Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-01

1 raley's place Courtney played six | years in the Connecticut league and
 is right at home on the baseball dia- ! mond He certainly handles himself | finely and he accepted six chances | without the suspicion of an error. He gets the ball down to first in much
 easier style than did Daley, and if he l proves a good man at covering second will make a great little shortstop for the team.-Springfield Union.
 Every inch of the ball game was
 fought yesterday afternoon and Grif-
 fin threw his bat at Walker in play ful manner. What Grifin's inten- | tions were is not known, but he ap- peared to be angry because he did not hit the ball out of the diamond. He did not throw the stick hard enough
 to do any damage, but it nearly trip ped up the giant. After Griffin had
 been thrown out the giant ran for him
 and the little Newark third baseman prepared to die. Just when the big
 pitcher was supposed to be getting ready to fell the Newark man, he
 gave a jump in the air and kicked his
 heels together, and that was all.
 Griffin was as white as a sheet, for he
 thought his end had me.--Hartford
 Courant.
 There is a strong possibility flat La
 joie will be found with the Giants be-
 fore the season is much older. It is
 conceded that the great second base
 man will not play with Philadelphia,
 and rather than have an elephant on
 his hands, Colonel Rogers will consent
 to let him go to New York. Of course,
 everything will depend on the player
 agreeing to the transfer. It is proba-
 ble that he would accept rather than warm a bench all season. It will be
 remembered that New York offered La
 joie a salary of $7OO0 for the present
 season, and, as Manager Fogel is
 close friend of Larry, the latter will
 doubtless agree to play in New York. There is no question but that the Giants would become championship possibilities with Lajoie at second
 base. Brooklyn Eagle.
 The Golden Stars would like to ar-
 range for a game of base ball with the
 Protectors of Brooklyn for next Satur-
 day, the same to be played in the rye
 lots on Baldwin street. The Stars i. would also like to meet the Winners Managers of clubs who wish to cross
 bats with the Golden Stars are re- |
 Day, S16 Baldwin street The line up
 of the team is as follows: J. Began, c,
 J. Burns, p, F. Carroll, ID. Thomas Day, 2b, T. O'Reilly, 3b, Patrick Ho- ran, ss, William Mcdonald. If, Frank
 Flayin, If, A. York, Of. Two items
 have been received on this matter : Both are practically the same with the exception that each names a different
 manager. One says Thomas Day is at the head of the club and the other mentions T. O'Reilly as manager. It is hoped that the Golden Stars are not
 divided on this question. Such thing might prove disastrous to the club and
 work great mischief to the success of
 base ball all over town.
 Daniel J. Hoffman is likely to $ prove the heavy hitter of the Spring l field baseball team this season. He
 halls from Torrington, Conn, but was ? born in Canton, in that state in 1880. t He has only played two seasons, but 9 promises to be a conner. His playing e with the Torrington team first at
 tracted attention and he was given a Q trial by Manager Connor last season Q when the latter was managing Wa n terbury. He pitched q week for Wa [ terbury and gave promise of making
 good. While with Torrington he had batting average of .437 in B games !, and fielding average of .9S5. The !, previous year he was also playing in- Q dependent ball and in nine gaines had a batting average of .46O. Hoffman
 will play right field for Springfield ', and will be used as substitute pitch U CT. He is lefthanded and has a great pitching arm. He is natural batter | and fa1s T. TT . has landed the ball on the other side 7. of right field fence twice thus far : this season. He is also a fast base
 runner and gets down to first as rep c idly as any man on the team.
 The playing season of the Eastern :. league will begin to-day, with the teams playing as follows: Toronto y ill Buffalo, Montreal in Rochester :, Newark i'll Worcester and Jersey City Il ill Providence President Powers
 called meeting of his staff of um- g pires yesterday and gave them final e instructions. The u,mpires are John e J. Egan, Thomas B. Kelly, Charles ' M. Snyder and Frank F. Rim, and e they have been assigned for to-days . games at Buffalo, Rochester, Worces- q ter and Providence, respectively. w
 B. Murphy has ben appointed reserve " umpire Tn explaining the rules to e his staff MT Powers said that umpires I, are to use their judgment in calling ); foul bunts as strikes. When batter : is hit by a pitched ball the pitcher l. shall be penalized by the batsman talk ); ing his base when. in the opinion of
 the umpire. he tried to avoid being hit # but this does not apply to slowly s pitched ball. The system of lining n or removing a player from the game s for questioning decisions or plays o1 e in otherwise delaying the game will , be strictly enforced. President Pow q CTS promised his umpires that they v would be sustained in any suspen. e sions they might infiict on players.
 The directors of the Southern Con V necticut league at a recent meeting in .- South Norwalk made up schedule If which has been adopted, but which is r subject to change. The teams i'll the :. league are to play on Saturdays and h holidays. There are to be twenty oarnnS for each team and the season