Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-16
NATIONAL LEAGUE,
Notes From the Diamond.


 Albany has released Pitcher Staib.
 Blansfield is doing excellent work at shortstop for the local team.
 The Providence club has signed Pitcher sulli- van, late of Boston.
 "Jake'' Wells is by long odds the best catcher in the Eastern league. Fournier and Wells will do the battery work for the local team to-day. "Run out every hit'' is Captain Shannon's in- struction to the local team. John Irwin has been signed by the Rochester team and will report at once. The Athletics have an excellent trio of pitchers in Maui, Devlin and Bowman. Yale '95 defeated Harvard '95 Saturday at Cambridge by the score of IS to 9.
 Petit is to cover center field for the Providence club and Leighton will be released. The boys say that there is lots of snap and gin ger in the playing of the Athletic club. Umpire Betts has voice that draws rain. It sounds like the echo of a roar of thunder. Catcher Wells batted in most of the runs in Saturdays game. Go home again, Jake. If you want to put Sandy Griffin to sleep just tell him story. He has heard a few of late. Shannon lay insensible for over hour in Philadelphia Friday after straining his shoulder. Yale won from Amherst Saturday at Amherst hv the score of to 4. Bowers was in the box for Yale.
 Binghamton has released Pitcher sneeden | Buffalo.
 of the infield- originally assigned to it. namely, Leo Smith.
 +, TTo ] Bowmans and two Kappels are playing in clubs claiming them.
 edaa Harry Lyons of the Athletics is batting like any man in the Eastern league.
 The Eastern league is putting up as good if not better ball than the National league, as the | closeness of the scores will testify. l Dan Lally is keeping up his heavy stick work | yUaS n nun IaH Ht L<, lo four hits for total of seven bases. Tommy Corcoran has struck his gait and is | former artistic and brilliant manner. | There were never so many errorless games l played in any season in the same time. The game has surely got to be 8 science. | Brooklyn at present leads the League in team batting and base-running. Louisville leads ir l team fielding and is second in batting. Uncle Anson of the Chicago club has another
 colt on his list, but it will not be with him this l the captains only son. He has three daughters l Tomorrow the local team starts in on a ten
 days trip, playing g in Albany May 15 and 1s, ir cuse 24 and 25 in Elmira 26 and 27 and reuur nins
 home May ss, opening with Syracuse | Boston is at present but ninth among the | League teams in batting and fourth in fielding l and therefore owes her lead to her pitchers ane 1 superior team work and base running, Can these points keep her at the. top to the end? l The star performance of the season was at Gin
 cinnati on the 9th, where the Bostons and the To l cal team battled for fourteen innings without l run. There 1t was that that wonderful short | stop, Herman Long, made 8 new record. Twen ! ty chances were thrust upon Long, and he los | only one. In nine innings he accepted seven | teen out of eighteen chances
 ! Joe Mangan, who once a member of tht | World-renowned Jesse James gang, is an Espiran l for umpire in the coming match game beJweeI | the JOURNAL AND CUoR1ER- and Grand avenue DO
 lice teams. As the captain of the police uine ha.
 asserted that they will win the game if they have
 to fight for it. it will be the part of wisdom to se | cure his services. Joe thinks that with a brace l of revolvers, shotgun and his big white hat ht
 will be able to keep the political pulse in g nor l nal condition.
 ! The Cincinnati and Boston clubs propose tt play three games in one day. On the Fourth O. ! July they will sandwich that drawn fourteenth
 ming game of the 9th inst: between the regula | scheduled games. They have arranged to pla, l equaed, for on Decoration day in 1878 Manager 1 Frank Bancroft put the New Bedfords through
 like schedule and put in forty five miles of trave 1 to boot, playing in New Haven, New Bedford I and Providence.-Sporting Life,
 l There is every reason to believe that baseball
 has once more taken a firm hold on the public l The games now being played in tho east are at 1 tracting unusually good crowds, in view of the l prevailing weather here. In nearly all the citie I of this section there have been very warm base | ball days so far, and the spectators have beer | compelled to wear heavy coats and wraps in or l der to keep comfortable. And, therefore tn, l fact that the attendance has been 80 large is re l assuring to those who have invested their none, l in the teams, and to the many outsiders wht
 have the good of the game at heart