Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-13
BASEBALL NOTES.

Thursday-Norwich at Waterbury New London at Hartford. New Haven at Bridgeport, Holyoke at Springfield.
 City league Sunday.
 Batting averages went skyward.
 If Sam Kennedy could only have seen it.
 Upson. Singleton & Co.'S dollar shirts are winners.
 Rockville will be occupied by the City leaguers on Sunday and the Brooklyns and Hills will play the last game. Wow, but there will be things doing.
 Manager Humphrey of New Lon- don says his club has played its last game on his home field As long as the club stays under the name of New London his intention is to trans- fer all home games.
 Jim o'Rourke's protest against the playing of Rothfuss by Hartford turns out to be without foundation. Secretary J. H. Farrell of the Ma tional association says the player is in good standing.
 Klobedanz received a letter the other day which was written by Christy Mathewson, in which the famous pitcher asked if the records were true when they gave the fact that once Larry Lajoie, king of bat ters, was struck out four times in a nine inning game by Klobedanz. "It was when I was a member of the Bostons," said Klobedanz, when he finished reading the letter. Larry was then playing on the Philadelphia Nationals together with Ed Delehan- ty. I was working in good shape that day and famed Lajoie four times. did not have any foul strike rule to assist me either. Every strike out was the result of three healthy swings at the ball. New Bedford Times.
 Every man on the team got a hit but big George, and somehow or other he couldn't get one to land properly, but with two sacrifice hits, a base on balls and hit by the pitcher once, it was pretty good for one day.
 Red Rorty has a nickel ball and strike indicator which he flashes be- hind his bat, probably to blind the eyes of the scorers so that they can- not see whether he has made a mis- take or not in his call of a ball or a strike.
 William Doyle of Meriden was over here yesterday making a dicker for the New London franchise. He thinks with Sam Kennedy and Me Crane gone the team is not worth as much as before. There are two players on the team yet who are worth a whole lot of the other two and they are o'Rourke and Finn.
 Sockalexis has failed to return. Before the season started the Bangor papers were full of stories about the famous old slugger coming back. and although he was placed we'll up in the batting list at the first of the sea- son he Is hitting third from the last now.
 Red Owens has been shifted to the outfeld of the York Tri-state club.
 The two leaders come together .his afternoon and that tie for first place is bound to be broken.
 Fordham is trying to arrange an- other game with Holy Gross for June 1T. Each team has won a game from the other this year and a third one Is desired to settle the cham pionship of the Jesuit colleges. Fordhsm wants the game played on neutral grounds. Hampden park ought to i'll the bill satisfactorily.
 Manager Hugh Duffy of the Provf- dence team wants Tom Stankard for his Eastern league aggregation. and wants him 90 badly that he has of- fered to give up a pitcher and an outfsider for him. or to buy him outright Dan O'Neiis answer Is that he wants Stsnkzrd some him self and that Tom vfIl stay right there in Springfield as long ss he Is satis1sd with kis present bsrsh-