Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-12
BASE BALL.
Decision in the National League Mud
 dle Now Expected.

l A. c. Spalding and the Brooklyn, Phil adelphia. Chicago and Pittsburg
 clubs of the National league was on | the calendar in Part III of the New ! York supreme court yesterday morn | ing before Justice Truax. Delancey | Nicoll, attorney for the plaintiffs,
 stated that he was engaged in anoth- CT court in the trial of an important | case and would, instead of making an
 oral argument, submits his brief and
 asked that the other side do likewise Inasmuch as MT Nicoll had notified A. l W. Riddle, attorney for Spalding, and
 John M Ward, attorney for the Brook l lyn club, on Monday afternoon that he
 would argue the case yesterday after
 noon at 4 o'clock owing to his engage
 ment in another court. instead of at | the morning session, MT Riddle and
 MT Ward were not present in court
 when Mir Nicoll's announcement. was
 made that he would file his brief for
 the information of the court. Later 1 in the day when the case was called
 Mir Riddle said that he would follow l Mr NicolTs example and file his brief,
 but that the counsel for the four clubs namely, James F. Nortbrup for the Pittsburg club, John M. Ward for the | Brooklyn club, and Colonel Rogers for
 the Philadelphia and Chicago clubs,
 could decide for themselves.
 MT Ward then proceeded to elabor- ate his argument, in which he cited
 many authorities to show that the bill
 of complaint was improperly brought
 under the code of the state of New
 York and under the common law; that
 the parties were improperly enjoined
 and that the demurrer should be sus-
 tained and the bill of complaint dis
 missed.
 Colonel Rogers also maintained that
 while the National league had some
 resemblance to a corporation, the fact
 that it was unincorporated made it
 substantially a partnership, and that
 four partners could not sue four other persons except to force an accounting
 or dissolution
 After the hearing Mir Riddle was
 asked when lie thought the court
 would render decision. He replied,
 You had better ask Judge Truax''
 Jake Beckley, greatest first base man in the country, member of the Cincinnati National league club, has just returned from California and he says the Cincinnati management made a grave blunder when it did not keep Dougherty, the crack batsman of the Connecticut league last season. Beck ley says Dougherty certainly is wonder.
 "Dumpy" Taylor, the deaf mute, has signed contract to play with the Cleveland team for the coming season.
 Jimmy Sheckard, formerly of the Brockton New England team, claims that he recently turned down an offer of S9,0OO for two seasons made by Manager Frank Dwyer, of the Detroit American League club, who promised him removal from the American league blacklist.
 ''Tom" Burns, manager of the Jersey City Eastern league base ball team has up to date signed the following eleven men: McManus and Clark, catchers; Woods, Pfanmiller and Bar rett, pitchers; Midget Nelson, Schin- dle and Cusic, infielders; -Schoch, Hay ward and Donahue, outfielders. Nell son is the young Orange Athletic club player who played with New York last season. and who was released owing to his light batting. While with Orange he was known as Kellogg, which is his right name.
 News was received yesterday from Cleveland that Luther Taylor, one of the pitchers under contract to the New York club, had been signed for next season by the Cleveland American league team. This assertion cannot be true, for two reasons. One is that Taylor now is on the blacklist of the American league for refusing to abide by a promise he made that organiza- tion last year to join one of it's clubs, and the other is that Ban Johnson ire has declared that his league would not sign a player under contract to National league club
 The question of umpires is one that should be given careful attention this 1 season and the men employed should l De paid good wages. You cannot get good men ill any business for cheap money and it will be better to spend | a few dollars more on the umpires and avoid such disputes and quarrels [ as have characterized some of the | work of umpires in seasons gone by. The managers should also appoint in | each city a substitute umpire and this | would dc away with selecting players to make decisions. Pay them well | and they will do their work well.
 The "hot air'' league which origin ated in the brains of some Bristol parties has collapsed completely In fact, as the Democrat has claimed from the very beginning, it had it's in- ception in Bristol, it was nurtured in Bristol, and it never got outside of Bristol. Never in the history of base ball has there been so much grumbling over any changes in the makeup of leagues as emanated from the little town over the road. When the town grows up there may be a chance for her, and now if there are q lot of fans over there who want to see baseball let them jump on the third rail and skip up to Hartford and Springfield.
 A meeting of the stockholders of the Hartford Baseball association has been called for Friday evening at No 732 Main street. There have been several attempts to get the stockholders to- gether and there have been as many postponements. The balmy weather yesterday caused some of the baseball stockholders to have touch of spring baseball fever, and PresideS.t Soby an nounced that the meeting would be held on Friday without fail. There are some back salaries due a few of last colts and the money for this Will have to be raised before anything