Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-19
BASEBALL NOTES.
Joe Connor Has Been Drafted By the
 New Works.

New York, Jan 19.-While the Amerlcan assocIation baseball ueAe- gates, now Tn SeSSIOn here, were per 1eculng their organization yeSteIuay the New Ork BaseUall cub was con Sumating all important deal. Last week tie Press called aTlenliOn to inc fact that Pitcher GarVln and Inird Base1nan Strang of Chlcago probaDly would come to New lork, and yester- day these players were secured by the local team. A third meInDer or tine Chicago league team alsO comes to New York in the transaction. This is John GanZel. nrst baSeinan. In eX- change for these three players the .nlcagoS get jack Doyle.
 It is Manager Daviss plan, now that anotAer Arst basenan has been landed, to play Hickman ill right field. GanZel is a fine fielder, a fair hitter. but rather slow on the bases. He hit well on the polo grounds last year. Later in the season he was in jured, but returned to the game be- fore the close of the season. He is q SiX-footer, with an unusual reach, and can take them out of the air or dig them out of the ground. The ChicagoS got him from Kansas City. His bat ing average last year was PIP; he had seven sacrifice hits and stole three bases. He ranked fifth in fielding, with percentage of .9S3.
 In twenty-five league games last year Strang had batting average of .276. Jessie Burkett said of him yes terday:
 He is a pretty good ball player. He stands up at the bat right, is a good waiter, pretty fair bunter and a fast man in getting down to first"
 Garvin's work is pretty well known to the ball cranks. He has great speed and a good break to his ball. He figured in many small-score games last year. Additional efforts to strengthen the local team were made yesterday, when three players were drafted Catcher COnnor, from the Connecticut state league, q brother of Roger Con- nor, and Catcher Crsham and Third Baseman Casey, from Detroit. Cris- ham and Casey have had league ex- perience-Crisham with Brooklyn and Baltimore and Casey with Brooklyn. The American league being on the outs with the national league, IL re- mains to be seen how the drafting from the Detroit club will pan out. A pretty good idea can be had, however of how the New York team will line up this year. For catchers there are Warner Bowerman and Crisham; for pitchers, Hawley, CarricS,. Mercer
 Taylor, Murphy; shotstop, Davis; third base, Strang or Casey: outfield
 Hickman. Van Haltren and Selbach
 In the pitching box and the outfield the team fill look especially strong. The American association commit tee, consisting of Messrs. Irwin, Hay enor, Watkins and Koch, met a Ma ] tional league delegation in the fifth avenue hotel yesterday afternoon. The l league men were Andrew Freedman of New York, Jim Hart of Chicago,
 Frank Robison of St Louis and A. H. | Soden of Boston.
 | Ut was only an informal meeting' l MT Watkins said. ito get our affairs
 in legal shape for organizing. To-
 morrow we will go before the National | league folk again. Things are pro- gressing favorably."
 | Last night the association rounded out it's circuit. It was decided to place a team in Detroit, instead of in Chi | cago. The circuit will be composed of Detroit, Milwaukee, Louisville and l Indianapolis in the west. and Wash ! ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston in the east. B. s. Havenor, i who was anxious to secure fran chise with Harry Quin
 chise for Chicago, will share the Mill waukee franchise with Harry Quin. l Bill Clarke, the Baltimore. and Boston /. catcher, turned up as the American 1 association representative from Balti- more. He will be one of the associa- 1 tion magnates in the Monumental city. l According to Q report from Boston. | Hughie Jennings, formerly of the 1 Brooklyns, will manage the American league team in Boston. Jennings would be a. tower of strength to any team, but if he lives up to his scon- tract with Cornell 1t Is difficult, to see
 how he can manage team in Boston. l It Is not likely that he could get into n cofpsl1 Icel9 TT il<a 5lsfe esitii