The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-23

Ravens Didn't Have a Chnnce-Good
 and Bad Playing by the Biues-Finc
 Work of the Bostons-Captatn Cana
 van Did Not Get tn the Game-other
 Games.
 The husky and seasoned Boston
 American League team defeated Cap
 tain Canavan's untried players yester-
 day afternoon at the Savin Rock
 grounds in the first game of the pro-
 fessionai season here, the score being
 IS to 2. Eight hundred people turned
 out to witness the game. It must be
 remembered that the game yesterday
 was the first time the New Haven men
 have played together, and no team no
 matter how good the players are can
 expect to do wonders the first time
 of the Philadelphia American League
 team several weeks ago when they
 were beaten by the Yale nine It was
 the first time some of the men had ever
 seen each other and the result was that
 the players who had lined up a week
 or two beat the professionals z to 5 It
 was exactly the same case with the
 teams yesterday. Boston had been
 south for three weeks and has played
 almost two weeks through Connecticut
 and Massachusetts. They were all
 tanned and hard, and were in mid-sea-
 son shape. Their playing showed it,
 both at the bat and in the field, for
 their work in all departments was
 grand If they don't make trouble in
 the American League this season about 800 people will miss their guess. The Bostons have about the best bunch of ball players that have ever been seen in New Haven, every position on the nine being filled with a star.
 The New Haven team yesterday was minus its best player and above all it's captain, and this alone was account able for some of the loose playing of the new men on the team. With Cap tain CanaVan at the helm and with the addition of his good batting the result would have doubtless been more favor able to the New Haven people who were there. But Captain Canavan sat on the bench yesterday in citizens clothes and watched the efforts of his men,
 Locke, the star catcher D. O'Brien, | the second baseman, and Fitzmaurice, | were not with the team and when they | do arrive their presence will be agree | ably felt. Of the new men who played l yesterday, Anklam, centerfield play l ed by far the best game. Captain | Canavan without doubt caught good man when he caught Anklam, for his all around work yesterday was of the fine order. He made two hits and felded his position as though he had 1 played some before. The work of Aus tin in left field was good, but not so you'd notice it. He contributed three dots to the error column. struck out twice and failed to make a hit. Rob- l inson, the change catcher, did fairly good work, but had no chances in left field where he went towards the latter part of the game. Ford was unsteady at the second corner and Moore was an easy mark for the heavy hitters from Beanville. He poked out a two- bagger at his only time up however, but was thrown out exhausted, at the plate, trying to get home on an inffeld error. Shamus O'Brien at short didn't do jus tice to the national game and especial Iy to his position. He made four bad misplays in the first half of the game, but later partly made up for these by capturing a brace of difficult flies. Let the baseball people here hope that Sha- mus and the rest will improve with sge. At times during the game the New Haven men played as though they weren't getting good money for their work and this displeased the cranks more than anything else. Deering ct f Il, ran bases like ice wagons at diff 'erent stages of the game and at other stages the fielding of few of the men wearing blue and white striped stock ngs was careless and of the don't-care species It is expected, and with some ,ause. that the Blues will give a good account of themselves when the Con- ,ecticut season opens. The series of xhibition games coming will be just | he thing to get the men in shape and rapid improvement is looked for
 To go into the details of even the fitting of the Bostons would be a long tory. They poked the poor ball for 20 afe hits to all corners of the lot, and eemed to be able to hit it when and where they wanted. The runs came in nick and fast as a result. Seven vis- tors did the circuit in the first inning : nd eleven batters faced MT. Moore. The heavy hitters had fun with the To- al twirlers and their fielding was fine + New Hayen's two runs came in the ighth. Deerlng drew a base, was | ushed around to second by O'Brien cling forced and trotted to third on 'onnel's clean single. He stopped on hird as the crowd yelled Come ome," but simply had to come home r n Braun's single Anklam's hit SCOT d OBrien. New Haven didn't have T mother look in at the plate. To-day