Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-04
HARTFORD

HARTFORD, Nov. S.-The armory of the
First regiment in this city has been rented
by the quartermaster general of the State for
polo two evenings of each week. The officers
Of the regiment protested against such use of
the armory, and now that the arrangement Is
made twenty-four of the twenty-seven who
live in Hartford have resigned and the other
three designations will be handed in. By
renting the armory the military is 81 500 bet
ter off.
There will be no other championship game
tonight.
Games tomorrow night: Hartford at
Britain at Meriden.
An exhibition game was played In Meriden
Saturday night, which resulted as follows:
Meridsns 8, Spring6elds 5. Dunning received
an ovation and played finely.
Springfield has got Lations again in goal.
He made 40 stops Saturday night.
The league officials will meet tonight to
take action on the New Britain matter. 1t
looks as If they were going to take the
CoURIERs advice.
Manager @. F. Clark "happened to drop
in" to the New Britain Herald Office Friday.
There was no happen to it. Clark is the real
manager of the New Britains, and is simply.
looking out for his team. He told the Herald
reporter that Meriden had no right to Mckay
or Curley. He continued: "Neither will
play there this season. Mckay would sooner
shovel coal than play polo in Meriden for
$50 week. Mckay and Curley are men
of their word, and when they say they won't
play in Meriden this year they mean it."
Well, we'll, we'll! Curley must have gone
back on Clark, for he signed contract on
Friday with Meriden. And the Meriden
Journal Systematically asks what Clark is do
ing around New Britain anyway.
Waterbury wants polo, and sporting men
there are watching the New Britain team.
Games in Springfield begin at $3.50 O'clock
Many in New Haven desire the Management
here to start up at the same time.
O'Aaley will not referee yet for week or
two.
Base ball.
The fight between the brotherhood and
league officials goes merrily on. The broth
erhood has secured grounds In New York adj
joining the new polo grounds. Judge Hol-
land informs the brotherhood that the league
contracts are not worth the paper they are
written on.
John B. Day has issued circular to the
press, in which he quotes the opinion of
three noted lawyers, Evarts, Choate and Bea-
man. They say that the present contract
binds the players to the league for another
year, and that the players can be epjoined
1Iom Praying 6is6Wuef0 IMAM Wnefo they
played this season; that the league can
Ering suit against the players Individually or
against those persons who are backing them
in breaking their contracts.
Foot Ball.
Saturdays games: At the Yale field, Yale
freshman SO, Adelphia club of Brooklyn, N.
Y, Q; at New York, Princeton "a, Wesleyan
0; at New York, Lehigh university 81, CO.
lumbia 9; at Boston, Harvard IS, University
of Pennsylvania o; at Boston, Dartmouth 40,
Instituted of Technology 6; at Pawtucket, r.
l., Boston Athletics 10, Brown university 0.
The usual cry has been raised that Yale il
weak and cannot compete with either Har-
ward or Princeton. just the same Yale will
win the championship. e
!. The Yale team did the best practicing Sat-
urday afternoon that they have done SO far.
Richards, '65, coached the men. Stage
made bis first appearance and showed up
we'll. He win greatly strengthen the rush
line.
The team will practice to-day.