Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-10
BURGLARS AT THE BALL FIELD.

BURGLARS AT THE BALL FIELD The Dressing Room at the Howard Avenue Grounds Again Broken Into l The Team once Again Playing winnine Ball-The Club VIII Take | A High Place in the Race-The Att tendance Not as Good as 1t Shonld be-Notes of the Game. The New Haven team has again struck a winning gait and at the same time Is putting up as good quality of ball as any other club in the league and better shan tha clubs ohs of the National Ans lsasue. @. The men are hitting the ball hard, running the bases with good judgment and fielding in frst-elass style. This city has never been represented in any league by a team equal in playing strength to the one which now represents it, and further than that the team is universally conceded to be one of the strongest in the league. All the other clubs in the league believe that New Haven is out for the pennant and many of them believe that she will cap ture it. To be sure the club has had for the past few weeks run of hard luck and in consequence lost number of games, but no one deplores this more than the players do themselves, and all believe that their stay on the "toboggan" is now at an end, and from now on they will win the larger percentage of the games they play. It is ! sooner or later in the season each club in | a league strikes this self-same toboggan, | and in past seasons some teams have been known to go the full length from top to | bottom before they were able to break their string of hard luck. The local team | I,oe rki Il oko s,, 1 spect, in that they have been able to get off the slide before they even reached the half way round of the ladder. The Roch- ester team is now trying how far they can slide, and before many days both Albany ] and Providence will also take 8 tumble. This is one of the inevitable fates incident | to baseball.
 In the meantime it behooves the base ball loving public to support the team in diversity as well as in success. The more support team receives when it is playing in hard luck and losing games the harder the team will endeavor to play better and the sooner they will succeed in striking their proper gait. This season, through the efforts of number of public spirited gentlemen, the game has once more beer 1 re-established in this city and the public given an opportunity of witnessing the great national game-the only clean spor in the world, with the possible exception of cricket. These gentlemen have pu
 their money into the venture and while they do not expect to make anything ou of it they do feel, and justly, too, that thu public should support the game by at
 tending tending all all +a games $ played as far as it
 ance at the past few games has bee,
 very discouraging, and while the weathe
 has not been at all favorable, still the aud
 fences have not been so large as might req
 sonably have been expected. Now tn
 team is playing excellent ball, and it , hoped that the public will support ther
 from now on better than they have in tn
 past. The team does not play here aGai until Monday, when the strong Bingham
 ton club will make it's initial appearance i
 this city. Tuesday the same clubs pla
 again, and Wednesday and Thursday th
 Providence club will be in this city. It
 safe to predict that now that the local tea1
 has got out of it's rut of hard luck at leas
 three out of the four games will resu
 in victories for the home tean
 Now let all the people who war
 to see baseball perpetuated in this city an
 all others who have the interests of tt
 game at heart attend the games and sho l by their increased interest and attendant
 that they do appreciate the efforts whic
 have been made to secure 8 winning teal # for this city and will do their part to assi il in keeping it here.
 THE DRESSING ROOMS BURGLARIzED. T. Night before last burglars effected a :. entrance into the players dressing room d at the Howard avenue grounds for u }; third time this season and stole all u balls, except three, which were conside
 ately left behind, probably so that yestel
 days game might be played, several glove
 belonging to the players, two or three bat
 and other small articles. There is [ present no clue to the thieves, but it
 thought that they are gang of boys wh
 hang around that neighborhood and wht
 it is believed, get over the fence into tn
 grounds in the night season and brea
 open the doors and windows of the dres | ing room and steal whatever they can Ia their hands on.