Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-26
BASE BALI NOTES.
Believed Now That tho National
 League and Players Will Combine.


 baSeDall payers and the cluD UwuerS or tue NauunaI league qua Amer4can aSSOcAaliOu OI Di1seudii ciuUS. nAS mucn was Iearneu when lne anuuai spIlng meeuAs of the National Ieasue began alt Gae rIiln Avenue uuLeI Aasu Iii, nL-
 IL was admitted by the players and the smisAAate tuaL Luc IepvA t1ouuIe hitu ueeu luOrouonAy silLvu, ana lnut tneie Moulu De al tnIicau4e seL.leuIenL be1uIe auotuer tn enty -Iour nuuIs. niS sets aL rest all fulIiOfS of a stIIIe between tne hired nlen and the men Who contloi the game. 1t means, Ill sentence, that the payers ana mag ,na,eS Will Work Ill narnony as they never did beTore to eievaLe the game.
 This sudden change ill the troupe between the maSnates and the play CTS is due to the Iact that the players, at the suggestion Of the club owners, have greatly modified the demand made at the league meeting held in this city last December. At that time the players asked that the cause m the contract that gives a club the right to reserve a player for any length of time it wished be abolished and in lieu a club should not be al- lowed the option on players services for more than five years.
 It was this demand that made the magnates balk and was the real cause of the players being ignored. Since then the players have held a meeting and became convinced of the faliacy of trying to force the magnates to con- cede to this demand. They are now perfectly willing to allow the reserve clause to stand as it is, but will de- mand the abolishment of the farming out system, and will also demand that when a player is about to be traded or his release sold to another club, the players must first be allow ed to have a say in the matter.
 The most important recommenda- ton that will be made by the rules committee during the season will be a rule that will lessen the playing time of a game. Most of the delay has been due to the pitcher warming up" with a third or first baseman af- ter the batter has taken his position. This. it is safe to say, will be done away with and q pitcher will be con- pelled to deliver the ball as soon as the batter comes to the plate. X batter will also be compelled to move more lively in getting ready to hit.
 Manager Hanlon, Of the Brooklyn club. who is a member of the rules committee, says it will be to batter's advantage to get into the position more quickly, as he has the advantage in not giving the pitcher an opportuui- ty to get "limbered up."
 The umpire question will be fully discussed and it is likely the double umpire system will again be adopted.
 It was learned last evening that the New York club is after another player. The man wanted is Buelo, who was the best third baseman in the Ameri- IpD last Rua1n q member of the Cleveland team. He was secured recently by the Pittsburg club, and it is therefore with the Pitts burg club that Manager Davis will have to negotiate.
 The magnates held short session last night. At it's conclusion it was announced that committee composed of A. H. Soden, James A. Hart and John T. Brush was appointed to meet Players association.sin executive ses- sion to-day.
 It is reported that A. c. Spalding has purchased property in San Diego, Cal, and will make that his home in future. Spalding, according to his friends, is out of baseball for all time. He still holds some stock in the Chi cago National league club, but it is cO0trOlleO by the president, James A. Hart. There was talk some time ago about the possibility of Spalding ac- l cepting the presidency of the National l league, but even if the honor had been l rendered to him he would have de clined with thanks. It was Spalding | who, by his diplomacy, terminated the disastrous baseball war between the National league and the Brotherhood 1 in 1890. and it is safe to say that if he had been at the helm during the succeeding years, the National league would never have become involved i'll it's present entanglement. His brother, J. W. Spalding, is in Europe on a long pleasure tour.
 Tom Kinslow. the baseball catcher who recently died in Washington, was not only good baekstop and heavy sticker, but he wore one Of the finest and most luxuriant mustaches ever seen on a ball field. It was licht browr in color very wavy and swept bacl almost to the players ears. It was { | much handsomer hirsute ornament than that possessed by James Oratol O'Rourke and it is asserted that tht latter suffered many q heart pang Ow ing to Kinslow'S pre-eminence as t mustache. O'Rourke for years claim ed the championship in that respect.
 WITH THE MOWERS.