The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-14

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 Manager Krichell of the Americans got in communication with the fast Highbridge Athletics yesterday and arranged to bring the New Workers here for Saturday afternoons game at Newfeld park. The HighDridge team is composed of ex-major and minor league stars. On the team will be Arthur Devlin, the old Giant player, Cy Seymour and George Brown also at one time members of the Gotham team. The Detroit Tigers, who were look ed upon as the attraction for next Sunday at the Eagle street park will be unable to play here and Krichell is now communicating with both the St. Louis and Cleveland American league clubs. He will know tomor- row or Thursday which club will play here.
 Christall a lefthand pitcher, for merly with the Toronto club of the International League, has been signed by the local team and will report to- morrow for a tryout. KrichelI has been tipped off that Christall has an ~sN'SCA will fit in nicely in the local pitching staff.
 The Eastern League received a se- were setback in it's plans for the open ing of the 1918 season next week when word was received last night from Providence to the effect that the Grays would be unable to play any Sunday baseball this summer at the Rocky Point grounds, due to agita- tion backed up by the Lords Day League, a Massachusetts organization, whose main purpose is to prevent the deSecration of the Sabbath, as that organization terms it.
 The Rhode Island Exhibition Com pany, which operates the Providence Baseball Club of the Eastern League, does not intend to get into a fight over the playing of Sunday ball at Rocky Point in the town of Warwick and President Benjamin P. Moulton last night sent an open letter to the police commissioners of the town of Warwick, in which he declared that the Providence club would make no attempt to play Sunday baseball in that town in view of the opposition, which the Lords Day League people have made and the threatening man. ner in which they approached the Warwick Police Commission.
 Immediately following the adoption of the Eastern League schedule in Sprinsfield two weeks ago, President Mouiton received word that the War Wick Police Commission had a com lplaint in it's hands against Sunday ball at Rocky Point and that the in- stigators of the complaint intended to impeach the members of the Police Commission if they did not prevent games being played this summer at Rocky Point. President Moulton made all effort to forestall such action, but after a number of conferences that were unsuccessful, announced last night that the Providence club would make no effort to stage Sunday base ball at Rocky Point this summer
 The fact that there is considerable uncertainty regarding Sunday base ball being played in New Haven, to- igether with the decision of the Prov idence club not to make any attempt to stage games there, completely up- sets the Eastern League schedule, as it now stands, and Chairman M. J. '1dcMahon of the schedule committee has called a meeting of the members of that body in Springfield today at the Cooley hotel to lay plans for a new schedule
 Danny Murphy, manager of the Murlins, blew into New Haven yester- day noon a few days ahead of sched- ule. Danny came in unheralded and naturally there was no blare of trum- pets to greet the man who gave the Elm City it's first championship in five years He merely took up headquar- ters at the Hotel Sullivan and then strolled out to the ball park to give the field the "once over.'' After viewing things he returned to his summer abode to greet the candidates who are expected to arrive daily fol the opening practice which is sched- uled for tomorrow. Murphy was agreeably surprised to see no out ward signs of baseball activities, as he had expected to see at least 8 rookie or two on hand to relieve themselves of a bushel of recon mendations. Instead, the Rock showed little signs of life as far as baseball was concerned and last night Murphy was wondering as to wha1 another day would bring.
 The arrival of Murphy produced some startling developments whicf tend to bear out the point that there is something wrong with the loca situation. Murphy made the sur prising statement that he had not ye had the pleasure of meeting the sup posedly new owner of the club, Ed ward J. Dugan, and that he is jus as anxious to meet him as are tn, rest of us. Murphy stated that h, had reached terms with Dugan owe the telephone last Thursday, but a no time did they get together to tall plans for the coming season.
 Murphy made it plain that he ha no knowledge of what Dugan's\ in tended plans are. He said that h has not received any definite instruc tions to go ahead and sign up play CTS with the result that the situation is just as gloomy as at any other tim during the winter season. The fac that Murphy has been kept entirel in the dark gives rise to the belle that the Eastern directors will hay