Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-26

in the Pacific Coast league, the first half ending in July. Tacoma was the victor and is leading for the sec ond bunting.
 Manager McAleer of the Browns of fered Cleveland Hemphill, Moran and $2,0O0 for Third Baseman Bradley, but there was nothing doing with the Cleveland folks.
 Bob Unglaub, the former Meriden lad who has been in many big league trades, Is now reported as likely to replace George Lachance of the Bog- ton Americans at first base.
 According to Hugh Duffy, Umpire Kennedy is a ''huge joke" He ap- peared to the Phillies' manager, 10 have an attack of stage fright the moment he came on the grounds.
 The Giants have been beaten but once by the Boston aggregation, and they have also trimmed the Superbas fifteen times. Poor Hanlon! How funny it must seem to run a tail-end- CT.
 Joe Connor worked his base running speciality yesterday and got two bases on a sacrifice hit. Altizer did the same thing. After this Uncle Jeems O'Rourke was willing to store away his init.
 There were 38,Ooo paid admissions during the Cleveland series at Phila- delphia. The total home attendance at Columbia park has been 365, ,OOO. Twenty one more home games are still to be played.
 Mike Lynch, the Holyoke boy, says that the language used by some of the New York players in attempting to get the opposing pitcher going, Is so vile that he doesn't intend to stand for it. Mike is very rugged chap. The Robisons, owners of the Car dinals, deny that Manager Nichols is to quit and that Patsy Donovan is to take back his old job. But the Rob- isons have not denied that they still owe Patsy $3,6OO of last year's sal | ary.
 Next Thursday will be the opening | day of the gunning season for minor league players through the drart ! method. Looks like the poachers are getting in ahead with wad of cash and gobbling up the best that is to | be had.
 Wagner's great ungainly spread makes him look like human o1ne- lette, but how he can gather himself together when there's work to be done! He's as busy around second base as man lodging a creditor.-Even- ing World.
 Jake Morse, the Boston critic, says that the National league gained a ca pablo official and the Connecticut lost a man who cannot be replaced when Umpire Charles Kennedy departed. 1 True enough, but it will never be fully realized in this circuit,
 Bill Motz, the old time player, hits it right when he says that John Calf ney was the greatest umpire who ever performed. Others had style and nerve, but in addition to these qualifications Gaffney had judgment that has never been surpassed.
 Umpire Kennedy made his debut here yesterday. He did fairly well, but would make a better impression if he moved around more. Making close decisions at first, base from be- hind the catcher Is apt to cause dis satisfaction, no matter how good a mans Judgment may be.-Cincfnnat ti Commercial.
 Harry Gleason, the fast little in- in the side of the head by one of Rube Waddell's swift inshoots on August 2, and lay in santorium for two weeks thereafter, says he is out of baseball for good. The left side of his head is in a constant state of numbness, and his right arm and shoulder are almost useless as a re- suit of the injury received.