The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-25
BASEBALL IN NEW HAVEN
INTEREST IN THE NEW ATLANTIC
 LEAGUE INCREASING.

INTEREST IN THE NEW ATLANTIC
 LEAGUE INCREASING.
 Grounds Secured Already for Five of the | Six Teams in tho League-season to Open About May I-Hartford's Get There En-
 terprlse-New Haven Has Fine Team of l WhlcB Excellent Work May be Expected. | The interest in the new Atlantic league continues on the increase and the league bids fair. to outrival all oth- CT minor leagues for the season of 1896. Of the six cities in the league five have already secured their grounds and sign ed their full quota of players, and all that now remains to boom the national game is the opening of the season, which will be about May l. The only city which has not completed it's team or definitely decided where to locate its grounds is the Capitol city, Hartford. This was the last city to enter the league and this was done after all plans l 'iseA pSSi PNiiSSlCNi loA lhS <thitiSoiOii of the Trenton, N. J., team, so that 1t could hardly have been expected that the work in the Capitol city would have been so far advanced as that of the other cities, which were in the league from the time of it's organization. Man ager Barnie, who owns the Hartford franchise, is a hustler and when he starts to sign his club it will be com posed of nothing but the best material and when the season is we'll advanced 'Barnie's Brats" will be well up among the leaders.
 As for the other cities, Jersey City will have the surplus players of the l New York team to pick from and will l include such stars as Bannon, Butler, Stanhope, Irwin and probably Lester German
 The Newark team will have Tom Burns, Bobby Miller and some well known minor league stars. Paterson will have some western league players of last season, and Denny Longs Will mington team will also be composed of some members of the defunct Toledo club.
 New Haven's team, composed as it is of players who have had a years eXpe- rience in playing together and under theeleadership of "Yale" Murphy, ought to be we'll up the line at the end of the season. Taken altogether, the league will have the strongest playing talent of any of the minor leagues and will be capable of furnishing as good an article of baseball as has been played by National league clubs. With the eX- penses considerably lower than that of the other leagues, another point is add ed in it's favor which goes to make it an assured success.
 Tom York, John Henry and Ed Bar rows are trying to form a Connecticut state league, but so far have met with poor success. Their application for a franchise for Waterbury in the Allan tic league was rejected by the league at it's meeting.
 Frank Bird, who will be remembered by the local cranks as a member of Ted Sullivans Washington team in 1890 and who for the past three years has been almost totally paralyzed, is re- covering the use of his limbs and also ! his speech, of which he was deprived by the shock. He was a hard hitting | outfielder and at the time of the shock was making rapid strides to fame in the baseball world.
 d Tom Burns, of Baltimore, Brooklyn and New York fame, will captain and play first base for the Newark (Atlan- tic league) team this season.
 Gus Mackey Wolf Eating Bear), the Indian pitcher Of the Steers will be married the first week in March to 6 squaw of the Choctaw nation. Both the groom's and the brides fathers are chiefs of that tribe and quite wealthy. Mackey will bring his bride to his city to reside when the team returns from the south
 Jack Horner. who pitched for the To- cal team in 90 and '91, has signed to play with Manager McDermott's Scran- ton team.
 Home Run" Dan) Lally, also a member of our ill-fated '9t team, will again play this year with Minneapolis. Last year he was well up in the batting list and led the Western league in home runs.
 l Greenway, brother to last years catcher on the Yale team, will try for the position of pitcher on this year $ i team He has made good record on the Andover academy team and great things are expected of him this year.
 Billy Barnie has signed w. Mackey of the Manchester, Conn, team for his Hartford club.
 Captain Quimby ordered out all the candidates for the varsity team yes terday.
 Joe Connor of Waterbury, brother of Roger Connor. the St. Louis first base man, has signed to catch for the Au- gusta, Me, team.
 Waterbury will not join the Nauga- tuck Valley league, of which the Edge wood team is member, as enough in- terest is not taken in the game in the Brass City to warrant the putting of any money into the movement.
 c. Y. G. Figures Of Merit.