Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-12
BASE BALL NEWS.
Manager Harrington Was at
 Yesterdays Meeting.

He Has Nothing to Offer the Mag
 mates But Promises and Town Without Grounds-Tommy Dowd Is After the Holyoke Franchise-An
 Important Circuit Committee Ap-
 pointed.
 l New Haven, Feb 12.-The magnates ! of the Connecticut league began their work for the coming season when they met yesterday afternoon in the Hotel Garde, New Haven, and discussed sev- eral problems. The one point mostly | discussed was the situation in Water bury and it was the general opinion or the magnates that Waterbury will be out of it this season. Manager liar rington of Waterbury tried to explain 1 the circumstances, but ne evidently did not make a very strong impression on those present. He stated that the old 1 Waterbury grounds could not be se- l cured, but in all probability he could | get others. Manager Sewell of the | trolley company, he said, had agreed l to "at new grounds, but as that was before the strike the managers did not believe the Waterbury trolley manager would bother his head much about base 1 ball grounds, as he had bother enough l for one season in handling the strike. 1 Manager Harrington tried to explain that he could get grounds in Holyoke and that there were number of peo- pie up in the Massachusetts city who I would back him in base ball. This 1 statement also was taken with several l grains of salt by the league directors, because they knew that if grounds were to be secured there Tommy DoWd | had the whip hand and also held the key to the situation. The managers | were patient listeners to all those stories from the Waterbury manager, and then the following committee was appointed to look up the matter of a circuit: Roger Connor of Springfield, James Canavan of New Haven and ". F. Bristol of Meriden.
 Roger Connor is anxious to see a team in Holyoke and Tommy Dowd being an old ball player, is also I an old friend of the Springfield mag nate. Connor may be friendly to Har rington, too, but business is business with the old war horse when it comes down to making money. Then, too, Connor virtually gave the Waterbury l franchise to Harrington when he sold it for $250 or $500. He will probably figure that if Harrington cannot pro- duce grounds the franchise is not worth 2 cents, and as Tommy Dowd wants Holyoke and has the goods to show, he will probably get the bill of sale. H.ol- yoke, with base ball grounds and with a popular fellow like Tommy Dowd to ] manage 8 team, is worth a lot more than Waterbury without base ball 1 grounds
 At the meeting yesterday Vice-Presi- dent Danaher of Meriden presided, in the absence of President Whitlock. The clubs were represented as follows: Bridgeport, O'Rourke; Waterbury, Harrington; Springfield, Roger Connor and Joe Connor; New London, Shea; Norwich, Morrisey; Meriden, Bristol; l Hartford, Serviss, and New Haven, l Canavan.
 During the meeting it was announced that the Hartford club will be given one week in which to pay it's assess ments and in the event of failure to pay the club will lose it's franchise
 John w. Serviss of Hartford was pres ent and expressed his intention to pay at the next meeting.
 I The committee on rules and bylaws 1 appointed was made up of Bristol of
 Meriden, Canavan of New Haven and Morrisey of Norwich. This committee
 is to report at the next meeting.
 The meeting lasted only an hour and
 was really only preliminary to the important gathering which will decide
 on the course of the league the coming
 season.
 | STAKED AMERICAN LEAGUE.