Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-08
BASE BILL BREEHS,
The Opening of the Season is
 Drawing Very Near.

Some or the OesertefS rom the Nd-
 tionakLeague Are Wavering in Their
 Change of BasAThe Hartford Team
 Will Lose Some Good Players
 Zephyrs That Float from State
 League Towns.
 BASE BALL GAMES SATURDAY.
 At washington-Georg etown-P Prince ton; game postponed; rain.
 At Wake Forest-Raleigh ., Wake Forest 1.
 At Raleigh-Lehigh Il, A. and NJ. college 1.
 At Atlanta, a-Georgia Technologi- cal school 8, Vanderbilt university 9; Vanderbilt gave up. the game in the fifth inning.
 At Roanoke. va-Blacksburg 10. St Albans 8.
 The Hartford team at present con- sists of Toft and Urquhart, catchers; Flaherty, Hemming and Miller, pitch CTS; Massey, first; Myers, second; Shindle, third; Sloch, Campbell, Strat- ton, Turner and Fleming, outfelders.
 Bristol will try an experiment this Season. The old policy of retaining all the home receipts and receiving nothing from out of town games has been abolished and the team will play on the regular percentage basis 1t is believed that the change is a good financial stroke.
 In view of the announcement that the Boston National league club had cancelled its game with the Yale uni versity baseball club because Yale had played game on Friday with the Baltimore American league club. Con- nie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia American league club last night sent the following telegram to Assistant Manager Eliason. Charlottesville, Va: ssyYill arrange game with you for Thursday or Friday. A big crowd guar anteed-"
 Manager Murray of Providence has announced his team: McCauley and Sommers, catchers: Cassidy, first base; ton. Sullivan or Eddie Henry. third; Walters, Flournoy and Stafford, out fielders. The pitchers are Evans, Dun- kle, Friend. Braun and Corridor. Har- " Davis has retired from the game. while Leahy and Parent have jumped to the American league.
 A letter has been received in Bristol from Garry Wilson of Meriden and Bristol fame. Garry is making an athletic hit at the University of Mary land in Baltimore. where he is study ing medicine He has been the la- dies hero of the college foot ball eley- en the past season and i5 now the crack man on the university base ball team, and will appear in the game against Yale at New Haven next month. He says Billy Osborne is a street car conductor in Baltimore Charley Crate Is letter carrier and Sheets is driving milk wagon.
 The Bristol ball team will report in about three weeks and appear in sev- eral exhibition games before the open ing of the league season. Red Owens is spending hls days prancing around the. diamond for exercise and Is in ex- cellent trim. Pitcher Theodore Se- christ left the town Tuesday for Ala bama, where he has secured an en- gagenent as twfr1er for the Selma team in the Southern league. Charlie Kennedy. king of center fielders, is liy- ing permanently in Bristol The eranks gave him an umbrella a few seasons ago and since then he has sworn that he will die in Bristol
 Easter Sunday was spent by the Brooklyn baseball players in the south in quiet way. Manager Hanlon and a half dozen of the men attended ser vices in Catholic church in the morn ing. and number of them accepted an invitation to drive through the sur rounding country during the afternoon. A letter was received from Scheckard by Manager Hanlon yesterday, in which he states that he Is glnd the fight for his services is over. He will join the team in a few days. Scheck- ard paid McGraw compliment by saying that the latter advised him to stick to the Brooklyns if he thought it dishonorable to break his contract with them. and after seeking legal advice he decided to remain with Han- Ion.
 New Britain is again thrown ruth lessly aside. and must either run ont to sporty Bristol or follow the East ern league to appease it's base ball ap- petite. The reorganization of the shop league which the public is crying for will probably aid in the entertaining of the New Britain cranks later in the season. In base ball circles New Brit ain is a mysterious combination. It is the home of some of the best sporting blood in the state and still neither base ball nor polo seems to be able to hold the attention of the people for more than a few games. A we'll known New Britain authority says that tiddle- dy winks and backgammon are the popular local pastime. = Hartford Globe.
 By securing Pitcher McJames. Man. ager Hanlen has made move that will make the Brooklyns stronger in the box than they were last year. With Hughes, McJames. Kennedy. Kitson, Donovan and McCann in line, the champions have a string of twirlers hard to excel. Neither Hughes nor Me. James were with the team last year. but they are men who always keen in fine physical condition. As Hanlon says. if he had Third Basenan Cross. who has ..jumped'' to the Philadelphia American league club, the Brooklyns would win the pennant again in a walk. But Hanlon could say the same thing if he had DeMontreTille, who
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