Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-28

Rabbit" seems to be a modish nick name for players. There are Rabbits" Slagle. Huggins and Mill.
 That fade away ball of Eddie Far ley's had the heavy batters of the Springfeld's guessing yesterday.
 Paddy O'Connor was looking for trouble yesterday, and 1t is shame that 1t did not bumb against him. The New York Nationals have signed Mullin, the Baltimore second baseman. He will join the team next spring.
 Pitcher Cicotte of the Des Moines baseball team, Western league, was sold yesterday to the Detroit team Of the American league.
 Jimmy Williams was out of yes terday's game with a bad leg, while Keeler was absent, owing to the ill., ness of his father.
 There have been numerous good judges of ball players, but mighty few that were the equals of Frank Selee in that regard.
 Kid Elberfeld may not have parlor manners on the ball field, but he know his grammar. q have it." not I've got it!" shouts the Kid
 when going for fly ball. The Boston American club has taken options on Lord, third base man; Knotts, catcher, and Chad bourne, outfielder, all of Worcester, for next year.
 After looking at the matter of those Miller games, in all fairness they should be allowed to stand. There is no sport winning games by working on technicality. One of the best base players in the country is Wid Conroy, who does his work with so little fuss that 1t | doesn't come under the limelight as much as that of less valuable men. If Jack Hess could perform that feat of striking out Harry O'Hagan with the bases full in a game on Hampden park. Dan O'Neil would make noise like ,$10 bill.- Springfield Union.. The managers of the Shop league will hold an important meeting this evening at the Boys club. The meet ing will start promptly at 7:45 and every member is requested to be present.
 Of all the schedules that were ever created, this one which has Water bury and Springfield playing togeth- CT every other day almost is peach. We are in Springfield again to-mor- row. 8a That was a great stop of Jimmy Walsh's in the. seventh inning when he nailed Flanagan at the plate and phenomenal one in the eighth when he scooped up Hess's hit with one hand and landed him on first. Young Carrigan, the Holy Cross college recruit with the Boston Americans, is considered by Boston experts to have in him the material that should. make him first-class catcher.
 Frank Burke of New Haven easily leads the Connecticut league hitters with mark of .346. Jack Hanni- l. of Frank Fitzpatrick for the time he has been with New haven is .27s. In the heat of battle a Norwich paper comes out with proclamation that Norwich should. be. awarded the game won bys Holyoke Saturday afs ternoon. The claim is that Holyoke had no right, to play Billy Dyer.
 Norwich has not succeeded in win ming a game from New Haven on the Savin Rock grounds this year The Rosebuds have just one chance left as they play in New Haven again next week.
 There is talk of the veteran catch CT, Wilbert Robinson, a king of back stops in his day, succeeding Hughey Jennings as manager of the Orioles. Hughey. 1t is said, is slated to man. age big league team Text season.
 Manager Mack of tn, Philadelphia Americans yesterday all bounced that he had signed Pitchers Kicker and Holmes of the Augusta club. which is winning the South Atlantic league pennant this season. These players will report next Monday.
 The Chicago Nationals have good chance to break the National league record of victories this year. That record is 106 games. made by the New Works in 1904. The Chicagos have thirty-eight more games to play. and If they win twenty-two of them will have total of 107.
 Holyoke is already building plans for next season and figures on get ting something good in the men 1t is now trying out. To Tom Dowd goes a lot Of credit for getting some fine work out of a weak hitting team which had 10 be taught that 1t wasn't beaten until the last inning was over.
 The New York Americans at least have the credit of making more runs Tn a single game against the White Sox since the latter started their un- broken string of wins than any other team. Griff's men made six counts against the Chicagos the other day. which Is more than any other team has made in several weeks.
 Bakers triple yesterday was prob- ably the hardest hit ball on the Hol- yoke grounds this year. It was line drive which struck not far back of second base and rolled almost to the fiagpole Baker has batted .2s2 in his last twenty-seven games and it would seem to be good policy to move him up a few pegs in the batting or der.
 Pat o,connor made A little Kick on