Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-06
THE SPORTING NEWS.
BASE BALL NOTES.

The Rutland team of the Northern league has voted to disband Mont Eelier- Barre is the pennant winner in the league with Rube Vickers and the rest of the Burlington team in second place.
 Chicago and New York are practical ly even in the matter of leading the National league team at base steal ing. Each team has stolen close to 210. Pittsburg is next about 50 to ihe rear.
 Ulnplre Smink is as unpopular with the Hartford players and the club owners as he is anywhere. An official of his incompetence and bulldozing spirit does much toward ruining inter est in base ball.
 By winning from Fall River Mon England league by the slightest of margins. Concord has now won 63 and lost 3S, while Fall River has won 62 and lost 3S.
 Tom Reilly, supervisor of umpires, agrees with the statement that the present Holyoke team is faster than the pennant winner of 1903 Tom picked the Holyoke team months ago as his choice for the rag this year,
 Mondays triple play by Holyoke was the first clean-cut feat of tha kind done in the Connecticut league this year. The Ponies figured in one some weeks ago, but 1t didn't have the finish to it that did Larkin and Deals.
 The Springfield players had an auto mobile ride and on the return from the grounds raced with a rangy pacet which had a gait resembling Altizer David himself admitted that any horse with gait like his could go some.
 Connie Mack is pretty sure to keep Rube Waddell in check until after the worlds championship series if the Ath- letics win the American league pen nant. In fact, Rube loves the lime light so much that it's not likely he'll take any chances.
 Pitcher Ruelbach of the Chicago Ma tionals says much of his success in the twenty inning game won from Phila- delphia was due to the fact that he followed the coaching of Frank Chance, who signalled him just what sort of ball to give every batter.
 When Eddie Walsh, who beat Cleve land Monday, was with Meriden in the Connecticut league, he didn't come within city block of being as good pitcher as Rube Vickers. But Eddie had Rube beaten as far in the matter of common sense, the lack of which essential has kept Vickers in minor circles.
 Napoleon Lajoie is out of the game again, his injured ankle having been damned by rebounding foul. The ankle is said to be badly swollen. As Cleveland's only hope was with Larry in the game, 1t can be seen that the club which in mid-season looked like a pennant proposition will be fortunate if 1t clings to the first division. Mike Donlln is the National leagues leading run maker, with 96 round trips to his credit.
 Six triple plays have been made ,ir I the National league this season, ont each by New York, Pittsburg, Chicago Cincinnati, Boston and St Louis.
 The Pittsburgs are moving at 6 l lightning clip and have been ever since they played in New York the last time Since then they have won fifteen out of sixteen games.
 Although two of the pitchers that | the New York Americans let go have | been pitching first class ball since they | joined other teams, the New Yorks | have managed to win pretty often | from those two pitchers, Tom Hughes and Harry Howell.
 Steamer Flanagan will leave Spring | field Thursday for his new berth in the Smoky city. He had hoped to be able to complete the season with o'Neil, but his majesty's orders must be obeyed."
 The Hartford Courant writer is re- sponsible for the following: New London had better turn over new Page or they will not Finnish. A Long time ago they Drew well, but then they played a Bird of a game, and were Keane all the while. Now they are as flighty as Kite.
 It took ten pitchers to play out the Labor day games between the Boston and New York Americans. The High flanders managed to put every one of their staff into the fight with the ex- ception of Powell.
 Speaking of the need of young blood in the big leagues, it is worthy of mo- tice that most of the tepnotchers have many vets in their line-ups. And what's more, these same back num- bers" are the ones who are doing the real stunts. Take the Giants, with Donlin. McGann, McGinnity, Dahlen and Mertes; or the Athletics, with the two Crosses, and the Phillies with Gleason, Nichols. etc. Brooklyn and Boston. fighting for the bottom of the National all summer. are well supplied with youthful material However, they will be the gathers in the long run,