Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-20
BASE BALL MEETING,


 Of tho Atlantic Leaaue
 Confer In Worcester Yesterday =
 Washington to bs Admitted to the
 League.
 WORCESTER, Mass, March 19.-Mesns. Shoemaker and Haydon of the Newark club, Munson of New Haven and Lang of Hart- ford were in the city to-day and met several businAs. naou who agreed to re-purohase the stock of the WorcesteE club now held by the Atlantic association syndicate and maintain were surprised at the interest shown in their mission. While here they gave posi- tive assurance that Washington would be admitted as the eighth city in the Atlantic association, making the circuit consist of Worcester, Hartford, New Haven, Jersey City, Newark, Wilmington, Baltimore and Washington.
 Cudworth was engaged as manager of the team and empowered to fill at once the vacant places in the nine.
 HARTF0RDs vs. mERIDkNs. The Polo Game Last NiEht-Atlantic
 Assoelatlon Prospscts-Polo Chips. Aeriden stock took quite . tumble last night and they are down . little nearer to New Haven than they were. The Hartford team did the businsss to the tune of to 9, and did not have to work very hard to do it, either. It was good game for the first few and walked away from their younger rivals. Cotter and Sealy put up great game, Sealy especially doing fine work. For Meriden the rushers did good work, but they were clearly outplayed from beginning to end.
 News In the Atlantic Association. Once more the Atlantic association is in trouble. This time it is Providence and 6 city that was counted on as sure standby, has given up and is determined to have noth. ing to do with base ball for tho present at least. President Allen of that club kicked hard against the new team, and thinks that to experiment in that town this season ir
 professional base ball would be financial loss. Taking everything into consideration he is pretty nearly right, for 'ea bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
 Everything is not going along in Worcester
 as smoothly as the Atlantic association peo pie would like to see, and from the appear
 ances at present it will take q large amount | of talking and hustling to fetch that town tt | the front when the season opens.
 President Shoemaker and Director J. H | Haydon of the Newark base ball club were in Worcester yesterday and consulted sev eral people in regard to backing for tht Worcester team during the comming season They hope to interest prominent business
 men in the scheme, and judging from thu | talk of the past few days will not have much
 trouble in accomplishing their desire. l But now that Providence has dropped would not be surprising if Worcester fol lowed suit, unless the lowell team can be in'
 duced to come to the front and go back ints for nothing. By the way, what has become of Manager Sullivan and his teama They were King Jims of . mighty and powerful | base ball league at one time, but lately they | have disappeared. With Lowell back there could be no doubt but what Worcester would stick to the last, for these two cities do moi | love each other any too much.
 | and as the players are undoubtedly all re- served, there would be little or no trouble tn
 coming to the front with good ball team. In case Worcester drops out and Lowell refuses to come in the prospects are that the Atlantic association will have to get along
 with six clubs, and league with six clubs is about as bad as a ten club league. The teams the eastern circuit, and Jersey City, Newark, Wilmington and Baltimore for the western circuit. This would be failure as league, both in pairing the clubs of and in playing games, for two clubs would have to be idle most of the time. There is another way
 that g good eight club league could be formed, and that is if Lowell can be possibly l induced to come back. Washington would be the other team to fill out the list. The National league wants to buy out Washing ton and they will probably do so before a great while. In tbis case, an Atlantic asso- easily, as Washington is great base ball city, and, being only forty miles distant from Baltimore, could be paired off nicely with the Monumental City. Is would then
 be an eight club league fully as strong as the old one, and tho teams could be paired of in
 the following manner: Lowell and Hartford New Haven and Jsrsey City, Wilmington and Newark and Baltimore and Washington. | This, of course, would be mostly for holiday games. At any rate, lovers of the game in this city need not feel alarmed at the outlook, for the game will be played in this city this season and no doubt better than ever.