Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-15

ascrappy Blll Joyce. former bail player. is wiser today but not quite | 50 wealthy. He was AubDoenaed to appear in court "Wednesday to testify l in the suit of Lave Cross against the Philadelphia club. Joyce failed to 1 appear. but yesterday was brought be l fore the court by a deputy sheriff. Judge Spencer asked Bill for an ex. nla1ation of his remissness, when the l latter replied: s.Your honor, it was | d mere oversight on my part" The judge tapped his pencil 'ref1ectlvely. smiled and nodded as if he appreciated the circumstances and then, straight ening himself up, Ssadd: 'Well, MT Joyce, in view of your explanation the court will let you off-with $25 fine" | Joyce disappointed but game, smiled back at the judge and paid the fine. l According to the New Haven Lead or there are only five cities in the state who are sure things in the Connecti- cut league and they are New Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury. Meriden and Bristol. The base ball man of that paper, idiotically continuing, says: "At present it looks as though if Hart ford would come into this league Nor wich would not get sight at 1t, ana there seems 8 possibility of Hartford dropping their hold on the Eastern.
 
 Holyoke might make Norw1ch's chanc- es of getting dropped quite rosy" That statement is enough to make. an owl EIaugh. Why, notwithstanding the difference in the size of the two towns,
 Norwich is a better ball town and has
 more cranks to the square inch than
 New Haven any day. Besides being in tie State league this year for cer-
 tainty Norwich will have team that
 will positively put New Haven far in
 the shade There will be a lot of
 crow eating in the Elm city at the end
 of the season.-Notwich Record.
 George Davis, manager and captain
 of the New York base ball nine, yes
 terday vigorously denied that he had
 eloped with Harrison Campbell's wife.
 Tt is an outrageous lie from begin
 ming to end" said Davis, pale with
 anger. eff I had that man Campbell
 here I'd wiring his neck. He first told
 this story seven years ago; it went
 through the newspapers then, and l
 proved this fellow not only false but
 an ingrate. I kept this Campbell out
 of the poorhouse, practically, for two
 years. and l never saw his wife more
 than half dozen times, and then only
 when he sent her to me for money.
 His wife was Worcester, Mass, wom
 an. He played ball on the team at
 Plattsburg, N. Y., once and married her there and they moved to Cleveland.
 One day when I was playing with the
 Cleveland team in 1895 CampbelfS S F wife came to me and said he had !. abused her and starved her. She , asked me for money to get home to her , folks in Worcester. I let her have the money and Campbell started this story then and I proved it false.'
 Frank Reisling of Ohio, who will
 manage the Bristol base ball club for the coming season., has notified the } Bristol managers that he has already , signed several good players who will. : with those already obtained, make up the nine. The pitchers will be Frank Reisling and Henry Mock. The latter is young, but a fast twirler. Lock and Anderson, both of Ohio, will be the
 catchers. Each made an excellent : record in last years Ohio state league. ! Berry, the new shortstop, is also from the western states, and his batting average last year was .21o. Joe Thei- sen and Thomas Owens of last year s club, will cover first and second bases , respectively; and on the third bag will 2 be Francis, who held the record for
 
 , the field will be the old reliable Charles 7 Kennedy of last years club, Frank D Ulich of Rockville, and one of the I catchers. Catcher Brennan, who did 2 such satisfactory work last year, will ? not play professional base ball this p season, and both Harry Moves and I | William Sheffier are to be members of r an Eastern league team.
 A meeting of the directors of the e Connecticut State league has been q called for Monday afternoon. Mana e ger Denny will go to the meeting pre- e pared to resist to the last any effort tc l take the franchise away from Derby e He does not believe that anything will result from all this talk about drop. t ping Derby, and in answer to the prop osition of Manager Davenport that a . $2o guarantee be put up by home clubs to cover travelling expenses of visit
 ing clubs, says ne will oppose it. It Il is q scheme that few clubs will en. t dorse because there are lots of times U when the leading clubs do rot draw ; enough to pay expenses, and there is | always the weather to he considered U in case of rain the home team would : be out the travelling expenses, while : the visitors would losc nothing aHf little hard luck, weather wise, wOul
 
 r knock the profits out of scason I1C u favofs the percentage scheme. Derby | ne thinks is able to support team a: well as any of the cities in tie league
 and he says his team will draw roo( q crowds this year because 1t will pla, 'f good ball. He thinks the reference tt 'e fairs and public subscriptions, mad, O. hy Davenport. comes with ill grace It when Norwich raised $1.2OU for it It team and the manager didn't have t, le put his hand in his pocker Last yea h Derby's only outside support was S2O, n received from the electric road. Evel a- scheme to have programs printe. IS was knocked in the head by the Busi $ ness Mems association, which passe, le q vote binding the merchants not f le advertise in programs, esc.-Ansoni
 Sentinel.
 ry TOM JENKINS'S CHALLENGE.