The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-11
CONNECTICUT LEAGUE MEETS
CONNELL MATTER TO BE DEFT
 NITELK SETTLED TO-DAY.


 vfchors Case to be Decided Upon at Next nIeefing E. Ump Raised
 strenuous Efforts to be Made to Keep the Game Clean.
 At the meeting of the directors of the
 Connecticut Baseball league held in the
 Hotel Garde last evening the matter of
 the Holyoke-Meriden game which was forfeited by the Holyoke team owing to objections to the umpire came up for |consideration. Manager O'Neil, of the Holyoke team, notified the secretary of the league that he would not play un-l der Umpire Frickens, and the super visor of un1pires, MT. Killeen. notified Frickens to change his schedule, but the latter persisted in umpiring the game, anyway. The protest was laid over last might until another meeting.
 The Vickers case was also brought up. The claim was made that Vickers Twas a farmed-out player from the ma |jor league. which is against the rules of | the Connecticut league.
 Manager 0 Neil claimed that vickers was member of his team and assigned to him on such terms as any other member of the league. The vote on the question was tie, aifd MT. Dana her, acting president, dissolved the tie by voting to throw out the games in which Vickers played, MT. O'Neil took an appeal on the legality of the vote, claiming that by the action of MT. Dam aher Meriden voted twice. MT. Kenne- dy, manager of the Meriden team. who also voted and who is not director, MT. O'Neil claimed, had no right to vote. The appeal was also taken be- cause MT. Canavan was not allowed to vote on the proxies of the Springfield and New London clubs, although 1t was formerly customary to accept the word of the man holding the proxies, whether he had a written proxy or not. Upon reconsideration this question was also laid over until another meeting. |. The clubs which voted to throw out the games were Hartford, Meriden and Bridgeport.
 The Hardesty matter was the next to
 come up for consideration. The league had voted at a former meeting that in case the player was taken away from New Haven the New Haven manager would be reimbursed by the Hartford club for the advance money given to Hardesty, which was $60. MT. Reilly moved that the Springfield club, with whom Hardesty is now playing, keep this amount out of Hardesty,s salary and pay the same to Manager Canavan, of the New Haven team. In case Springfield defaults it will be up to the Hartford club to make this amount good to the New Ravens.
 The umpire salary question was next taken up. The salaries were raised to
 s7 game, $1O for double-headers and $2 for stormy days when thee will be no game. The umpires requested that the league pay them $175 a month upon the condition that they pay their own ex- penses, and the league voted fayorab bly, upon this proposition.
 The umpires will hereafter be obliged to wear uniforms, and they must be very particular to see that the language used by the players was gentlemanly and courteous. If any player shall use profane or violent language he is to be
 heavily fined for the first offense, and
 for the second offense the penalty will
 be to. quit the game. The umpires were also given to understand that the
 league would back them up thoroughly in their efforts to keep the game clean. The Connell matter will be definitely settled to-day, The directors adjourn ed at 11:30. The next meeting will be subject to the call of the secretary.