Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-07-23
THE SPORTING NEWS.

Al Ofth, the pitcher who has been
 with the Washington baseball club
 since 1891, has been traded to the
 New York Americans for Pitchers Tom
 Hughes and Wolfe.
 The games to morrow will be as fol-
 lows: At ? o'clock the Washington Hills vs St Joseph's; o'clock MerrI- ! macs vs Pastimes, and at o'clock on
 the upper diamond the Brooklyns ys North Ends.
 Frank Fitzpatrick never did more | sensational work in one afternoon
 than he accomplished Thursday. Fitz has been reported as being only q luke warm supporter of the Holyoke mana ger. but it seems as though he has 1 done enough.
 The rule published in the Democrat 1 yesterday has caused consternation in the camps of some of the teams. There l is no help for it, however, and the
 president was called on to make the fact known beforehand, so that tllarc
 would be no cause for Q kick.
 After the game President John T.
 Brush sat in q carriage with Manager McGraW and drove downtown. On the way to the hotel McGraw acted nge a
 wild man and threatened to punch pasr
 sengers on street cars he was passing
 near the ball park who called to- him. President Brush witnessed the conduct which did not reflect any credit on the
 ball players profession, nor on the
 game. 1t is about time that someone was stopping the rowdyism of the New York team before some serious trouble results Cincinati Times-Star.
 President Ban Johnson of the Amer ican league says the Giants will have to play off post-season series Of
 games if they win the National league
 championship with the team winning the American league pennant, Or get out of New York city. President John son when asked if he had any answer to make to McGraw's statement that he would not play an American league club. said: That is ridiculous. Me Graw is simply n manager and MT Brush Is president. It is not what MT Mc(5raw says Mir Brush controls the situation and he is dictating to Me Graw. President Hermann of the Cincinnati club told me once that MT
 Brush was afraid to play an Ameri-
 can league club, and now l am sure of it.''
 Dan Murphy, n former Connecticut leaguer, now a member of the Phila- delphia American league team, was the particular star Ill Wednesdays s
 game at Philadelphia, his work in the field being as fine as has been seen on the Quaker grounds this season. In the sixth inning Murphy had hand in retiring all three men. and robbed St Louis of at least one run, The first man up was Burkett, who hit q fly to rfght<field. Murphy started with the ball, and by a flying leap caught the sphere in his gloyed hand and held it. It was a sensational catch and the spectators arose and heartily cheered the effort. Murphy followed this up by throwing Hemphill out at first, and after Heidrick had singled Murphy made n wonderful stop of Jones's grounder oyer second. retiring Heidrick by quick throw to NJ. Cross
 The Holyoke fan fs an enthusiastic
 cuss and too easily disheartened. At the game Wednesday,, when Pop Eos ter was moving 'em down, one of the
 species could not be calm. Brewer writes that he twisted about like n
 man win winter underwear. He di-
 rected his comments on the players
 and tihe progress of the disaster.
 When Foster held off Holyoke for three innings the heart-sick fan want
 ed Hi I.add to pitch Every time. a local effort at run-making failed he bawled out something about future lans. Going to play Greenfield to-
 morrow?' he yelled when the game
 was young. This estimate shrrnk be- fore the ninth inning ended and from
 Ludlow, ATittineague and similar op- ponents, the questions got down to the Red Onions, Laioie juniors and such collections.