Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-05
EASE BALL NOTES.

a National league contract as soon as it is handed to him.
 AS the case now stands the conces- sions granted by the National league to the players will probably be with drawn as they were secured by Zim- mer's agreement only1 In such an event the Protective association will become the American leagues most 1 powerful ally, a proceeding that Pres | ident Johnson has been mapping out 1 for some time past.
 The National league men have been banking on the legality of the option clause in the players contracts. They have talked about injunctions and all | that, but at the same time they have been making the most desperate ef- forts to resign all of their old stars, even those held by this self same op- ton clause. News of more assertions 1 to the American league is not scarce. The Protective Association of Base 1 Ball Players, through President Zi1n- mer, has announced that members of the organization can sign with any club they may select. In other words, the Protective association has repudi- ated the agreement made by Zimmer with the National league last week to
 the effect that the latter's players who
 might sign with the American league
 would be suspended, pending final ac | ton by the association.
 Two more accessions to the Ameri- | can league club of Boston were an | nounced yesterday. They are liar | " Dolan, who is on the reserve list of the Chicago National league club, and l Fred Parent, who was ShortStop of the ] Providence club, of the Eastern league, 1 last season. Parent was considered l star of the first water last season. Man.
 ager Murray said last season that he
 was the greatest man OH fly balls | he ever saw. In the Eastern league
 he led the shortstops who participated
 ill 100 games or more, and batted .2SI.
 That statistical fiend, Ernest J. Lan- | igan, gives vent to the following:
 Out of the 251 home runs made in the | National league last year, almost one
 third. eighty-three. were made in Bos
 ton. the home players getting forty and
 visitors forty three. The Chicagos
 made ten. the Phillies eight. St Louis
 seven, New York six. Brooklyn five,
 Cincinnati four and Pittsburg three. | For the Bostons Long made twelve of
 these drives, Sullivan seven. Collins
 five, Freeman four. Lowe three. Stahl three. Duffy two and Hamilton, ' CIaTke. SlGuelllS iuu -NlClloiS olle e1tCi On foreign grounds the Boston play CTS are only credited with seven four
 cushion iolts
 How these players do want to come
 to Bridgeport! Every now and then
 Manager O'Rourke gets, q letter from
 some player belonging to another team
 in the league. asking him for job.
 It is needless to say that the secre-
 tary sits down hard on all such propO-
 sitions. Three or four seasons ago
 some of these players were saying they
 would not come to Bridgeport under
 any circumstances. It is Il different
 song now. Your ball player knows
 a good thing when he sees 1t, and the
 man who plays here does nave good
 thing-an easy time and money as sure
 as the rising of the un.-Bridgeport
 Post.
 Billy McAleer, once one of the best
 outfelderS the game ever saw and now
 manager of the Detroit team. tells a
 good one about Pat ..Tebeau. We
 were playing in Baltimore one day.
 said he. We had a man on first and
 Tebeau was at the bat. He bunted
 toward first. The ball hugged the line.
 Jack Doyle got it. and when he looked
 up to touch Pat he was standing still few feet away looking at him. Jack
 saw q chance to get his man at second.
 turned quickly and threw there. Then Pat just walked past him to first and both men were safe. When the decis- ion was given Tebeau stood on the bag. put his hands to his mouth and
 yelled: Is there doctor in the stand?' Doyle was fighting mad for a week , after that.
 Willie Dinneen of Syracuse pitcher of last years Boston team. agreed to , terms offered him by VicePresident
 Somers of the Boston American league , team. It is understood that Dinneen , is to receive $3, 600 salary. Frank , Selee, manager of the Boston National , league team last Friday made an
 effort to get Dinneen. The latter
 would have signed if Selee had gone
 as high as the rival league. Dineen , is a member of the Players Protective . association and says Zimmer had no | authority to make the agreement with the big league that he did in New ? York Dinneen expresses confidence that other members of the Boston club | will quit the team within q few days : for Johnson's organization. Selee and , the Boston club. it is understood, will carry the cases of all the Boston play Il CTS who jump the team into the courts. Another meeting of the magnates of :. the National league. possibly q secret :. gathering, but meeting just the same, !, is to be called within. the next two U weeks and arrangements made for the : hottest fight that can be put ur r against the American league. we will
 get together in ten days" said Presi
 dent Hart of the Chicago team. prob
 ably in Chicago. Do not put too much " stock in the talk of players deserting y Of course, there are on every team T players who are weak, credulous and s- easily leGr off after every vapor, while n there are others who are sore on thei1 T employers. Anybody could come along d offer these fellows more money and e get them. 1 don't think that any o1 " the men who draw big pay, are old in # the business and get along well witll l. the management, will try any Jumping }. Some means must be contrived though
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