Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-31
BASE BALL.
Base Hits Secured from the Pens of
 Many Writers.

Base Hits Secured from the Pens or
 Many Writers.
 A meeting of the board of managers of the Brass City Amateur baseball league was held at noon yesterday, at the rooms of the South End Social I club. The league consists of the North End Social South End Social, East. ] End Social Pequot Social and Seconu Ward Social clubs. Permanent organi- zation was effected the following off cers being elected: William H. Lawlor manager of the South End Social club. president; David Creighton manager of the North End Social club, secretary; William Cook, manager of the Second Ward Social club, treasurer. It was voted that each team shall play 21 games during the season, which will commence, Sunday April 13. The games will be played every Sunday morning at Il o'clock, on the Water vile, Oakville and Riverside park grounds. It was voted that not more than 16 players can play on each team during the entire season The purpose of this rule is to keep out ringers. A number of committees were appointed. Among them were the following: Committee on schedule, Andrew Cav anaugh, Bert Lavigne and the mana ger of the East End Social club; com nittee on prizes, William Lawlor, and William Cook; committee on rules and regulations, MesSrs Creighton, Johnson and Lavigne. Another meeting will 1 be held at II o'clock next Sunday morning at the rooms of the Pequot Social club. The reports of the var ious committees will be read and a list of their players will be submitted by the managers. The managers of the 1 various teams have been invited to at tend smoker at the South End Social club rooms next Sunday afternoon.
 The ''iron man, Joe IcGinnity, is ill with maIaria.
 Barry, formerly of the Boston Ma tionals, will probably play in Deiahan- tvs old position with Philadelphia.
 bet has been booked in St Louis that Burkett will have larger batting average at the end of the season than Laioie.
 John Smith of the Connecticut state league is said to receive the highest salary of any player ipl the league 91oo month and expenses.-Provi- dence Telegram.
 Dougherty, the new fielder of the Boston Americans, is a top-notcher in fielding and batting. He led the two teams he played with in 1901 in bat ting, having an average of .375 with Bridgeport and 331 in Los Angeles.
 Minneapolis has q pitcher named Martin and another named Luther. IT would not be surprising if the fans chrlstened this team the Performers. j
 Big Chief Zimmer has five of the
 pest seasoned bats in the country,
 They were made out of timber taken rom barn built over forty years ago, President Whitfield of the Western
 league last night announced the fol. , lowing umpires for the coming saa . son: Danny Stearns of Buffalo. Arlie : Latham of Philadelphia. Robert C Cox of Rock Island, H., and Chs Moran of Philadelphia.
 We can't see how Fred Klobedanz i going to play with Lawrence when tn worcester management has his nam
 on his contract and refuse to allow hin
 to go elsewhere.-Loweli Mall. Vel
 it's this way Mir Parsons went dowl
 to Worcester recently and he had hi check book with him. He told Presi dent Hurley he wanted Klobedanz , and he got him.-Lawrence American , The Moonlight Athletic club of tn | South End defeated the Star Socia : club of the South End yesterday b
 the score of g to 13.' The Moonlights :, who are member of the Greater Wa : terbury Amateur league, showed up i great form, especially in batting. Tn {, feature of the game was the pitchin
 of Tom Burns, who struck out fourtee :. men, and the fielding of Sweeney fo 2 the Stars. McGuinness, Kinney an : Horrigan, Phelan, were the battery fo ;, the Stars, and Burns and Connor wer :. the battery for the Moonlights.