Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-26
Base Ball and Sporting Notes

Murphy is catching great ball for Newark.
New Haven plays with Lebanon at Philadel-
phia to-day.
Shortstop Cooney has signed to play another
year under Captain Arson.
Doran will play with the Brooklyn Players
league team next season.
That story about Baltimore taking New York's
place in the National league is sheer nonsense.
Dave Orr, James O'Rourke and Roger Connor
are leading the Players league in batting in the
order named.
| beginning Obtober6.
| In England in summer the base ball games be-
| gin at hall past six and last about two hours
| New York Telegram
Tommy cahill, the popular New Haven catch h;
| Kelley has made Arson an offer of $4,000 per
| season and a three-year contract to desert the
National league and join the Players.
John McKee, New Ravens left fielder, was at
| of Harrisburg. Harrisburg is Jacks home.
People who have seen both associations play
say that the teams in the Atlantic association
| put up just as good ball as those in the American
association.
Last Fridays New York-Pittsburg Players
league game was the shortest full nine inning
contest of the season, only one hour and five min
utes being required to complete it.
The Boston players who have signed league
contracts for next G season are Garrison Nicholas
Sullivan This Leaves McGarr, Hines, Tabor Get
| Zoln ana darQle StlH unsigned.
A Protestant minister, a Catholic priest and u
| Jewish rabbi, who are all ardent admirers of the
| game, occupied the same box at a ball game in
Frisco, and were jovial and friendly if there
had never existed a religious difference between
Y | them.
The members of the local team have made a
Philadelphia during the games there this week
, President Peach Of the National league club Of
| Hands services.
The local team proposes to play benefit game
| for Lew Schoeneck here shortly after the 1st OF
October The benefit should be made a rousing
, success financially, as Lew has always been
:. deservedly popular player with the admirers Of
the sport In this city
a | Maybe Hoford, Laly, Pettee and Cahili did mo-
: do some hitting yesterday. The last three named
IA be- BE- On Ps
i, Cahill, Lally, Pettee and Mckee on our new Ath
association viii have good team in this towr
4 next year, and it will be called that same goot
| old name athletic"
= The Players league will hold it's annual meet
| ing in New York next month. The Nationa
Mosse@ S and It viii Therefore be for the Ma
VIII Be any dates next season or not
quoted as saying IN Pttsburg recently IF tn
e National league wants to institute a nationa
y agreement the Players willing to- listen t.
q any reasonable proposition"
. Hecker and Laroque of the Pittsburgs are &c
: cused Of putting up a, job on Berger Will
# playing in Canton few days ago. They bough
put the players watch in it. When he stepped t
} the plate the umpire presented him with his owl
6 from his friends, bowed his acknowledgement {
4 the astonished crowd. He discovered the jok
70 when he went to the dressing room.
Personal Notes.
J. Hon. f. A. Benjamin of Stratford i
steadily improving
10 l. Atwater and wife of Trumbul
It street, this city, have returned from thei
l. summering in Brooksvale.
!, Miss Lille Merwin of 400 Temple street
-. this city, arrived home this week from
u three months stay near Great Darlington
a Frank Bishop of Yale 80, residing o.
William street, has returned from trip t
|, the Catskills and entered Yale Law schoc
1t yesterday.
It f. S. Sanford, the Bridge street druggis
" in Shelton, is the happy father of pair O
n twins, boy and girl, born on Sunday
g. Congratulations from his many friends ar
profuse and hearty.
N George B. Bunnell, the theater magnat
of this city, has sold lot in Southport
g. recently purchased of Mrs. William L
IN Black, to Northrop Bros. They will erec
J. cottages ION it and have already CON
8. menced =. retions.
!; A. B. Ruggles, one of Shelton's leadin
~ citizens, has sold his residence on How
g avenue to his nephew, Dr.W S. Randall G
~ Birmingham, who will probably take u
o. his residence there when the former owne
removes, as he expects to go to Californi
in February next.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mack Shearer, Mr. an
m Mrs. G. A. Prescott and Miss Emma Pres
% colt, all of Palmer, Mass, have been stay
k ing at Captain Thompson's house, near th
old lighthouse for the mast few div,
" With them have been Mr.. and Mrs. I
Is Golf and their son, Robert, of this city.
o, Mrs. I. K. Barney, woman of large e,
~ perience in w. G. T. U. work for the VI
:, lifting of humanity, will give Bible reaet
10 ing in the Congregational lecture room i
ar Stratford next Tuesday afternoon, the 30tl
id at 3 O'Clock; also in the evening of tn,
/. day she viii lecture on the license questio
~ in the town hall.