Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-30
BASEBALL NEWS.
Lajoie VIII Not Be with the New
York Nationals.

LaJO10 Will moi be WIFI the new
York Nationals.
The report is revived that Lajoie is
to play with the New York National
league team next year. This time the
king pin batsman is to get $4,000 for
two years. Brush having landed him
out west. Lajoie has lately gone into
the cigar business in Cleveland, which
is considered good reason why he
will continue to play bail there. John
McGraw, manager of the New York
Nationals said last night that he would
not be surprised if the report were
true that Brush had corralled Lajoie.
Mr. Brush has been after Lajoie and
two or three other stars said Nc
Graw. 81 have heard nothing from
him to the effect that he has signed
Lajoie but expect to know tomorrow,
when Mr. Brush will be here" Secre-
tary Knowles of the New York club
said last night that SO far as he knew
Lajoie had not signed with New York,
but he thought there was strong pos
sibility that he would do so. An inter-
| view with Lajoie himself came from
Cleveland last night and the player
said There is absolutely no truth in
the report. / expect to play ball in
Cleveland next year if live, and moth.
| ing will tempt me to break my con-
tract with the Cleveland club"
Cincinnati o., Oct 3O--According to
a well known patron Of the turf who
/ is now at Latonia. Barney Dreyfuss,
! president of the Pittsburg baseball
club, will have a fine stable Of thor
oughbred racers next year. provided
he can get a buyer for his baseball
4 franchise Ever since the close of
the championship season Dreyfuss and
Harry Pulliam. secretary of the club,
have taken several flying trips to New
York to see some of the big turf
events, and made some successful
coups. Dreyfuss. it is said, paid
about $125.000 for his holdings in the
j Pittsburg club. During the last two
years he has made a fortune with the
/ champions Of the National league. In
the last two months, however. his bed
! of roses has had many a thorn, in it,
and he is said to be Badly broken up
over the raid of the American league
and the desertion of players that he
4 contends to have treated almost like
members of his own family. Outside
of the breaking up of his team, the
National league has several times done
j things to which Dreyfuss has taken
exception.
/ The national board of arbitration
which has been holding sessions the
last three days trying to straighten
out the western baseball war, adjourn
ed yesterday until November ID with
out having brought about peace. Be-
fore adjourning, however, the warning
minor leaguers decided on truce in
the way Of not bidding for each others
1 players until after the adjourned meet
| ing. The American association rep
resentatives at the conference put
forth proposition to settle the trouble
by the Western league withdrawing
from Kansas City and Milwaukee, Civ
ing the territory over to the American
association. In return, z. III. Van
Brunt, the financial hacker Of the
i Western league. was to receive half
interest in the Kansas City club. This
/ offer was refused by the Western
league people, who want an equal di-
i vision of the disputed territory, the
American association to take either
Kansas City or Milwaukee and the
| Western league to take the other. This
the American association represents
tiVes refused to do. The Western
i league men then offered to buy the
franchises in the two disputed cities
for $4,000 or sell out at the same
figure The magnates could not get
together on either plan and decided tc
take time to think the matter over.
s sE an s 3
aSteda Of the Springfield Union ha!
a little chat with Roger Common an6
speaks about it as follows:
Manager Roger Connor is in t.
city, having come here directly from
the meeting of minor leagues in New
York. He says he is glad to get bacl
to Springfield, but that his visit vii
necessarily be short on this occasion
and he will be here only a few days.
He has already signed two addition
al players for next season. JOHN Bag
ley of Pottsville, Pa. and Charle
y Thompson, both of them infielders
Bagley is a first baseman and a heav7
hitter. He played with New Havel
when that team won the pennant il
1900. Thompson was signed by Wa
terbury last season, but was not givel
a trial and played independent bail
Manager Conner saw him play in sew
eraI games and in each of these hi
made two or three hits.
If the base ball war in the west i
!. settled and the American association
comes into the association of mino
leagues, Toledo will have no opportuni
ty of getting Connecticut league play
ers without buying them. Mr. Como
says the prospects OF an agreement ar
excellent This will mean that Owen
must play in Springfield and that n
other Ponies will have place to juml
to even if they are SO inclined
Manager Conner has not yet sold hi
house in Waterbury, but when he doe
he will move to this city He says b
expects to be here frequently from nov
until the season opens IN the spring
To-day he will endeavor to have a tai
with Tommy Dowd Of Holyoke, wn
| will manage the Paper city team if
| franchise is granted to Holyoke. M
ConnOr says he is anxious to see TIol