Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
a shutout against Bill Dineen this

shutout against Bill Dineen this season.
 American league clubs are having their ups and downs. And that is what Is making the race interesting.
 Of the Brooklyn teams of 1899 and 1900 it is a noteworthy fact that Sheckard is the only one left in Brook Eyn.
 Birmingham has purchased the re- lease of Frank Ward, of the Butte, Mon, team. Piggy is still moving around.
 While with the Whalers Tommy Bannon took part in sixty-six games, hit safely Fl times, and has batting average of .250.
 1.-The Meriden club is to be organized as stock company with 40 shares of stock at $50 per share. Investors ought to go wild over the proposition.
 Although New Haven has not a single man hitting 300, there are six between 2S5 and .257. Hayward and Fitzmaurice are tied, both at .2S5.
 The Whalers show up in different light with Mike Finn and Percy Ris- ing in the outfield again. Yesterday the team got an even break with Hartford.
 Ioriarity, the blacklisted player, didn't take. part in the game Christy Mathewson did Saturday. That's one reason why his case isn't 'just like Tuckeys."
 Jimmy Garry, an old time Water bury player, was recently fined $1O0 for a fight with a New York State league umpire. Garry has been act ing as captain-manager of the Scran- ton team.
 Frank Fitzpatrick's hit-smothering is the best that any second baseman in the league is presenting regularly. Nearly every day Fitz saves Holyoke pitchers from having hits charged against them.
 Napoleon Lajoie still leads the American batters with the tremendous figures of 1893. The king of sluggers has made IA base hits this season and scored sixty-one runs Davis or the Athletics is second with an aver age of .341.
 Osteen, now utility man for the New York Americans, still stands as the heaviest slugger of the league. While with Worcester, he played in l twenty-six games and made forty three base hits, giving him the high percentage of AIT.
 Pat Dougherty was so i'll with ma laria when he first joined the New Works that he could not do himself l justice, and he offered to lay off with out pay, says a New York writer. Pat has been quite a factor in the teams good work out west.
 1 Kid Cross, the Hartford infielder, was in Manchester yesterday and had talk with Manager Farrar of the baseball team about playing in that 1 town He obtained consent from Manager Kennedy of the Hartfords to play there Cross had not signed d contract with Manchester last night, but he may do so to-day.
 John Basto, who was hit with a pitched ball Saturday in game at Monongahela City, died yesterday l from the effects of the blow. He was l hit on the ear while at the bat, and never revived longer than to ask for his parents, who arrived in time to | see him die. Basto was 20 years old and had pitched for the American Steel and Wire Co.'S nine.
 Jack Doyle, the Quaker first base man, has been dropped by the Phil I lies. He is suffering with rheuma- I tism and is not showing up well. Doyle has been on more National league teams than any other man in I the game to-day. Tn his heydey he I was one of the greatest men in the I profession His best work was done I with the champion BaltimoreS.