Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-05-18
THE SPORTING NEW S.

bers of the nine and no permanent
place could be found for them.
There are threats of transferring the
Nashua New England league fran
chise to some deserving city. Worces-
ter was looked to in the early spring.
but the club owners haggled too long
and the Connecticut circuit reached
for the Heart Of the Commonwealth
and, clutched it.
Minor league leaders have been pill
ing up victories too rapidly to make
the races good to look upon. Worces-
ter has won 10 out Of IL and Nashua,
the New England league leader, has
been beaten but once In IL games.
Jersey City of the Eastern league has
won IL and lost one game.
Turner, Murphy, Tighe, Osteen, Con-
molly and Dyer are grinding out sin
giles at better than a 300 average. The
Worcester club has made as many err
rors as any of the others, but it has
played daring baseball, because the
men have never fallen down in the
swatting department.
The Waterbury High school base ball
team played the Naugatuck High
school team in Naugatuck this after
noon. On Saturday the local team
will play the Danbury High school
team in the hating town. This will
probably be the last game Of the sea-
son for the local team, as the players
are not manifesting much interest in
the team and refuse to practice. Spell
man has resigned as captain and Ralph
Wheeler has been appointed his sue.
cessOr a
The Hartford baseball managers ex-
pect to get Ira Thomas from the Prov
idence club this week. Manager
Tracy was anxious to secure him when
he got his team together early this
season and he thought he had him as
Ira was willing to come here. Secre-
tary Farrell decided that Thomas be-
longed to Newark and when his deci-
sion was made Manager Burnham of
Newark Immediately sold the big
catcher to Providence Manager
Tracy did not give up hope even after
Thomas reported to Providence and
now he expects to secure the services
of Ira this week.
There promises to be trouble ON Long
hill Sunday afternoon unless Chief
Egan has a special corps of police on
the place. There will be game Of ball
OCtNCCh CnC1LLlS6, luC
Pots and Pans Of Vine street and the
Long Hills. Last summer the annual
game between these teams was won
by the Pots and Pans and the defeated
team was SO badly licked that the Pots
and Pans have since called them Rus
slams. Thomas Ward will captain and
pitch for the Pots and Pans, Edward
Gilbert will act in a similar capacity
for the Russians and Alderman
Drury will shine as umpire, as he did
last year.
Fred Pfeffer used to be a star at the
game Of touching base runners, says
Umpire O'Day. He had absolutely no
superior. Take the play when there is
a man on third base and one on first.
The latter starts to steal. I have seen
Pfeffer run backward, watching his
man on third all the time, all the way
to second base-had he been playing
in close. and catch the balT and put
it on the man trying to steal. So fast
was he-he could run backward al
most as fast as he could forward-that
the man on third didn't dare to try to
score on the play. / think that Pfef-
fer was the best, second baseman the
game ever saw. There wasn't trick
he couldn't turn-one has never yet
been invented that he didn't pull off
years ago.