Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-26
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George Courtney is playing the cen ter garden andshandling the stick with the best of them and he is playing better ball to-day than he has done in a few years.
 Matty Matthews is a star and no mistake, in hitting, fielding and coach ing, the latter particularly. He is q power 1n the team and would be miss ed just now if he were to Grop out. | Murphy does make bad error pret- l ty often and yesterday was no mis- take. His other good work however, takes off some of the harm. His two hftS yesterday helped the scoring and his three chances accepted were good ones.
 | Ward made his first appearance in l Waterbury since his injury and al-. though somewhat bleached out he held down that second bag in great | style. He was not as successful in batting as on his last appearance but he is valuable man for any team. | The Milwaukee fans are up in arms over the talk regarding the switching l of their team to St Louis next fall They contend that they are outdraw- ing Cleveland, and if any club is to l De given new mooring grounds the babes should be the ones.-Milwaukee | Sentinel.
 Red Waller is rapidly Jumping to the front as star pitcher of this league and his fielding and hitting are on par with his twirling abilities. He is as cool as cucumber, has q good head and it will take quite lot of coaching from the opposing team to rattle him. Red is all Iiohf
 I John Wiley has a batting average of .310 with the Portlands. He has been playing right field of late. His field ing mark is .773 Conroy is hitting. ahead of all the others on the team, his record being 3T6; fielding .974. Catcher Curtis is hitting at 1926 and fielding at .945.
 Peter Kiernan was in the game for keeps and with eight chances coming his way he took them all Two of those in the fifth inning were peaches and cream. One was difficult catch of fly and the other was the gathering in of warm grounder that looked good for a hit.
 Charley Clancy will pitch to-day in Norwiehs and Con Cassidy will do the | twirlingIin New London on Thursday It win be Cassidy $ second trial and | the players promise to do better by him, than they did the other day in Bridgeport The young fellow has lost no confidence and we ought to be .ablesto get those two games.
 Derby, the hardest hitting team in the league will be here on Friday and this is the only game we Will have this week. The Derby team is com posed of sluggers from Sluggeryille, and they would sooner pound any Wa terbury pitcher than any other in the league. We will fool them this time however.
 | Joe Harrington was off color in the first inning yesterday and his two er- | TOTS were bad ones and very costly. lie had but one other chance which | he helded fast and accurately. Wood run made some very bad throws to- | second yesterday and was guyed by the fans present. Woody does not take kindly to unkindA criticism either. Shorty" Brennan, the former Holy Cross catcher and coach, has been | s2gheda by tho E@rwich team. Bristol claims BrennanI and there is liveId Wrangle over possession of the former Holy Cross star. While the magnates are lighting it out, Brennan will play independents ball with teams in and around Woonsocket.
 Roger Cennor's three bagger in tbe first inning knocked the heart oi,t of Pitcher Curran. Two men were on bases and Roger had to bat right hand- ed as Curran was southpaw. 'Gener- ally all pitchers keep the balls high on Roger, but they forgot that the big fel- low 1sg hitting them in any place this season and that high one yesterday went to left field like cannon shot. The Knights of Columbus ball teams | will start the ball rolling next Sunt1av when the hines from BarcelonaS and Mulcahy councils. will face each other | at the Waterbury driving park at 5 | o'clock. Only members of the Knights ] of Columbus will be admitted to the | park, although each member can hrfno a friend This will be a red hot game for each claims the championship of | the order, but when they run against | SheridanS and Hendricken councils f they willsbe convinced that they fo nor | understand the first rudiments of the | game. However, the other two conn 1 cils will be on hand to get pointers on l the playing of the two who will com | pete Sunday. $
 Jack Pickett, who played second base for the Orioles some years ago is now the head of bat factory in Bal timore and sticks are being turned out there that are rapidly making the play CTS forget the famous Louisville slug ger, which has for so long been first in their fancy. Pickett managed to get the wood of which the bats are made from the same Ohio timber used in tha construction of the Louisville article, and it is seasoned naturally instead of in a kiln. In the last few years he has
 made it his business to get by personal interviews with every ball player of note the bat model of each. The parti- cular shape, weight, length and bal ance each player likes is carefully de-
 signed and made. If it suits, the de-
 signs and duplicate bats are carefully taxed and filed for future use.
 Tuesday, June 25-Norwich at Wa
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