Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-06

| The Philadelphia Record thinks Con-
| ME Mack has secured good one IN
DAILY, former Hartford second base
/ man.
| Thanks to the good offices Of Dan
| O'Neill, Phil Corcoran has gone back
J to Bridgeport. A man like Dan Is a.
| pretty good one to have about after
all, Mr. TRourke-Spring6eld Union.
Danny Hoffman seems to take his
pull-back by Connie Mack good-na-
| turedly. He is playing excellent ball
| during Hartsel's enforced absence from
the team. Washington Post
Even church leagues have their
troubles "Our players are deliber-
ately butted, spiked and disabled by
players on the other teams" declares
a member of the church league in
| Washington.
| No player in long time has so i'm
pressed New Workers by his snappy
work in all departments as Elberfeld.
He is a player of the Tinker Parent
style Gilbert is Just as fast and live
| ~, but does not hit as well as the other
three.
James FL. McTernan, 10 years old, Of
/ 8 Clayton street, Newark, N. j., died
/ late Tuesday night as the result Of
being struck in the face by a batted
base ball while engaged in a game with
several other boys in a vacant lot on
| Saturday last.
| Will some one please state what was
| the matter with the Detroit manage
ment when 1t let Pitcher = eering go
| to New York? Or was it some inside
baseball politics to strengthen the one
| at the expense of the other? That
| fellow is some pumpkins, for sure
| Washington Post -
Manager Humphrey of the New LON
don baseball team has authorized the
publication of the statement that he
will back the New London team for
| $1,000 in series of three or FIVE games
against any club In the Connecticut
league, to be played Immediately after
the close OF the league season.
II Kane makes good with New Ha-
ven there will be more weeping up
| Springfield way. Still it will not make
| much difference just now whether that
team Is improved or not. 1t will be
| difficult to get much higher i'll the
standing, as all the teams ahead of her
are playing pretty rapid base ball.
| Manager Caravan of the New Ha-
| vens has signed j. F. Kane. who has
| pitched fer Amherst college for two
| seasons. although he was declared a
| professional by Williams and Wesley
| an before that Kane has been with the
| Toledo team till last week, when he
was released. He is a left-hander
and when he Is steady. is one of the
most effective pitchers In the country
AS Secretary O'Rourke has issued his
! final decision on the games pitched by
| Vickers, that all the games in which
he pitched, whether won or lost, should
be thrown out, 1t is presumed likely
that the Bridgeport Post which is sup
posed to be the mouthpiece of the Sec
Rotary, has the correct standing, That
standing Is probably the most official
one that can be obtained and is given
today In this paper.
Detroit and New York give us more
trouble than all the other clubs" says
i Manager Mack of the American league
| champions. "We can beat Boston and
| Cleveland, but the first named two are
hard game for us. figure that there
are five clubs that have a chance for
the pennant. Why the Cleveland club
is not higher UP cannot understand.
1t is certainly great team in make
up
A statistician on the Washington
Post sums up the hospital list of the
Pittsburg team as follows; Wagner,
both ankles injured, thumb dislocated;
Bransfield. weak ankle Leach bad
throwing hand; Phelps. sprained ankle;
Smith, weak knee and bad hand; Phil
lippe. lame back; Ritchey, dizzy spells;
Wilhelm, just recovering from Illness;
Veil, weak and run down from recent
illness; Kennedy. Gashed leg; Clarke,
lame shoulder: sebring, lame ankle
Sounds like the story of a railroad
wreck.
There are now three managers in
the Connecticut league who are offer
ing 500 to be divided among the play
ers should they land the pennant That
would be very easy $500 because the
returns for even getting close to the
pennant would pay it back in one
game. Would 1t not be a better idea,
and be more appreciated by the play
ers, If that 500 was tackled on as an
inerease in salary ?--Waterbury Demo
cTat, HUSH! Ine very WorQ salary
gives most of them heart disease
Springfield News.
Pitcher Lynch of the Brown UNIVERSE
ty team writes that he is receiving nc
remuneration for playing on the New
port, N. H., team, that he ID working al
the Newport house, that he has In nc
way violated his standing as an anna
teur, that he does not need to play foi
! money and he obtained his present po
> sition before the present baseball con
) nection was thought of. All Of this
may be true, but that does not alter the