Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-15
BASE BALL,
Schemes of All Kinds ill the National
 League.

League.
 | The Baltimore club, by order of Manager McGraw, last night expelled Outfielder Donlin from the club and sent a telegram to that effect to Presi- dent Ban Johnson. This means the | loss to the club not only of Donlin's services, but of $500 advance money | paid to him. Donlin brutally attacked Miss Fields, a member of the Ben Hur'' company, Thursday night, and the feeling of indignation against him 1 in Baltimore is very great
 Horace Fogel, acting manager of the New Yorks, has sent a red-hot tele- gram to Ban Johnson, telling the latter that if the Cleveland club holds Pitcher Taylor of the New Yorks he will pro- ceed to induce three or four of the American leagues star players to jump their contracts. Fogel says that one of the American leagues star pitchers has been almost begging to sign with New York;" and that there are others. Pitcher Matthewson of the New Yorks has been at Ithaca for couple of days entering with Hugh Jennings, who is coaching Cornell. Jennings played with the Philadelphia National league team last year, but according to the | eeAAAAo VI HIS SOAtISlCl 1G NdS uOC T0- served. Matthewson is reported to have made Jennings an offer in behalf of the New York club. Jennings says that he has not made up his mind l where he will play and that he cannot leave Cornell before June 10. He is easily the best first baseman in the country and capable team manager.
 When the National league magnates get together on or about March 24, they may have their plans for a temporary truce quite effectively shattered It is the intention of the four clubs loyal to A. c. Spalding to enter the coming meeting with their leader still candi- | date for president. It is not breach of faith to say that John l. Rogers is the man who has laid the wires for fu- l ture arrangements and who will advo- cate. in the shape of a compromise. when the candidacy of Spalding is blocked, 4 to 4, a schedule and man. aging committee consisting of N E. | Young. James A. Hart and John T Brush. To this proposition the Brook lyn and Philadelphia clubs of the l Spalding faction have assented. So has the Boston club of the Freedman com bination, for A. H. Soden wants peace at any price,. This plan. it will be re- membered, was suggested some time ago by John B. Day, but was not con- sidered feasible just then. What mo- ave prompted Day to make the sug- i gestioD will be made known soon. all in sequence. With apparently smooth sailing, therefore, and the various mag mates chuckling over the prospective clicking of the turnstiles, comes a blast from Freedman which is unexpected, . fn 4hn 1na cf i011 ;,, x-ill ,f the statement of certain persons that Freedman, under the Spaulding fire. had become q changed individual. sIf a league meeting is held'' Freedman is quoted as saying, i've are going to elect q president, a man of the status of Ban Johnson. The New York club will vote for any good man. If he is a stranger to me and I learn that he is ! fitted for the position, I will offer no opposition" In other words, Freed man will insist upon the election of a new president and will bar A. c. Spald- ing from the contest. If the four loyal Spalding clubs do not get down into the dust and renOunce their leader, then it is intimated that Freedman will I close the gates of the Polo grounds, which he has often threatened to do, and there will be no National league base ball in New York this year. So marked has been the clamor of Eb- bets, Rogers, Soden and other mag mates to get together that Freedman apparently realizes that he holds the whip hand and that threat to close the Polo grounds, as in times past, will create a panic among the magnates. Those who say they know Freedman pretty well declared last night that he would not dare to close the grounds in the face of public opinion. while a cer- tain league magnate made the signifi- cant remark that as soon as the Polo grounds gates were closed the National league would proceed to expel the New York club and put new organization into the city.
 Captain Kelly of the Consolidated base ball team requests his players to appear for practice at the Rye lots in South Brooklyn tomorrow afternoon at 80 clock
 It is not question of salary with Cy Ferry. It is a question of get ting into a more pretentious league. Cy has written Manager Miller that he will jump into the outlaw Ameri- can association if Meriden doesn't dSIcc lO lSL ulli SO U DuHdlO dHu MT Miller'S laconic and characteristic an swer was, 'sJump.'
 Pitcher Pete Husting, who played with the Milwaukee team last season, has signed a contract to play this sea- son with the Boston team of the American league. It is stated that Husting will draw $2,7O0 for the sea son. He was on the reserve list of the St Louis club, but when Manager McAleer declined to pay him the sal ary asked-which was S2, ,50O-Hus- ting announced that he would remain