Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-07
BASE BALL. DID JIMMY
 DO THINGS.
Report that Manager Cana van did not Want to Stay in New Haven.-NeW York American Term.

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 culiar about the attempt of Manager
 James Canayan to remove the New
 Haven team and franchise from New
 Haven to Worcester. The Democrat writer went on a still hunt Saturday
 and unearthed a few things that do
 not speak well for the one time pop
 ular manager, Jimmy Canayan. In
 the first place it was intimated that
 Canavan was to come to Waterbury
 and look over the field here. Such
 n thing as that never took place. If
 Canavan did come here, he came when the city was in slumber and not
 even policeman got q glimpse of l him. None of his friends in this
 city met him. nor did he approach
 those who would be in a position to
 know whether baseball could be | played here this season or not. Right
 here it might as we'll be stated that Waterbury at the time when Canavan made his trip to Worcester was awaiting his visit to this city. He
 would have been shown oyer the | field and he would have been con l vinced, if he cared to be, that Water
 bury was in position to get grounds, | and good grounds at that. Whether those same conditions exist now can l not be stated with any degree of cer- | tainty. The people who were eager | to get baseball here were willing to l spend money to make new grounds and get a chamionship team. After l receiving the cold shoulder from Cam
 ayan, who was backed up by the league, those people do not feel like going down on their knees and beg ging the league to let Waterbury i'll. The league should remember one l thing, though; before the season is | over the managers will be very, very
 sorry that Waterbury was not picked as q representative.
 Another thing in connection with New Haven and her franchise would be worth telling. The Democrat
 writer in his search through the base
 ball archives Of the Elm City heard
 report which was not verified, but it does look as if there was some
 truth in it. This report was to the effect that Hugh Duffy, the former manager of the Milwaukee team, was a half owner of the New Haven fran. chise. If you will remember, all or about all of the players who left New Haven for bigger company went to Milwaukee. That was significant fact taken ill connection with the re- port about Duffy. Now it is said that Duffy wants to see the franchise go to Worcester so that his friend Kittredge can get bit of money out of the game. Canavan was either willing or else Duffy had the bigger say. 1
 In thls connection it might be said that Canayan claimed to have made $3,50O last season and $4,0OO the sea- son before. Even with this split ill two and Duffy getting half, Canavan
 made a nice little sum, more than he will ever make in Worcester. To sum the whole thing up, 1t looks as though
 Jimmy Canavan wanted to get that franchise in Worcester for some
 strong reason or else he was making
 bluff, thinking some person or per sons would pay him big sum for the franchise and keep 1t ill aw da-
 ven. He overlooked Waterbury. evi- dently for the same reason, although
 he or someone else reported in the
 Massachusetts, papers that Waterbury was not prepared for baseball this year. Waterbury could have been
 prepared and Waterbury is worth
 two Worcesters. Waterbury is not so good as New Haven, but if New
 Haven cannot get grounds Waterbury ds the best choice for the league to
 make. The Democrat is not in a po-
 sition to state whether the gentlemen
 who wanted to start the team are willing to do so now. but they might
 De 1T there are no strings on the land
 ing of the franchise and if given the
 word at once.
 New York, March 7.--The deo1 bv which the New York Americnn league club has secured Pitcher lack Powell from Louis in exchange for Pitcher Harry Howell and $S,O0O cash will further convince baseball enthusi
 asts that President Gordon and Treasurer Farrell are making heroic enorts to place team in the field this year that will give the Boston worlds champions a desperate fight for the American league pennant. Powell is one of the greatest pitchers in the country. In 1901 he pitched Christy Matthewson to a standstill in several games at the Polo grounds. He is strapping big fellow, with tre.
 mendous speed, magnificent slow ball and knows the value of control. His engagement here means that the New York Americans have the best pitching corps in the two big leagues, bar none, and that Grifith's team,
 with Powell, McGuire, Hughes and r Anderson in line, is 90 per cent stronger than last year Treasurer
 Farrell said yesterday in regard to the big deal:
 President Hughes of the St Louis Americans at first wanted Pitcher Tom Hughes, recently secured from Boston. in exchange for Powell, but I told him that we needed Hughes right here, Powell did not want to stay in St Louis and Hedges knew it, so when Griffith wired me on Saturday morn ing that he could get Powell for How. ell and $S,000, I immediately wired him to close the deal and lost no time i'll forwarding il check for the amount named. l want to have a champion ball team and I think that my plans will be successful. Griffith has had