Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-16

II OuE If1pl6 IJldyS nave pCSn IhottS sHo far ill the major leagues--two by Bal timore and one each by New York and Pittsburg.
 In their last six games the Brooklyns have made only six runs. They have won only one game in. St Louis this season, losing six and tying one there.
 Dan Murphy found the ball for three singles yesterday in the game against Chicago. He scored three runs and accepted his four chances clean1y.
 Joe Began is down in Bridgeport and can play faster ball than most of the elders in the league. He can also hit the ball. He would be worth trying for.
 The Athletics have drawn 136,000 persons to thirty-two games this sea- son, an average of over 4,000 a game. This does not look much like q white elephant condition.
 Billy Lush is on the bench for Bos- ton in the National league. He was Eason in the ninth inning yesterday, but he could do nothing.
 The Haverhill Gazette claims that there is a ring comprised of Fred Lake as president and Fred Doe and Tom McDermott as presidents which controls the appointment and discharge of umpires in the New England league.
 There are numerous good ball players to be found these days, but not many in the really great class. the class that includes Long, Fred Clarke, Jennings Keeler. Wagner. Collins, Lajoie, George Davis and Delehanty and a few others
 Manager Harrington and his team are having a heart to heart talk to- day and probably there will be some thing doing before very long. There is much talk about several changes in the working of the team and perhaps We will know before the day is over.
 Young Hendricks, who played fn q few games for New York, says q player has small chance in that team; that Bowerman and Yeagers are knockers from Hammer Valley; that Matthewson is conceited: that Jack Doyle is a sp1en- did fellow, kind to young players, and that Lauder is q prince and a gentle man.
 Kid Mccormack is taking his time about getting back to Waterbury He | was to have shown up here yesterday, but he telegraphed that business would not allow him to get here be- fore Saturday. Who is running the local team anyway, is it the players or the manager?
 George Lachance made two of the five hits credited to Boston in the game with Cleveland yesterday. l Dougherty and Ferris got one each and | the fifth went to Warner. Evident ly the old Connecticut leaguers can still hold their own with the big fel- lows.
 The Milwaukee Sentinel says: "Row- dyism is rampant in the American as sociation and the Western league. In l both organizations the offenders have gone "scot free and the presidents have been oblivious to the fact that their representatives have been driven from pillar to post and in some cases violently assaulted"
 Hello, Meriden. glad to see you; was so far above you at one | time we could not Thought you looked lonesome so decided to drop down for a short talk. Please don't leave us down here all alone. From our present performances we are booked for a long visit and we would
 enjoy your company so much.
 When there are three men on bases and only one out and the next two
 men strike out, it is enough to make
 the most ardent fan feel like saying
 some pretty mean things. If the players could have heard all the nice
 things that were being said about then | yesterday they would certainly fee
 like going away into the deep brusf and commune with themselves. l Now that McGraw has removed him self the chief obstacle is gone and there lis every likelihood the American league will commence operations at once look ling to the establishment of a club il New York next year. The present own CTS of the Baltimore club are business men who can be dealt with as such and realize the situation fully. Theil present property is not a paying ven ture and cannot be made so for semt time They will be ready to sell thei Holdings or transfer them to New Yorl
 when the time comes Chicago Tri lbune.