Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-04
BASE BALL NEWS.
Waiting and Watching for the Ameri- can Leagues Move.


 Three of the men signed by New York have already deserted. Second Baseman Smith returns to the East ern league. while Outfielders Jackson and Mcintyre both declare that they will not report to Freedman this spring.
 Donovan, Kitson. Wright, McCann and Wilham will do the twirling for Brooklyn this season. Manager Han- lon also claims Joss and Mullins. The latter, however, has signed . Detroit contract and Joss says he is going to play with Toledo.
 Adolph Yollendorf is to manage the Nanitowoo team in the Wisconsin state league this season. Vollendorf has done some very good work in the box, but he got into disrepute with Canayan last season and was accused of unprofessional conduct.
 Manager Carney of the Concord, New England league base ball club, has released Derby, Mccormick, Kir- van. Drinkwater, Ryan, Hendricks, Krouse. Geryais, Eaton and Gilroy He has nineteen men still on his list and will carry th rteen through the season.
 New London has signed the follow. ing players for the coming season Buckmaster, pitcher; Mclaughlin Page, Long, Moriarty,, Butcher and Ford, pitchers; Brouthers and Mercer first basemen; Kuhn, second basemen Lichicum, short stop; Moves, third baseman; Ladd, Fenn, Wilson, Kelly Andrews and Cahill tielders.
 The New York club, through Man ager Horace Fogel, has signed an other pitcher in the person of FranE Sparks, who was with the Milwaukee American league team last year. Al together Manager Fogel has eight twrilers in line, Mathewson, Taylor McGee, Washburn, Thielman, Dupee Kennedy. and Sparks. Captain Doyle in an interview says that the New Yorks are sure to make . showing satisfactory to the lovers of the game. Doyle is veteran who does not be lieye in ante-season predictions.
 Jimmy Calvin, once a famous pitch CT, now penniless, is dying in Ale gheny. He ran a saloon there for { time, but did not make a success of it and has been a bartender lately. His last season i'll the National league was 1855, when he played with both Pitts burg and St Louis. He came to Pitts | burg first in 1877, when he was bough from the Buffalo club. He remained ln Pittsburg three years and then re l turned to the Buffalo club. He began his base ball career in St Louis as al amateur. In the days of the Buffalo 1 National league team Calvin was th, most puzzling pitcher on the diamond. It is likely that Manager Roge Connor will have to look for anothe outfelder in place of Theodore J 1 Scheffler. sOld Shelf" as he is know1 on the baseball field, is working il 1 New York and may not 90 back ol the diamond. This is to be regretted Tor he was formerly on the Spring field team and he is q great favorit there. This is what he writes iron New York. "I hardly think I vii play ball the coming. season as | hay q good situation at the present tim and do not think I will give it up t play the game again. Should I chang my mind nonthing would please m better than to come back to my ol friends in Springfield again. Scheff Ter ends by wishing the Springfield q prosperous season.
 The National league is so long wind 1 ed in getting it's tangle straightene out that the players who have signe l National league contracts are growth uneasy, especially the young recruit from the minor leagues. Many o these players are beginning to kic over the traces and will return t their old teams in the Southern, Eas1
 ern. Western and California league.
 While many others are likely to follo1
 suit, according to the Chicago Inter ocean. The excuse offered by thes
 contract jumpers is that the Nations
 league is at present disorganized an
 in no shape to open the championshi
 season on the basis of an eight-clu
 circuit. They say that under the c,
 isting conditions they prefer to r,
 main in minor company for at Ieas
 another season.
 Before the week is out there may b
 some sensational happenings in th
 DaseDall world Tomorrow at Detroi
 the American league will hold it's muc
 looked for spring schedule meeting ]
 has been hlnted in various quarter tAAol ICoiuCllL DUH JUuuS9n -IldS d SUI
 prise to spring in the shape of q te club schedule which will include Freed mans New York club and Brush's Gil cinnati club; also an eight club schet ule with the clubs of Freedman an Brush taking the places of the Wasl lngtOn and Cleveland clubs, respectiy, ly; and finally an eight club &. nedul,
 including the present American leagu : circuit, with Freedman and Brush r, iected In view of Johnson's telegral ! to A. G. Spalding at the meeting of th : National league here last December | : the effect that there was mo room i the American league for Freedman : baseball men are not inclined to beliey
 that Johnson has Topped in the face { l the public support which Spalding ha 3 had all along in his fight for clea i. sport. The American league has earl I ed it's present popularity by clean, hoi ! est methods; by dealing fairly with il t public and players and by makin . good all promises President Johnso
 has handled things with diplomacy ar 1 skill. He is the absolute master of u 2 American league, in that his ideas al z accepted and his rulings are never di ;. nuted. His followers are not baseba
 marnlots. neither are they schemii
 politicians who seek the dollars rath
 than clean sport. Tn word, the Anne
 f.,or hox