Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-10


 Tufts O.
 At Amherst, s-Agricultura Col lege 4, Middlebury 3.
 At Middletown-Dartmouth 5, Wes- leyan 4.
 No more games at home until next Thursday.
 The Consolidated base ball team will hold n meeting this evening at their room on Meadow street at 745.
 That hoodoo that has been floating over the Athletic field has been driven to the woods with some of our dis carded pitchers.
 Comiskey wanted to trade Hartman and Shugart to Milwaukee for Burke and Conroy, but Duffy declined. NO sort of a dicker could put the Milwau- kees much lower than they are.
 Ruhland, the new third baseman did not have much chance to distinguish himself yesterday, but he handles him. self like player and evidently knows when to hit the ball and where.
 The Boston American league game on Wednesday outdrew the National league game there by nearly 5000. In the former game Stahl discovered that he had fractured rib. He will be out of the game for at least ten days.
 Luskey is q power at the bat and he could not have made those two three baggers at a more opportune time. He made Bill Clements wish he was back on the wood lot at Bristol.
 That kid pitcher by the Nlame of Wade, who is doing the twirling for New London, must be some pump kins. He Is only a mite of a lad, but he can pitch ball to beat the band. Several of the teams can already att test to that fact.
 Weisbecker is dropping off or rather he has not yet got his batting eye on the ball. A few of the old time hits will make the fans warm to him again and the Flying Dutchman" can do 1t if he gets into form.
 The latest concerning Jennings is that Hanlon Is trying to trade him to Philadelphia for Wolverton or Lauder. Lauder Is reported to be willing to re- turn to the diamond, Equally import ant Is whether Jennings would be will ing to play on Rogers's team.
 1t was left for Clancy to do the trick, and he did 1t well, although hav- ing hand that would make q pitcher without nerve want to go to the hos pital. All we want is a little warm weather now to round the big pitcher into winning form.
 The megaphone has been introduced into baseball In Boston. Announce ment of the batteries and other changes is made through 1t so that spectators in all parts of the grounds are kept posted. The megaphone root CT in Brooklyn has been conspicuous by his absence this year.
 The suggestion has been offered to the Cincinnati club that if Rusie fails to make good Manager McPhee might find another pitcher on the Indianapo- lis team, where Watkins has n good supply of box men. Indianapolis fre- quently has been a fruitful source of supply for Brush's brigade.
 Joe Connor is being given great credit for his work with the Milwaukee team by the Milwaukee papers. Joe is somewhat handicapped because of ta split finger which he received in the early games, but it Is getting better and within a few weeks he will be in perfect condition for the seasons work.
 The Bank street school team will play the St Mary's tomorrow morning at 9:30. The lineup of the Bank streets will be: Shields, catch; Legge, pitch; Santerau, first base; Blansfield, second base; Call, short stop; Doherty, left fields yosburgh, right field; Guilyn, center field; Johnson, third base.
 Norwich has secured Dan Murphy, who was with the team last year. Three weeks before the close of the season he was sold to New York for $1,500. The New York management said that Murphy had too many friends and he could not keep in shape. He was released outright. Bridgeport offered Murphy $150 a month, but he would not play in that city. Murphy said he would rather play for . cents u day, in Norwich than for $100 i'll any other State league city and he has joined the Norwich forces. He will play in to-day's game.
 Yonkers, May 10--A delegation of citizens, headed by several clergymen, called upon the police commissioners of this city. yesterday and asked them to enforce the law and forbid further playing of baseballS on Sunday. The Yonkers team has a regular schedule of games arranged, and there were many games in the city on Sundays. The commission issued thesdecired or der, and the police will prevent all games set for next Sunday. As soon as the baseball men heard of this ac- ton they retaliated by demanding Jaat the police put q stop to all golf games, including those on St Andrews links. The police commission referred the matter to City Judge Kellogg, with a request for an opinion. When seen this evening, Judge Kellogg said he already had made up his mind. There seemed to be no reason to doubt but that golf was one of the pursuits or games forbidden on Sundays If the law was to be enforced against base ball, then it would have to be enforced against golf. Golf was as much violation of the Sunday law as was baseball, and all offenders when brought before him would be treated alike. whether they were caught play ing baseball or golf 1t is said that some of the committee which made the complaint against baseball are players of golf and have been seen on the links on Sundays.