Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-13
STOLEN BASES.

STOLEN BASES. Mike Slattery is in his old-time form with Bing hamton.
 Fournier and Wells will be the battery in to- days game.
 Dan Brouthers was the first league batsman to make fifty hits.
 Center Fielder Mike Mansell has been rein stated by Syracuse.
 Let everyone turn out and give both teams a royal welcome to-day.
 Yale defeated Princeton on the latter's grounds Saturday by the score of to 1.
 Albany has reinstated Jack Doran, who was re- cetly suspended for drunkenness. shannon's sluggers slugged Knauss out of the box in the game at Providence Saturday.
 Cudworth's umpiring is exciting much unfa- vorable comment in every city of the league.
 Catcher McCafrey, late of Troy, has been re- phia.
 New Haven is now in third place in the race cession.
 Left Fielder Swartwood, recently assigned to Syracuse, has been transferred to Rochester as result Of deal between those two clubs
 Lew Schoeneck and M. J. Sullivan, not being want ed by Rochester, will be released by the league unless some other club wants them.
 The Athletics forfeited Saturdays game to Troy, refusing to abide by the decision of the umpire in the fifth inning, when the score stood toO favor of the Trojans.
 Umpire Cudworth had tough time recently in Syracuse in the Buffalo series. Mir. Franklin, the owner of the Bisons, declared from the bench that MT. Cudworth could never umpire another game at Buffalo Mr. Cudworth probably will nevertheless.
 the Southern leagne has written to Manager Kuntzsch of Syracuse, asking to be signed, as he wants to get away from the south: He will are reasonable.
 The strong Binghamton team will make their first appearance in this city to-day and to-mor io tr ho hov,o fhoff oft ndonr roofth he games this week will show a marked increase and thereby encourage the packers of the club tc keep the club in the field and prove to them con clusively that baseball is not dead in this city | Several of the pitchers in the Eastern league ! are doing work that would be credit to any Riteher in n the country Krqy of P5oydence d; mira, Goodali of Rochester, and Coughlln ant to good advantage, as shown by the results O games in which they ofaciate in the box.
 Baseball is great sport and justly termed
 It has ths us ha of I fever, of keeping an audience entertained an( occupied in the open air all the afternoon with drink. When baseball In game E is done one the he Spec l tators' lungs are full of fresh air. They are hun 1 gry and are ready to go home to a good dime ! rather than to continue dissipation with gam | bling or drinking.
 A feature of a losing ball teams fortunes 1
 the epposte 2, t fsis cH to the team on a winning squirt; Ths axiom is as true as tha | smoke precedes fire. losing team will driv line hits right into fielder's hands, while tn victorious team will drop little easy flies betwee fields, send two baggers just a few inches insid the foul lines, or get their grounders as nearl half way between infielders as though the trac of the ball had first been laid out by a surveyor Again, a losing teams error may cost severs runs. while the winning team may make severs errors, but just at a time when they cost nothing
 The scheme originally advanced by Jaco Morse in the SportingLife and recently earnestl championed by the Cincinnati Enquirer with rs lation to the keeping of sacrifice batting avel age has been meeting with general approve among ball players. It is also favored by tn managers for the reason that it will give them better line on the capability of players. would seem that it was only an act of simpl justice to the hard working men in baseball the men who are willing to sacrifice their record for the sake of the team with which they al | playing. Moreover, it would be an incentive record players to take some real interest in tn games. When this class of players discove that there is some tangible honor in it for then selves they will talks to earnest playing, and nc ! before. But little manual labor would be r quired to compile this record, and it would be l veritable boon to both the public and the earnes ! mi