Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-03
CITY AMATEUR LEAGUE.
A Very Important and Far Reaching
 Rule Adopted Last Night.


 All the clubs were represented at the meeting of the City Amateur league which was held at the rooms of the St Joseph's T. A. society. Ow- ing to the fact that many of the play CTS would not be here on July and also because of the numerous excursions which are leaving Waterbury on that day it was decided to call off all the games scheduled for that day.
 A warm discussion then followed re- lative to the question of allowing play CTS of the various teams to desert their teams on many Saturdays and play in other cities with semi-profes- sional teams. It was intended last night to discipline couple of players who had persisted in playing last Sat- urday, but 1t was decided to give all the players one more chance and to that effect one of the strongest and most binding rules yet in use in the league was adopted unanimously. This rule is as follows:
 Any team in the City Amateur league who shall participate in any other game of baseball with any other team, semi-profe or otherwise, in this city or any other city, aside from the teams in this league, on any Saturday on which the teams of the City league are scheduled to play, or any other day in which the schedule calls for games in the City league, shall be suspended for the balance of the season Any team which uses a player after his suspension will for felt all games in which that player has participated.
 Tn this connection it might be well to state that any manager who knows of this rule being violated is supposed to report to the president of the league and after careful consideration of the matter and search of the facts in the case the president will authorize the suspension of the guilty player or the forfeiture of the games played with a suspended player in the lineup. This suspension and this forfeiture will take effect immediately after the de cision has been rendered by the presi- dent of the league.
 The dispute between the Pastime and the Merrimac teams as to the forfeiture of a game to the Pastimes for the non appearance of the Merrimacs on last Saturday, was settled by the Pastimes being given the game.
 A committee consisting of Managers Madden of the Brooklyns, Lydon of the St Josephs and Thompson of the North Ends was appointed to complete all tho arrangements for the schedule for the first Saturday following the declaration of the end of the trolley strike. This committee also has in charge another very important matter which will il time be unfolded. The next meeting of the league will be held one week from next Tuesday.
 City Amateur Notes. Charles Brennan, the former man ager of the Consolidated team, it was announced last night at the meeting has been elected an assistant manager of the Washington Hills.
 An effort is being made to ring Oar Cook into the City league once more but this effort will fail Cook canno pitch in this league under any circum stances. He has been paid for play 1 ing for years and last sea son. when there was some talk of his | playing with one of the teams tht manager of the team was advised no 1 to play him, as the game would be de clared forfeited.
 President Maher of the Merrimac! 1 represented that club at the meetins l last night, Manager Robert Haye. being absent.