The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-25
LocaL TEAM CAN PLAY BALL.
Won in csnter From wsiiingford-Intor-
 estins Baseball Ssws.

LOCAL TEAM CAN PLAY BALL. Won in cantsr From wsiiinEford-intor~
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 The reorganized New Haven baseball team played its first game at the savin Rock grounds yesterday afternoon. when the strong waliingford team was defeated in a one-sided contest by a score Of 23 to l. Manager Durant has secured some excellent baseball talent. and if they can keep up the pace they set up for themselves yesterday in bat ting and fielding there is no doubt that they will develop into one Of the strong est semi-professionai teams in the state and be abundantly able to hold their own even with the stronger clubs of the minor leagues.
 The waiiingford team Is an excellent one, Jbut was clearly outclassed when they ran up against the reorganized New Ravens. From start to finish Manager Durant's team had everything its own way. and the only question of the game was by how large n margin the local team would win. For eight innings 1t looked as though the visitors would be presented with nine nice large goose eggs to carry back with them to their rural homes. but finally out of courtesy they were allowed to succeed in getting one solitary player across the home plate. and that was all. The game was won by clean, hard hitting by the local players, who pounded the Wal llngrord pitcher almost at will.
 Manager Durant has secured as lively set of ball players as ever represented the Elm city on the diamond field. In Brennan, Fitzgerald, Fox and poherty he has a regular stone wall in-field, while Taylor, Mckee and Donohue are abundantly able to take care of all sky scrapers and line hits that may happen to be hit into the outer garden. For pitchers he has O'Brien of the Holy Cross college team. Sedgwick of the Andover team and Cannon, late of the Northampton team. With Lawson. .late of the old New Haven team, and Sulli- van, late of the Amherst college team, for receiving ends of the battery. the the team Is unusually well fixed in this department of the game.
 O'Brien and Lawson were the battery In yesterdays game and made an ex- cellent impression. O'Brien has first class delivery, which completely fools the opposing batsmen. and only one or two of the Wallingford team were able to touch the ball, and those who did were only able to make scratch hits. The New Haven team will play in Hartford to-day. with the strong team representing that city, which recently defeated the champion Norwich team in three straight games. Next week the Hartford team will play two games with the local team, at the Savin Rock grounds. The New Haven team after this week will play five games a week. three at home and two abroad. All the home games will be called at o'clock Tomorrow then local team will cross bats with the Athletics, strong local colored team, Whose coaching is said to be unusually funny. Saturday the reorganized Waterbury team will play in this city.
 A special feature of the game yester' day was the life and spirit which thu local men put into their play. "Thit was all the more marked and refresh ing in contrast with the hstlessness dis played in recent games by the old team All lovers of the national game can de pend on seeing good, lively sport here after at the Savin Rock grounds. The score of yesterdays game: