Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-16


 ture the first position. Hartford is managed by Tom Reilly and Tom Reil- ly belongs in Meriden. Hartford and Meriden played two games yesterday and Hartford was igrlominiously beat en in both games.
 Clark Griffith, manager of the New York American league team, has decld- ed to put in Harry Howell to pitch against the Hobokens at the St George cricket grounds, Hoboken, on sunday. Lindeman, Hoboken's star twirler, Will be in the box for the Jerseymen. The game should be exciting, as the Jer- seyn1en always play a hard game against league teams.
 President Pulliam of the National league yesterday announced that he has fined Frank Bowernan, catcher of the Giants, $1O0 for the assault made on Fred Clarke of the Pittsburgs at the Polo grounds on June 26. The inn position of this fine, MT ,Pulliam said, was decided upon after an examfna- tion of the, testimony submitted by the participants in the brawl and several witnesses.
 Frank Donahue, the St Louis pitcher
 
 drinking bottle of beer, and who is also president of the Players Protec- tive league, has wired friend in St Louis to forward all his personal ef- fects to him at Philadelphia. This would indicate that Donahue adheres to his determination not to pay the fine and has jumped the American league.
 The New York club did not take the disputed player, George Davis, along on the trip west. Injunction proceed ings awaited the player in Chicago and St Louis and it was thought best not to run into any more trouble with hinl McGraw is almost sorry that he start ed the squa'bble, as Davis did not play much of a game in New York, and Balbb, who has played the position, is much superior to Davis. George is hardly worth the powder that has been used in the battle Washington Post
 Secretary O'Rourke refers to the time that Ted Lewis of the Boston National league team pitched in this league, but he does not say what the penalty was on that occasion. If the writer remembers correctly Fred Doe pitched Lewis in several games and Bridgeport was fighting hard to get the lead away from Norwich. Bridge port took q slump and New Haven passed her into second place. Nor Wich won the pennant and would have won without Lewis. Has it ever been recorded that the games pitched by Lewis were thrown out
 Waterbury does not want to get into the Connecticut league in place of Holyoke because the people of this city never like to get in with a crowd of squealerss Talk about Dan O'Neill and write about him as much as you please, but every manager will have to take off his hat to the Holyoke manager and to his bunch of fast play CTS. He brought life into the league and a whole lot of the long green and that is what all the managers are look ing for in preference to the pennant. If they want to kill the goose that laid the golden egg they have that privi4 lege.
 Jimmy Canavan should remember when he votes on the question of throwing out the Helyoke games in which Vickers pitched, his own experi- ence in 1SS9. At that time when New Haven was leading the league there was some talk of throwing out the games played by New Haven with players borrowed from Springfield Waterbury was second in the league standing and the players now on the HolyoKe team kicked against calling off those games, although it would give them a better chance for the pen nant The other managers in this league should remember that little af- fair also.
 MT O'Rourke says there is no ono who can regret more than he the turn affairs of the league have taken. He says he is anxious. for a meeting ss the tangle can be unraveied and the league get back to doing business on a ! businesslike basis. As his honest opinion he gives that all the games pitched by vickers should Joe forfeited ito the clubs playing those games with Holyoke and this is the action which he expects the league to take. He does not believe that Holyoke should have any redress on the games Vickers lost and says the league has a prece | dent for action. The precedent was
 he said, in games won for Connecticut I6dEuC C1ubS ,Dy AAAVDCddAH Ted Lewis MT O'Rourke did not re. member the exact circumstances, but l thought the cases came the year before last and he was Of the opinion tha1
 the New London club was concerned iI | at least one of them. The case o1 | Vfckers, he said, he considers in nt l other light than the use of farmed player and he thinks the league shoulG 1 put the stamp of it's disapprovdl on i ] without delay. He will call a meet l ing in short time, as Manager O'Neil
 of Holyoke notified him he would asl for one.
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