Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-21
SPORTING MATTERS.

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 The Meridens play here tonight with their team reorganized. Mckay, who prom ised to come to New Haven, and Curley will be on hand. Ourley is most comical goal- tender, having been known to duck his head and stop drive with his skull. The New Haven team will be made up as usual.
 At Hartford, Saturday night, the New Ha- vens put up the best game that they have yet played there this season, and it would have beaten any team but Hartford. They lost the game in the last half, the score be- ing to 4. The feature was Reeds goal tending. So well did he stop Cotter's hot drives in quick succession that he was ap- plauded many times. He made thirty steps to McCarthy's eighteen.
 Mckay and Curley did not save the Meri- dens from defeat by the Bridgeports to O. Cu1ley had seventeen and Smith thirty stops.
 Cunning was in the city Saturday. He is pretty we'll worked up over the action of the league expelling him. Any player, with the prospect staring them in the face of never being allowed to play polo, would feel the same as he did. He says he is going to fight the thing to the end. He has sought legal advice, he asserts, and has been encouraged to push the case in order that his rights may be restored. He came to New Haven, he said, for the purpose of finding out the per- son or persons who claimed that he sold the game. Neither Dunning nor Lsmpkin de- serve any sympathy. They were forewarned by Manager Lucas what would be done. They didn't think he would dare carry out his in rentions, as they had the idea the Meriden team could not be run without them.
 The Meriden Journal says of the meeting: s'It was proven that one of the men received $50 from @ man named John Toole in New Haven, and was to receive an equal amount after the game was lost"
 At the meeting Dunning admitted having been in this city Monday night, where he was in company with man who is known to be at the head of league of gamblers in all the cities He came to this city Wednesday af- ternoon after the game, and was back in Mer- iden before supper, so as to allay any sus picion. The names of the parties composing the clicoue of gamblers are known, and, when it is time, the public shall know all their names. It was also proven that Lamp kin had shown another player money and offered to share it with him if he would go in with him in losing the game.
 k Polo is too good sport to be killed by gamblers and crooked players. The sport is only passing through what base ball did in it's infancy But in base ball there were clean, honest men at the helm, and they used the blacklist until player would now just as much think of killing himself as to sell a game. That polo games have been sold by certain players since it was first started there is not the shadow of doubt. This is the first action of the kind ever taken by a polo league and it will have an immense effect in purifying the game. It will be warning to other players. If the league does it's duty it will never reconsider it's action in blacklist ing these two men. They can do nothing less than follow in the footsteps of base ball msgnates. A base ball player blacklisted some fifteen years ago sought reinstatement last summer, not to play ball again, but to remove the stain on his family. It seemed hard, but the league refused, thinking it would be establishing wrong precedent. The ninth week of polo ended Saturday night and this week will see the season half ended. The Hartfords and Bridgeports did the best work of the week, winning three out of the four games played. Bridgeport lost her one game to New Haven and Hart ford hers to Bridgeport. Meriden and New Haven played but three games, as the one Tuesday night is not counted. The Spring fields made the most goals, 34 Hartford close behind with 32, and Bridgeport IF. New Haven, in her three games, made IA
 
 for the fact that in two games more goals were made than in any other games of the season; also that on Friday night the most goals that have been made in the New Haven rink were then made. At Springfield Monday 23 goals were made, and on Thursday IS. John Smith did the best work of the goal tends during the week. He accepted 104 chances out of 11S, and has per centags of .SS1. Curley played only ono game, but he gets the next per centage, .So5, accepting F out of 20 chances. Riley is third, having 1S1 chances and ac espting 104, per csntage .79S. Reed stands next (Tuesday's Msriden game not counted, accepting 65 chances out of S2, with 8 pel centage of .792. Mccarthy accepted 101 chances out of 12S, per centage .7S9, and
 Lampkin, (two games,) 49 out of 69, pel centage ITO.
 The New Ravens played we'll last week, but they didn't do any more than to win theil usual game-one.
 Monday has a particular charm for tht NeyHavens. They have won every game this season that has been played on tha day. Will the record be broken to-night9 Whats the matter with Bridgeport! They ' are picking up all the disengaged players The last report is that they have telegrapheC | Turnbull for his terms.
 The New Haven Flyers defeated the Stam | lords 9 te 1 Saturday night. Frazer of tn \ Bridgeports played with the Stamfords unde | an assumed name.
 | Rumors about the crooked work of player
 in Connecticut have been very frequent, no \ only this season, but in seasons past. It i \ an open secret that games there are sold righ and left and that the players in many in stances are controlled by the pool rooms.- Boston Knew It All. These same player | were in the Massachusetts league and sol' games so openly that 1t broke up polo. It re \ mained for the Connecticut managers to talk
 a firm stand in the matter and stop it. In letter 10 the Herald Lations, late O \ the New Ravens, says: 'I see by the paper ! that there has been considerable talk abou my release from New Haven. I wish to stat that did not want to play with the Ney ! Haven team owing to a disagreement I hal ! with the manager. If man has the hart ! is crooked and wont have anything to d. with him. m."-Bostsn Herald. Why Lation should have referred to crooked work is pas \ comprehension, as no paper has uttered \ single word that could be taken for sucl meaning. A man said last night: ''Of all play ! CTS Lations should not complain as Manage Downs treated him almost like father. H | had frequent talks with him and Lation frankly admitted that he was not playin good polo He had no disagreement with tn ! manager until the day he was released There is nothing consistent in his saying b \ did not wish to play here, for he is out of ! job now and you can't tell me that maj had rather be out of work than be earninl money"
 Charged With Malpractice. Coroner Mix went to Waterbury Saturda,