The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-01
NEW HAVEN BALL TEAM.
REVIEW OF THE INITIAL WEEK OF
THE SOUTHERN TRIP.

The Games at Norfolk aud Portsmouth
Some of the Why's and Wherefores-Chit
Chat of Interest.
A review of the first week of the
southern trip of the New Haven base
ball team will be Of interest to the fol-
lowers of the game in this city. The
members of the team reported to Man
ager Sullivan at Norfolk, Va, last Tues
day and played their first game with
the Norfolks on Wednesday, In this
game they We're. beaten by the score OF
16 to 3. AS this was their first game
the pitchers were not allowed to use
speed for fear of permanent injury to
their arms, and the aforementioned
Norfolk players took advantage of their
slow delivery and batted the ball in
every direction. The fielding of the
Steers was of the finest order, and their
work in this line was something mar
Vicious, considering that it was their
first game.
Manager Sullivan is a very poor hand
to take defeat and is always bound to
have revenge, and he got it in the Sec
ond Norfolk game on Friday. The
Steers sailed in from the start and made
things very lively for the Norfolks and
won the game by a score of IL to 10. In
this game, as in the first, the pitchers
held their speed in reserve and depend
ed solely on the other members of the
team to win the game.
The third game of the week was play
ed at Portsmouth, Va, on Saturday and
resulted in a victory for the home team
by the score of to 5. The Steers put
up an excellent game of ball. and it was
anybodys game until the last man was
out in the ninth inning.
One of the redeeming features of the
playing of the Steers is that they play
the game from the start until the last
man is out in the ninth inning, as
though everything depended on the re-
suit, no matter whether they are in the
lead or not This was one of the main
troubles with the previous New Haven
teams. They quit as soon as the oppo-
nents took the lead and thus lost many
games. All lovers of the game can rest
assured of seeing nothing but good,
hard, Conscientious work done by the
Steers at Elm City park this season,
and no game will be over until the last
man is out in the ninth.
NOTES.
Keister, the young Baltimore player
whom Manager Sullivan signed early
in the season as a general player, has
proven to be find. He has been COW
ering short field and his playing has
been such as to include him among the
phenoms.
The players are a little stiff from their
opening games, but will soon round to,
and then look out for some great
games.
Boyle, our crack third baseman, was
badly injured in the opening Norfolk
game by being run into by one of the
Norfolk players. He will soon be able
to get into the game again.
Tommy Corcoran is still holding off
from signing with Brooklyn, and from
the way George Shoch is covering short
field on the Brooklyns' southern trip
-tkeyswill have good man to fill Cor
coran's place if the latter refuses to
sign with them.
Jack Chapman has been engaged to
manage the Wilkesbarre club, displac-
ing Sandy Griffin, once an old New Ha-
ven favorite.
Out of the many new men signed by
Manager Irwin for the Giants there will
probably be at least five fast enough for
League company. Seymour, Kagey,
Zearfoss, Flynn and Mulligan have so
far shown UP exceedingly well.
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pitchers using their full speed until the
weather becomes warmer, in order that
they may be in condition for the cham
pionship games.
The Cuban Giants play here on the
18th, and on the Goth we will have a
team composed Of Cubans as our oppo-
nents. The latter team is composed
entirely of Cubans and is owned and
managed by a Cuban planter.
There will be special meeting o.
the Atlantic league in New York city
on Monday next for the purpose of de
Gliding whether the Jersey City clut
can play it's games on the Polo grounds
or not this season.
Manager Sullivan writes to the Sport
ing Life in regard to the coming game
against the Baltimore club as follows
ION that day I will pitch agains
them the speediest pitcher in the coun
ty, namely, the Texan (Garvin) known
rs Bullet-proof Ned, sheriff of Nava
sofa county, Texas, with go notches or
his gun. This man is 6 feet inches
and was made sheriff at II. He is bu
21 years of age now. / will venture tt
say he will be the greatest sensation il
the box that was ever known in base
ball.
Ills running mate, Wolf Eating
Bear, the great Indian pitcher, viii
pitch four innings of the game agains
the champions. 1t may border on dim,
novel story when l say that he has
record of sixty scalps This is a legent
of his tribe in the Indian nation, wher,
I got him last year. Laying aside thi
romance that surrounds his social life
he is great pitcher, as he demonstrat
ed last year in Texas