Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-26
BASE BALL NOTES

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The Lawrence team Of the New
England league played in Springfield
yesterday and to-day.
Bob Hall, formerly of the New Ha-
ven team, is playing first base for the
Philadelphia Nationals.
Captain Frank Fitzpatrick of Hol-
yoke is the diamond king of the league
LIE had beautiful ring presented him
last fall in Holyoke and a pin handed
| out by Fall River admirers.
The admission for the Yale-Penn-
sylvania game in New Haven Saturday
| is 81. Yale undergraduates and New
Haven fans are not pleased at the
prospect of paying SO much.
/ Mike. Mccormick is already giving re.
j ceipts for Inflated pitchers. He tells
,em to wear two left shoes into the
! game. Mccormick declares that the
move worked well in Holyoke.
The Holyoke team has one of the
most exceptional 1ine-ups known
There isn't a regular who bats left
handed. RUDE Vickers is the only man
who swats from that side Of the plate.
| The Lynch of Brown college, whom
Sam Kennedy of Meriden is trying out
in the outer garden, is not the famous
Mike Lynch, out a Lynch who went
south with the New York Nationals
this spring.
HUFF, the lad who is playing ut short
| for New London. tried out as a pitcher
with Baltimore of the Eastern league
list spring, but afterwards turned his
attention to the infield and played in
Dayton, o., most OF last season.
Mike Donovan of Springfield bor-
roWed a pair of base ball pants from
AleGraw last season and they are still
! in his possession. 81 feel as if / was
! Mugsey McGraw when I have those
/ pants on" says Donovan They say
in Springfield that he sleeps in them.
Manager Danaher's New Haven team
reported yesterday. He has SO many
players that if he charges them admis-
/ sion his financial success is assured.
Phillips and Bunyan, who Were re
leased By Hartford and caught on with
! New Haven. We're strongly recommend
ed by the Hartford managers.
John J. Kelly, who umpired the
game in Hartford Saturday, has CON
tracts. to umpire number of college
games. For the Important ones he
i gets SO. When ball is knocked out
of bounds Kelly shouts ''Play ballp'
! The players look for an extra ball then
and let the small boys run after the one
out in the lot. Kelly is a substitute Oh
the National league staff. His work
Saturday was beyond criticism and not
a complaint was registered.
1 Mrs Christy Mathewson, wife OF the
New York Nationals star tWirler at
tends every game in which her hus-
band is to officiate. Just imagine Mrs
Mathewson's feelings Thursday after
noon when her husband had to walk
from the box amid the jeers and jibes
OF $4,000 disappointed fans. It's an
even bet that the poor fellow would
Lave given. quite little of his $4,000
salary rather than take that parade
/ from the pitchers plate to the bench.
The National association is hot after
: breaking up the strong independent
clubs throughout the country. Hereaf-
ter no player belonging to minor
league club, can go out on Sunday or
at any time and play with an indepen-
dent club. The fine for this is $500 on
the player. The manager is also fined
if he allows player to go out. 1nl,
will cut out quite a little of the graft a
number of Connecticut league players
| had for doing stunts on Sundays for
independents teams around New York.
Manager Poll has offered a silver cup
for the base ball teams in his four the
alters in this state. The employees OF
his theater in New Haven began prac-
tice Saturday. They think they can
beat any team in the Poll chain and
they also challenge any theater team
in the state. The team is made up as
follows: William Lawlor p; Frank
Flynn. G; William Dougherty. SIS; David
Welsh and II. II. IIilby. 2b; Harry
Tighe. 1b: t. Claffey. 3b: II. Kelley,
CT; 3. Minor, IF; w. Ferry. If: Joseph
Powers. Robert Hillman, p. d. Riley
and William Sullivan, substitutes:
Charles Layton, mascot.