Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-17
Notes in General.

The Resolutes of Meriden will play here this afternoon. This team is the champion of all the State league teams. They defeated day last Manager Reilly says the Resolutes will give the New Ravens a close game.
 Manager Spence has decided to make Thursday ladies' day, when all ladies with escorts will be admitted free. To-merrow will be the first day of this kind. The Ac- mes of New York will play.
 The Worcesters, the team that on paper was surely going to win the pennsnt, have been found to be decidedly weak. Manager Burnham is in Washington trying to get Donnelly's release.
 The Philadelphia players do not believe New York will have chance for the pennant without Keefe, as though they were not go- great pitcher will be signed in few days at most.
 The papers of the Hub are still saying dis- agreeable things about Mike Kelly. When they want a man to go in and win games they are obliged to rely upon "the only" but that is all forgotten afterward in the narrowness of their spleen.
 The COURIER has always held that while Stagg was good pitcher, yet he was not such great pitcher after all. And now one of the greatest baseball players backs up the opinion expressed by the COURIER, Jim O'Rourke trained the Yale team when Stagg pitched. Now he says in letter to friend in this city, that Ames, Princeton's pitcher, is better pitcher than when Stagg was at his best. O'Rourke calls Ames the king of college pitchers, and says he says so after due delibeIation.
 The Grays are to organize a base ball nine and will play a match game with teams from Co. K of Hartford, and from Go. of the Seventh Regiment, New York. The Blues and Light Guards have base ball hines prae- ticing and regimentsl series of games will probably be arranged for.
 The Clippers are ready to accept challenges from any club composed of players under twelve years of age. Address Louis Stod- dard. manager of the Clippers.
 The New York Sun yesterday morning said editorially of the game here Monday: "New Haven 40, Waterbury o. This score has goed, old-fashioned favor A woful Sedan, a Roxbury, Chicago, mephitis Americana for the Waterburians. Our revered Mug wump contemporary, the Waterbury Ameri- can, will receive sympathy in this his hour of calamity. It was very Mugwump score"
 The New Ravens broke the record at New Haven yesterday by defeating the Water burys by the unusual score of 40 to 0.-Bos- ton Herald.
 Hines has been appointed captain of the Eastons.
 In the base ball game on Saturday between G09 1EluCoIOu CollcSo Ionuu nuO tAo OtdIou Island Athletic club teams Bates struck out seventeen men and Ames fourteen. De Gar mendia's batting and general playing was excellent. The old reliable left fielder, Arthur Moore's catch and first run for the team. Tyndale's brilliant catching at right field and batting. Streteigh, Deppler and Van Zandt's batting and base running, and the remarkable catching of Dick Finlay, who for the first time caught Bates, and the fact of the team's first appearance together, play ing 8 twelve inning game against such 8 strong team as Princeton, are worthy of mention.
 James Sullivan, of this city, makes some good suggestions as follows: "Why not have the umpire himself instantly telegraph his decisions to the anxious spectators? Here is my little code: 1. For every strike the um- pire shall raise one hand straight over his head; for @ ball he shall make no significant motion. 9. Whenever @ man is out he shall raise both hands over his head; and if man is safe, whether at the bat or running the bases, he need make no significant motion. What could be more simple? A deaf mute could almost umpire under these rules, and players and spectators would understand him.
 WORCESTER, Mass, April 16.-The Wor- cester baseball club has purchased the re- lease of J. A. Cudworth, the center fielder of the St. Louis nine. It is given ont that the price paid is $500. Cudworth will arrive in n- this city Friday. He will be feld-captain of the Worcester team.
 other Games Yesterday.