Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-07
BASE BALL.

l LOOKS or things there Will US 1OuI l leagues at work here. First, we will 1 have the regular Waterbury team of | the state league. Then will come | the City Amateur league, which will play on Sundays and some Saturdays. The Junior Amateur league will be another association which will take l in all the clubs that are not in the regular amateur league. The last league to be formed will be the shop league, and from the reports that
 were around last night it will be one of the warmest leagues of the whole bunchAlready several of the contrac-
 tors and foremen in the factories have begun to look around for good ball
 players and before the season opens
 there will be several new faces in
 some of the factories who will be
 brought here to play ill the shop league. Manager Harrington will
 have good chance to pick out some
 talent from some of those leagues if
 he should need it before the season
 closes.
 Detroit, March 1.-The American
 league closed it's session with a long
 argument over the New York matter.
 The result was the passage of a reso-
 lution that makes the matter of re-
 moyal from Chicago to New York, as
 well as the time for the move, discre-
 tiOnary with Ban Johnson This, it is learned on good authority, means that the American league chief will go to Gotham about the time of the play season opening. His plan then
 will be to look over the ground and prepare plan to put team into New
 York in 1903. It will be an invasion if necessary, but it is hoped that be- fore that time the two big leagues will get together and form an agreement, one condition of which will be that New York may be entered peacefully. All expansion deals for this season are off. Playing rules took up q lot of time yesterday and the foul strike rule was, as expected, repudiated. All of the other suggestions of the Buffalo conference were adopted. The league will abandon the idea of is- suing it's own handbook this year and A. J. Reach will be authorized to is- sue his publication as "Reach's Amer ican League Guide.'' The sessions were closed by a banquet attended by the delegates and newspaper men. All ul. Padden wagered with Comiskey that St Louis will beat out Chicago, and Joe Kelley is ready to bet a suit of clothes that Baltimore will top Chi scago at the end of the year
 N. F. Thurston, who played with Morrison and Larkin the season be- fore last, has been signed by Meriden f0ls f1,ial fbird 1,oca ,oJ MAI. o,-- they feel certain he will do.
 Piggy Ward was turned down by the Norwich management in order to make room for Second Basemen AIur- phy. Murphy is the man who near ly started q riot at a game last sum- mer by striking Pitcher Schmidt t.- New London Globe.
 Talk about a town going baseball crazy, just look at Concord. A sec ond issue of season books was made necessary, the manager is made member of the Veteran Firemen's as- sociation without even making appli- cation, the governor proposes to throw the first ball across the plate in the opening game, and lots of other things have happened, or will happen, to startle the slow ones that could be named.
 John J. Hanniin, a well known baseball player, has received con- tract from the, Waterbury team in the Connecticut state league, which he will probably sign. Hannifin is well known in Holyoke and vicinity on ac- count of his work on the diamond He first attracted notice while with the High school team and has since played with the leading semi-profes- sional teams in Western Massachu- setts. His position is in the infield.
 In ignoring Freedman and Brush the American league has displayed unqualified loyalty to A. c. Spaiding. President Johnson, it is said, more than two weeks ago, told Brush to go away back and sit down. Brush's scheme, as already outlined, was in line with some of tho Cincinnati mag mates other schemes, so that Johnson was wary of it from the start. It is now up to Freedman and Brush to cease mysterious statements and face the real issue in the National league, which must stand alone.
 Horace Fogel, who is now organiz- ing the New York club for Andrew Freedman, has succeeded in signing Billy Lauder, formerly third baseman of the Philadelphia National :. league team. Lauder will captain the team and receive a salary of $3,50O. A dis agreement as to salary and an ad- l vantageous offer to represent an Attle- bOro house induced Lauder to leave the diamond. He has had many of- fers to return and it was only the present liberal one from MT Freedman that induced him to consent to put on q uniform once more. His home is in South Norwalk, Conn.
 The American league schedule just adopted shows that the season as an- nounced will open on April 23 with l Boston at Washington, Philadelphia | at Baltimore, Detroit at Chicago, and l Cleveland at St Louis. In the allot- | ment of holiday dates Philadelphia | and Boston get May 30 and July at | home. Baltimore and Washington have | only May 30, Chicago and Detroit have July and September 1, and St Louis | and Cleveland September l. The sea- son opens and closes with home and E home series The long eastern and | 1x-t~A