Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-08
BASE BALL NOTES.
How the Players and the Leagues Are
 prograSSing

Manager Frank Selee will go into the artist furnishing business III Bos- ton soon. He will not give up base ball. however, for while yet.
 Pittenger will not be turned over to any other club, but will De given position on the regular staff of the Boston club, says q Boston paper.
 Dick Cooley is bartender ill the senate" bar room at Topeka, Kan. which was attacked by Mrs Nation ana her Aatchet brigade q few days ago.
 The American league people in Bos- ton continue very mum about the man who IS to manage the club. That ne uGS been selected there can be no doubt, for those on the inside say that he is Il man ot the Duffy stamp i'll rep utation and ability.
 Il hope the Boston league team will attempt 10 enjoin Hugh DuIy from Elayinw." said Attorney Michael J. Moore of the American league club yesterday. It would be the biggest kind Of un 'al for our side. They won't do it. depend upon ir.'
 Charley Zimmer the president of the players organization, has senu to the presidents Of all the league clubs
 
 informing them of the work of the players at the meeting in Cleveland last Saturday. also copy of the reso- luttons adopted.
 Catcher Jack Clements has been turned over to Arthur Irwin for the Boston association. Looks as if the veteran were done on both sides by this time. Irwin says he can get bet ter work out of Clements than any one did last season. and thinks there's lots of good ball in him.
 Ban Johnson says: "Ine American 1 league will proceed as if it were the only league in existence. There is no l question about our SOlidity. We are ! in tlle right and not asking favOrS of anyone. Ihe American will be the | principal organization ill the country | in a very short time. Mark my pre- | Qiction.'
 | The league maGnateS must be appre- | hcnSiye about their men. President Ebbelts of the Brooklyn club was ill | Boston Tuesday and attempted to se- cure the signature of Charley Farrell to q contract. but failed i'll his purpose. | Farrell is q loyal member of the play CTS organization and will not sign un- til matters are adjusted between it and the National league.
 In the refusal Of Pat Powers to ac- cept the presidency of the American 1 association is to be read the harSheSt 1 criticism of that organization that has
 vet been called forth. If the careful l Powers cannot be induced to touch 1t,
 even when q presidency is at stake. the association must stand poor
 chance of lasting out the Season.-NeW
 ! ork News.
 \ bill will shortly be introduced i'll
 the Michigan legislature. it is said,
 carrying tlIe full provisions for the D, ,otection Of base ball umpireS from assaults by both players and Specta- tors By making it unlawful to indulge
 in rowdyism it is thought that the
 sport may be clCanSed by force. II
 necessary. All over the United States
 the opinion prevails that base ball
 should be made clean, vet the mag
 nites. busying themselves in fighting
 o:.e another have apparently lost sight
 of this important fact.
 Affairs do not look easy in the East
 ern base ball league. In d letter from
 President r. T. Powers of the league
 to C. T. Shean. of the Springfield team
 Mir Powers said: With Springfield ir
 arrears to it's players of last year. with
 Hartford apparently dead, or at least
 not moving at all, and Syracuse play
 CTS in court for salaries from old
 stockholders up to August last year
 and with q base ball war in sight. along
 with the fact that q new American as sCcatioD has appeared in the field
 things look very bad and financial sue cess for 1901 seems almost impossible l Charles B. Powers of Pittsburg has accepted the presidency of the -Amc,'i , hall .1,,l,c and enter upon the discharge of his duties at once. President Powers retuln"t homo last night. after a visit to in , di:inapoiis, where Ee was in confer2,ict
 with the committee appointed to selec I a Dl esident. Mr Powers was the unan :, imouS choice of the committee. ant , he will devote his entire time to tit , affairs of the American leagues oppo
 nent He has resigned his position OI f a pittsburg paper. as well as the prcsi tlcucy of the Interstate league, an.
 will open association headquarters Il t Ilttsburg within few days. [ Assurances have been received iron l five of the eight presidents of NatiOna I league base ball clubs that they ar s willing to meet a committee of th l. players in consultation at the ncX s meeting of the organization. They il t sist, however, that they will not con Q slider any business to be transacte Il through a third person. It is prot
 able, in the event of a conference be Q ing held. that the league will consen l. to abolish the farming plan. as tn ,- American league has done, and wi e agree not to transfer players arDitrar ,- ly. There is no reason to believe tha s any alteration of consequence will b !, made in the reserve rule. to which tn 1 small cities tenaciously cling, as it pel = mits them to retain an equality of play ,- ing strength as compared with tn 2 large cities.
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