Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-20
BASE BALL.
Pitcher Quinn Has Been Awarded to
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Norwich.
 New York. March 20 The charges made by Horace Fogel, acting man. ager of the New Yorks, that the Amer ican league is fostering the breaking of contracts by allowing Pitcher Tay Tor to play with the Cleveland club after having signed q New York club contract for the coming season, have fallen flat in the face of the evidence at hand Last year Taylor signed Cleveland contract and accepted ad- vance money from that clubs presi- dent !. F. Kilfoyle. Then he delib- erately signed another contract with the New York club " he fulfilled last season. The local officials asked him to sign another contract for this year, which he proceeded to do, ill | spite of the fact that he was still le- 1 gally bound to Cleveland. President Kilfoyle since that time has induced Kilfoyle to live up to the terms of his original contract with Cleveland, and | for that reason Fogel has set up cry l of "Robberyl'' The New York club knew that Taylor had jumped con- tract when lie reported here last spring, yet he was retained. For that reason it would seem rather out of order to protest against the same 1 treatment that Taylor first handed to Kilfoy1e. There are many just such examples of late. As if the conf dence of the public had not already been shaken quite sufficiently, it is said that q systematic plan is under way by which players are to be in- | duced to jump from one league to the other, regardless of contracts and ac- cepted advance money.
 1 The following tributes to the mem ory of Tom Burns were published to- day in the Springfield Union:
 Patrick T. Powers. president of the l Eastern league, in whose house Tom died, said last night. as the tears rolled down his face: Tom was a great credit to base ball. have lost one of my dearest friends, and many, many 1 base ball men will feel the same way. I have known him for over twenty years, and during that time I never knew him to do q mean act. He was man who made friends and not enc mics. If he had an enemy then I am not aware of it. I cannot realize that heis goneand I am so shocked and sad dened by his death that I cannot half 1 express by feeling toward him. Manager Roger Connor said: T have known Tom for over twenty years, and have played ball against him for half | that time. He was one of the greatest l third baSemen ever i'll the business Many and many tilt have we had on the diamond, but they were always good natured. I cannot say too much in praise of him. You will find men who say they knew him. Most of them only knew him slightly. They did not realize what q genial, generous | hearted man he really was. We have been through misfortune and fortune | together and I always found him the same. I have lost one of my stanch- est friends
 Judge Griffith of the Jersey City base ball team said: We had great confidence in Tom. We told him to go ahead as he pleased, and we were more than pleased at the results thus far. He spent Monday night at my home and spent much of his time in telling me about his small boy, whom he had nicked named Bumps" He was very proud of him and of his wife
 Princeton, March 20.-Princeton's S baseball squad was reduced yesterday from about fifty candidates to twenty four. This is the last reduction that will be made. After the varsity has been selected the remainder of the squad will constitute second team, which will cross bats with the first nine in practice games several times a week. The men retained are: Green, catcher; Newman. Stevens, Underhill and Kafer, pitchers; Pearson, Me . ! r To;1 Clark, Forsyth, Preston, Purnel,l Sousa, Delaney and Wells, infsylders: Brown, Ameli, Cosgrove, Davis, Dem ison and Fireman, outfielderI> She
 ,pening game will be with Rutgers college here on Saturday.
 Cleveland has five pitchers six feet tall-Wright, from Dayton, 6ft Bin; vasbinder, from Marion, Ind, Gift Pin; Lundboom, Gift lin; Moore, Gift; Joss, from Toledo, 6ft 2in.
 Three men own the Philadelphia National league club-John I. Rogers, 100 shares; A. J. Reach, B shares, and Edward Crafty, 15 shares. The ground of the ball club is owned by Rogers, 75 per cent, and Reach, 25 per cent.
 Pitcher Addie Joss who signed with the Toledo and Brooklyn clubs, is not likely to play with either of these or ganizations. He has jumped to the Cleveland team, and now stands good chance of being the center of much legal argument.
 Michael Donlin, a former member of the Baltimore base ball club, yesterday pleaded guilty to two indictments, charging him with assaulting and , striking Minnie Fields, an actress. and Ernest NJ. Slayton in front of Balti- more theater on the night of March F. He was sentenced to serve six months ] in jail and to pay a fine of $250. Don lin said that he was intoxicated and : remembered nothing of the assault. , Because of the assault on tn eactress : he was dismissed from the Baltimore . team.
 The resusa1 of Mayor Wells to sign the permit for the erection of a wooden grand stand at Athletic park has placed the American League club of St Louis : in a serious predicament, which the in troduction of a bill into the city council
 Tuesday night it is expected will re : 1iavo Tn fha o1.dina1.v nm of affa ire