Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-13
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EOAO. Il The mer1delis Again Defeated-Trouble 1
 Ahead-Better Referees Wanted.
 Something must be the matter with the l Meridens, for they were again defeated last l night in Waterbury. Score: Waterburys il, Meridens 9.
 The waterburYs will play at the Polo rink tonight.
 Manager Clough of the Hartfords has g. habit of not calling the game Saturday night until 9:30. The New Ravens play there Sat urday. nights and are, greatly inconvenieneed by this act of penuriousness on the part of the Hartford management, who think they may take in few more dollars by waiting half an hour The New Haven players can not get home until nearly morning. Mana ger Downs is not going to stand any such inconvenience and has notified Manager Clough that he will have his team on the floor at o'clock next Saturday night and if the game is not called then he will take them off and start for home. Manager Clough says the game will be called at 9:30 or any hour he sses fit. If Manager Downs takes his team off the floor he is liable to fine of $75, but there is little prospect of his having to pay it, as the Hartford amusement com pany are not foolish enough to send 1 ,500 or | p0OpL0 away anu tu0lI QOuSy, simply through desire to insist on rule in ! vogue nowhere else.
 When the referee question came up at the | first meeting of the league the management of every team but the Hartfords were opposed | to paying more thans$3 game and expenses to the referee. Three dollar men were hired. | Jas. Donnelly finally struck. Now this league has the worst set of referees that ever af- | fiicted an audience. The Meriden manage ment have repented of the hand they took in the matter and realize that something must be done. They have requested President Clough to call a meeting at once and appoint Daniels and another good man to do all the refereei1g at $5 game.
 The New Ravens play here tonight. Fuller, the new goal tend, will play his first game here. Both Meriden papers speak in glowing terms of his worb in Meri- den Tuesday. The Republican says of him eff Fuller hadn't been in the way it would have been Meriden's game by large major ity. Fuller is young man who halls from Boston and who took Watson's place at goa for New Haven. He is medium sized, ruddy faced and wears black moustache which covers genial smile. He is witha1 hand
 some looking fellow and he is, if his Tuesday goal tene-~as ~ Tn the 7th Fullel stopped one of Dasns shovel acts. This ii
 the first time this year that it has been done
 Fuller turns defeat into victory.
 An evening paper which is supposed t
 disseminate the views of the. New HaveI } management asserted last week, after th'
 State papers had been saying that Watson l was 8 conductor on Boston railroad, tha } there was no truth in the report. It sait
 Watson never had been 8 conductor and hat started the story as joke. Coming as it dit
 from such high authority it seemed to be
 settled fact that Watson had been prevari
 eating. The COURIER, in speaking of Watson
 Tuesday, reiterated the statement made b. the evening paper. Immediately tha
 psper eats it's own words of
 week ago and states, with mucl
 authority ever, that Watson is freigh ; conductor on road running into Salem. Tn evening paper owes to itself an apology Does it want us to believe that Watson is o is not conductor? If the paper still assert
 that Watson is conductor, in contradicts
 to what it first said, the COURIER is perfeotl
 willing to make the correction.
 The Central division is having trouble wit its referees. They are paid $3 az expense:
 Steve Brady has been ma l the New York team.
 8 The Meridens are stilA
 man in place of Dee