of Albany is the best pitcher in the Easte' league, and second to but few in the National league.
 Mike Bradley has signed with Binghamton. signed by Albany.
 Every man should run hard all the way to l first base whenever he hits the ball fair ground. Cant always tell what will happen. Matt Kiroy Of the Providence team was the first pitcher in the Eastern league to shut out team without safe hit or run. The Athletics were his victims.
 Alonzo Stagg, Yale's famous ex-pitcher, is writing syndicate articles on baseball His latest contribution is a two column hint how to run a boys baseball club. The Eastern league games of Decoration day were remarkable for the fact that of the nine games played four were whitewash games,
 
 game.
 Ex-Manager Mutrie, who recently purchased a l restaurant in Elmira, has organized an amateur baseball club, and will give exhibition games in EImira when the Elmira team is away ot.Jeems'' says he is bound to be in it. Tbe Eastern league teams now better equal | ized than those of the Western league. The games in the first named league are smaller the contests closer and there is less disparity in the record between the leaders and the taienders. No more remarkable series of games was ever played than those of the big League on l Decoration day. Of the twelve contests one was ten-inning game, two were eleven in | n!ngs, one twelve innings and fourteen in l nings.
 The attendance at the Decoration day ball games, gar not only in the big League, but in all of | the minor leagues, was astonshingly large and l beyond expectation, thus showing conclusively that baseball is steadily advancing in interest l and enthusiasm to the plane it occupied prior to the 9O's.
 The Athletics of Philadelphia will be here for | one game with the local team this afternoon. able impression wherever @ @ e:s'o they appear % % The game will be called at o'clock: Fournier and l and Devlin and Wilson for the visitors. ! The wonderful batting of First Baseman Breck. enridge of the Columbus team has caused consid man has done with the stick since the opening of the championship season. In the thirty three Breckenridge has been at bat 113 times. He has made eleven home runs, one threeba hit twelve doubles and seven singles. His batting average IS 274, with a total of seventy eight bases.
 Secretary Veil of the local club in the Sporting Llte has the following in reference to the John ] ston deal: New Haven has not yet received 8 single favor at the hands of the league. All sea son long we waited, but in vain, for a short stop and we would have still been waiting had not Mir Franklin of Buffalo kindly released Cross to us l 1t IS peculiar that the secretary of the league whose business it is to sign players, cannot find any when there are so many to be had Now, I do not wish to find fault with the players commit ee composed of Messrs. Niles, Maioney, Kuntzsch and l Cane, but their decision in Dicky Johnston's case l was simply execrable. I have doubt, and l trust that their decisions are for the benefit of l the clubs and the league in genenal, but in this case they seem to have acted hastily, and did | Johnston and New Haven an injustice.
 Here is the case of Dicky Johnston in 0 nut shell: Dicky had been laying idle all summer; l not as much as postal card has, he received l from anyone connected with the Eastern league. ! Manager shannon, having only two felders, at | once began to look around for fielder. He tele- | graphed Johnston, who accepted his terms (not the terms Of the leasue) and immediately joined l the team Now, as soon as this was known and l before he had signed a contract at all the direc- l tors by unanimous vote, sent him to Elmira, a 1 city which already had three felders, while New l Haven only had two. Now Dicky did not desire | to play there and had it not been for Manager l Shannon's pleading would have never joined | them Now it may be said that we had no right | to sign him, but did our manager do any differ I ent than every other team shas dones say, ena- l phatically, no. Here is the of player W ho | mas been idle all summer, and because we desire l him 1t IS unanimously voted to send him else l where, leaving us with but two felders. Does l the league expect good work of players who are so treated by them? Does the players commit l tee expect any team to accept players except l those they desire and want? think not