Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-08
BASE BALL.
Talk Now of Allowing spalding to Act
 as President

Tommy Tucker of Holyoke, who l played with New London last season,
 may cover first for New Haven. James Calvin, the once famous base
 ball pitcher, is dead at his home in i Allegheny. He had been i'll for four
 months with catarrh of the stomach.
 For the first time since State league
 baseball has been going Manager I O'Rourke has decided upon a prelim-
 mary season at Bridgeport which will
 include games with teams in the East
 ern league and possibly some others.
 At a special meeting of the Connecti-
 cut State league it is very likely that
 the matter of .monkeying" with re-
 served players by certain managers
 will be taken up and handled without 1 gloves.
 Manager Harrington is after a first baseman who lives in one of the Mas sachusetts cities. He is recommended
 as corking good man and one that
 would like to buy an interest in the
 local team. He is said to be one of the fastest base runners in any team in New England.
 Harry c. Wilson, who used to catch | | VI " otCA DtASs ClAolO1 ~SOA " k-AA5 has written to Manager Shea of the
 New London team that he is ready to
 consider an offer to play ball there
 this season and incidentally intimates that if his services are desired New
 London should speak quick as he has other places ill mind.
 Whats the matter with having an exhibition game with a team composed lnf 1tA fxNI1 +,affe,
 Brown, pitcher; Stanhope, catcher; Woodruff, first base; Hatfield, second
 base; Murphy, shortstop; Ryan, third
 base: Henry, left field; Kinney, ce0s-
 ter field, and 'Beezy'' McGuirk, right
 field ?-New London Globe.
 Evidently. the Springfield News writer forgot himself in assigning and dividing up his fistic enounters He has had fight with about every writer in this league, and in order to make his program complete he should assign himself to meet the winner of each bat tie. He might make it a battle royal, but we very much fear if he did that he would meet with disaster, because tse Connecticut writers would certain ly not let Massachusetts win the final bout.
 At this late day it is reported that
 Emmett Heidrick, the noted center fielder, will not live up to his contract with the St Louis American league club but will flop back to the National league club of that city. It is said that year ago Heidrick signed a two year contract with the Robisons with no ten day clause inserted and that he has been convinced recently that this contract will stand in law; also that 1t he plays with the American league the Robisons will bring suit against him for damages. Wallace, the short stop, is believed to be in the same boat with Heidrick.
 Convinced that it will be useless to carry the legal proceedings to a finish and prompted by desire to play ball, John T. Brush of Cincinnati. repre- sentlng the Freedman faction. has con- cocted a new scheme by which he hopes To smooth over the existing troubles ln the National league. According to a report received from Indianapolis last night, Brush believes that the only proper move is to abandon the iniunc- tlon suit against A. c. Spalding and allow his to assume the duties of presi- dent-secretary-treasu of the league. to which office he was elected by a to vote last December Brush so the story goes, figures that the president or the league has no power. except what may De delegated to him by the cluDs, and that with Spa1ding in office there would be nothing to fear any more than if good old Nick Young was still the chief executive. Then. again Bfush's plea for the scheme is that Sn9I6inO iO on 1 IT he should decide to act as president Andrew Freedman would have to gat out of the New York club. But as Freedman refuses to get out. argues Brush, it might turn. out that Snaldino would conclude not to accept the presi. 1 dency. According to Brush it is i'm possible to expel a club except by n | unanimous vote, and the president of | the league, even in such an event would not be the legal medium for an expulsion. In short, Brush wants to make it appear that the election of Spaldlng would mean nothing and that Dy recognizing him, it would be up to | Spaldlng to get out of the game be- cause of his inability to oust Freedman Brush Is also firm in the belief that | unless some such move of this kind is | made, there will be no ball playing bv | the league as q body this season. As I all the clubs are anxious to begin the | season so that the dollars may roll into tne cash boxes, it will not be at all sur prlslng if a complete breakdown by the | Freedman- Brush faction takes place | The decision of the American leagua | not to consider the plan to take in New ' ork and Cincinnati has brought [ Brush to a realizing sense that some. | thing must be done with neatness and dispatch. For some time past .the | clique have seen fhe ! mistake of taking Spalding into the [ courts. but by a series of bluffs they | have been watching for some sort of E break in the ranks of Spalding's allies. The Pittsburg conference. fol- | lowed by the determination of the Spalding clubs to go on with the court proceedings, however, has acted as an eye opener, so that it is barely possible that there will be a sudden stop in the court proceedings. That there is some thing in the wind, there can be little doubt, especially in view of certain known proceedings during the past two days.