Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-18
BASE BALL NEWS.
Waterbury Is Now Down And Out of Connecticut League.

Out of Connecticut League. Holyoke Has the Call and Springfield
 Is Now Happy-Hartford Settles Up
 Her Bill and Gan Stay In the League
 American League Will Have Rlenty
 of New Blood.
 New Haven, Feb 1S.-The Connecti- cut State league base ball magnates held another meeting In the Hotel Garde yesterday afternoon. Those present were Vice-President C. J. Dan- aher of Meriden, Secretary James O'Rourke of Bridgeport, James Cana van of New Haven, D. Morrissey of Norwich, F. L. Shea of New London, R. Connor of Springfield, George Har rington of Waterbury, John Service of Hartford and A. E. DeWolffe of Hol- yoke.
 The greater part of the meeting was devoted to a consideration of the Hol- yoke matter. The report of the circuit committee was submitted by Manager Canavan and Holyoke was admitted to the league, the deal between MT Har- rington and MT DeWolffe being entire ly satisfactory to the other magnates Mir DeWolffe becomes the owner and manager of the former Waterbury franchise including the services of the players signed by Harrington and the paraphernalia of the club.
 It was voted to open the season on May and to close the season on Sep 4or oIaNr .sj-1~rx AL as compared with that of last year just four days. The number of games to be played will, however, be the same as last year. James Canavan and Vice. President Danaher were appointed committee to draft schedule and to report the same at the next meeting of the league.
 At the meeting last Wednesday the Hartford club was warned to pay it's dues and that this was the Hast call' Yesterday the dues were paid Now, when the bills with the players have been settled. the Capitol club will be in line for business.
 A very unusual communication was received from the local Bar Tenders union, requesting that the magnates hold no more meetings at the Hotel Garde, as the bar tenders employed at the Garde are non-union men. The communication was read and accepted and the league voted to notify the Bar Tenders union that the matter will he investigated
 President Whee1ock of the league is now in the south. The league voted to e1Iend to him a vote of thanks for his eInclent work of last year and he was appointed committee of one on trans portation.
 The next meeting will be held in this cIty about the middle of March and at lIdI tl1ne the report of the schedule .,, eoi,llnittee Will be submitted. hall VII, VIII pc off1cially adopted and umpires Nearly fifty newcomers will ba t.,oa oue py AHleflcan league clubs this sea- son Many of them are among the pest or the minor leaguers, and it is 5 tliaC numerous stars will be secured Chicago has no less tban nine upon The list, while Cleveland win try out eight
 vomlskey's big bunch consists of tha loiio"lng Lee Tannehill, Billy Hau- n| l,aan hylef, Patsy Flaherty, Dunlxe OWe7ns, Odwell, C.. Jones and noran < haiinehlll was the star shortston of the louisville team of the American assoclatlon. He broke his leg d,,rino, the middle of last season. Flahart1 ana Dunkle, both pitchers. come fron, lhe same team. Neither is aotuaI1,, new 70 fast company, FIaherty havino plIched for Pittsburg a few yaa7,s oo,o while Dunkle was with the pgiI. ds1 phlas for two seasons Both did o,.e,c WoFk' however, for Louisville last year leading the American association tuir1 CTS n average of games won
 Pitcher Owens is anofhar u4,o ,, l been "on earth' before. bavina ,.o celved a brief trial with Detroit +u.o years ago. Billy Hallman is a nenba,,, or Billy Hallman, the former Cla1ya lander, and two years ago was a mam- Der of the Milwaukees. Pitcher Er Ter has also had a big league carner l'Delng with Philadelphia seyeral voa,.s ago. e1ai 7 ears
 odWell, the heavy hitting outfelder the pest batter in the American associ- ation, IS star man, but, accordino to ,uiilor, Comlskey may not be able to mold him, as it is stated that OdwalI nad signed Louisville contract q Jones was an outfielder in Denver 1a s+ year, while Doran put up q good oa4n6 Tn the outfield in one of the Three-T league clubs
 me select list of star players award ed New York has been strengthened by q judicious choice from the minor leagues, Griffith having five on his Iist. Catcher Beville was with Kansas Citv last year and caught and hit his way into popular favor. Wolfe. one of the best pitchers in the American as soclatlon last season, is a half brother 10 Bill Phillips, of the Cincinnatis. and was much sought after by Nation-. al league clubs. Then there is Ad- k1ns, the big college twirler, who got brief trial by Jimmy Collins last year, and was then turned over to Hughey Duffy for exastience. John Ganzell, the first baseman. has been seen in the big leagues before, playing with the New Yorks several years ago. He is said to be faster