Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-26
BASE BALL NEVIS.
Meeting of the City League was
 Held Last Evening.

Part of the by-Laws and Constitution
 Was Adopted-More Interest Gre
 ated This Season Than Ever Before
 Clubs and Managers That Were
 Represented Other Interesting Base
 Ball News.
 An important meeting of the City Base Ball league was held last eyenlng at the rooms of St Joseph's T. A. so- clety, with William A. McKennerney, manager of the St Joseph's team, i'll the chair, and E. Dunphy, manager of the St Thomas Cadets, as secretary The various clubs ill the league were represented as follows: Brooklyn Ath- letic club, N. Madden; Pastines, M. Mcdonald; Washington Hills, J. Thompson; Jeffersons, J. Reed St Thomas Cadets, E. Dunphy, and the St Joseph's, W. A. McKennerney. Ii was q very interesting meeting and oc- casioned much debate when the by laws and constitution came up for adoption. Each article proposed was argued pro and con and it is safe to say that the City league this season will be run on q plan that will meet with the approval of not only the clubs, but the people of the city as well. The business was not concluded last night. but adjournment was taken to the fourth Tuesday in March when final arrangements will be perfected.
 Announcement was made yesterday by James A. Hart of the Chicago Ma tional league club of the unconditional release of Jack Doyle, who last year played first base and acted as captain of the team. He will be signed to catch for the New York team.
 Manager Hanlon of the Brooklyns left Baltimore yesterday for Columbia. S. C.. to secure grounds for the spring practice of the Superbas. He says that he has tWenty-two men under con- tract and that they have been ordered to report to him on April l. Hanlon has received letter from Bill Lange, the former Chicago centerfelder, who declares that Second Baseman Flood, signed by Brooklyn. will come pretty near filling Tom Daly's place. The Brooklyn manager has also been ad- yised that Third Baseman Irwin and Pitcher Hughes are ready to sign. All reports to the contrary, Hanlon says that he will stay in Brooklyn this year and will also have a good ball team.
 It is stated that Jimmy Canavan is already laying wires for the organiza- ton of ball in New Bedford, but plans may be deferred until 1903. IL is also quite certain that an attempt will be made to rejuvenate polo. both in that city and in Fail River. It will not De surprising if the old polo league should be in operation in the cominr 1all'-Brockton Enterprise.
 Manager O'Rourke is on fbn ou+. look for a good pitcher or two and hn hopes to land them before long. Hn has made couple of deals which will De of great benefit to the clnb. b11t if IS not yet time to announce them. One thing IS certain, the team will start oH this season with third baseman who can field the position. As it now stands. Manager O'Rourke will he be hind the bat again and Corcoran and Mccullough will be two of the pitch l CTS, with two more men to be signed. Bill Yale will play first base, Delaney will cover second, new man will probably be at third and Rogers will
 
 Reagan are counted upon for the out field. with a new man in place of Dougherty. As this team, with the hardest kind of fortune, finished sec ond last year, it will not be far from the top this season if the right pitch CTS are landed.-Bridgepor Post.
 Cambridge, Feb 26-Prof Hollis. chairman of the Harvard athletic com mi los SoI,4 mors that have been circulating in Cambridge for the past few days in connection with Murphy and Story. Prof Hollis said last night that the athletic committee had considered the cases of these men and acted on them last fall Prof Hollis also stated that the men were not strictly ineligible. as 1t is not known or suspected that they received money for playing last sum- mer, but the athletic committee had de clded to keep them off the squad this spring because the men had seen fit to disregard the request of the athletic committee that no man play ball dur ing the summer on a nine which might 1 De questioned, and thus put Harvard Tn position where she would have to defend the amateur standing of any of her candidates. Story and Murphy re- ceived circulars warning them as well as the rest of the men. During the summer both men went to Woonsocket. l k. |. and there played on the Woon- socket gymnasium. a nine supposed to i be composed strictly of college men. It is stated, and the Harvard commit tee does not doubt it, that neither of these men received money for his play ing. nevertheless as q punishment for dlsregarding a committee reauest which was to all intents and purposes an order. the men were kept off the squad this year.
 Though c. H. Ebbets of. the Brook lyn base ball club seems inclined 10 LOOK Tor peace in the shape of a com promise with the Freedman faction in the event of a decision against A. c. Spalding in the New York supreme court, President Dreyfuss of the Pitts burgs still has his war paint on and demonstrates beyond q doubt that he does not possess a yellow streak. Drey- fuss has just received a letter from his attorney in New Jersey. w. A. North rup, in which the latter says that the injunction suit against Spalding will come up for a hearing in New York on March 5 or 4, and intimates that the | Spalding clubs will win. Lawyer Northrup furthermore says that if Freedman and Brush wish to continue