Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-02

or GeOfSla 0.
 At Charlottesville ya-University Of Virginia 8. Princeton 3.
 At Chapel Hill. N. University of North Carolina '. Lehigh Q.
 At Washington.
 Washington, April 2.-Georgetown and Yale played a pretty game here yesterday. the score being 2 to 1 in favor of Georgetown. Yale's errors lost the game. The score by innings: Georgetown 70 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-2 1 Yale ....... a 0 0 1 0 0 0 O-1 6 4
 Batteries-Cox and Drill; Garvin and Winslow
 Comisley recently had scare. A newspaper man had called at the Co- miskey residence during the afternoon to interview him on the death of Tom Burns. Mrs Comiskey was at home and the reporter told her what his errand was, but in telling it got the names slightly mixed and said that Tom Daly was dead.
 When Comiskey came at night his wife met him at the door,
 ''Well," said she, ''you have lost your second baseman.''
 Whats the matter with him ?" came the breathless inquiry.
 "Deadr'
 The manager turned pale and was panicky till he learned the facts.
 T will pay Wright, Gochnauer and Goss $500 more than Cleveland will this year if they will keep their con tracts with me-" says Ebbets of the Brooklyn club. "The American league has robbed me of seven of my best players. so far. Isn't that enough trou- ble for one man ?"-New York World
 Manager Buckenberger of the Bos- tons is sanguine that he has a team that will give any in the National league a hard tussle. ''I cannot see a single place where we are weak" he said, mo matter how I look at the team We are very strong in pitchers, have a splendid outfield, and our in field is all right. I think the team will be sure to attract patronage in Boston and astonish our opponents when we get at them"
 Catcher Luskey comes back to this league. Waterbury announces that he has signed a contract and he will once more do backstop work and make base hits for the Brass city aggregation Last season he hit up to .313 and field ed scr in the outfeld and 925 behind the bat. Mighty good record. that. He once played fifteen games without at error and in his first forty games on1y made four errors. MT Iuskey would be a power on any team.-New Londor Day.
 Reach's base ball guide for 1902 cen tains records of the various league! for last season. and q fund Of informa tion about the players. It is the officia guide of the American league. It con tains many familiar faces, among then Clarence Foster, who was with tn, Chicago American champions; Joe Con nor with a group picture, of the Mil waukees, Parent and Ferris with tn Bostons, Pitcher Prentiss, formerly o Waterbury, with the champion Albany of the New York league. The record show that Foster played 115 games made 116 base hits. and had an aver age of .270. Connor, who finished wit
 Cleveland. played seventy-six games
 made 45 hits. and had an average o
 .199. Fosters fielding average wa
 .934. .Connor's was .933. Foster mad
 seventeen two-baggers. eleven for thre bases. and seven home runs. and wa ! well up in the list of hard hitters Cor nor made eAght two-baggers. two three baggers and one home run. In tw games during the season Foster mad
 four hits.
 From indications last night the sitl
 ation in the National league of Drofe
 sional ball clubs remains the same . deadlock between the Freedman an Spalding factions relative to all legisli f tion except the adoption of playin i schedule. The Spa1ding clubs have Il :, cided to appeal the recent decision { Justice Truax on the demurrer filed c the injunction suit. this decision bein 3 reached at meeting yesterday afte
 noon. So confident were the Freet
 manites that there would be comple !. laydown bv their opponents that at : caucus held late on Monday night the |, made up their minds to dictate tern : of settlement. But when 1t W; : definitely learned that the Spaldir e clubs had decided to stand firm ar :. take the legal proceedings to the cou e of appeals. if necessary. the Freedma q |ites were sorelv puzzled They res n ized that they had been deceived ar I that they were up against the old dea flock combination. At the Fifth Av