Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-01
SPORTING MATTERS.

The Players will Arrive TO-DaY-To Begin PractfclDg aI Once-The Polo Season Ended-Notes in General.
 The players signed by Manager Spence will begin to arrive to-day and will stop at the Selden House. They will begin to practice at oncs The grand stand is nearly completed and so is the players club house. The unl- forms have arrived. They are of extra fine material and are very pretty.
 The polo season ended Saturday night, when the New Ravens were defeated in hotly contested game in Hartford, 8 to 7, and the Bridgeports lost i'll Meriden, 6 to 5. Ihe Bridgeports have won the championship, doing it through the efforts of Howard Pierce and John Smith. Without any doubt Pierce ia the best rusher on the surface and Smith the best goal tend. Hartford did not do as we'll ae expected, coming out thl I'd. Ihls probably resulted from Cotter's lame ankle. Had New Haven had the team at tne start or the season as she closed with, we would nave had different position. AS the team sLanos it is one of the strongest in the league. mere is enc thing it lacks, nevertheless, ana tnsI is & manager. This allowing players to do as they please may pay for a time, but not In the long run. The New Haven team IS with out doubt the best passing team Tn the league Next season New Haven will start off with @ rood set of players. In all probability MerI- den will not be in the league, for to keep 1n during the last few weeks the other teams have had to give them portion of the re- ceipts. New Britain will probably be admit ted instead.
 Poughkeepsie correspondent of the Sport ing Times: "John Walsh will leave for New Haven Monday. He is in the pink ot con- dition."
 The Newarks have strong team this year. On Saturday they defeated the Brooklyns 7 to 6.
 Lovett is showing up well with the Brook lyns.
 Lally is in fine condition.
 Ernest Smith will be the first catcher to arrive Andy Dillon and Denny Fitzgerald come from Guelph, Canada. They will re- port ou Wednesday, starting from home to-day.
 Dave Corcoran is a great coacher. New Haven people will not have to complain this season that the team does no coaching. Dave has an extraordinarily large mouth.
 The Sporting Life is wrong es usual Herry Spence has not signed "Gentle Willie" Murphy.
 Manager Syence went to New York Satur- day.
 Kelly will probably be appointed captain of the Bostons. Conant and Billings are said to favor 1t and that settles 1t. Too beo
 Lowell has signed Walter Haekett for sbortstop. He played in Hartford in '97.
 Henry intends to pitch for Hartford if his arm holds out.
 The Atlantic association has adopted the Spaulding ball
 Spaulding Of Chicago made the uniforms for the New Haven tenn.
 The Amusement comp pany is going to run the score card privilege.
 The Yale team was defeated by the Ath- letics at Philadelphia Saturday g to D.
 The Baitinaores defeated the Phiiadelph1as and the New Works freseoed the earth with the Jasper college team on Saturday.
 Horner and Warner, the well known Bait- more battery, will not be here until Wednes- day.
 Carsey is a very modest boy. He says that he hopes he will be of benefit to the New Haven team this season. And this after he has struck cut thirteen of the Nets,
 Winkleman will have 10 do the bulk of Hartford's pitching.
 That more interest will be taken in base bail this season than in other seasons in the history of the game, says the Newark Press Register, is evident from the interest shown by the people who heretofore had taken but little interest in base ball matters. The clubs in tho Atlantic league are all admitted to be strong, md the league is in better condition every way than the Eastern, International or Central leagues ever were.