Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-10
SPORTING MATTERS.

The AllertOns to Play on she Howard Avenue Grounds-A Blue Ticket Good For a Seat in the Grand Stand-The Polo Grounds All Right-PoOr Bat- ting by Yale.
 The season at the New Haven base ball grounds on Howard avenue will be formally opened this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock sharp, when the Allertons and the New Ravens will
 be the contesting teams. The Allertons last season were the best team in New York city outside of the New York Giants. It was the team that Csrsey pitched for and on which he made his remarkable record. He says the team is 8 strong one. Every holder of blue ticket who presents it at the box office to-day will be entitled to seat in the grand stand free. Those who did not have money refund ed to them on reserved seat checks can have them exchanged either at Silverthau's or at the box office at the grounds. ST. LOUIS, April 9.-President Won Der Ahe of the St. Louis Browns to-day signed three of the four players holding off for bet ter terms. They are Chamberlaine, Robinson and Mccarthy. ''Silver" King has not yet
 attached his name to St. Louis contract. The Yale team defeated the Tufts college
 team at Yale Field yesterday afternoon g to 3. The game was listless and the batting very weak. Yale made nearly all her runs on errors. Travers and McClung was the
 battery for Yale and Burlington and Biscom for Tufts college. Base hits, Yale with @ total of 2, Tufts college 8; base on balls, off Travers 4, off Darlington 6; errors, Yale 5,
 Tufts g. About 300 people witnessed the game.
 Johnny Dodds has accepted Lottie Stan- l., aI,1 IIa,, | Miss Stanley on bicycle and Dodds on rol-
 Ter skates. at the polo rink Friday night. The
 race will probably be an interesting one as
 Miss Stanley is the champion lady bicyclist of the would.
 NEW YORK, April 9.-The board of alder men at it's meeting to-day decided the ques- tion whether or not the Polo grounds would be destroyed this season by the grading of 111th street. When the question of grading
 the street came up five voted in favor, seven against and eight refused to vote. This set ties the question for this season and the Polo grounds remain intact.
 AT JERSEY CITY.
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 v Hits EsE yG1 York iS MstsoPoita2s 1s sEr9Es New Lynch and Holbert; umpire, Pearce. AT PHILADELPHIA.
 BroeEiyn .......s 0 0 1 0 2-7
 Hits, Philadelphia g. Brooklyn 14; errors, Phila-
 delphia 3, Brooklyn 4; batteries Clements and Ca
 sey, Hughes and Clarke; umpire, McQuRde.
 BROOKLYN.
 Chicago ............... 2 0 0 0-9
 All America. % o 1 0 2-6 Hits, Chicago g, All America 2; errors, Chicago 4 All America g; batteries, Baldwin and Daly. Crane and Earle; umpire, Barnum.
 AT CINCINNATI.
 GIectnnsd. GIeesIsnd - -. 9999 2 o-a oG-aa Hits Cincinnati 5, Cleveland G. errors Cincinnati }, Cleveland 2; batteries, Mullane and Baldwin Bakeley and Sutcltfe; umpire, Bauer. ! AT COLUMBUS. Columbus .........-......0 Q . Q 0 3-6 Milwaukee. ..---..........2 o o 0 0 o-4 I Hits, Columbus 8, Milwaukee G. Errors, Milwau- kee 5, Columbus 8. Batteries GaStright and Peo- ples Griffith and Mills. Umpire, Hall. LOUIS. St Louis ..-......-.....0 0 3 ell Plttsburg. .............-.0 ? 9 6 Hits St. Louis Il, Pittsburg 8. Errors, St. Louis Pittsourg 6. Batteries Chamberlaine and Milli- gan; Staley and Lauer. Umpire, Schroeder. AT WASHINGTON. Washington. on..-...........0 1-7 Newark. 0 1 0 0 0-2 Hits. Washington 10, Newark II. Errors, wash ington 1, Newark5. Batteries, O'DaY and Mack; Miller and Sullivan. Umpire, Quinn. AT BOSTON. Boston. g. g Athletics. 70 0 2 l. 8 Base hits, Boston 10, Athletics Is. Errors, Bos-
 ton g. Athletics S. Batteries, Clarkson and Gansell Senard and Robinson.