Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-17
BASE BALL NEWS.
National League Season Opens
 Up To-Day.

First Time in Many Years That the League Opens With so Many New
 Faces Boston Americans Trim the
 Hartfords- Springfield Defeated by
 the Boston Nationals-Many Other
 Games Played i'll Various Leagues.
 Having finished their preliminary seasCn the eight teams of the National league will begin the long champion ship season to-day. the teams being paired off as follows for the opening: Philadelphia in New York. Boston in Brooklyn, Chicago in Cincinnati, Pitts burg in St Louis. The present race begins under conditions differing ma terially from those which have pre- vailed for a number of years. The American leagues inroads left the National league teams with some big gaps in the playing ranks and these gaps have been filled with newcom- ers This condition of affairs makes the relative strength of the different teams more Droblematical than usual, with the exception of PittsDurg ana Cincinnati. The Pittsburgs retain all of their strength of last year and the Cincinnatis are much the same in makeup. It does not necessarily fol- low, however. that these two teams have an easy time ahead as two or three of the other teams may develop.
 At Philadelphia: R.H.E. Villa Nova 0o1 1 Q o. 8 6 n s1 n 1 4 % i
 Batteries-Plank. Bernhard. Griffith and Steelman; O'Connor and Donohne. At New Haven: RH.E. Yale .....0O12 200000000-3 6 4 Amherst ....020O100O0oO0-3 5 4
 Batteries-Cote, Garvan and Wins low; Biram, Kane and Roa.
 At Philadelphia: R.H.E. Ursinus 10 0 0 0 0 0 2 O. 2 3 ' Penn .....3 103 3 ? 2 2 5 SIS 19 Z
 Batteries-Townsen and Price; Dev- lin and Bennett.
 i At Washington: R.H.E. Washington 2 2 II 0 2 0 *-1S 10 3 i Newark ... o 0.0 0 8 0 o O. 3 8 g
 Batteries-Orth. Townsend and Drill; Garone, Moriarity and Jope. At Springfield, Mass: R.H.E. Boston (N.L.) 4 % 0 0 0 or Il 1 i Springfield II 0 0 0 0 0-1 , '
 Batteries-Hale and Moran; Mermett, Clements, Bowler, Connor and O'Con- ner.
 At Princeton: RH.E. Lehigh 70 OoOO0 900 GO Princeton ..1 o 4 0 0 4 2 *-13 It 1
 Batteries-Taylor and Lilley; Buns combe and Green.
 At Providence: R.H.E. Providence 70 o 0 5 0 0 0 0 1-6 9 Brown .....o 0 3 0 001 1-5
 Batteries-Ea Eaton and Corridor; Phil. lips and Leland.
 At Middletown: RH.E Wesleyan o Os1 0 0 0 0-1 3 ( Holy Cross ..Os0 co 3 0 5 @-9 9 Batteries Chapman and Inglis; Me Chan and Newman.
 l At Pennington: R.H.E Penningt'n Seminary 101124* *-9 ) Cannon Club % O01 o 1-2
 Batteries-O'Hanlon and Hart; De mans and Reed.
 At West Point: R.H.E E Syracuse Univers'y 0100O3 BOA 5 West Point .OO441000-9 9
 
 bright. Graham and Hackett. At Notre Dame: R.H.E Chicago ...S O101 0 0 *-11 13 Notre Dame 2 0 0 O. 3 10 , Batteries-Piatt and Mcfarland; Ho gan and O'Neill.
 At Philadelphia: R.H.E : Phila .....1 0 5 0 2 0 *-12 12 } c. c. N Y0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O. 6 : Batteries-Salisbury, Iberg. White 7 Jacklitsch and Dooin; Hamilton ant Acker.
 At Brooklyn: R.HE Brooklyn 70 4o013 s-s IT Manhattan 2 ooo1 100 l3 6
 Batteries-M Newton an Farrell: McPhilips and Duff.
 At Hartford RH. E Hartford II 0 OO1 Q 0 O. 2 - Boston 70 O1 4 co O-13 r
 Batteries-Tuckey. Miriam. Duff an ! McCann and Kelly; Mitchell and War :. ner.
 At New Columbia Rutgers 4.
 At Nyack-R Rockland Military acaf emy 8. Irving institute '. At Carlisle-State college 10, Dick inson 5.
 At Ossining Mount Pleasant acat } emy II, the Ramblers '. } At Brown Sophomore 16, University school 4.
 At Providence-Brown Freshmen Friends school '.
 Instructions to umpires have bee
 issued by tke National league whic
 contain the following:
 The imposition of fines upon player and managers for violation of rules $
 provided in the playing rules is su
 pended until further notice, and in lie
 thereof removal from the game
 from the game and field is substitute
 and in every instance where a remov.
 from the field occurs. a telegraphic F
 port containing the fact and a bril
 report of the cause must be prompt
 sent to the secretary of the league. ar
 whenever in the judgment of the LII
 pire the player deserves longer pc
 iod than one day he shall recommer
 it. The telegraphic report shall
 followed by a. detailed mail report
 all violations of the rules and the pc
 alties imposed.