Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-01
BASEBALL MONDAY. SEPT. }. Waterbury
 Hartford
BASE BALL TID.BITS.

Will we ever win?
 One game Monday, in the after l noon. Frightful slaughter up in Spring
 field.
 Saturday--Norwich at Hartford
 Holyoke at Waterbury. Springfield al
 Bridgeport. New London at New Ha.
 ven.
 Waterbury and Hartford will pla.
 the afternoon game in this city or Monday. In the morning Waterbury
 will go to Hartford and play there al
 half past ten. This arrangemen,
 was completed this morning.
 The tickets for the benefit game are
 going like hot cakes and every fan
 in the city will have one before the
 day of the contest with Norwich. Il
 will be double-header and the re.
 suit of those games may decide the championship.
 Manager Albret Auray of the Riv. ersides would like to challenge the Young Pioneers or Mill Streets for a 25-cent ball. Manager Auray claims his team is the undisputed cham pions of the city and he is willing to back this statement with cash.
 What waste of energy there was this week and what a record for a team to make that once had aspirn- tlons for the pennant. It might be hlnted that some of the players were afraid of being drafted and lost their batting eyes for the time being.
 A game like the one in Springfield yesterday must have caused whole lot of heart trouble to the Springfield fans. Everybody must nave gone in- to the air with the players and Jack Tighe and Dan O'Neil probably have not recovered from the fright yet.
 We will just start in to-day and trim Holyoke and then we will take two from Hartford on Monday and that will give us good start for the sprint for the finish and perhaps we will land third after all. Great pipe We keep going here you bet.
 President Charles Comiskey. of the Chicago American league baseball club. announced yesterday that James Callahan had been signed to finish the senson with the White stockings. Callahan was member of the team last year. This year he has been managing a local semi-pro- fessional team.
 sam Thompson. right fielder on the champion Big Four" Detroit team for nearly twenty years. again playei the same position for Detroit yester- day afternoon. to help out the crip- pied club. With the bases full in the fifth. he singled past Jones. scoring the first two runs of the game and winning It right there.
 George Tacey. formerly of the who has won the last three games from Attleboro, has accepted terms with Manager Jim O'Rourke of the Bridgeport team in the Connecticut State league. Tracey will finish out the season with North and will report to O'Rourke early next year.
 The City league games tomorrow ought to attract big crowds for on the result of one of the games may depend the championship of the league. The Hills and the Merri- macs will meet in the first game at half-past twelve. the North Ends and he St Josephs will meet in the sec lnd game and the Pastimes and the will tackle each other in he last game. This last battle will oe a peach If the Psstimes win 1t Eill settle all disputes and if the win both teams will have o fight still longer for the champion hip. Bob Moran will oppoee John ly Kelly in the pitchers box and ths '2orts vill certainly see ssDe groot Eef-