Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-31
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l STOLEN BASES.
 Gruber pitched good game
 flanagan IS making good impression.
 How the bleachers do "guy" Jay Faatz!
 Flanagan looks every inch a first baseman,
 Wells continues to do good work behind the bat.
 Cross is becoming very popular with the spec. tatorS.
 Sandy Griffin is due for couple of hits in | to-day's game.
 "Monte', Cross Is one of the swlftest and most accurate throwers in the business. l Captain Shannon had eight pretty assists ves. | terday, and some of them were fine stops.
 Gilbert, recently released by Baltimore, is holding down second base for the Troy team.
 The Albany clubs grand stand was burned last | week. The fire is believed to have been of in l cendiary origin.
 | Outfelder Jack Burke, late of Buffalo, has been MMgn,ed ed, by P. tho Manchester club of the New The Athletic team is endeavoring to secure outfielder George Wood, late of the Philadelphia and Washington club.
 i field for Troy and doing well. He has a great side partner in Shef1er.
 Many ladies witnessed the contest yesterday wh ts fair as dropped Binghamton has fired Rainey and Buffalo has released Henry Kappel r.. The scores of games played in the Eastern
 
 than that put up in the National ieagne.
 Beecher should be little more careful and not b e' caught the way he was at second base yes score.
 Blansfield is proving himself to be 6 splendid general utility man: He covers left garden as well as the best of them, and his hitting is very Taylor, the young twfrler released by New York, is pitching great ball for Albany. Did Powers make 2 mistake in releasing Taylor and Csssian ought to turn out one of the best pitchers bsts tin in the isagus; He good hard hit in the in and out field. It is one of the mysteries of baseball why the Syracuse club should lay off Second Baseman Sliy Higgins and play "Red 9 ;I MacD1naid, a an Donnelly delded his position as brilliantly as ever in yesterday afternoons game. His stop of Faatz s grounder in the fourth inning and field lss asid hi" out at first is seldom seen on a ball Secretary Well of the local club and Rad" the Albany correspondent of Sporting Life" have entered into an agreement to the effect | that whichever of the clubs shall come in first the other shall be second. l The Rochester correspondent of Sporting Life | playing . good third base. In one game here he accepted fourteen chances out of sixteen, and @ ! number of them were difficult. l the Brooklyn club. of the National league, has l received an offer from the Eastern league, Hemming practices daily at Eastern parK 1 Brooklyn, and is in excellent condition. Tommy Cahill, of the Troy club, is the latest | to be placed among the victims in | the hospital ward. Cahill sustained a severe in- jury to his shoulder in one of the recent games | at Providence, and has not as yet fully recov- | cred. - The Athletics of Philadelphia will be New Ha. vens opponents in to-day's game for the first time in this city. An exciting contest may be expected: Maul and Wilson will be in the points for the Athletics and Fournier and Wells for the home club. 4,- There is . great shaking up of the timber in the New York club. It is said that this week will see Gore, Richardson and Jim O'Rourke re- l leased, and possibly one other. Efforts will also be made to secure Outfelder Htovey from the Boston club. 2. 8 1's-ss-" President Young Of tho National league h.s E sE1sfeo to Micheel T Mshoney Of Lowell Maa,