Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-21
BASE BALL BREvITIEs.
Bridgeport tomorrow.

Bridgeport tomorrow. That one bad inning again. 'oS,. Some player must be keeping an l odd cent.
 We'll we have glorious chance this week to do things. Newark and Buffalo are tied for
 first place in the Eastern league. The Prodigals are in New Haven
 to-day and perhaps will start the l week we'll
 Waterbury is losing more games by one run than any other team in
 the league.
 Holy Cross more than put 1t on to Yale Saturday. Bad season for the
 blue all round.
 This should be good week for Waterbury. as it has four hoiue
 games on Its schedule. Plttsburg and the otker western teams will receive warm reception
 when they come east.
 For particulars of an exciting period in Americas history read
 Lavender Creighton's Lovers" It certainly was tough to lose that game on. Saturday. especially when the Prodigals had 1t well ,n hand. Old Nichols is keeping up his rep utation as a sticker. He is now the
 man in front on the batting list. hav-
 ing passed McAndrews during the
 week.
 Tom Standard, the former Holy
 Cross college slugger. is to join the Springfield team to-day. and will play shortstop in the game against New London this afternoon
 Bridgeport and Waterbury are tied
 for third place and the battle to- morrow on the local grounds ought fo be a hair raiser. We have little ac. count 10 settle with Bridgeport too. that has been accumulating interest.
 Taft school nine was defeated on Saturday by the Gunnery school of Washington by the score of to 1 Tp to tho last inning the score stood [ to 1. in favor Of the Gunnery. The Taft boys then got their batting eyes working and hammered the curves all over the lot. scoring three runs before they were retired.
 Manager Burnham of Newark is said to have told oHaran that though personally he would like ;o retain him on the team. he can not afford to do so. Burnham considers Brown wonder and hy keeping him or The team he expects to be able fo sci him to some ma for league club next fall for kood rouls price.
 The season of the British Base Ball association began Saturday fin Lon don on the grounds of the woolwich club. Oxford university heat ing the London team by score of 10 to [. The Oxford team is made m entirely of Americans who are Rhodes scholars in the university. Five of the London team are English men.
 Yesterdays Eastern league base ball game between Rochester and Jersey City in Rochester was stopped hy the fall of the north section of a stand designed to accommodate about l ] 300 persons. Several hundred i rere throvn fifteen feet to the ground and about thirty were in- iured. some seriously. None was killed
 Manager Hugh Duffy of the PhiIa- ieiphis Nationals yesterday released | Kid Nichols. the pitcher. who has ,cen in fast company for ihe last if- ieen years Poor vork this spring zss the cause assigned for Dufy's sction- Nichols vas not surprised i rhen handed the blue envelope. but le did not have any announcements If bis future plans to make
 Captain" 4. C. Anson- once yield IT of the big stick in base ball. is ac- 'usei of graft and his offce of city .Ierk in Chicago is being iave<tf- -stcd. Criminal prosecution on hsrxe< Of rssIfezsznce in oescs may oIiOw as the result of bis refusal 10 iGn charges against men in his of- 're rho according fe his o~n up-I Eilling confession to the civil tervics