Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-03-28

Folio PO1ntefS.
The champions tonight.
Meriden at Springfield tonight.
New Britain and New Haven for last place!
Which is ita
Gussman will now run the New Britain
team alone.
Meriden, alias the Sewerless City.-New
Britain Herald.
The whole Hartford team ia making ter
rible squirt for second place, but it Is too late.
Other games tomorrow night: Bridgeport
at Meriden, and Springfield at New Britain.
Connors is calling fair fouls. He has had
two games without any fouls at all that is, he
did not call any.
New Britain is good polo town, and if
next years team is a good one somebody
will make some money.
New Haven at Hartford tomorrow night,
and for heavens sake, boys, don't let them
walk away from you as easily as they did .
week ago.
Now they will boom things in Meriden for
a benefit. Well, they need benefit more in
that city than the players in Springfield did,
by long shot.
See here, "Billy" Legion, who is going to
settle for the damage you have done to the
floors in the Kinks during the past season by
your ankle work!
The New Haven Bicycle club has received
a challenge from the Amherst college polo
team, not the Springfield Bicycle club. Here
would be a chance for the Yale team.
Talk about crsnks, why the COURIER has a
subscriber who drives in from North Bran
ford every Monday and Friday night to see
the games. The distance is only nine miles.
Manager Gussman says that he has plan,
and a good one, that he will unfold to the
public soon, whereby New Britain will have
good polo team next season.-New Britain
Herald.
Springfield could not down Bridgeport
with six players and the referee besides.
Still they have the nerve to think about
winning the championship, to say nothing
of trying.
nearer the cage if he would not hit the ball
in the crook of the stick. He hits wicked
ball for the cage, but three out Of every four
go over it,
Cotter and Sealey are showing the cranks
what kind of stuff they are made of. Their
playing is simply great, and they manage to
keep the whole opposing team on the jump
during the first half.
Go to the rink tonight all ye lovers of
polo and witness the last appearance of the
Bridgeport polo team in the local rink this
home team ought to cross the line ahead.
Cunningham is playing the game for Meri-
den at present. He is fair man and a hard
worker also, but he will have to learn great
deal yet before he is what the Meriden Jour-
nal says he Is: "The star rusher of the
league"
"Mul" Smith can be as wicked as any man
in the business with his stick. He calls forth
the ire of the cranks when he trips o man in
front of the cage, but it is the policy Of
every polo player to foul man In order to
save goal.
Frank Stumcke has been released and his
winning smile will now be seen from in back
of the desk in the Falmouth hotel in Boston.
He and Clark are as thick as two peas in a
pod, and when Frank is not looking out for
Clark's polo interests he Is clerking 1t in the
hotel.
will try and have q game between the New
Haven Bicycle club and Yale college. A
good team could be picked from the boys in
Yale and they would make the Cyclists get
up and hustle. A game between these two
teams would undoubtedly be drawing card.
Atlantic Association News.
Manager Cudworth of Worcester will order
his men to report next Monday.
The Hartfords will report for duty April
/. Their uniforms will be ready April 8.
Manager Brady has fifteen men signed
for the Jersey City team. They will report
Monday.
John Walsh, who played center field fol
New Haven last season for some time, has
signed with the Des' Moines, Iowa, ball
team.
Base ball season books containing fifty ad.
missions tickets, good for any game during
the season, are now on sale at jones' cigar
store, 90 Church street.
Shoeneck broke another bat yesterday
afternoon while practicinR ON the grounds.
If he keeps it up the management will be
out money at the end of the season. Wood
costs money.
The Players National League base ball
guide for 1890 Is just out. It contains the
records of the various professional leagues
and associations for 1889. f. II. Brunnell.
secretary and treasurer of the Players
National league, is its publisher. It is very
oreditably gotten up, and reflects great credit
on those who devised the work. The new
code of playing rules adopted by the Players
National league last December are given
publicly for the first time. The editor ex.
poets the book to suit the public, and dictates
It to that great tribunal which is to intelli-
gently judge the game of 1890 and decide to
its ftest exponent The book will probably
not be on sale in this city for q week yet. but
when they afrive they will, no doubt, meet
with ready sele. .s'ls
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