Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-17

The Consolidated baseball team will play in Hartford Saturday. and will take along its strongest hines including Kelly and Miles. the two pitchers. The team will leave here on the 12:35 train. The club will hold a meeting tonight at 8:30 o'clock.
 Tokahma, the Cherokee Indian, will play. with the Columbian Giants agafl, this season. When it became known that he was not full blooded Indian the southern feeling of race prejudice
 initiated against him and McGraw was forced to release him. He has now returned to Chicago and will man. age the Giants the coming season.
 Hanlon told a little history about the signing of Lave Cross, who went to the American league team of Philadel- phia. that Is interesting: cover in Philadelphia they are laying stress on Gross being such a man of his word, but he did not keep his word with he" said the manager "When I paid aSs 900 for Cross's release in St Louis last summer I had talk with him there and told him that would sign him to a two years contract. I told him that there might be an opposition league this year and he said he would l4st$ h1tA AlIt slS lOuS as | Wduleu 1lul so long as he got what his contrac: called for. Now he has signed with the American league and that without my knowing anything about it till he had signed. In all fairness he might have told me about it before signing and hear what offer I had to make"
 Former Umpire Frank Lane is out with brand new story. He was um- piring game in Boston some years ago. and a left-handed hitter sent a bali gainst the high wall built over the right field fence for the purpose of shutting off the view of guerilla stands outside. The bah stuck in the space between the two slats. and Lane, after noting it's position, declared 1t to be fair and gave the batSman home run. Burdock, then captain of Bos- ton, claimed it was foul, but Lane stood firm. '.If 1 prove it is foul" queried Burdock, twill you reverse your decisionY Lane acquiesced, and Burdock secured a plumb line and a ladder. Mounting to the place where the. ball was caught the Bostonian squinted down the plimb line for some seconds. Finally he descended. How was it 2" asked Lane. Pretty close,'' replied Burdock with the left eye it's fair, and with the, right eye it's ifoulr'
 The March zephyrs, which have been bowling around the city for a day or two, are making the base ball cranks a little weary.es Friday and Saturday were such pleasant days that the base ball blood began to circulate pretty freely, and Jim. Kane reached. an up- usual point of activity, going so far as to show visitors to his place of busi- ness the pictures of the famous and in- famous teams which have represented Derby in years gone by. Pictures of these teams are hung in Kane's art gal. lery and they are valuable convincers. Denny, Hi Ladd and sammy Drew spent the pleasant days out at the park, chasing the sphere, to get their muscles in trim. Denny has 225 pounds of flesh slowed away around the body and he says he has got some hard work ahead of him to get it off. Ladd, too, has a few pounds more than he had last fall, but Eddie Crowley says Hi hasn't fatted up half as much as he did the last year he was in Fall River. when he ran up almost ten pounds of superfuous flesh. He thinks Hi will be down to normal weight by June 1. O'Brien has writ ten that he will strike town about Fri day, and will be ready for work. Deil- ny is looking after the grounds now. The water pipe has been laid and good loam is to be carted in and spread on the runs around the play yers' positions; so as to bring them up eyenewith the turf. This 1oam will then be rolled hard and the diamond will be as smooth as chess board. -Ansonia Sen tinel