Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-01
TIE DIAMOND.
First Game in Boston and Pitts
 burg Series To-Day.

First Game In Boston ana P1CtS-
 burg Series To-Day.
 Boston is Picked for a Winner By
 the sports-Philadelphia Americans
 Trim the Nationals-The Big
 League Teams Touring the Country
 -~Other Baseball News.
 Philadelphia Oct 1.-The Philadel- phia American and National teams be- gan series of ten exhibition games yesterday on the American league grounds. The former champions or the American league won yesterdays game by batting rally in the eighth
 The score: h.n; r. phila Am. oOOo 1o5 - 13 3 Phila Nat o o 2 O l O*--S ,
 Batteries--Bender ands PoWers' Daggleby and Dooin.
 Altoona .o5o 5oooo1o 6 l Ros. N T.. o1oOo o o---3 Il
 Batteries-Hollis and Needham; Pit tinger and Dexter.
 At Williamsport: R.H, E. Detr't A. L. o o O---5 williamsp't 0 0 o o o o>0-o
 Batteries-Donovan and Buelow; Lush and Donovan.
 At Buffalo: R.H. E; Buf B. L. 1oo.l 0 o o--2 ' 4 Cleye A L. 10 l 0---S
 Ratterfes-Ferry and Shaw; Bern hardt, Moore and Abbott
 At Elmira.
 Elmira. N. Y, Oct 1.-The New York National league team easily de- feated the Father Matthew aggrega- ton hera yesterday afternoon by score of 8 to ?. Matthewson was hit freely in the first inning, but after ward steadied down ard allowed only a few scattered hits Danny Rich ardson unpired the game.
 The magnates who for years con- tended that newspaper writers could not be transformed into practical base ball men are confronted by the success of Presidents Johnson and Putnam who possess business sense, fairness and official assertiveness.--Sporting News
 Leon Annes. the new New York Ma fional league pitcher, is from Warren, O., and has shown such good form that he promises to be the pitching nnd of the year He is now 21 years old, a Hercules and still developing. His habits are model. Re never took R drink: he smokes cigar now and then. and he is in bed at 10 o'clock every night He is up at 6, and the best thing about him is that he writes g letter every day to his mother.
 George Hemming, who closed the baseball season with the Montreal team of the Eastern league, arrived in Springfield yesterday to spend the winter. George does not think the Eastern league season will come trail- ing any clouds of glory and will not be dead sorry if he gets a good opening to play in the Connecticut league He said be would like nothing better than holding down the initial bag for Springdeld or some other Connecticut league team, Hemming was said to haze aspira tions to become the owner of the Hartford team, but your Uncle George says a pronounced nay to this. He states that he has the opportunity to play In Hartford next season, but has not had any intiination that Tom Reilly intends quitting baseball in that city. He is not inclined to look for much of season in the Eastern league next year, and for that reason would prefer good opening on the Nutmeg circuit
 Long John'' Ganzel and Clark Gri1ith Of the New York Americans, were gunninr near Grand Rapids, Mich One day last fall--Ganzei tells the story the two surrounded a duck pond in the woods. The hunters crept up from either side, peeped through the bushes and beheld the pond literally packed with ducks. At signal they blazed away with both barrels right into the middle of the flock. To the surprise and chagrin of the. hunters the birds arose in a body and started to fly away, without leav-s ing so much as feather in the pond s'It was the queerest sight ever wit messed" said Ganzel. ''When the flock got up a couple of hundred feet dead ducks commenced to drop one after another Then they came down in punches, while great cloud of feathers blew off to the leeward. For about minute the sky rained ducks. You see, the flock was so tightly pack cd in the pond that the survivors, af. ter our shots, carried the dead ones up with them. Then, wksn the flock loosened up bit to escape in different directions, the dead birds naturally dropped out of the bunch"
 Ira Thomas, the successor of Billy Buttman and Bert Daly in the cap taincy of the Hartford baseball club, closed the season with Newark Sunday and was in this city yesterday, says the Hartford Oourant. Thomas made a good impression in Newark and the club wants his services for next sea- son. Newark paid Manager Reilly $500 for Thomas. but Thomas claims that he need not remain with Newark unless he cares to. He said that if a satisfactory figure is not offered he might return to Hartford, but he ex- pected to secure from Newark what IA 4Se