Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-16
BASE BALL TiD-BITs.
New London tomorrow.

strike terra firma.
 Old Cyrus seems to be a dead weight in the balloon and we fear very much he will go the way of all ballast.
 The Chicago National League club has sued the New York League club for $500 for refusing to play on Au- gust [, the date that Umpire John- stone forfeited tie game to Chicago
 Two flags for the old town" is the cry in Chicago now, and it is a cry that stands in good way of bear ing fruit, as the Chicago Americans will finish at home while the eastern teams are on the road.
 Sam Leever is the only pitcher in the National league whose work will In all respects c0mpart with that of Brown. The three-fingered man has been bright and shining star this season.
 A dispatch from Harrisburg, Pa, states that Tom Connor, the Ameri- league umpire, hasjumped to the out laws. He reported 10 President Car penter, of the Tri-State league, Satur- day for duty.
 They are talking around the cir cult about Waterbury getting cold feet and quitting because we have suffered few defeats. Waterbury never had that reputation and we wl.. prove it before this season is over. There is plenty of time yet.
 The Pirates got frosty reception on their return home, the Pittsburg fans being disgusted as result of those five straight defeats at New York. As q consequence only 2,OO turned out to see them shut out the Bostons.
 Fortunately the umpire question has settled itself. Supervisor Ken nedy has been hustling and has got ten his force into shape for the finish. He deserves the strong support of ey- cry manager and paper on the cir cult, for he has had about as tough time as possible.-Bridgeport Post.
 Fred Henebry will take McEnroe's place on the Danbury team, as Me Enroe has been signed with Water bury for the season. The Danbury team defeated the Newfields of Bridgeport yesterday by the score of 3 to with Ernie Wade in the box. Eddie Curley of this city umpired.. New London will be here for a double header tomorrow and we ought to be just in shape to about take both of those games. Sam Ken nedy's players are all snappy and sometimes scrappy, and Sam himself is no slouch when it comes to berat- ing an umpire. At any rate they will be two good games to watch. Al O'Dell, who quit the Bridge port team to take up with the Lam casters of the Outlaw league, got ! lhinisetf into the hands of the officers of the law the other day in Williams port. Some young chaps were jeer- ing O'Dell before the game and he grabbed one of them and gave him a good humping before the other players interfered. O'Dell was arr rested after the game, was bailed out and settled the case out of court. Manager Poli missed an opportuni- ty to pack his theater in New Haven tonight by not engaging the man agers of the Connecticut league to hold their session on the stage of the theater. People would go from every city in the state to listen to the ac- cusations and counter accusations that they will hurl at each other. Out of all the brilliant speeches that will be heard let us hope we can get a standing that will be uniform. Manager Dan O'Nell said yester- day that Cy Miller had as much right to play ball in this league as any other player had. Cy was on the bench yesterday. Secretary O'Rourke
 takes a different view of the Miller case. According to $. w. Challenger. Springfield will be supported by Hol- yoke. Hartford. Waterbury and New
 Haven when the Miller matter is talk en up at to-nights league meeting
 "A constant Reader" writes from
 Plainville for information about the game that Waterbury was to have
 played in Norwich the day that there
 was train wreck In New York
 state. He wants to know if the game counts in the standing. The
 games does not count hut they are talking about the failure of the Wa terbury team to report in the Norwich
 papers. Courant.
 Umpire Mike Hickey has suggested to Secretary O'Rourke that the league directors shouldn't forget him
 while they are pouring oil on the troubled waters tonight. Hickey
 was in Norwich prepared to umpire a few days ago and the Waterbury team was held up somewhere by a train wreck. He believes he should
 not be called upon to put in his day
 for nothing. and Mr O'Rourke agrees
 with him.
 Some one down in Connecticut is
 bent on giving Dan 0'Neil lot of
 money. but the giver is equally in- sistent on not parting with any of
 his coin for the purposes of enrich ing the Springfield manager. He is content with stating that O'Neil has cleared ss.00o this season. and if he
 really believes himself has a fine chance to clean up some thousands.
 for Dan would trade his seasons profits for a sum far under the mark set.-Springfield Union.
 President Carpenter has issued a statement giving the attendance at the games in the Tri-State up to Au- gust 1. The statement shows that Lancaster has paid into the league treasury more money than any other