Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-21

ss The schedule of games ln the Gfeat- l ser Waterbury league for next sunday is as follows: Big Seven vs Colunbias, waterville; Oakville'vs Sunshine, Driv- ing park; Fifth Wards vs Merrimacs, Browns lots; Lafayettes vs Acmes, Riverside park.
 It is the talk down in Bridgeport that Mike Delaney will have to look well to his fences or he will find him self on the released list. Manager ORourke is angry at his i'll luck and he has begun to chop off heads. Wing and Ryan have gone and it is reported that the genial "Jeems'' is looking long, ingly at some of the New York bunch who are not being used steadily.
 John c. Chapman, than whom@ there is no better fellow living. was wit ness of the game yesterday ,and how he must have felt ashamed at the bunch of Meriden players when he stopped to consider that old time crowd when Tommy Donovan, George Court ney, George Bone, Dietrich, Buckley, Joe Theisen and the others used to make it so interesting for the Water bury team.
 Business Manager Bancroft of the Cincinnati National league club was in Cleveland yesterday endeayoring to in- ] duce Pitcher Earl Moore and Third Baseman Bradley to jump their con- tracts with Cleveland, offering each | substantial increase over the salary he | is receiving at present. His mission was an entire failure Outfielder Bay, released by Cincinnati, has been signed by Cleveland.
 A very small attendance to see our | old rival Meriden What difference ] from the old days when the Meriden | team was met out on the Cheshire road and escorted into the city with the hootings of the small boy and escorted back again at the close of the game with more hootings and perhaps few 1 things thrown in. An, those were the | days when the old and the young were fans of the most pronounced type.
 The majority of base ball fans do not realize how much depends on the man who does the backstop work If the catcher stands behind the bat and picks off the balls neatly and occasion ally throws a runner out at second or third they think he is star. Such is not always the case. A catcher must know the batters and what kind of balls will puzzle them. This is just where Joe Connor shines. He directs the battery and his heady, work aids the pitchers materially.-Springfi Union.
 The base ball schedule and memoran- dunn book published by s. R. Church of BOT Sansome street. San Francisco, who sells fresh snowballs, the kind that do not melt" has come to hand. 1t Is a neat little volume which con- tains much in the way of base ball news. One feature is picture of Jack Lawlor, formerly of this league, but now of San Francisco. There is also a full account of that great game played way back in 1870, when the At lantics beat the Cincinnati Reds by the score of s to in eleven innings.
 Quite base ball team of former New London players could be selected from the clubs in the circuit Norwich has Outfelder Sullivan, and recently released Pitcher Wade; New Haven has Pitcher Deering; Bridgeport has Outfielder Morgan, Third Baseman Ryan and Pitcher Humphreys; Water bury has Outfielder Henry; Springfield, Outfielder Kennedy and Shortstop Mur. phy; Hartford, Outfielder Reed and h. fielder Kane; Meriden, First Baseman Tucker and Outfielder Morrison, with Infielder Fallon to report.-New Lon- don Day.
 Notice of appeal to the supreme court in the cases of Wallace. Heidricl1 and Harper were filed yesterday ill the sll- preme court by Frank De Haas Robi- son, who took the three deserters through the trial court, in which. he asked for injunctons to restrain the players from playing with McA1eer's St Louis Amer ican league team. The supreme court docket is already six months behind and there is little probability thht the base ball cases will be reached before next fall, by which time Robison's con- tracts with Wallace and Heidrick will have expired. But Harper's contract being for two years, there is still a chance that the National league will se- cure his services.
 "One more blow will be struck the National league" said Ban Johnson yesterday. sThe American league is now and has been ready for peace with the National. The National league will not listen to me and must suffer any consequences that follow from now on. This is the first time I have ever given out this. 1t is not generally known that both the Spaldlng and Freedman factions approached the American league with offers of a new combine. We turned them down and urged that they get together. The result was that the National league is standing to-day where we might have crushed it'' It is understood that the National league leaders have made advances to the American league on peace lines, but 1nnx icrr1n T.l yTy1.. taken as direct fight not on the Amer ican league but on Johnson himself Frank Murphy, who arrived in this city yesterday, went to Armstrong park this morning with the New London bunch to keep his hand in. He wore a New London uniform and cayorted around the diamond in his usual lively manner Murphy stated to a Day re- porter this morning that he didn't know where he was at. He liked New Lon don well lDOIIVh to DTs1v horn if NTor.