Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-28

 Portsmouth l..
 At Bangor-Lowell ,, Bangor 4.
 At Grand Rapids-Grand Rapids 10, Fort Wayne 6.
 At Dayton-Dayton 5, Indianapolis
 At Louisville-Louisville ', Colum- bus 4.
 At New orleans-Birmingham Il, New Orleans g.
 At Little Rock-Little Rock ', Chat tanooga ?.
 At Shreveport-Shreveport Il, Nash vile 2.
 At Norfolk Norfolk ?, Raleigh o.
 The Boston American league team has released Pitcher Kellum and Out fielder Jones.
 'I am hitting above my normal aV- craze so far this season and will drop off sooner or later" Lajoie remarks anent his phenomenal stick work
 The game at Toronto was the only game played in the Eastern league yes terday All others were postponed on account of rain. Rain also stopped the games in the State league.
 The team batting average of the Bro0klyns is only .2S9. Keeler leads the champions with an average or 400. Such a fine batter as Kelley has a record of only .259 so far.
 "Matthewson is a great pitcher, there is no doubt about that" said player who faced him last week, but I don't see where he has anything on Rusfe. I still think that Rusie had more speed than anybody who ever stepped into the box"
 
 Derby will not play here tomorrow, as it was found impossible to get the grounds at the driving park in condi- ton for the game The game will be transferred to Derby and on June 19 Derby will come here instead of play ing in Derby.
 'I see Comiskey says he used to play deeper first base than anybody" says Jake Beckley, ''and I guess he did. And that reminds me that the Calvin, Mark Baldwin and Menefee were far and away the best pitchers to cover first base when the first base man felded the ball''
 Foster, formerly of New York, has been lining the leather out in good style since joining the Senators. He has batting average of .314 in the American league. Incidentally eigh- teen of the twenty-seven American league players who have averages bet ter than 300 played in the National league last year.
 "Fine," said Jack Doyle in response to question as to Chicago. We will not finish last by any means. You will notice that we show pretty strong when we do play good" The crack first baseman received word yesterday morning that his father was at the point of death and he at once went to his home in Holyoke.
 Hans Wagner. slugger, descants as follows upon the pitching art: ..I see very few benders coming up except in the cases of young pitchers. The sea- soned league twirler, of course, runs in few curves at times, but he gen. orally depends on speed, change of pace and sending over something that the batter is not expecting"
 Waterbury was to have played in New London to-day but this morning a telephone came from that city, saying that it was too -.coldJ and that the grounds were in no condition and the game was postponed. Waterbury and New London will play double header on June 12 in New London to make up for the loss of to-day's game.
 The next home game will be on Thursday afternoon, Decoration day, and the strong Bristol team will be the attraction. Waterbury will play in Bristol in the morning and will come here in the afternoon with a crowd of rooters prepared to take the Connorites into camp. We have found the Bristol team very easy on several occasions and we will give them a warm recep- tion on the afternoon of Decoration day.
 Evidently the umpires will not press their demand for an increase of wages, which was expected to be made imperative on June 1. It appears that all the umpires signed the demand for an increase of wages with the excep- ton of Dave Hill. That is the reason in all probability why the demand let ter was not sent to Secretary O'Rourke. Dave Hill would not sign for the reason that he realized that the league was not at present making any dividends and that the managers were paying out now about all they could afford to do for umpires.
 It all depends on Cusick himself
 
 or not. Manager Canayan feels pret- | ty sore son that player for his suspi- cious work with the New Haven team, still he does not wish to keep any player from making q living. All he wants Cusick to do is to write him and | apologize for his work and he will re- move his suspension. If he does not | do this he will not be allowed to play baseball. If he does do it he will GOV CT the third position for Waterbury Cusick is a good ball player, and per ] haps under other inuflences than those I he had in New Haven he might be able to retrieve what he has lost. The fans of this city should come out in force from now to the end of the season Manager Connor has played in pretty hard luck since the season opened, and that hard luck was not caused by any wrong management of his own. He started off with a team of ball players who came here with recommendations from some of the biggest managers in the country. Many of these alleged players proved unable to keep up with the pace set | by this league and were forced to re tire The manager has kept digging I T. Ar