Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-12
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

BROOKLYN BRIEFS.
 It is some time since the Cadet base ball team has been heard from. Is Manager James Malone out of town?
 Rev James Mitchell of the Sa- cred Heart parish, New Haven. who has been visiting at his home on Bank street, has returned to the Elm city.
 Miss Mary Phelan of Porter street has returned from New York. where she was visiting relatives.
 William Mclean, one of the trio who distribute the mail in Brooklyn, is on two weeks vacation which he is spending in Thomaston, Torring- ton and Winsted.
 It now appears that William Ryan, who is suffering from blood poisoning in the right eye, received his injury in peculiar way. It is true that he had run in with a man in this section, but the fight was caused by the latter, who, after hav- ing some words with Ryan, threw ammonia into Williams eyes. All though Ryan was almost blind for the time being, as soon as his eye was in working order he started in to take few shots at his assailant's jaw.
 Although the report of the bu- reau of assessment on the extension of Clark street did not come before the aldermen on last Monday evep- ing, despite the efforts of the Brook lyn and Town Plot Improvement so- ciety, still the members of the inn provement club will continue to plug away until they hear that report or know the reason why. They admit that there is much to the report, but are of the impression that the as- sessment board has had plenty of time to finish the report if any time at all had been spent on it. This Clark street matter, so they think, has been dragging on by far too long and they are determined to have something done on it within a very short period.
 For the first time in a year somebody from South Brooklyn made an appeal to the department of public works to do something with lower South Leon ard street before another winter comes around. This is district that to be lost sight of altogether, and 1t will be so until the people get together and say things, just as they are doing in other places. There are a great many working people down there and probably somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred children come up that street to the Porter school in all kinds of weather. The city never did much down that way although 1t has always been admitted that the district is entitled to better treatment. Why wouldn't that be good street to spend little of the state road money on? This has been suggested before but nothing came. or It. To be sure the state highway commissioner might kick, but even so it might be we'll to find out if the city has to play second fiddle to the highway commissioner all the time.
 -Yesterday Umpire "Shamokin" Kelly was asked his opinion about the play which is at present troubling the managers of the Junior Amateur league, and because of which a spe- cial meeting has been called for to- morrow night. 'Shamokin" said if there were three men on bases and two out, if the batter knocked the ball towards third base and the rum ner from second was thrown out at third, that no run could be scored even though the runner had crossed the plate before the final out was made at third. Others who have um- pired in this city and who are reck- oned as good base ball judges have been asked about the play, but many different answers have been given. President Smith of the league will in all probability send letter to Presi- lent Harry Pulliam to have him de- tide 1t. The play was discussed con 'iderably in Brooklyn last evening md the arguments became so heated hat some of the takers became reck- ess and wanted to bet on the mat CT. But according to the rules the 'un does not count and there should lot be much trouble deciding the natter as rule 59 reads as follows: One run shall be scored every time l base runner, after having legally | ouched the first three bases, shall | egally touch the home base before | hree men are put out. Provided, however, that if he reach home on | 'r during play in which the third | nan be forced out, or be put out, be- ore reaching first base. the run hall not count. A force out can be | made only when a base runner legal y loses the right to the bases he oc. .upies and is thereby obliged to ad- | Iance as the result of fair hit ball | lot caught on the fly. Still, to satisr y the managers, President Smith |