Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-12
EASTERN LEAGUE sTANDINGs

Jimmy Slagle, right fielder for the Boston Nationals, received his ten day notice of release yesterday after noon. Treasurer Billings of the Bos- ton club says there will be 50-cent baseball at the South End grounds next year or nothing.
 President O'Rourke of Bridgeport of the State league said last night that several are after the Hartford fran chise for the State league So far as he was concerned, Hartford would have to take the initiative. He says deep seated prejudice is the only thing that has kept Hartford in the Eastern league so long and he is pleased with present dications.-Hartford Courant
 The Eastern league will meet in New York to-day to take action on the Hartford matter. President Powers will suggest that the league close it's season now, or that the league carry Brockton and finish on September 15 with seven cities, or drop Brockton and go ahead with six cities and complete the schedule which ends on September 2. MT Powers has two cities in view which will, he thinks. make the cir CulL IOE lleAL ySdL.
 Louis Sockalexis. who became fa- nous as a ball player in the three years he was with the Holy Cross col lege nine, and who afterward made q sensation in professional ranks, and later was with Waterbury, is very ill with rheumatism at his fathers home on little island in the Penobscot river. not far from Oldtown, which is set apart as an Indian reservation. He is confined to his bed unable to move hand or foot and is dragging out a miserable existence. a physical wreck There is little hope that he will ever recover.
 The magnates of the Boston National league team have forstalled any act ion on the part of the American league team by signing three of their best players for next season. DeMontre- vile. Kittridge and Charles. Pittinger are acknowledged to be the three best players that Boston has. It has been known for some time that the local American league managers have been after them and had offered consider able Inducements to jump at the close of the present season. These offers were NtI. udlltllnS duu h2OhSiis Ooh ant and Billings were forced to&let the three players have a considerable ad- vance in salary to secure their sigma lures to contracts for another year.
 The Lewiston Journal in it's story of the last game at Lewiston told this pathetic tale: "But for real grief you should have seen Alfred G. Doe. MT Doe played at first base, and as the game neared it's close. and he began to appreciate that he should meet his darling pupils no more this season, and that perhaps some of them would never meet each other again in this world OF the next, his anguish was terrible to see. Four times they had to send a boat out to save him from drowning amid the tears that he shed. Three times did they have to administer bromides and beef feKtractN Never with in the memory of the sporting frater- nifty in this city was anything like it seen before. The last time Alfred came to the bat he cast his eye over the fa- miliar scenes, and lifting his straining eyes to Heaven with the weeps rolling down over them like the water over the falls of the Androscoggin, he closed them again and then whanged out his first hit of the game off Oakes's pitch ing"