Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-11
BASEBALL BOOMING.
A Most Successful season Assured
The Local Season to Open Friday
Items of Interest In Reference to the
Game and the Players.

A Most Successful Season Assured
The Local Season to Open Friday
Items of Interest In Reference to the
Game and the Players.
The season of 1892 should and will I'M
doubtedly be the most successful in the |
history of baseball. The prospects are |
brighter than at any previous season, and
everything augurs we'll for most success |
full season, both artistically and financial |
~. The season promises to be a most |
dattering success, not only in the big
League, but more especially in the minor
leagues, inasmuch as the new conditions
which assure success in the major League
will also operate to the advantage, the
prosperity and stability of the smaller
leagues! With harmony in all the various
leagues and associations, which insures
discipline, we'll balanced clubs and awak-
ened interest all over the country, nothing
is left to be desired save success for each
crank's favored team.
| Locally this season will witness a renewal of
| the most lively interest in the national game
| the cranks are gathering in knots and discussing
the relative merits of This or that player and the
l
| At no time since baseball was first introduced
in this city has 1t started out under such favora
BILE auspices The local association is composed
Of Representative business men Of the fG city;
sport, and it is safe to predict that they Will
pies pies an and that there win be no disastrous
''fukes'' such there was IT, last
S wise an dn1 pound fooiiss policy the CLUB
was allowed to go under. This year most ex-
cellent team has been secured, and one which
9th, tf,ap ont
among the leaders, and it now remains With the
patrons of the game to show their appreciation
this city BY literally patronizipg the games and
continually t'rooting'' for the home team Tn.
Is Wops US
tend the games this year hsartily IN sympathy
disrnpti i feeling on accoupt OF mistakes made
safe to say that New Haven will oucs more take
its proper place as the bann.r minor league city
of the country. "Play BALL"
NOTES FROM THE DIAMOND.
t The local team will report in this city to-day
| or to morrow
President White is under bonds in $ao, 900 to the
! ! Eastern league.
Herman Doescher will be one of the Eastern
| league umpires this season.
The big League is already showing signs of {
d ire to unload its surplus players.
at for sha Bookyn
y Rochester and Troy the only Easter,
J.. league cities which have not yet selected man
: | ayers.
It Beecher, who will cover left field for the New
|. | Haven team is one of the strongest batsmen il
the profession.
n Manager Shannon has during the past week Sc
e cured to New Haven contracts the signatures o
a Gruber, Beecher and Murphy.
is Among the prominent applicants for the man
n agemenr of the Troy team are Arthur F. CLARKE
| Sam Wise, Jay Faatz and John Irwin.
It Jim Cudworth was hauqueted at Lowell Apri!
s. by about fifty of his friends. During the Dime
J. | he was presented with purse of $50.
IS Freddy" Mack, who played second base las
% days notice Of release from the New York team
r. But for the push and perseverance Of Mr.: Wa
If | would have been without baseball in 1892 He
t. deserving of great credit for his labors
A peculi ar thing about the Eastern league al
a portionment scheme is the fact that each city
E. perfectly satisfied with its own team, and eve
n now each city is claiming the pennant.
In The local baseball season opens Friday, whe
the New Ravens will meet Providence in an e
y | hibition game at the Howard avenue grounds.
y; | is expected large crowd will be in attendant
u a Mr. Louis P. Well has been appointed New H
rs ven correspondent for the Sporting Life ,, II II
no | long experience in baseball, is an authority
b, all matters pertain ng to the national game al
ur is withal a most genial gentleman popular all
60 | with players and magnates.
in | The New Haven correspondent of the Sportil
he Life says: Brother Rad can do nothing bett
es It viii surely improve his optics and keep hi
to from winking the other eye. II my friend W
to | kindly Look up facts and refresh his memory
ST. rrihe, New Haven will not suffer by comparist
I'D | with Albany. WHAT would Albany have dol
ty | last year without its Sunday games and the
lis tense rivalry with Troy? Owing to these fac
ID | they succeeded in playing out the seaso
New Haven, without Sunday eames with no eli
to create local rivalry, and other reasons which
A. stated last week, certainly did nobly under t.
as circumstances
During the past week two famous but rath
"a | wearisome cases have been satisfactorily settle
ne much to everybodys relief. Second Basem
er Richardson bowed to the inevitable and sign
ng | with the Washington club, and Chicago a
III Louisville made deal exchanging Pfeffer +
ire | Caravan. The Pittsburg club averted cont
go versy with the California league by waivi
TN claim to Jerry Denny. The Washington ci,
mt on the other hand, invited dispute with the
rs. Louis club by signing Stricken, although
Ell, Louis doubtless lost its right to the player
ny failing to comply in his case with the con
rs. | lions of the st. Louis agreement before April