Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-22
BASE BALL NOTES.


 President Johnson of the American league will leave to-day to attend tie minor league meeting in New York He hopes to. swing the minor bodily to the American league cause.
 Eddie Mcfarland, the well-known National league back stop who played with the Philadelphia team during tEe past season, has signed to play with Comisky's Chicago aggregation ncxt. season. This makes the eighth man who has jumped Shettsline's team, leaving the Quakers in badly .crip- pied condition.
 Fred Doe is anxious to have base ball association formed at Lewiston to back him in base ball next season. He has received an offer from the street railway people at Dover. N H., to transfer the team to that city. and he feels that he will have to take up with the offer if the Lewiston people don't get together and give him the backing he needs. He made no money in Lew iston last season; in fact, it is said that he was a loser on the deal. The chances would seem to favor his going to Dover next summer.
 It is reported that Roger Connor, who sold his Waterbury franchise and signed with New Haven last year, is after the Hartford franchise for the State base ball league. It is said that he has been working to get the East ern league franhcise so that he can resign from that organization and en- ter the State league. Manager Shea of New London said that Connor would undoubtedly be admitted to the league if he could obtain a team here. There Tr non y1lr hn 1Arnr o1y,x of as likely to secure a franchise and A. J. Welch or H. H. Jennings were regarded as having the inside track
 After an absence of week from his office Ran .Tohneon rn+rrned yesterday to Chicago and announced that
 AmerIcan league nau succeeded in capturing twenty-two National league ball players for next season and gave out the number assigned to each club. Every club in the American league will be stronger next year than it was last season." said Johnson. '.With the exception of Detroit and Cleveland, every club in our league will have play CTS who were with the National league this season. l am. not ready to give out the names of these men. because that is information that belongs to the club only and it is for them to give | out. The White Stockings have signed | two National 1eaguers. Baltimore has ] three Boston, one; Washington. four; Philadelphia, five, and St Louis, five. 1 Detroit has signed only one new play | CT that know of so far and he comes | from a minor league. I only know of | four men that have been taken from us by the National league. No, will not admit that Conroy is one, as he has already signed with the American | league, his contract last year calling i for two years. If he has signed with | Pittsburg. as the report goes, he has | jumped an American league contract 7, Batting averages of the players in l the American league issued by Presi- l dent Ban Johnson show Napoleon La l ioie of the Philadelphia team above every body else. His average is APP. | a phenomenal one. He played i'll 121 games. was at bat 543 times aud made l 145 runs and 220 hits. He sacrificed | only once and stole 27 bases. Wiltse l of Philadelphia is second, with 2 bat | ting average of .373, while McGraw of Baltimore is third with 1852. Isbe1 of | the Chicago team leads the league in | the number of stolen bases, having 4S to his credit. Mertes of Chicago pill fered the second greatest number, A, I Nance of Detroit made the greatest number of sacrifice hits. 24. Parent of Boston made 21 and Stahl of Boston 20. Waldron of Washington played the
 greatest number of games.