Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-28

The Boston National league club has signed Malarkey, I pitcher, who made good showing with the Rochester team last season.
 If Jim Stafford lands with the Phil adelphia Nationals next season it will be the third team he will have played on in fast company. He played shortstop for New York and Louis vile.
 J. J. Duffy, left fielder of the Albany Philadelphias the coming season. Man ager Shettsline said that Duffy is not a contract jumper; he had arranged for his release. Colonel Rogers says that as soon as he receives the infor nation he desires he will prepare statement on the baseball situation. As yet he is unable to give out any thing in a way that such an import ant matter deserves.
 Huyler Westeryelt, few years ago a pitcher on the New York baseball team. but for some time a member of the Consolidated Exchange, failed to meet his obligations. yesterday and was suspended. Westeryelt will have until to-day to pay his indebtedness and should he fail to do so he will be debarred from the privileges of mem. bership in the exchange. His present embarrassment. is said to be due to the recent advance in sugar, on which he was short. This is the second time Mir Westerve1t has suspended payment. He has. .an office in No g Broadway with J. Currie X Co.
 The recent offer of 5000 in salary for one year, made by the Detroit American league club to Willie Keeler, was bona fide. Incidentally it is the highest salary offered to any ball play CT since the halcyon days that directly preceded the Brotherhood war in 1890. Then it was that salaries of S4,O00 and 5000 were quite common. players like Ward, Kelly, Ewing. Keefe, Brouthers, Richardson, White, Rowe, Dunlap and. others receiving such prices, together with big chunks of advance money. But the Brotherhood fight cut salaries to nothing, and the players have sui fered i'll consequence ever since. A salary limit of $2,400 has generally prevailed in the National league though few players have received as much as S3.O00 and $3.500. The American league however. has boosted the value of a players services so high that $2, 400 in that organization is consid- cred "small money.'' Keeler has not accepted the S5OOO offer. but is wait ing to hear from the Brooklyn club. President Ban Johnson is out with q statement that Keeler will stay with Brooklyn. which looks very much as if Johnson is anxious to protect one of the four clubs who are sticking so close to the leadership of Spalding.
 Just what figure Adrian c. Anson cuts in the present baseball tangle has been somewhat of a mystery No sooner had the war between Freedman and Spalding been declared than An son came to New York from Chicago, explaining that he had been sent for by the New York magnate. He hung around town for several days, gave out q statement that he had bought his stock in the Chicago club instead of receiving it as gift and then went away. Now story leaks out that Anson has been engaged by the Freed man combination to see what he can do to organize ball clubs in certain cities where Spalding has tight grip. Two years ago Anson was mixed up with the defunct American association scheme and declared with much blus- ter that he had Joseph Letter and other millionaires, together with couple of street railroads, behind him in his plan to organize club in Chicago. The American association men held meeting in Philadelphia and Anson was requested to show something more substantial than mere statements. He fiunked and the association scheme, which existed for the most part on paper. went up in thin air. It is req sonable to expect. therefore, that after Anson has toured the country at the expense of the anti-Spalding crowd. he will funk again. for the old man" has always been what radical sporting critics call "bluff.'