Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-19


 President Sturgis Whitlock of the Connecticut baseball league yesterday sent word to the various clubs that Tom Bannon of New London had been suspended from the league until the payment of the fine which was recent ly imposed upon him. The fine was due and payable on June 16. It was not paid on that date. Until he set ties and is reinstated no club can play with New London with Bannon on the team.
 The Holyoke team has been aug mented by the arrival of Teusel, the Milton college catcher, who was signed by George Harrington last winter. Teusel was recommended to Harring- ton by Chrfsty Mathewson of the New York Nationals. Mathewson formerly had Teusel for the receiving end of his battery and said he considers the col legian. a good man. Teusel will be given a good trial by Manager O'Neil; though Schincers work behind the bat has been satisfactory thus far and Weeden is coming all the time with the morning practice.
 Manager O'Nefl let Ezra Morgan go, although it was almost against his will that he sent the gentlemanly center fielder on the road. Morgan has been playing star ball since he joined Hol- yoke and will make valuable man for one of the teams in the league, half of which are now carrying outfielders a class below him. He was secured merely to fill in for a short time until McAndrews got back to the game, and he has earned the well wishes of the management by his earnest work. Landy will probably be played in the field or kept as utility man if Kellogg does the work up well.
 During the preliminary practice of the Springfield team two aged fans got into an argument about the identity of the man playing short. One said it was old Pete Kiernan. The other said: Nav; that ain't the old man who used to play with Waterbury. Whatv' Just then Pete ate up a fast one ln his old time style. "We1l, he did that just like Kiernan used to-" said the doubtful one. He threw just like Kiernan, too, but it ain't him." Then Pete tossed another one over. Are you sure that's Kiernan? I didn't know him in that small suit. Gosh, he looks just like boy. ."-New London Telegraph.
 President F. H. Hurley of the Wor cester base ball team has received 8 telegram from Count Campau, manager of the New Orleans base ball team, of ferfng him $5,0O0 for five players on the Worcester team. Campau wants them at once. The players are Wrigley. Clancy, Delehanty, Aubrey and Rick ert. President Hurley has not yet de cided whether to accept the offer or not. The offer is considered a good one. and if the players would accept, would nearly square the team on money lost this season. The sale of the players, however, would weaken the Worcester team, and if completed would mean that the team would leave the city, as President Hurley would not attempt to play any weaker team. The New Orleans team is now i'll bad way, but has plenty of financial backing, and the salaries paid are higher than in the Eastern league, as may be seen from the offers made to Rickert and Aubrey of $350 a month.
 There is a strong probability that the game which Holyoke won from Meriden at Hanover park yesterday afternoon will be thrown out, because big tsRube'' Viclers did the pitching, l Secretary O'Rourl2e of the Connecticut league says that Vickers has no I- cense to play with the Holyoke team. 1 He claims that be ordered O'Neill to send him back to Brooklyn some time ago and as he has failed to do that ev- cry game in which the big fellow has pitched will be thrown out Viciefs l has been pitching hard of late and if his games are thrown out it will make a big difference to the standing of the Paper City aggregation, as New Haven | is only a part of game behind the leaders now Vickers and Manager !, O'Neill went back to Aolyoke last 1 night while the rest of the team stop ped at the Winthrop and went on to Bridgeport this afternoon. The Hol- yoke players say that Vickers is going to remain with Holyoke all the season, as he is not wanted by the Brooklyns very bad. It is understood that he is getting $200 a n10uth from O'Nefll.- Meriden Journal
 Rube .Wadde11, says President Pull liam, is the cheapest good ball player in the business to-day. 'Salary!' says the National league president; "Rube doesn't care whether he gets any sal ary or not. All you have to do is to keep him supplied with spending money and cigarettes and he doesn't bother about the rest. He doesn't care any more about money than I do about the mud in the subway. He never even comes around to get his check at the end of the month, but lets his money ! stay where 1t is. When he was play ing for me was bothered to death paying his little bills. Rube will buy anything you try to sell him and have the bill sent to the club. When the season ended and he left the club, he didn't come around to see how he stood on the clubs books. A month or so later I got letter from him asking for an advance on his next years salary He did not even know that the club owed him more money than he had asked for. and he was very much sur prised when I sent him a check and told him how he stood. Rube would almost sign contract for nothing if l tho oIuh yUnJ1Id ao orna fo Spff1o his Iiv