Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-09
As Indianapolis Kansas City 6, h. dianapolis ?.
 At Columbus Columbus 3. St Paul ?.
 At Toledo-W Wet grounds.

a deal has been completed whereby
 Norman ElbeEfeld, the suspended
 shortstop of the Detroit club, nas been ! traded to the New York American
 league club in exchange for Herman
 Long and Courtney. The latter play
 CT will cover third base for Detroit
 The Tigers will play in New York
 the latter part of this week, and the
 story says the exchange will go into
 effect at that time.
 Elberfeld left Detroit for Tennessee yesterday with his family, but said be- : fore leaving that he would report 4 wherever he Is sent if the money held : out on fines and suspension were made \ good to him.
 The Springfield baseball team is to . be strengthened, and the fans will | hardly recognize it if the new players { who have arrived in town make good ' Joe Connor went to New York Satur- | day night and evidently did some great sl hustling. for he came back yesterday T with two players and two more are } to follow. Joe made the trip purposely Il to see Pete Kiernan, who formerly } played on the Waterbury team, and } of late has been playing Independent 5 ball.
 II, Kiernan has been kept in New York F by the illness of his wife, but said he : would come here if Mrs Kiernan s would agree to it. Joe saw Mrs K1er- : [nan and she: said she was too i'll to ], make the change.
 yI Last night, however, Roger Connor 7 received a telegram from Kiernan in a which he said he would report to-day. : It is therefore evident that Mrs Kier i. nan has changed her mind, and has < consented to let Pete come here. Kiernan will strengthen the inf1eld, for : he is fast on his feet has a good I head, and is fair hitter. He can 7 play any Of the inf1eld positions. but l, will probably be played at second \ The player who came with Joe Con- ! nor Is Joe Cavanaugh, an outhelder, pitcher and heavy hitter. He has been 7 playing on the Brighton team and was z highly recommended to Joe. Another , player on the same team who will be T given a trial is Michael Flynn. He is a little fellow, but is a fast inflelder and arrived in town last night. He is a great favorite in Brighton and was cheered when he went on the field Sum- day afternoon. r<.
 Page, who will be given a trial on first base, will arrive in the city the last of the week. He is recommended by Jack Chapman of Brooklyn, and in fact was given trial on the Brooklyn team earSg in the spring. He is big fellow and is a catcher and first base
 man. It is also said that he is good with the stick.
 Joe also had talk with Warren Nc
 Laughlin. who pitched for New Lon
 don last season and was given try out by Pittsburg this season. He is pitching independent ball at present
 and has several good offers pending. If he comes back into the Connecticut league, however, the chances are that he. will be with Springfield Spring field Union.
 Norwich has been the easy mark in
 the league for Springfield, Bridgeport
 for Holyoke, Meriden for New Haven
 and New London for Norwich, each
 losing four games. Every team in the
 league has lost to every other team
 except Springfield to Norwich, Hol-
 yoke to Bridgeport, Meriden to Hart
 ford and Bridgeport to New London. II There will be an important meeting : of the City Amateur league this even
 ing at the rooms of the St Joseph soci
 ety. It is more than likely that play ing on the Driving park will cease ean6 5 the games willy'be played in Wafervillt < and on the Riverside park grounds The grounds at the Driving park arc in no condition, nothing being done tc improve them and the expenses of talk
 ing teams to the grounds are toe
 heavy.
 < It is needless to go on enumeratng : the many instances in which the Con, necticut league has dissembled an6 > "gumshoeF' when it came to point
 where it had change to show its au-
 thority. Those who. continue to take
 the organization seriously when 1t be
 gins making bluffs about .sfning'' man | agers or players are simply making
 themselves extremely ridiculous E' Springfield News.
 Luke Dorsey, who may be with Hol
 yoke later in the season, is playing
 with the Wihitnsville independent | team Saturday he played good bal
 against Milford. Andy Coakley pitched '.l Milford to victory against Whitinsville
 Saturday. He was opposed by Hook
 CT of the Buffalo team Henry Roper
 who has played Connecticut league
 ball this season, accepted eight out od
 nine chances for Milford at shortstop | There has been one agreeable fea
 ture in Holyoke baseball the past week
 and that is in the matter of umpires The objections to Fricken, however seem to be general, and though none O the other managers was willing tt
 take the particular steps that Mana ger O'Neill saw fit to adopt, they al
 agree that it was for the best good O the league that the crisis came, ant Y though the Holyol1e manager is liabl
 to a fine, everybody seems satisfied
 that the affair will die a natural death i, and that nothing more will be don, o' about it. There is still lots of enthus
 iasm in the Paper City. The fans ar
 still hungry for baseball, and are will
 ing to support good beam, and that i