Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-08
THE DIAMOND.
City Amateur League Elected
 Officers Last Night.

Managers Are Hustling for Players by
 Every Scheme-Thomas l.. Reilly
 Awarded the Franchise for Hart
 ford-"Honest John" Kelly Has a
 Bad Opinion of the New York Ma
 tionals.
 The City Amateur league held a meeting last evening at the rooms of the St Joseph society and still further perfected arrangements for the open ing of the season. The old officers who had served during the past year were not present and Mark Lydon of the St Joseph's acted as temporary chairman and James A. Thompson of the North Ends as secretary. l.. Y This season a new office has been added to the list, that of treasurer. The following were the officers electeds President, D. l.. Maloney; secretary, James A, Thompson, treasurer, Mark Lyton. The new officers have already assumed their duties and at the next meeting which will be held Tuesday, April H. the president will appoint schedule committee.
 Another rule was added to the list of rules and 1t is one which was adopt ed last season but was not included in the regular selection. It gives the pres ident power to punish all players guilty of rowdyisnl. This rule worked to good advantage last season and will be strictly enforced this season.
 There was much discussion and at times the arguments waxed extremely warm over the selection of players. Some of the managers accused others of tampering with the men on their re- serve lists and with offering them mon ey to join other teams. There is q rule governing all such cases, which pre- vents any manager from paying a play CT and if such case Is proven all games in which the paid player is used, are declared forfeited. This is another rule which will be enforced this sea son. At the next meeting all the man. agers will hand in list of their play CTS and it will then be seen whether two or more managers are reservinE tho same players. That of course can be done, but the first team with which each player gets into the game will control that player for the season.
 All Saturday games will be played on the driving park and the Sunday games will be played in Waterville grounds, the Riverside park, the Wa terbury Driving park and perhaps some 0 fthe games in the north end. The umpires for the coming season will also be chosen at the next meeting. Applications for the position can be sent to the president and all such will be acted on.
 The following were present at the meeting last night: Pastimes, Mart Mcdonald; Washington Hills, James Kelly; St Josephs, Mark Lydon; Merri- macs, James Hayes; North Ends, James A. Thompson.
 Memphis, Tenn, April s.-During a discussion between Honest John'' Kelly and "Shad" Williams, in the lob- by of the Peabody hotel, as to tie rela- tive merits of the different baseball teams in the National league this year, couple of big wagers were made Kelly bet Williams $500 that the Gin cinnati team would not finish first or second and $500 that the New York team would not be either first, second or dhird. Williams then offered to bet $1,O00, provided Kelly would lay him to 5, that the Pittsburg club would win the pennant. Kelly refused to do business against Pittsburg. He said: . ,s
 1T think that the Pittsburg club will win. It's team work excels that of any other club in the league, while they are as strong as ever in the pitching depart ment. New York has a better team than last year, Cincinnati and New York seem to be hoodooed, however They start out all right, but go tc pieces. It Is for this reason that laid against them."