Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
BASE RAIk NOTES.

Now is the chance for HOlyOke and Springfield to get together and make arfangements to come into the Con necticut state league. We can just take in those two teams and make the circuit m interesting and . strong one. With Holyoke in we would have another old time ball player at the helm and that would give the team prestige. AIlcky Welch is known to every baseball fan in the country and when the state league was complete we would have all stars leading the teams.
 Manager Denny of Derby has been heard from and so has Jack Scannell, the popular catcher of the Derby team. Denny says that Derby will be in the game this season and with a team that right from the start will be a corker. That is we'll if he keeps to his word. The only way for Derby to draw out the crowds is for the manager to get together good team right at the beginning. Derby is like Waterbury in many respects. The sports will turn out for a good team at any kind of a game but they do not want sec ond raterS. Scannell says he is in prime condition and he will be ready to don a Derby uniform when the sea son opens. Manager Denny says that he will not take his team to Williman- tic as the arrangements there are not of the best.
 President Zimmer of the Bah Play ers' Protective association is out with an official statement that bears out the story of yesterday to the effect that there is an understanding be- tween the players and the American league. This is Zimmer's statement: If the National league magnates will put their ears to the ground next Saturday they will hear an oIninous rambling at Cleveland. The conces- sions we ask for are just and it is nothing except the fear of what may happen in the future,'sif our associa- | ton is reorganized, that prevents the | club owners from granting them. Prac- 1 tically every National league player in the country is With us, and if we de- 1 eide to stick together, as we surely will. what can the magnateS do? There will be at least fifty members | of the Protective association at the meeting at Cleveland on Saturday. l am not forecasting our action, but l | would like to ask what would happen should we decide to go over to the American league in q body? This may not happen, although any of our men are free to sign with Ban Johnson's | organization
 | Ess-W-See of the Bridgeport Post has the following very interesting and truthful article about the dropping of Springfield by the Eastern league. It would be we'll for Hartford to heed the argument put forward and come into the league she belongs In. The fol lowing is the article: 'With Spring field out of it 1t will be interesting to know where Hartford will come in. It is possible that some other city may be dropped. With Springfield out the circuit will be unbalanced. There will be three cities in this section and five in the New York section. This means a great deal more travelling and hotel expense. If Springfield goes then Hartford had better follow suit and buy out franchise in the state league The Capitol city packers could not make a wiser move. Then, if Spring field wanted the game badly it, too might buy out one of the smaller places and join in making a great circuit. Hartford and Springfield of a season in the state league. while by remaining in the Eastern league they will do nothing but burn goot money"
 The baseball war is on in earnest Emissaries of the American associa tion, which enjoys the distinction O having the moral support of the Ma tiOnal league; endeavored to lure Hugl Duffy from his agreement to manag, the Milwaukee club of the American league this season. The scene tool place in the Grand Pacific hotel, Chi cago while the American league mag nates were in session hearing the re port of the circuit committee. Tn, manager of the hotel approached
 Duffy with a. stranger who had asked to be presented to the ballplayer H
 gave his name as French. Duff, thought the newcomer a newspape man when he asked few casual dues
 tions about what the 1nagnates wer
 doing. But when the stranger sug
 gested walk over to his ''store
 where he would like to make littl
 proposition. the new Milwaukee man
 ager caught the drift of conversation
 and MT French admitted his purpose
 ''Well, you needn't make me any prop
 osition" fiared up Duffy. ''The Amer
 lcan association promoters are a SC
 of deuced cheap four-fushers,' and i they made me an offer of $1OO,O ,OOO cas-
 in hand I would not have anything t
 do with that outfit This declaration
 brought the interview to an abrup
 termination. t~