Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29
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| AL 0, 11lOu |. | Ex-Umpire Dan Shannon has been 1 appointed manager of the JohnstoWn club.
 Fred Doe is looking anxiously into the horizon, in the hope that somewhere he may find an approaching speck that will resolve itself into a brand new l base ball deliverer.
 Roger Connor's sensational catches and generally fine play at first base were all forgotten yesterday, when he i kept muffing thrown balls. It wasn't | al bit the kind of ball Roger has been playing. .s Here is Rube Waddell's own story of his fight with a rooter at Philadelphia: "When the fellow struck I thought had a 2O0-pounder. He tried to shake off my hook, but I drew him in and gave him the gaff. He was all done for, so just took him by the gills and Topped him."
 Manager Connor expects two new I pitchers to join the team soon. One of them is Kenney of Newark, N. J., who cannot be there. before Sunday, and the other is Kenske of Oswego, N. Y, who formerly pitched in the New England league and who Manager Con- nor thinks he has been given trial by Connie Mack.
 Pitcher Ed Doheny of the Pittsburg team yesterday deserted the club. He has been acting strangely for some time, and contended to Manager Clarke that detectives have been fol- lowing him constantly, that he could not stand it any longer and would give them the slip by going to his home in Andover, Mass.
 Frank Donahue is only pitching in- dependent ball and here is a chance for some of the Connecticut league teams to make dicker for this corking good twirler He is good friend of Roger Connor and it would be good idea if Springfield made a try for him. True, he might cost two or three hundred month, but he would be worth 1t.
 NIihe Delaney is playing fast ball for the Norwich team and in the two games yesterday his work was very noticeable. In the first game he had two hits, three putouts and two assists In the second game he had one hit ana five assists. He made two errors 1n that game, but they were not costly
 Bill Clements, an old-time Connecti- cut. league player, will appear in the box for New Haven to-day. Clements has played with Meriden, Springfield, the Hartford Eastern league team, and played with the Bristol State league team when that team won the cham pionship two years ago. Clements has been with the Providence team this season. He will probably remain in New Haven during the rest of the sea- son.
 The managers of the City Amateur league held a meeting last night and scheduled two postponed games for next Saturday. The St Joseph's soci- ety will give their annual excursion on that day and but two games can De played The games will be contested on the Riverside park grounds. The Pastimes and the MerTimacs will meet each other at o'clock and the North Ends and the Washington Hills will get together at 1 o'clock. This last game will be a battle royal, for the Washington Hills are leading the league and the, North Ends are one game behind them.
 Rube Waddell signed an agreement
  away and pitch for the Independent teams any more. Then he started out to break records, and the first stunt he performed was that of striking out fourteen men in a game against the White Sox. This, however, did not satisfy Rube, and just to keep his name in a conspicuous place he Tanned" twelve of the St Louis Browns on Fri day. and incidentally Jumped into the grand stand and removed an offensive spectator. The season is not ended. and Rube will probably do something yet that will electrify the world.-Chi- cago Tribune. Eaters in the 300 class are quite plentiful in the Boston American team at present, there being six in all, two being pitchers. Dougherty, and Parent" are having hot chase for first honors. Ten men on the nine have .273 or over for batting percentage. Parent is giv- ing Freeman a warm chase for the pre- mier two-base hitter of the team and also triple honors. Criger continues to play a fast fielding game. Collins and Ferris are holding their own with the third and second basemen of either league, and Dougherty is playing good ball in left. No player has less than .912 for fielding Dougherty, Collins and Parent are ahead in base stealing, Lachance in sacrifice hits.
 Baseball presidents gathered in New York yesterday to discuss new na- tional agreement. Ban Johnson, presi- dent of the American league is i'll in Chicago, and nothing was done yester- day save to discuss the, subject tnfor- mally. There were present Presidents Pulliam of the National league, Harris of the California league, Powers of the Eastern league, Hickey of the Ameri- can association, Sexton of the Western l league and Farrell of the New York State league. Hickey expressed him. self as being in favor of the plan sug gested by Johnson, that committees from the different leagues should draw up the agreement. There will be an- other confab to-day, but in the absence