Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-21
THE DIAMOND.
CONN LEAGUE
 GATHERING
Managers Transact a Little
 ~ Business Yesterday - Manager Hanlon May Get \Out of Brooklyn.

ANeW f1dNeu, NlUTCu Il.-luece WAS plenty of harmony and but little busi. ness at the special meeting of the di- rectors of the Connecticut Base Ball league at the Hotel Garde yesterday afternoon. The special business was the adoption of the playing schedule as presented by the schedule commit tee, ONeil of Springfield, O'Rourke Of Bridgeport and Humphrey of New London. The proposed schedule went through with but few alterations and it was not only satisfactory but it was said to be the best schedule ever adopted by the league.
 The schedule was prepared by $. W. Challenger of Bridgeport. To Nh O'Neil of Springfield is given the credit of the principal feature of the sched- ule, the giving of the Saturday dates to the cities with the big gates. He advanced this idea last season and ho was in danger of being thrown out of the room. Then the representatives of the cities that did not have large gate receipts would not stand for any Sucll scheme. Now they realize that it means money in their pockets. Hart ford and New Haven are favored in the matter of Friday half-holidays. HolyOke gets an extra number of Wednesdays, as that is pay day in the mills up there and the fans are well supplied with coin. The games in Springfield and HOlyoke seldom con tlict and this is an agreeable feature of the schedule to the representatives of the Massachusetts cities in the league.
 Manager Bristol of Meriden held the proxy of Mir Danaher, as the New Ha. ven magnate insists that he will never attend a meeting as long as Dictator ORourke and Arch ConspiratOr Hum phrey are i'll the league. Nothing came out at the meeting about Mir Danaher's intentions, but it was learned that he intends to have the New Haven team in the league as usual and 1t will be managed by his brother, Daniel Dana her, who is also lawyer, and who had some experience in managing team last year. Phil Corcoran and Billy Hayward of the New Haven team were at the hotel and they were at sea about Danaher's intentions. The New Haven players have received contracts, but it is not known how many have signed them.
 Outside of the schedule the principal business was adopting rule offered by Thomas L. Reilly of Meriden, the supervisor of lmpires. Mir Reilly has been manager of the Meriden, Jersey City and Hartford teams and he is familiar with the umpire problem. He has noticed the faults of the fine sys- tenn and he proposed to the directors that instead of providing for the fining of players by the umpires they should be taken out of the game and thrown out of the grounds. This scheme was adopted. Mir Reilly said that often d player was fined and it did not cost him anything, as the fine was paid by the manager or it was remitted. This made the player have hard feelings for the umpire and there would be more or less trouble for the rest of the sea- son.
 When the managers understand that a player will be removed from the game and grounds they will caution the men not to go too far in giving back talk to an official as a club cannot afford to have a good man put out Of a game. Mir Reilly has not named the umpires yet. He says he has received q good many applications and the only one from Hartford was from the vet. eran, Charles Daniels, who will not be appointed.
 The representatives at the meeting were: Hartford, w. J. Tracy and John F.. Kennedy; New Haven and Meriden. Manager Bristol: Springfield, Daniel O'Neil: Holyoke, r. H. Prindi- vile; New London, c. H. Humphrey; Bridgeport, James H. ORourke;. Nor, wich, George Allen.
 WAGNER DECIDES TO PLAY BALL