Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-16


 T think Roger Connor must wear a straight front corset,' said the demure girl in blue, when the erect old war horse came to the plate for the first l [time.-Meriden Journal.
 The altar boys of St Thomas's church wish the altar boys of St Patrick's church to be at Riverside park at ? o'clock Saturday. If you cannot play notify us early. Manager Walter Casey, 41 Summer street.
 | The consolidated team will leave l here on the 12:3S train tomorrow for | Willimantic where they will cross bats | with the thread town team. Williman- tic shut out Rockville last Saturday so l a good game ought to take place. The 1 lineup is as follows: Madden, If; l Curtis, C; Mulligan, 1b; Scully, 3b; l Camp, Of, Kane, If; Burgess, ss; Ly- man, 2b; Cook p.
 For talking back to Umpire John- stone at Detroit and making remarks that did not please that official, Clark | Griffith, manager and captain of the l White Stockings, has been benched for three days by order of Ban Johnson, l president of the league. The notice was sent out from league headquafters 1 Wednesday night, and the officials let ter was handed to Griffith at the ball park yesterday morning.
 1 Penney and Clarke were put out of yesterdays game by Umpire O'Day for indulging in a fist fight near first base 1 in the eighth inning. The, trouble start ed with a dispute over a play in the l previous inning and no one paid any J attention to the pair until Penney left i his position, walked over to Clarke and l hit the manager of the Pittsburg team 1 in the face. Clarke struck back and some wild swinging was yindulged in 1 before the other players separated the scrappers, neither of whom was in- 1 jured.
 i It will be Roger Connors first ap- pearance here with his bunch of pen nant chasers tomorrow and a big crowd should godown and see the game between the team that was Rogers and the team that is Rogers. TherG are several familiar faces on the Springfield team. notably Joe Connor, George Courtney, Dave Murphy, Tom l Owens and Big Bill Clements. Spring 1 field is playing fast base ball and it will be interesting to compare her play ing with Norwich, who has supplanted her in the lead.
 A fine of $20 has been imposed on Frank Fitzpatrick, half of that sum for failure to get into the game the day be- fore yesterday and the other half for failure to appear yesterday. It was believed that a reconciliation had been effected between Manager Harrington and the deposed captain and that Fitz. patrick k-Mould. appear i'll the game yes terdaT, butsa he failed to appear the manager imposed the extra $1O fine. He says that he will continue to i'm pose those fines until the player ap- pears. Friends are trying to straighten the affair out
 Manager Shea of the New London base ball team had a conference with Manager Canavan in regard to securing the services of Morton Murphy. NIur- phy could be used to excellent adyan- tage on the New London team and it is alleged that he would like to return there. Canavan has the first call on his services, however, and it is up to hlm-te say where the player1can go The result of the conference was not favorable to New London. Canavan said that he wanted Murphy himself 1 anu AAclueuldiiy ue expressed the rear l that should he allow him to play in some other team it might affect his claim on the Boston club for the price that was agreed upon when he parted with the player. He has already se- cured threefavorable decisions, but has yet to see the money, for the case has been appealed again. The sale of Mur- phy to Boston was a losing venture. according to Canavan. He figures that he will be money out even if he gets the 5000 from Boston, After Murphy left the New Hayensteam. .lastsye the players took a slump and the New Ha- ven cranks. assigning the poor showing to the loss of. Murphy, got their backs up and didn't attend the games. Tie result was an appreciable loss in gate receipts. Canavan expressed his deter imitation to wait until the end of the season before he disposed of any more promising players.
 1 BOWLING GAME.