Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-01-20

fatally shot his wife Saturday because she
refused to live with him and then attempted
unsuccessfully to shoot his two little sons
he afterward cut his own throat with a razor.
but will probably recover.
Pensions for Connecticut: Original invalid,
James McDermott; Guilford; increase, Bsnja-
min j. Watson, Plain6eld; Evans B. Hotch.
kiss, Prospect; original widows etc., Jane,
widow of James MeDermott, Guilford;
Andrew, father of Andrew J. Winters,
Salisbury.
A telegram received at New Bedford,
Mass, yesterday by Frederick Swift, agent
of the whaling bark Jacob A. Rowland, of
this port, $50. 16 tons burden, reports that
the vessel was wrecked at Johnston Island.
in the Pacific ocean on December 26, 1889
The crew was saved but the vessel is total
loss.
Gossip OF the sports.
Amateur baseball circles have been agita-
tated of late by the proposed formations of
an amateur baseball league in this city.
Several meetings have been held for the pur-
pose OF getting grounds, etc., but AZ yet
nothing has been decided upon. They in
tend to get the lot on the corner of Orange
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grand stand, if possible. The Morris Cove,
F. S. Bradley and Orange street mines have
given their consent to play and if another
club is obtained they will prtbably make a
60 of it.
BUFFALO, N. Y, January 19.-Jack Rowe,
the ball-player, who has been ill with Ia
grippe, will leave for California this week
for his health to be absent until April FIRST.
Rowe says Mickey Welsh has made a miss
take in signing with the New York League
as without Ewing to catch him and the
Giants to bat i'm out of holes he will be of
little use.
Har1ie Richardson when asked if he in-
tended to stick to the players league said.
Stick to the players leaguea Yes, if I have
to play ball for $40 week.
The Springfield Republican calls Legion
the dwarf player. Just the same little Will
lie is playing great game, dwarf or no
dwarf.
A great many friends of Dempsey have
been alarmed of late by reports that he is
going into consumption. He only weighs
1874 pounds and in all probability the great
nonpareil has fought his last battle.
Now that Comiskey has agreed to play
ball with the Chicago players league team it
will be unusually strong. With such men
| as Comiskey, Pheffer, Williamson, Ryan and
O'Neil in Chicago's uniform; the other teams
will find club hard to defeat.
By the time the California athletic club
are ready to have Sullivan and jackson
come together, Sullivan will be worth about
$1OO, 900. His hat band is growing larger
and larger every day, and it is liable to burst
before great many days have passed.
| The only polo game tonight ia Springfield
in this city. Is is about time for New Haven
to win, although we appreciate the fact that
the boys are playing fair polo.
Bridgeport is playing great polo at present
and seems to have no difficulty in winning
games away from home. But their present
| gait cannot last forever and they will drop a
| peg or 80 before many weeks have passed.
A great many patrons of polo here would
like to see what kind of game New Haven
would play with Cooke at center and New
comb and Hill rushers. Why not satisfy
them tonight?
Lations is considered by Springfield polo
cranks to be a better man in front of the
cage than Jo Reilly. Not always.
Seeley is the most faithful player In the
league. Saturday night in the game with
New Haven he Gagged gil the goals for Hart.
ford, and several times was too fast for Cot
| ter.
Meriden newspapers are severely critiois-
ing their players because thoy do not win
away from home. We would like to know
| WAoo loouA ID WlnuluS Bdlues away lrOku
home at present. If New Haven wins home
games the public will be satisfied for the
present at any rate.
The New Haven Union says of Connors, In
the game at Hartford Saturday night, that ir
the last half he braced up and Gagged the bal
occasionally. Yet the score does not credit
him with goal. Funny, isn't it,
LOWELL, Mass. Jan. 19.-To-day the limi
arbitrarily fixed by the Atlantic Base Bal
Association for paying the guarantee DUE
expires. Neither Lowell, Worcester no
Hartford will pay, nor will they forward
their designations at present. Manager Sui
livan, of the Lowell, received q letter yes
terday from President Byrne, of the boart
of arbitration, eaying: II can safely SO,
that the board will not permit or recognize
any action that will affect your rights or in
teTests in any manner. Your club should g
ahead and there is no doubt your contract
will be fairly protected"