Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-12
PLANNING BASE BALL TRIP.


 mean the death of Norwich.
 PLANNING BASE BALL TRIP. Chicago. March 12.-Coach Hollister of the Northwestern university is planning to take the base ball team on d trip east after the close of school next June. if 1t can be arranged. The proposed trip will include games with Princeton. Yale and Georgetown uni versity and possibly q game at the Pan-Amercan exposition at Buffalo with another leading eastern college team.
 Kip Selbach signed yesterday the contract he received to play another season with the New York team. He will play in the outfeld as heretofore. He will leave for New York in time to report on March 2I.
 Manager Collins of the Bostons, or dered his uniforms yesterday. The home suit will be of white, with dark blue stockings, and the travelling uni form of Providence gray, with dark blue stockingS-the Boston Blues, as it were.
 Connie Mack says: "Last year the Pittsburg club gave He1nie Reitz to Milwaukee and in return was to have the option of $500 or Catcher Smith, Reitz stayed with us about a week or so. At the end of the season Smith | had not been able to make terms with 1 DreyfuSs, and 1 signed him for the Philadelphia American league club.' The National and American base ball leagues are still scrambling for | ball players. President Hart of the | Chicago Nationals admits that Third Baseman Bradley has jumped to the | Cleveland American league club. The i Chicago Nationals far have lost Griffith. Callahan. Ryan, Mccarthy and | Bradley, and are in a crippled condi- ton. as is the case with the Boston Nationals Evidence is most conclu- ! sive that the American league has l planned systematic raid on the Bos- l ton. Philadelphia and Chicago National 1 league clubs so that in those three cities the American league clubs may be able to bid for patronage with pow erful attractions.
 There has been a rumor about the city that Manager Denny would take 1 his Derby team to New Britain. Mr
 Denny was seen by a Sentinel report
 CT to-day and wished it %stated that
 the team will not go to New Britain.
 but will remain here. Last Friday 1 tie ulauagef Ol the lOcil ledu1 re-
 ceived q telephone call from a gentle
 man in New Britain asking him to
 bring his team to that city, offering
 him the old grounds there, which are
 about five minutes walk from the cen
 ter of the city, and assuring him that ! it would be q very successful venture.
 MT Denny was to meet the New Brit
 ain man in the latter city to-day or to-
 morrow, but is not paying much atten-
 ton to outside offers. He says Derby
 will have a team that will be ill it
 from the start this year.-Ansonia
 Sentinel.
 One by one the old Giants are coming
 back into the fold. Yesterday Mur-
 phy, the second baseman. sent in his
 signed contract to Secretary Knowles,
 and Bowerman signified his willing
 ness to accept the contract that was
 offered to him. He said the terms of
 the New York club were eminently
 satisfactory to him. and that he would
 sign this week. Yesterday, also.
 Manager George Davis completed a
 deal with the Pittsburg club whereby
 he secures Pitcher Sparks, whom Pitts
 burg loaned to Milwaukee last year,
 and who pitched winning ball from be-
 ginning to end. Pittsburg has re-
 leased Sparks to the New York club. |
 strong q man for the box as any he possibly might lose by the jumping
 process that has been threatened by
 Mercer. Carrck and one or two of the
 other players. Some of the men who are holding back may find their places taken before they get an opportunity to sign.
 Base ball is commencing to boom
 in Waterbury. Amateur teams are be-
 ing organized throughout the city. The latest to be heard from is the All Star
 base ball club. On Sunday evening
 several persons prominent in amateur
 base ball affairs met at the rooms of
 the Welcome Athletic club and organ , ized team which may be compared
 favorably with any amateur team in the state. 1t is the intention of the , manager to secure dates with all of , the best amateur teams of the state (some have already agreed to play them) for fun or money, money pre- t ferred. Inasmuch as it is of great ad- : vantage to have a little practice be- !. fore tackling the out of town teams, a few games will be arranged. if pos sible, with the strongest of the city
 teams. The composition of the All Star base ball club is as follows: : Hayden and ORourke, catchers; Hen ", Pratt. Sayles and Wolfe, pitchers;
 r. Fox. Holland, Fritz, McGraw and : Hall, infielders; Derwin, Bngley, Ray, : Bergin, Slavin and Mcfarland, out 9 fielders. All communications for !. games should be addressed to Mana 9 ger James Ray, 05 South Leonard
 street. x