Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21

Dutch Meier, the former Princeton player, who made the hit that won the deciding game from Yale in 1901.
 mas signed a Pfttsburg contract. Meier can play either the in or outfield and
 has been doing good work with semi. professional teams around Chicago for several years. Last season he played
 few games with Pittsburg under the
 name of Koch and made good.
 The Chicago Nationals will stand pat with the addition of Moran and sheckard. Captain Chance will play first base, with the other players as follows: Kling, Moran and Noonan, catchers; Reulbach, Wicker. Brown. Lundgren, Pfeister, Beebe, Dodge and Schaub. pitchers: Evers. Tinker. Steinfeldt and Hoffman, infielders; and Sheckard, Schulte, Slagle and Sebring. outfielders. In the Windy City the fans believe this combination stands an excellent chance to beat New York in the pennant race of 1906. & /.
 The Chicago Americans will have to get an entirely new outfield, barring Captaip Jones. before next season. Jimmy Callahan. the fleet left fielder has decided to quit professional base ball, while Ducky Holmes has been released by Comiskey to allow him to manage the Lincoln team. Danny Green, from all accounts, will not be with the White Sox again. Comiskey has already secured Outfielders O'Neill and Hemphill from Toledo to fill the vacancies. but they do not classswith the three players who have passed.
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 Clark Griffith, the manager of the New York Americans. has written a letter to the club officials to the effect that he will be in New York the latter part of next week to begin the work of sending out contracts for next sea son. Griffith has forty men on his list. and 1t is fair to assume that some If them will be weeded Tout before 'pring. It has been decided to send he Americans south earlier than last rear so that there can be no excuses because of a lack of proper physical condition when the men line up for he first championship game on April p.
 It turns out that the Brooklyn club efused an offer of S10O00 cash from he New York club for Sheckard and hat Pittsburg offered to trade three nen for him, only to have Chicago pud If the deal. The Pittsburg club, by he way. stood ready to trade eight ,layers to Boston for Willis, Moran nd young Cy Young. but only sue eeded in landing Willis. Chicago got Ioran. who Is said to be one of the 'est catchers in the National league, ut Pitcher Young was not on the market, as his transfer would have meant the total eclipse of the Boston Nationals.
 Manager Donovan of the Brooklyns as twenty-nine players from whom e will select the regular team for ext season. He has a deal on for an- ther new pitcher. and may also land
 first baseman. but even if he does l ot succeed in these cases he will take 1 early all of these men to Columbia. l !. C.. on March 15: Pitchers-BriggS | Iell, Doescher. Stricklett, Eason, Me ntyre. Pastorius. Scanlon. Riichie. l uggs and Durham: eatchers-Bergen, litter. Butler and Hurley infielders- 'asey. Lewis. Gessler, Hummel. Alfer- | nan and Pattee: outfelders-Lumley. 1 Dobbs. MalOney. Batch and | Ialoy. Donovan says he thinks well l f HummeI. the second baseman. who l ieg tried with some success this year. | nd that Casey and Lewis will be fix nreS at third and short. respectively. 1