Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-08

New Haven does not play at home on Monday but viii play in Springfield instead. This event hap five tnss during the poG c season or % Cpcs in Tuesday when the "Woodchoppers" win try con Springfield cranks do not like the:way Leydon- runs on his ankles and think he should be fouied for doing 1t. Hardly man plays polo whe does polo would be pretty slow game; Several of the n shss use ''o '-''- ~ >-' V ,,--' - =,
 A polo team composed of newspaper men in this city w play their % ths brsrsn o sIs way in the shade. An the available doctors in F all those who attend are promised a pleasant and enjoyable afternoon.
 alter having column article alleging the decline of polo and that this season wonid wind up the
 on shas tsa es in s.e has large league is about to bs formed; and last, but and that it may become an intercollegiate game
 Once more there is joy in the home of the Wood. ous Tae o R0f s "Keley's Kids" eight have been victories, and the sna S1 tns wesk @ a % saSss TGe a Esldsn and that thsy have Sssn doynsa It no telling what another week will bring forth.
 
 Ven der Horst of Baltimore has been in California looking for players.
 The Yale college team play the New York League team April 3 and 5. Bet on Yale.
 The suit of the Philadelphia club against Player Hallman will probably be argued to- day.
 And it will be the bulky ten-club League the Players must fight. What soft thing it will bel
 With ten clubs in the League the season will be opened under very unfavorable cir cumstances.
 The League chased Mulxey pretty hard, but he got away from them at last and is now with his old comrades. 31-s
 The business men of Indianapolis held big meeting yesterday to protest against the sale of the Hoosier club.
 All the National league managers seem satisfied with their colts. Yes, they all play good winter ball.-Boston Globe.
 Tom Brown and W: R; swett, the new catcher of the Boston Players league club, will leave California for Boston to- day.
 The American association has postponed its meeting from March il to March IA in | order to get glimpse of the Brotherhood schedule before publishing its own.
 The magnates refer to President Brush as the man with No. 12 head wearing No. 2 hat. Mir. Brush's head appears to contain more grsy matter than those of the other nine magnates combined.
 In the last game between the Chioagos and Philies at St. Augustine twenty-six runs were made out of nineteen base hits. Not run was earned. O'Brien, Chicsgo's second base man, made five bad errors.
 With the hustling that Managers Fraser, l 1v and hou 1oov 1ofr la a question whether Syracuse, Brooklyn and | Rochester will not have stronger clubs in the Association than the old members. | Buck Ewing says that Welch, Tiernan and Murphy are precisely in the same boat with Glasscock, and that they will very likely re-. ceive the same punishment from the Brother hood. Buck further aays that one of the | trio is anxious to come back into the fold l again, s'but not one of them will get back if have any say in the premises"
 Contracts for 1s90-With Newark, 8. w. Trott, John Henegan, Fred Car, James Field, Thomas NcDermott, Henry Oberlander and W. Johnson; Wilmington, w. 8. Black. Terms accepted-By Newark, George H.
 Mobile: Jereey City, J. J. Reidy and E. w. Cook ;NewHaven, l.. A. Gillaland; Providence,
 Frank spier, Con strouthers, Frank Day,
 mott and Floyd Lanman. Released-By
 Hartford, Eugene Derby. James N. Braden,
 secretary.
 SOHcOL MATTERS DISCUSSED.
 The Graduating Exercises to be Prac.
 ticallY the Same as Last Year
 Teaehers Net Anxious for Weekly
 ments-Preferences Expressed fol
 Change of Session Hours.
 At the meeting of the board of education
 last evening the action taken at previous
 meeting concerning the seating of the two
 upper classes on the stage of the Hyperion
 at the High school graduating exercises wal
 reconsidered. It was evident that considera
 ble change of feeling had taken place on thu , part of the committee. This was caused by the universal expressions of disapprovsl tha come from the scholars and others regarding the action of the boayd. The motion that
 staging be built this year, the expense not t
 exceed $160. for accommodating the whole
 school on the stage as near as possible wa
 finally passed, with the amendment that th' ] committee on rules be instructed to prepar,
 schedule of rules for future graduations The tickets this year will be given out thu
 same as last with the exception that all tn, . young ladies of the two under classes will have one extra ticket so they may not be ob
 liged to attend without an escort. The mat ter of ticket distribution was not settled til
 after much discussion, and 1t practically af lords as much trouble and vexation as nearlJ
 all of the other questions taken together. As previously instructed, Superintendent . Dutton read the result he had obtained iron inquiries among the teachers regarding thei . views about weekly payments. Of tho whol' of the proposal. Seven more were indider . ent and only one principal favored tn change.
 Mir. Dutton also ascsrtained that lArg . percentage of the scholars parents and teach ! CTS preferred change of the afternoon sss sion hour to 1880 o'clock.
 The question of tardiness stirred up Q lonf which was passed, that Superintendent Out . ton obtain the absolute facts from the teach CTS as to what time the scholars were marked tardy. There was considerable difference O . opinion among the board on this question. MT. Avis made . motion which was ale, passed, that the committee on rules be in' : struoted what punishment should be inflicted and what parts of the body exempt. He wa ipA Auenced in this by the account that hai come to him of a scholar who had beer struck on the head with an eraser. He hsi fear for the future of the school boys brair
 and thought they needed protection.
 The resignation of Miss Alice G. Pettee
 a teacher in the high school, to take effec April 25, was rsceieved, and also the appli. cations of Miss Florence M. Campbell and Miss Kittie H. Cover, a graduate of the !! high school and also of the Michigan univer sity, for positions as teacher.
 The following recommendations of the committee on buildings were approved: The purchase of twelve tables like those used in the kindergarten schools at . cost mol { exceeding A 50 apiece, also twenty live ol thirty Gas may be needed) movable black boards with music scale painted on them,