Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-07

| Why not make try for Roy Evans 1 or Piatt, Roger? They might pitch the ! season out here as 1t Is getting late for them to sign with any of the big teams. Springfield Union.
 Danny Hoffman's excuse that he quit the Athletics because not played regu- larly was good one, but not the real cause. The youngster thought he was going too we'll for the salary he was getting. Sporting Life.
 Ladd ,lud Foster of Bridgeport have passed the 90 mark in safe hits. It looks now as if Holyoke will have two men past the century mark before any other team gets representative over. Batch has done it and Rossman has 93 hits.
 Pitcher Frank Donohue of the Cleve- lands, pitching for Wissahicken, lost to Wilmington A. A., o to 1, Saturday, al- though he held his opponents down to one hit. Faulkner of Boston Nationals pitched for Wilmington and was hit four times safely.
 First Baseman Robert Drew of the Meriden base ball club was reinstated yesterday morning by Manager Kenne- dy. Bob is very sorry for his actions, and has promised faithfully to do bet ter in the future. He is a good man on the initial bag, and his return will strengthen the team.
 Secretary O'Rourke has written to Manager Kennedy that Umpire Mer- rick's decision Monday in calling out Burke was wrong. O'Rourke says player does not have to follow the base when it breaks loose. Merrick says he called the man out for that. kenne- dy's contention that the game should be played over seems fair.
 Here's a good one related of Rube Vickers On his way to Bridgeport, Saturday, number of his friends en- ticed him into little game of poker and began to cheat in a joking way. But the giant twirler was wise. You big fatheads," he said, "do you think because they call me 'Rube' I just fell off haystack?" f
 Owners Reilly and Tracey of the Hartford team are in a quandary. Their receipts are almost nothing in Hartford and but for support from the rest of the circuit the team would have gone to the wall long ago. Hartford once possessed an Eastern league team, but failed to support it. And Hartford claims to be a sporting city.-New Ha- ven Courier
 Norwich, Aug. 7.-It is probable that the Norwich base ball team will accept the challenge announced by Manager Humphrey of the New London club for series of games with "any team in the Connecticut league" but which he now states was intended to mean only Norwich. No formal acceptance has been forwarded from the local manage ment, but action will no doubt be taken to-day ...-.
 Ahearn, the first baseman secured from New Haven, is acting captain of the team, Ira Thomas resigning the honor. With the exception of a new pitcher. whom Manager Reilly has in view. the Hartford team will probably remain as it is for the rest of the sea son. The team as it>now stands is be- lieved to be stronger than it has been at any time since the opening of the season. Manager Canavan tried to have the , first game yesterday forfeited to him because the uniforms of all the Hart ford players got mixed up with the i baggSoIe of some summer tourists. Wen Canavan thought it was time to i play there were but six Hartford men
 in uniform. The players were there, but some of them looked more like E.
 Berry Walls than they did like ath- l letes. Umpire Houle declined to de
 clare the forfeit and soon it rained so