Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-21
si j. --- s.--. s.ll BASE BALL.
Some of the Writers Are Becoming
 Facetious

The connecticut ledSue AhAS heasSS will get together again in New Haven, March 9, and will endeavor to settle their difficulties without resorting to firearms or other dangerous weapons. It is expected that Thomas Reilly $ hammer will be borrowed and used to call the meeting to order. Then pr Reisling of Hartford will be told to turn his pockets inside out to ascertain if he has any other managers players concealed about him.
 Then the Waterbury Democrats plan to have staff of umpires warranted to please every spectator, will be dls- cussed. Jack Sheriden and Joe Cam tillion, the American league indicator handlers, who have refused to sign with that organization without q raise in salary, will doubtless be offered munificient terms by the State league. If there should be kicking after that, it will be recommended that turbulent spectators be bound and gagged during games.
 The Hi Ladd case will then be taken up. At present every club in the league claims him. In fact, he is want ed by almost everybody but the police. It will doubtless be decided to divide
 
 tribute the sections among the various clubs.
 Secretary O'Rourke will request that the pennant be awarded to Bridgeport in advance. Thomas Reilly will object to this and 19 Bridgeport newspaper men will immediately hit him on the head with sandbags for lese majesty.
 Roger Connor, who will have just Ion den park, will be called upon to execute sailors hornpipe. After the perform ance he will recommend that Dr Reis- ling be given the taste of the ropes end and put in irons. Grog and plum dUtf will then be distributed.
 Manager Harrington of Waterbury will read chapter from .'The Lives of Great Martyrs and give the latest report of the state of his polo finances. The sporting editor of the Waterbury American will play "The Heart Bowed Down" on the bag-pipes, and the young man on the Hartford Post will add to the good cheer by reading an ball funeral.
 Thomas Reilly will then recite some of his weekly sporting gossip from the
 
 engaged the meeting will be hastily adjourned, the windows, as well as the doors, being used for exits.
 And all the above display of literary insanity came from the red ink con sumer Shamrock" of the Springfield News.
 Charlottesville, Va, Mar. 21-The I1s ho1 1chn in h yesterday by q game between the Uni yersity of Virginia and Locusdale acad- emy. The university boys had all the better of their opponents at all stages of the game defeating them with ridiculous ease by the score of 15 too.
 St Louis, Mar. 21.--According to Ban Johnson, president of the American league, the new grand stand at Athletic park, fireproof structure will be com- pleted on April g, the date of the open ing of the local American league sea- son..
 Detroit, Mar. 21.-Pitcher George Mullen, who failed to show up to go South with the battery men Wednes- day, reported early Thursday morning, 
 wreck in Ohio. In reference to the three contracts Mullen is said to have signed, he said Thinking that De troit did not want me, I signed a con tract with Ebbets of Brooklyn and re- ceived $200. Tn the meantime the De troit team had sent advance money to my home i'll Wabash Ind. As to Mautner of Fort Wayne, never signed with him''
 Springfield, Mar. 21.-Unaware that her husband, Thomas Burns, manager of the Jersey City base ball team, was dead, Mrs Burns arrived i'll this city and went to the Burns home on Alex ander street. There she saw the coffin containing her husbands body, Gs it was borne up the steps, and the eaape on the door. She fainted away, and is very ill from the shock. Many of Burns friends were at the station to meet the train bearing the body to Springfield. Funeral services will be held Saturday.
 Big Jack Conroy, first base for Law rnc sic, ,enipslshrdlu cm cmfw cinfW renee, is in splendid shape for the sea
 
 Manager Parsons. Conroy received a neat little purse of advance money from Parsons. which is a good proof of the confidence that the Lawrence manager has in his first Daseman.
 There is q baseball nine in Sioux City made up entirely of one family Gus Bruggerman, the father, is the umpire when the boys get out to play ball. This summer the nine will chal- lenge other teams for games. The players are: John, age 27; Henry. age 24; Frank, age %; Tony. age 19: William, age IT; Leo, age 15; Fred, age 3; William, age
 Poor Tom Burns cannot be forgotten by the New Britain boys back in his first days of base ball. Many of the young lads of his day were pupils of the now dead player. It was his de, light to get bunch of the younger chaps together and instruct them in the various ways to play good ball. The old pit" ill New Britain has seen many corking base ball contests. and Burns was one of the mainstays of the old Arctic team of that city, When the Aetnas and the Arctics met there was sure to be something doing, and Tom Burns was the idol of the base ball fans
 Although Bristol has been debarred from the State league for this year, yet there will be ball games of a high order on the Center street grounds