Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-30
Is, FOREMAN, 62-64 South Main St.
 Look for the sign NINTH ANNUAL MARK-DoWN SALE"

According to rumor HarIfordsS SUD- I port of Bristol was secured with a
 club, anyway. They say that a few
 weeks before the meeting was called 1 paper was passed around in Bristol and signed by about everyone. 1t was
 directed to President Soby of Hartford
 and it warned him that Soby's cigars
 would not rank with cabbage leaves
 in the Bell town if Hartford went
 back on Bristol
 s.I consider Davis,' said Comiskey
 the other day, ''the best shortstop in
 America and grand ball player.
 cannot understand how the New York
 people eyer allowed him to get away. l It is a fact iii times past that whenever
 Davis was on the hospital list the New
 Yorks floundered around hopelessly. With Tom Daly at second base and l Davis at shortstop the middle of my l infield will be very hard to excel Daly has been pronounced the best second l baseman in the country, and by Han | lon, too. Good infielders are scarce, l so that I believe that I am most. for l tunate in securing two such stars as l Daly and Davis. I am after Strang
 of thu New Yorks, and if I land him
 my infield will be we'll rounded out at
 third base Strang is a rattling good
 youngster who is bound to develop With this exodus of players from the l New Yorks the enthusiasts of that city naturally are anxious to know how 1 their places will be filled. Horace l Fogel who says he will manage the 1 New Yorks this year, but who, accord l ing to a club official, has merely been { engaged to hunt up some minor league
 players, may secure talent. But un-
 less he does the New York team, as it
 stands, will not be regarded as par l ticularly formidable. In the pitching
 department are Mathewson and Tay-
 Tor, of the old guard, with Jack Burke i and Roy Evans. Bowerman will ap-
 pear behind the bat again, with Manly Thurston to help him. John Ganzel
 at first base, George Smith, formerly 1 of the Rochesters, second base, and 1 Walter Anderson of Wesleyan univer-
 sity, shortstop, are the regular in-
 felders so far slated. No third base
 man is in view as yet. Jimmy Staf-.
 ford will be the left fielder, Van Hal tren the center fielder and Jones, the
 Albany youngster, the right fielder. A good plan to start off the base ball season would be to get all the man. agers to enter 8 wrestling tournament and let the winner of the tournament decide what punishment should be meted out to Jim O'Rourke for being secretary and all the other appur tenances in the league; to Tom Reilly for calling "Gentleman" Jim all the pretty things that he had been doing of late: to Roger Connor for being all lowed to go to Springfield and sail boat; to Messrs Wiltsie and Soby for the alleged loss of cigar sales in Bris- tol; to MT Shea for being so bold as to claim Hi Ladd and Ed Moriarty; to Jack Tighe for trying to get Pitcher Quinn from Waterbury; to Jim Cav anaugh for daring to think of being a partner with big Roger; and, last of all, to George Harrington for being al- lowed to live after being done out of his holiday polo receipts. The Demo- crat will agree to furnish hall for such tournament and certainly ir would attract attention. Bristol might be allowed to come down and witness
 the exhibition If she did not agree to take sides.
 The state league meeting has been
 held and the managers have rendered
 their decision on the matter of eight
 or ten clubs. They have also decided that Bristol and Derby should retire and grow up with the world Whether
 it was right or wrong, this action of the league, the majority always should rule and the minority should abide by the decision and cease all this sulkiness and get ready for the opening of the season. It would be more graceful for Tom Reilly to take his defeat manfully and come out and say that he will get a team together for Meriden that will wipe up the dust, or the water, if he wishes it that way, off the Hamdan park in Spring field. Let him herald the fact that the Meriden team next season will make Jim O'Rourke and George Har- rington feel very sad when they see their pets walloped off the face of the | earth by the husky lads from Meriden
 Let him announce to the league that Bristol will fall all over herself with l joy when she sees the havoc that the 1 Meriden team is working among the teams that threw the Bristolites out 1 side the breastworks. Let him make l all the boasts he wishes and we hope | he will make them good, too, but for the sake of the league let him ac- knowledge defeat and stop this contin- | ual grind of petty hammering. Tom has been a good fellow in the past ! and he is to-day. Everybody knows he was pretty hard hit, but he should get into line now and boom the game not insert destructive wedges into it.