Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-15

him go. and Woody" will once more go into the theatrical business. He is through with the Holyoke team for good.
 Rossman, woodruff and Fitzpatrick are wonders With the stick. Neither Rossman nor Woodruff scored hit, but they drove the ball close to the fences, the fielders capturing the leath- CT after great runs. Fitzpatrick made three singles.
 Batch, Holyoke's left fielder, made the most sensational fly catch ever seen on the Savin Rock grounds. ConneH sent the ball soaring for what ap- peared to be a clean hit. Batch caught the ball just two feet from the ground after one of the swiftest runs ever wit messed. The crowd cheered him for several minutes.
 Billy Lush, the Detroit American league outfielder and former Springfield playing manager, is at his home in New Haven, i'll. The doctors there say that he has strained his heart and have ad- vised him to take a good lay-of. Lush feels that he needs his salary, and will report for duty as soon as 1t Is possible for him to resume play.
 When Joe Connor was at bat in the beginning of the eighth foul tip struck Umpire Dolan on the chest and knocked him completely down and out. It is said that Joe started to give him the count. but that is not verified. When Dolan recovered he oficiated back of the pitcher until some merciful person gave him a chest protector. He was hit again later, but was able to smile over the top of his arraor plate.--- Bridgeport Standard.
 Manager Canavan is placing Roger Connor in an extremely absurd posi- ton. The handsome James ayers that Roger told him to use his own judg- mena in casting the Springfield vote on the vickers question, and denies that Connor instructed him to have the vickers games thrown out. Con- nor maintains that the opposite is true. 1t appears to be mere question of veracity between the two estimabfe gentemen.--Springfeld News.
 The idea of throwing out the games won by Holyoke when Vfckers was pitching and allowing those to stand which Holyoke lost with Vickers in, is too utterly absurd, too ridiculous a child play to be listened to. Dan O'Neil, one of the men in the league who does not propose to fall on his knees in suppncation for his justice, says he will maintain his rights man. fully and when they are childishly talk en away, if they are will refuse to have anything to do with the crowd.-- Holyoke Telegram.
 There will be consolidation of the big base ball leagues next season. There will be left but one team in St Louis and one in Chicago, and each will be in the American league. Into that league will also go Cincinnati and Pittsburg. The remainer of the league will take in Boston, New York, ,Cleve- land, Philadelphia (where it looks like consolidation Of the two present clubs). Detroit, Washington, either Brooklyn or Providence, and Baltimore. Hanlon is likely to go to Baltimore Brockton Enterprise.
 Versatile .'Doc' Reisling has earned the title of being the base ball Jack of-all- Trades" by his work at Toledo yesterday. The manager has now played about every position to be played on team if our memory serves Us right. He has this season occupied
 
 or other with the exception of first base Reisling yesterday oficiated be- hind the bat for eight innings, and with the game in danger of slipping out of his hands he went into the box and pitched the Hopefuls to victory. Refs. ling is without doubt the most versatile player in the association. Dick Will Hams comes next to him in this re spect, he being able to either twirl or catch and play a fair outfeld. The men in base ball who can creditably officiate at both ends of the battery work are rare, but when they can play most any other position too it is feat worth mentioning.-Columbu Dis patch.
 Delehanty's widow is left in destitute circumstances. Delehanty was mem- Der of Erie lodge, Az, Fraternal Order of Eagles, of Philadelphia, but it is said that he was in arrears with his dues, and his widow will derive no benefit from tht source unless the in- dividual members contribute some thing. The. drowned player had about $200 in his pockets when he left De- troit, and also had about $2,O0O worth of diamonds which belonged to a Washington dealer, which Delehanty was trying to sell among ball players on the trip west. All these were lost in the clothes that were torn off his person in the passage down the Mag ara river. The Washington club will raise money for Mrs Delehanty, and the players in other clubs will be in vited to ontirubte. Frank Delehanty says that he will sue the Michigan Gen. tral railroad company for causing his brothers death. He declares that the company is responsible because it's off, cials have admitted that Delehanty was not drunk when he boarded the train. and that if he became drunk afterward it was from liquor sold to him by the railroad.
 THB PITCHER.