Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-10
BASE BALL TrD-BITs.
Double-header Thursday.

aalS OH 10 our speedy lltlle Dack- stop.
 They seem to like Jack Deals style in the big league.
 Meeting of the managers of the Shop league this evening at the Boys club.
 Hans Wagner had hit for 1885 up to Saturday and his pace is getting better every day.
 Each Of the four hits made yester. day by the Prodigals were clean cut and had wings on them.
 Eddie Swander and his mighty bat were very much in evidence yesterday as the two runs can attest.
 The poor Brooklyn team is sadly lost when 1t loses the hitting and base-running power of Hefne Batch.
 Frank Burke of New Haven is bat ting for .331. Jack Hannifins aver age is .315, and Frank Fitzpatrick's is .311.
 Tuesday--Waterbury at Bridge port. Hartford at Holyoke. New Ha- ven at New London, Springfield at Norwich.
 Scot Hardesty. the old Springfield player. has taken place on the Tri- State league umpire staff to succeed Umpire Murray. .h Tad Quinn will pitch one of the games in Bridgeport to-day and ought to be able to hold the O'Rourkes down.
 Great brotherly act that triple pass of Nichols, O'Hagan and Hughes fin that sixth inning. Great catch and put-out by the backstop.
 There were no flies on Holyoke's twirler yesterday and in only two innings were his curves found. volz was certainly in great form.
 Louis Lepine was jollied again by his friend from Canada and then Louis hammered out long fly to the outfeld just for satisfaction. !. i Massey. the new find of the Holy okes may be a good fleider, but he does not appear like a heavy sticker, and as runner Cy Voorhees, can beat him.
 Our old friend Baker tried hard to land on his former comrade Treat, but It was not to be. Baker is doing we'll for Holyoke and fills up a bad hole in the infield.
 Hoey, formerly of Holy Cross, was presented with a gold watch and chain by group of admirers when he came to bat the first time at Bos- ton Saturday.
 Friends of Garry Hermann say the Cincinnati magnate is SO sore over the roasts from Pittsburg that he would welcome a chance to tie up with the American league.
 Billy" Lush is playing second base for Plattsburg of the Northern league. In the game with Rutland Saturday he accepted eleven out of twelve chances. but did not get hit.
 Down in Washington they say that while Jake Stahl is a whole-souled sportsman and a credit to baseball, he is not the Moses to lead the Na- tionals out of the baseball wilder ness.
 Johnny Hughes, our new backstop, Is little fellow, but my. he can play baseball. With little Jimmy on third and little Johnny behind the bat, We have the gold dust" twins beaten a mile.
 Dave Altizer. who was struck on the head by pitched ball last week, was back in the harness for Wash ington yesterday. He secured one hit and handled four chances without an error.
 Lancaster's threats to jump to the Eastern league are. of course, taken as joke in organized baseball. In- cidentally. the Tri-State has cities ready and anxious to succeed Lancas- ter in the outlaw circuit.
 Don't forget that double header with New Haven here on Thursday. That team is a corker and as fast as any In the league. Since Frank f'itx- patrick has joined them they have been making all the others hustle.
 Say, Bill Peet. come up here on Thursday until we show you the real goods. You have been booming that team down in New Haven SO much that you have overlooked the best team of all, the Waterbury Prodl- gals.
 The Defenders won their seventh straight victory Sunday by defeating the Stanley Parks or Snappers by the score of 1s to 10. The Defenders would like to play the second St Joes or the Slashers for s10 a side. Ad- dress Defenders. 2i1 Cherry street.
 Harry Lumley. the hare-hitting Brooklyn outfielder. tells the Will Transport Tri-State team that he will become an outlaw if Williamsport will guarantee him f5.ooo a year for four years and put the entire &C., 900 in bank payable to his order.
 Stone of St Louis still continues to lead the American league hitters among the regular players, with the great Lajoie coming along by mighty bounds. Stone is credited with bat ting average of .ss4 and Loioie is now hitting for -sss after poor start
 An unusual thing is the fact that batting ave age is just the same this week as 1t was lss1- It Is rare fhst a player does not go eith- CT up or down. but Fftz has remained Net such bad vork though, considering that hs c doing better thaa .soo.-Nsu Havsa Reg isfsr.