Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-21
be able to play in any more exhibition

 urday. and his work was all right. He can throw well and he caught Clancy without d blemish. He will be a fix ture.
 Eddie Burke. to whom Manager Con- nor sent transportation some weeks ago, has as yet failed to put in appear ance in Springfield. He probably got ! lost in New York on his way to the Massachusetts city,
 Joe Connor was home yesterday and he speaks in great terms of the Spring field team and the Springfield people. They were more than pleased at the result of Saturdays game, and they have a right to be. Good for Roger Connor and his bunch of players, md may they come on next to Waterbury in the league race.
 Manager Harrington has signed q new shortstop, and comes with the recommendation of Charley Luskey. Hannifin is a hard worker, but he does not appear to be fast enough for this season. The inield man is called Cronan. and his signed contract arrived Saturday night. He will report to-day probably in time for the game.
 Joe Brennan of this city is playing fast ball for Holy Cross and in Satur- days game with the Brown team he had two hits, one put-out, three as- sists and one error. His base running was also feature of the game Brown got but one hit i'll the game and Holy Cross scored five times and Brown ,.ot at all. After the game, which was played in Worcester, the students had q great celebration.
 How is it that Manager Shea allows Ford to become member of Canavan's s New Haven team when he was on New London's reserve list? Of the four games won from the champions last season Klobedanz won the first, Ford the next two and Mclaughlin one. Wasn't that a good enough record to have held Ford's membership with New London ?-New London Globe. Just think of Quinn's case with Waterbury and you will know how it Is done
 Gallagher, the crack Norwich pitch CT, has become insane, and is now said to be an inmate of funny house Two or three weeks ago he told his friends in Norwich that he had invent ed a device for filing pistol triggers and intended to secure a patent. It is supposed he started for Washington and the next heard of him he was in- sane For some time Gallagher has been considered daffy and he had a habit of moping and talking to him. self in a rambling way. His fellow players humored his whims and kept him in as good humor as possible.
 That was a great game of base ball Manager Connor's team played ;n Springfield Saturday and over 2,0O0 paid admission to see the game Mon teral of the Eastern league was beaten by the Connecticut Ieaguers by a score of , to 4 in ten innings in whirlwind finish. Roger and Joe Connor con tributed much to the victory and Joe's run in the tenth won the game. Joe reached first on balls, and was sent around to third on hot hit of Rogers past first base. Then Kennedy drove the ball to right and the game was won.
 Some of the writers around the Con- necticut league circuit are determined to keep Hi Ladd before the public. It was supposed that his case was set tied for all time and nothing more would be heard of him until the 1902 averages were published Now a Bridgeport paper has the information that Secretary WiItsie of Hartford wrote to Manager aO'Rourke that New London had bought Ladd MT Wilt sic said yesterday that he had heard about a letter: but it had never been written. According to his informa- ton Ladd would play in Bridgeport. as TJo 1aI |, T1,, port.
 New Londons kick over the schedule of assignments at Waterbury is a case of great hind-sight. Manager Canavan, who was the schedule committee. re- ceiyed a request. from Norwich in re- lation to the same matter. and arranged dates so as to accommodate him. The New London management made no re- quest or suggestion of any nature, but now launches a kick. Manager Shea s team visited Waterbury several times last year and knew what the conditions were.-New Haven Register. New Lon don has no kick coming. If she had q good team last season she might have attracted more attention. Let her man. agement secure good talent and the at tendance will be there.
 
 Muldoon Meade of New Britain, pro- fessionaI base ball player, is tonight in ar insane asylum. Suffering from q halucination, which has now become a reality, poor Jimmie Meade has lived for several months in mortal fear that 3 plot was being instigated against 1im by his enemies to place him in an asylum. T never injured anybody insisted the once clever pitcher. "I've tried to treat everybody square. and I don't know why anybody should want to do me harm now that I'm getting a little Charley horse. Of course, I can't play ball like I used to-the state league is too fast for me and left re and lot of others to go way back and sit down; but I can earn my own liv- ing if everybody wouldn't talk about me all the while. Why, I can't go any where but somebody who pretended to be my friend points me out and begins to whisper about me. I am doing the best I can. Why can't people leave me alone" Then the pathetic Muldoon grew morose; he saw many things which never existed and proceeded to defend himself with physical force against his visionary enemies. When taken away to Middletown it required