Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-10
BASEBALL NOTES.

oVITy to ledVe you HafII0rQ.
 Paddy O'Connor needs curb bit on some occasions.
 Great work of Captain Nichols. star catch against the fence, retired the side in one inning and made two outs in another.
 Oh, for some good warm days when the fans can go out to Rockville by the thousand and shout to their hearts content and not be afraid of swallowing pneumonia germs.
 Bill Luby was there with the stick yesterday If he did not locate the plate at all times. A triple and a double and three of the four runs to his credit is going some.
 Every man of the locals batted safely one or more times with the ex- ception of Ward, but as that lad drew three bases on balls and had one sac riice hit he was doing pretty we'll at that.
 Umpire Beecher showed yesterday that he intends to run the game no matter where he strikes. O'Connor, Luby and Robarge discovered that fact before many minutes of play.
 New London is strengthening up and that is good news. She defeated Waterbury for her first win, but she couldn't do 1t again with the same outfit in thousand years, for if she did Manager Durant would chase his team to the top of Pine hill.
 Arlie Latham, baseball's greatest comedian, Is now umpirIng in the P. o. league. One day last week La than failing to secure the removal of an objectionable person from the grandstand, gave the game to the wis., iting club.
 Romer says he was never farmed out to Waterbury by Montreal. He says Montreal has no attachment on him.
 Barbour. m infielder, recently of the Cleveland American league team, has been signed by Manager Hum- phrey of the New London club.
 Charles Giebler, of Pennsylvania, an outfielder. has signed with the New London team. He is considered fast one and heavy hitter.
 Jack Hannifin, the Holyoke boy, joined the Providence club Wednes- day. His work in the first game was phenomenal and he made an in- stant hit with the Rhode Island fans. One Providence paper said: The work of Hannifin, the new infielder. was tinsel-edged, hit catch of a foul fly back of third base being hair raising performance"
 The report that has travelled around the circuit that George Bannon was likely to be traded by Holyoke to New London is denied. Bannon would no doubt enter strenuous objections to any such deal.
 Secretary James H. O'Rourke of the Connecticut league said yesterday that he has as yet received no word from the national commission regard ing its decision in the case of the two Cuban ballplayers, Marsans and Ca brera, claimed by the Holyoke and Scranton clubs.
 Manager Humphrey has engaged two new players who are said to be good ones and he will not give out their names until they appear on the field. He thinks 1t would make the other managers jealous to give out their names in advance.
 Manager O'Rourke of Bridgeport says that as far as he has noticed the umpires in this league this sea- son are a big improvement over the staffs of previous years. The fact that the managers are backing the umps is good sign.
 Not a player suspended in the National league this year." observed President Pulliam yesterday.
 Abbaticchio was very weak with the bat yesterday. Captain Clarke did the best stick work.
 McGann is back in harness, but McGraw Is keeping Bowerman at first.
 "Chesbro is lighter this year than have ever seen him and declares his arm is in better shape than 1t has been for two years" says Grifith.
 Complaints of slowness in the playing of games in both leagues come from the west Nothing to