Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-15

In last place.
 The City league will hold an import ant meeting tonight in the St Joseph rooms on East Main street.
 Roger Connor and his Springfield pennant chasers will make their first appearance here on Saturday and good game may be expected.
 1 The Blue Bells defeated the young Sunshines yesterday by a score of ( to 4 ,and the Good Wills to 0. The feature of the game was the catching of James O'Brien. Battery for the Blue Bells, Kane and Manacooche.
 Superintendent Sawyer of the Wes- tern Union telegraph office has placed an instrument on the local ball grounds and it was used for the first time yesterday afternoon. The score of each inning will be sent out at ev- cry game.
 There were two other players on the | Waterbury team who needed suspen- sion yesterday as much as did Frank Fitzpatrick Such a game as they put up would not be tolerated for one l instant by manager who desires to see the public treated properly. It is not necessary to mention names.
 The Ivy baseball team of Long Hill would like to arrange a game of ball with any other team in the city. The lineup is as follows: G. Tro- Hand, ID; O. Kinnel1y, c; c. Cleveland, l 1b; G. Mulville, 2b; E. Johnson, 3b; l T. Cartmell, ss; W. Johnson, If; c. l Gilbert, of; T. Kinnelly, cf. Any 1 team wishing to arrange a game can address Ed Johnson, 30 Putnam street, city.
 Manager Michael Costello of the 1 Dublin base ball team is anxious to play Manager Harringtons Waterbury leaguers. MT Costello proposes that the match be arranged for the winning team to take all the gate receipts. me Dublin players think they could beat Harringtons present aggregation. Con- siderable local interest would center in such a match, as the Dublin team is one of the strongest in the state.-Mer- iden Journal.
 Captain Slater evidently knows where we are weak and will probably try to remedy it. There are just two men on the infeld playing baseball, Slater and Mccormack, and not one man in the outfield who is doing half enough if yesterdays exhibition is to be taken as a precedent. Our pitch CTS are. all right and so is Luskey and that leaves us just six men. Mana ger Harrington says he has salary list of SLIGO month and if he has he is being worked the limit.
 Wilson and Hanafin were released last evening. Hanafin had been With the team but a few days. It was a mistake to put him on in the first place and a worse mistake to keep him on after the exhibition of playing he made at Waterbury. His presence helped Bridgeport considerably yesterday. Wilson is a likely young fellow, but a player upon whom no dependence can be placed. He is good in streaks, and you are not sure but the poor streak may come on at a critical time.-NeW London Globe.
 Last season when Roger Connor had the team it was reported every day that the men under him did not like to play for him and for that, reason they were putting up poor game. This season it is said that the men, or some of them, do not like Manager Harrington and they are not trying to play. There is just one method to be pursued in al such cases and it would be better for Manager Harrington to fill his team with amateurs from the City league than to have sulkers and disturbers on the team.
 The Hartford Post says that Toronto has generously donated Pitcher Currie to that club for q short time. Well, we are not hankering for his return, you can bet on that, so Hartford can keep him just as long as they like He doesn't know any more about base ball than some of the knockers about town, and as for his pitching qualifications, they are nil. Surely there must be some good pitchers hanging about this planet that are out of a job. Toronto only has one that is worth a cuss, the rest being commercials and back num- bers.-Toronto Telegram.
 The San Francisco Bulletin, which is received daily by James Kane, is full of base ball news which is of much in. terest to local base ball cranks. It states that George Bone has been re leased on account of bad arm. Bone is good player, but he has not been able to put up his usual game, as his arm bothered him. Soldier Altizer has been released by Buffalo and he will . play with Meriden of the Connecticut league. The paper is full of incidents about prominent base ball players and Arlie Latham and Jack Lawlor figure
 in several of them. Arlie is umpirine in the west and Jack is just getting used to the ways of California; Even } ing Sentinel.
 Captain Frank Fitzpatrick is under
 suspension, or was put under suspen- sion yesterday afternoon by Manager } Harrington. What the trouble be- tween the two is we are unable defin itely to state, but it has been smoul-
 dering for some time and came to a head yesterday when the two had 8
 wordy war on the ball field an houl before the game started. Captain
 Fitzpatrick was in uniform and was , accused of certain things by the mana.
 ger. Fitzpatrick denied the accusa- tions and in the heat of the encounter threats were made. Fitzpatrick de
 manded his release, but this was re- fused him and he then left the
 grounds, saying he would play nc - more under Manager Harrington's management. He was then placed ,,esnr Nnd