Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11

Secretary Cray of the Bristol Base Ball association announces that Frank Attseh. who played right field for Rock vile last season, and is regarded as unusually promising signed with Bristol to play right field. NIT Cray also states that there will be three regular fielders on this years team.
 Ball players generally are finding fault with the change i'll the rules which makes all foul balls strikes until two have been called by the umpire. Hamilton, the Boston centerfieldef says that this rule will create no end of dissatisfaction. He declares that when the man makes a tremendous drive over one of the fences and the ball is couple of feet foul it would l be a rank injustice to call such hit | q strike. He also; states that after | two strikes have been called clever batsmen will go on ''fouling them off, without being neralized. John Me | Graw says the doing away with the hit by pitched ball rule will encourage pitchers to intimidate batsmen by driv- ing the ball at their heads. These 1 two changes alone are calculated to increase the effectiveness of the pitch ing and decrease the batting in the Ma tional league Another Indian is about to become professional base ball player. The career of the noble red man on the | diamond has been attended with rath- CT indifferent success, The most no- 1 table instance of poor Los appearance ill the base ball arena was that of | SockaleXis, who was a good player, but who had fondness for strong wa ters. which resulted in his nasty ab- l dication as an ensnarer of flies and wielder of the willow. The ever alert John AIcGraw of Baltimore has dis covered ''phenomenal' Indian play CT. His name sounds like q Japan csc metropolis-it's Tokohama-but he is called Grant. He is described as being between 21 and 23 years old, weight 1GO pounds, height medium. The color of his eyes and the length | of his inseam are not given. He is a second baseman, and the Lajoies, | Loves and GleasOnS are but rhine stones to rubies compared to him, 'tiS said McGraw discovered the terra cotta wonder at Hot Springs.
 New London tells this tale of woe: After a dong period of silence Man. | ager Hernon of the New London base | ball team has made q statement that | unless he gets q guarantee of 1,2OO, New London will have to whistle for base ball as far as he is concerned. The statement has set tie cranks to talking and the concensus of opinion is that MT Hernon will get no such guarantee. This brings up the Ques- tion again will New London have q State league team this year? There are already lot of people in town who Were formerly enthusiastic in support of the game who have reached q condition where they don't give q rap whether there is a team or not
 and the present proposition that money must be pledged asa guarantee has not served to make them feel any more
 kindly toward the management. The threat has been made that the fran chise will be sold elsewhere. but even that does not seemato Tighten any body. The State league will have something to sayi Regard to that. r will be remembered that on previous occasion Jack Rose wanted to Sell g franhcise but the league sat down or him. It is essential that New, London have a team if theresis to be base bal
 in Norwich, and ~the 2diirectors of the league will consider~sthe matter nc doubt before they kill off the game ir this end of the state entirely.