Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-14

doing the catching for Lancaster by Meyers, who has been with Harris burg, another Tri-State team. A change now and then makes tn, race seem interesting. We have beer on top long enough, but will wan the place back in a few days.
 That is the second time only tha Norwich has beaten the Prodigals this season. There is day of reck oning coming when we get twirlers enough to fill our empty list.
 The umpires must have all re turned from their summer resorts for all were working yesterday Please, MT Supervisor Kennedy, don'' make us use players any more.
 Supervisor Kennedy should fire any official who fails to show up at game, whether that man be Dan Shannon or someone else. No favor- jteS should be sp layed but the public
 With a couple of thousand at the game to-day, the same number to morrow and good crowd on Mon day, the Prodigals management ought to pull little out of the finan' cial hole it is in.
 Chicago is now almost as distinct a factor in the American league race as New York. Cleveland and the Athletes. If the Boston team only had the nerve of the White Sox, that, too, would be factor.
 The attendance should have been larger at Holyoke Thursday. Only 500 out on a beautiful day after Wednesdays thirteen-inning defeat of Norwich does not speak well for Paper City enthusiasm.
 Altizer is so idolized here that wealthy sports have voluntarily offer- ed the local management to make mp his salary, no matter what he asked. This city is wild over this weeks vic tories.-Washington Times.
 volz required medical attendance for his injured side, which he re- ceived sliding to a base. It is possible that a rib may be broken. It will be decided loss to Holyoke if he is kept out for any length of time.
 Charlie Somers, one of the owners of the Cleveland club. is being sued for divorce. He took up baseball against the wishes of his wife and it is claimed this fact was the reason for the first quarrels of the pair.
 Owing to the fact that UmpiN, Waite is employed almost every Sat urday in some place as the holder of the indicator, he felt that to again umpire on Sunday was little too strenuous and he has therefore ten dered his resignation as the official umpire of the City league.
 The bet Garry Hermann made that Piftshurg would not win the Nation al league pernant has been called of. Incidentally Hermann again shows himself a good sportsman announcing ing candidly that his action in mak- ing the bet was wrong. He certainly stood better than an even chance to win.
 A we'll known college fnfielder has been nabbed masquerading under fake name. and is now playing under his own cognomen. Things don't look just right when a man drops his own name. He fools no one but himself When Drake of Springfield is al home, they call him Keenan.-Springfeh Republican.
 New Workers are beginning to shift much of their interest from the Ma tional to the American Ieag for they consider the Highlanders as more probable pennant winsers than the Giants. They figure that New York has the pitchers and batters. where Cleveland has only the hitters and Philadelphia the pitchers.
 George Lsehance won the game for Providence against Baltimore on The game was closely throughout and when the ninth inning wss reached neither side had a tally, With a man on second base in the last half of the ninth Lachsnce hit a safe one to left field. bringing in the winning run
 The latest reports from Amos Rusie are that the once great pitcher Is digging for musseis on the banks of the Wabash far away. He is dig gine for mussels in order to get the pearls therefrom, and it is his inten- tion. he says. as soon as he strikes a pearl worth fz5e to give a banquet to the retired ball players Maybe hell need several pearls of that value to promote the said gastronomical roEn1uH-