Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-02

q score OF 20 3. f1erce ana ConWey olo
good work.
Hurrahi
Tailenders.
The last week.
Out of last place.
Now you are in fifth place. keep it.
Will there be polo here next seasoni
Manager Harris benefit was q success.
Polo ends two days after base ball sets in.
Only one game fortnight, Meriden at Hart
ford.
New Haven has lost 81 games by one goal.
That's all.
Fifth place is good enough for New Haven
this eeason.
To night would have been good night for
the teams benefit.
The Bridgeport team seems to be playing |
at about every benefit.
Every team has held first place for short |
time except the New Britain team.
Games tomorrow night: Springfield at
Bridgeport and Meriden at New Britain.
Meriden will hold third place sure, and
the New Britain cranks are crying "Listen to
my tale of woe"
The largest number of goals in any one
game have been made in New Britain. The
uumU6T IL el4Go6u.
The local team will rest until Friday
night, when the "Woodchoppers" will make
their last appearance.
Hard, steady work won the championship
for Bridgeport. Fines paid by the manage
| ment helped out.-Merriden Journal.
Cunningham has done the best work for
| Meriden this year. He has been a hard and
| faithful worker and has only been laid off
one game during the entire season.
The last polo game of the season in the
| local rink will be played on Friday night.
| The people should turn out in full force and
give the home team noble send-of.
Poor Lations is getting it right and left.
He is blamed for the loss of the champion
ship. 1t is not his fault, the Springfield
rushers are weak and their record shows it.
Bridgeport Post.
| Menard has unquestionably held the palm
for the best playing this season. His pace
has been tremendous. Journal.
Yes, Eddie has done wonderful work, but
hardly the best playing of any of the players.
Atlantic Association News.
The FIRST game will be Friday.
Lally is looking as fine as silk.
The Amherst College team is stronger this
season than it has been before in years.
| New Haven will have two irst-class coach
ers in "Calliope" Ferrien and "Chick" Hof-
ford.
| gained fully an ounce in weight eince last
| fall.
Turn ont in force, all ye ball tends, en-
Fast day, and give the ELM City team
rousing welcome.
The Petit matter has not been settled as
| yet but Bob will continue practicing with the
| team just the same.
The team will leave here on the evening of
| the eighteenth and open the season in Balti-
/ more the nineteenth.
Ferrien arrived in town last night. He
will don the gloves this afternoon and gobble
up grounders and flies.
| Catcher Joe Sullivan has been released by
the Newark club. He is too good a man to
be long without an engagement.
Manager Burnham ordered the players to
| report for practice to-day at 1880. The men
viii. then don their suits and use the dia-
mond for the first time.
Stick pin in this. If the Atlantic ssso-
citation is intact at the close of the season Of
80 the New Haven team will be found
among the leaders. ''Shaksspoke."
The new uniforms, with the exception of
the shoes, arrived yesterday, but they will
not be seen upon the field until the first
game with Amherst Friday afternoon.
Hofford, Doran and Lang arrived late last
evening. The men are all now here with the
exception of Connie Doyle, who has had per-
mission to stay until April 8.
Several of the Worcester team have arriv-
ed. Guinasso, Wilson and the two Staffords
reported yesterday for duty. The rest of the
team will report by to-day, with the excep-
ton of Meister, who will arrive Friday or
Saturday.
The directors of the New Haven Amuse-
ment company held meeting last evening
in the Office of Munson & Co. Nothing was
done except to approve what the committee
on grounds have accomplished so far. The
work of the advertising committee was also
approved.
The opinion seems to be divided AZ to vino
will be the captain of the nine this year.
Lang and Shoeneck are the cand idatss and
; are both good men. s'Snsp" Lang is q hard
worker and is every inch q ball player, but
"Big Lon" is a general favori.s and the
!, captaincy would be the proper thing for
him.
Tommy Cahill wants an increase of salary
and advance money also. Cahill has been
useG pretty 'white" by the management and
was given until June Is to report, 30 that he
could finish his studies AID help the Univer-
eity of Pennsylvania ball nine siscsS,, also.
wants in the neck.
ing and the team Is now complete. There
was never any trouble between Horner and
: the management in regard to salary; it was
simply the advance money. But everything
D has been settled satisfactorily and "Natty
Jack" will again fool some of the heavy bat
ters in the association. He pitched great ball
during the latter part of last season and in
. tends to duplicate the work all through the
coming season.
4 Mckee again demonstrated his ability % q
runner yesterday afternoon. A short hy was
/. knocked over the fence ON to the car track.
There is always gang Of "kids" hanging
: around for these balls and 1t had hardly
J, struck the ground when q ''son of rest" thad
n 1t and was off down the track. he could moi
fool Mckee, though, for "Mack" was over
: the fence in no time and after him. The
!. flying urchin had \ good start, but aftel
a chasing him down the track about quartz,
r of mile "Mack" caught him, took the ball
from him and busted his trousers. The
: "kid" will now probably let the balls alone
The following ia complete list of the ex.
q hibition games that will be played on the
Q local grounds before the championship sea-
son opens It is good list and shows that
Z somebody has done some hustling in ords,
to book such good teams:
April April s Amber
t A APr!!!! s-Ssrs%o stsn'''
= April 9-FluShingS.
Q April 1O-Metropolitans
a April 11-Hackett, Carhart & Co.
April 12-Yale.
y April 14-London.
+ April 15-Rochester.
April 1s-Yale.
April 17-Hamton.
April 1S-Boston.
:, The following are the games scheduled
for the New Haven team to play during
!: the coming season both at home and abroad
NEW RAVENS AT HOME.
Baltimore May "a, 81, 80 (p.m.), July IL, l6, Au
gust 81, rs, September rs, 81. Hartford, May 8,
Is, june 10 H. July pm August 2s September
gust IL, l3, September ~, IS. Newark, May 81
June 8, 4, July 22 %, August 16 10, September 23
Q "a Washington, May 90, 81 a. July 49, 81, August
| ia 49, September 20, g. Wilmington, May 90, 90,
! 30 a. m, July II, IL, August 49, 70, September CO.
= 80. Worcester. May 2, g., June 10, II, July 8. O.
q August %, 20.
r NEW HAvKNs ABROAD.
t At Baltimore, April 10, 81, "a, June 30, July /,
. Is, II, June IS, 20, July 4. a: m, 12 August So
July a. rs, August 8, Q, September is, 49, At New.
ark April e. 49, 90, July 2, s. August Q, T. Septem.
a | Der B. g. At Washington April 90, e. Is, June e.
rs, July 80, 81, September 10, II. At Wilmington
April So May 2 June IS, 49, August 4, 8, Septem
Der g. g. At Worcester, May TO- IL, 10, June Fl, e.
. | July 10, II, September ., 4.
= All those of the New Haven team who are
f | at present in the city took q stroll ont Ia