Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-05

It strange how Holyoke could de- feat Springfield twice yesterday, con- sidering the manner in which the Ponies were playing the day before.
 No team in the country has as good corps of fielding pitchers as the New
 York Nationals. Taylor, Wiltse and Mathewson are experts in that line, and McGinnity is pretty good.
 The players and fans had plenty of fun with Tad" Quinn Tuesday. To make matters worse, the man who is said to have a $1.000 arm and 25-cent head talked back to the play CTS.
 President Hermann of the Cincin- natl club Monday formally restored to the Pittsburg club Catcher Phelps, reversing his own decision of a week ago awarding Phelps to the Boston Americans.
 sA .They will not stand the gaff of a bruisfng struggle" says Joe Kelley, referring to the Chicago clubs. May hap Sir Joseph were right, but the same thing was said of the Balti- mores in 1894.
 It would be wise for the manage ment when 1t gives out rain checks to have them good for any game. Many who were at the grounds Tues day will be unable to be present to- day, so their checks will be useless.
 The Boston Americans have given Selbach his ten days notice of re- lease. Hoey, the new left fielder se- IAfx indication of being first class man in his games in New York. He was noticeably handy with the bat.
 Hal Chase has made seventeen hits in his last seven games and made one or more hits in each of his last sev- enteen games. It is mighty seldom that Grifith's nonpariel first bag guardian hits ball in the air. He uses shorter bat than last year.
 "Clarkson." says Kid Elberfeld. who saw the game at the Polo grounds Monday. lis as good a pitch CT as there is in the country and all he wants Is plenty of work" Fiber field, by the way, says he expects to be in the game again in couple of weeks.
 Jimmy Williams of the New York Americans could not cover more ground than he is covering if he were equipped with wings. No player is more reliable on ground balls. Like Pfeifer and McPhee of old. Williams has the knack of being in front of the ball. making his plays look easy.
 President Pulliam of the National league. who always is in the front of the procession when it comes to the spotless and modish duds. has issued an order that player who comes on the field wearing a dirty uniform will be subject to fine of S. The laun- dry interests owe vote of thanks tn Harry.
 Manager Dunn of the Providence Eastern League team, signed Out fielder Selbach of the Boston Ameri- cans yesterday. He has been booked for release for some time by Boston and when Young Hoey of Holy Gross began to show himself a real player. there was no use for the vet eran Selbaeh.
 The City Amateur league will again have State League park all to themselves this coming Sunday and three good games have been The Pastimes and North Ends will start at 12:30. The St Jo- sephs play the Washington Hills at z:l5 and at { o'clock the BrookIyns meet the Merrimacs.
 The breaking of Eddie FarIey's arm will be an irrepzrable loss to him. Farley vas ambitious to get into some profession and was playing baseball to acquire sufficient funds to ht him for the position of a dentist. Perhaps the injury may not be @ severe as first predicted but things ook bad for this popular tvirIer at his writing.
 College captains for next year have seen elected as follows: Harvard. Dexter. left field: Yale. Kfnney. third ,sse. Princeton. Cooney. catcher. Cornell. Brown. third base. Dart skilIsn. pitcher. Holy Crozs. -sshen- second base: Michigan. Taft. ! irst base. Brown Paine catcher. Tufts. Roper. shortstop. GeorEetown. | smith. third base
 Manager Dord said last night that l he story of T5ft's ineIfKfbilIty fs a sz his release vas p1rchase< 1 ,utriEht hF Hoiyoke iron Fsll Rfr- ! V. The oaiy club that ha1 nur