Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-12

rather funny that it has never been noticed before.
 Parsons is playing better polo this season than he has ever played before. If his wind were az good in the last half as 1t is in the first he would be man second to none as polo player.
 There is one man on the Neriden team whom "Pop" Hallett will not take any fresh- ness from, and that player is Dnnning. The told man" knows how to take "Homie," and will make him come to time.
 Tips ana Liners. b. :
 St. Louis is red hot Players league city.
 President Byrne's team will have try at the Chicago's next.
 The League people were happy over the de- cision in the Ward case yesterday.
 The Stevens college boys practice ball playing every day the weather permits.
 The Brooklyn Players' league team will be forced to brace up their pitching department.
 George Munson will be in advance of the Chicago White Stockings. He is four- time winner.
 The Cleveland L~ague base ball team is on it's way to Hot Springs, and McKean will join it there.
 According to current reports McKean has jumped again. He is said to be in tow of Gus Schmelz en route to Hot Springs. The Indianapolis players are not anxious to come to New York. It is not strange they are afraid to face honest base ball crowds.
 Manager Schmeltz is not half as sleepy as he looks. He took McKean from under the | wing of Al Johnson and walked off with that famous shortstop.
 George Gore, Director Talcott, Colonel Mo Alpin, president of the Players league, and others of the Brotherhood, will leave for 1 Cleveland this evening.
 The home of the Hatfelds, all of the males being celebrated baseball players, is Hoboken. It was in Hoboken one of the Hatfield made the longest ball throw on record. 1 If Chicago gets the worlds fair she ought to arrange to exhibit some of the antique ball players now in the National league. New York can contribute Mickey Welch and others.
 | at Cleveland to prevent spectators at Nation- al league games from presenting players with tokens of esteem, such as sweet violets, pre- historic eggs, etc.a
 Judge Lawrence has named the Ath inst. for the trial of the Ward case. Judge How land, in opposing Lawyer Duyster's motion to advance the suit, said he would be ready to go ahead on that day, 90 both sides are satisfied.
 l Duryea's action in jumping a contract is a disgrace to base ball, as is every other case of case of actual contract breaking. If this thing continues, 8 we'll founded suspicion may get abroad that the game is not as hon. est as it should be.
 President Byrnie is sorry now that he left the Association, as he had certainty of $40, ,00O from his Sunday games alone. Now, with a ten-club circuity, it looks as If he would sink nearly that much in the League. The Association has no room for him, however.
 Billy Barnie's notification to Nessrs. Kil- roy, Quinn, Shindle, Griffin and Cunning ham that the Baltimore club has . right to their services, under the national agreement, for the season of 1890, is very funny. The agreement expressly stipulates that no club can contract for the services of player for a term longer than seven months. Billy is fond of jokes and is probably laughing at the notice himself.
 Tho fact that Messrs. Soden, Day and Robinson form the national committee to reduce the circuit has led some of the 'tfans'' to believe that Cleveland will retire from the arena. It is more likely, however, that the Indianapolis deal has been made and that another meeting will be held before April 10, at which President Brush will be frozen (q) out, 50 he can square himself at home, The magnates are afraid to show their hand, that's certain.