Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-05


 that Joes throwing arm is in shape.- Springfield Union.
 Our pitchers seem to have got kinks in their arms this week. Each one of them in turn now has been batted pretty hard and Waller was the only lucky one of the bunch. Neither Clancy, nor Waller nor Lindemann
 can explain it, but they say it will not happen again this season.
 Dan Murphy, Norwich's second baseman, is said to be booked for the Philadelphia Athletics a little later in the season. Manager Davenport has secured Logan, a second baseman from Scranton, Pa, who comes well recom-
 mended, so that the team will not be
 weakened when Murphy goes, which
 may be within month.
 Danbury evidently did not want
 baseball this season although there
 were clamors from that quarter for
 admission to the league before the sea-
 son opened. Only three hundred paid
 admission to the grounds yesterday
 although four hundred were present
 The Waterbury and Norwich teams did not get very rich over the result.
 This is q pretty race that is going
 on in this league and the only two teams that do not seem to be in the running are Hartford and Meriden.
 We look for squirt from those two before many weeks have passed. Ii they do spurt it will be the greatest league in the whole circuit. No team
 at present has any cinch on first place.
 Some one asked O'Rourke when
 Mickey Delaney had made his fourth
 hit, what he thought of him now and
 the owner of the league said he would
 not do that all season again. In the
 four games that Delaney has played
 with Meriden so far he has made nine
 hits in sixteen times at bat Pretty near as good as any man on the Bridge
 team has done-Meriden Record.
 The City league is under big ex- pense this season and as the only chance to get money to meet that ex- pense will come from the sale of the buttons and from the Saturday games it is hoped the fans will give the boys a boost and buy the buttons and pat ronize the games. Next Saturday will be the first chance of this kind and the game will be started at 3:30 and the fast Dublins from Meriden will be here.
 Napoleon Lajoie, the hard-hitting second baseman, defied the supreme court of Pennsylvania yesterday by playing with the Cleveland American league team in the game against Bos- ton. Lajoie has signed with the Cleve- lands at large salary and will take part in all their contests except those played in Philadelphia. Nearly 10000 persons, the largest crowd that has at tended Dall game in Cleveland in years, were attracted to the grounds by Lajoie's presence.
 In the ninth inning of the St Louis Boston game yesterday a fierce dust enveloped the ground, and later the game was stopped for few minutes by a shower The bleachers back of first base caught fire with no damage. Two men were arrested for betting on the game and yellow dog had fit and ran around the ground to the de light of the crowd, which was not anxious to mix up with the ..purp." Then O'Neill, lightweight St Louis sssub'' batsman, sent in four runs by hitting the ball over the fence.
 George Prentiss pitched for Boston yesterday in the game against Cleve- land and pitched a remarkably good game. Cleveland won the game. Dy punching hits. Prentiss held them down to six hits, while Boston made eight. Two fast double plays prevent ed Boston from winning the game With Prentiss pitching in such form it is not likely that he will be seen in Waterbury in hurry. He is very pop- ular in Boston and although he has done no work the fans all want to see him retained by Manager Collins.
 The pitcher may toss a ball over the plate,e under the plate or around the plate and no one of the Lowells. aside from the batter, may be looking, but let small boy up in the bleachers yell at the umpire's decision on that particular toss and there's a circus right away Lake jumps up with a howl and strikes q bee-line forthe rm- pire, with Big Chief Sockalexis a close second and the rest of the team trail- ing along down to little Barney Me- Iaughlin, all of them yelling and shak- ing their fists and bats as if they were in the woods soaring up covey of wild hogs. This was how it looked today and the strangers in town were told that the boys were acting gentle- Manchester Union
 Secretary O'Rourke of the Connecti- cut baseball league has sent out mo- tices of special meeting of the Ieagu to be held at the Hotel Garde. in New at 7:45 tonight. This meet ing was called at the request of the Hartford club, backed by Managers Shea of New London and Dayenport of Norwich. In it's present condition it is necessary for the Hartford club to carry many more players on it's Day roll than is necessary in order that men may be tried out to get the ma terial for 9 team that can make n re- spectable showing. This keeps the salary list above the 1900 limit and the Hartford people want the time ex- tended for complying with the rule. Besides this request the matter of um- pires will also be acted upon.
 With all due respect to the Spring field News and the words of praise about the scribes of this city as ball players, the writer should be informed of the real and only reason why the "crack" players did not respond on the day the policemen so ferriblv