Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-16
BASE BALL NEWS.
Holyoke Will Have the Waterbury
 Ball Team.

who is member of the circuit com mittee of the Connecticut Baseball ! league, will call a meeting of the committee for tomorrow, when a re- port will be formulated and sent to 1 structions from the directors at the. last meeting the secretary will convene l the league as soon as'possible after re- ceiving the report. A. E. DeWolfe, who l is on the editorial staff of the Holyoke Transcript, has come. to terms with Manager Harrington of Waterbury for the franchise of that city and it will be transferred to Holyoke. 1t is said l that the directors are unanimous for | the addition of Holyoke to the league. l Canavan was in Holyoke last week and he inspected several sites for the proposed baseball grounds Manager Bristol of the committee looked over the conditions in Waterbury. Manager | Connor requested that he be left out of the Investigating process, as his home is in Waterbury and he holds the Springfield franchise. He will agree with the recommendations of the other members of the committee. Harrington will have nothing to do with the management of the club in Holyoke, although. he will hold some shares of stock in the company. Hol- yoke will have the Waterbury players who were reserved at the close of last season and the contracts that Harring- ton has made with several new men. Billy Lush is expected to come here to-day to confer with President Soby about securing the Hartford franchise or getting. an interest in the club. When he was here last week he did not come to terms with the president l and he took the offer under advise ment. If no agreement can be made with Lush, Bill Kreig will be ordered to come on, as he is anxious to man. age the team. McCallister, who played center field last year, has written to friends here that he would like to man. | age the Hartford team, but it is not peiieved that he has any financial backing. Hartford Courant.
 | Local parties have been after the l franchise, but there does not seem to he any possibility of having a profes- sional team here this season. The To- cal parties, it is said, would put Pete Hall, the former crack infielder of the Waterbury team back in the winning days of this city, in as manager. There would be no better man to handle h l team than Hall and it is too bad he could not have had the team for the past two seasons and there would now l be no talk of dropping Waterbury.
 The securing of suitable grounds will be the chief obstacle to keeping l team in this city this season. There have been many rumors that there are several sites which can be secured, but let us assume for a moment that ] there are such sites. It will cost over 1 S1,0O0 to put grounds in any sort of condition. That is the minimum price and before the local enthusiasts got through with the arrangements the cost of opening the grounds with ball team with the franchise and all would be nearer S2,OOO. t Waterbury has not been such a good paying ven ture- that there are people in this city willing to throw money away blindly Then, too, there is the feeling of the sympathizers of the strikers to be over- come Certainly no grounds can De secured in the center of the city and ! if you have to go outside there is the possibility of the people refusing to ride on the cars. There are all those things and many others which local promoters would have to contend with and if they do want to tackle the game against such odds they are pos 1 sessed of a whole lot of sand.
 l PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16, AN
 though postponed, Barney Dreyfuss,
 who has in hand the details for the
 purchase of the Philadelphia Baseball l club, says that the deal will be con
 summated tomorrow.
 There is no financial hitch" said the
 Pittsburg magnate. "I now have
 enough money to buy the club if
 wanted to, but I do not care to invest
 myself. I want to get everything set tied up before Tuesday evening. when
 would like to get away if possible"
 The option expires on Tuesday. and
 1t is hardly likely that there will be
 any further time asked for.
 "Major'' Taylor Wins I'm Australia.
 MELBOURNE, Feb. 16.-"Major" Taylor, who comes from America as
 the champion cyclist of the world, has
 been making some good records in
 Sydney, where he has proved himself
 to be a better man than any of his | competitors. He has won many big l prizes and is making money at rapid !. rate. He is to be in Melbourne next
 week, and the Australian Natives as-
 sociation has paid him E1OO to ride in
 their biggest event, a distance of two
 miles. He will also meet Robl, the
 champion pace follower of the world, and Piet Dickentman, the champion of.
 Europe, who have been breaking down
 all past records behind cycle motors. The performances of these two men
 have revolutionized cycling in the anti
 podes. It is quite usual thing to sec 10000 spectators at a bicycle race.
 American Lost at Billiards.
 PARIS, Feb. 16.-Louis Cure (French) | won the first game in the internation