Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-27
BASE BALL NOTES.

the second game.
 The Merrimacs and the North Ends will be in the first battle to- morrow with the Pastimes, and the strengthened St Josephs in the last game.
 What a race that is in the City league. The Merrimacs are in the lead by one game, and the Brooklyns, the Hills and the Pastimes are tied for the second place. There will be some changes after to-morrow's games.
 We have two great games at home for starter next week. Springfield comes on Monday and Holyoke on Tuesday. It will be worth whole lot to our standing to take both of those games, and we will make a strong bid for both.
 Just look at the game that chap Bastian played yesterday. Diamonds in that game and gold bricks in the game of Thursday. Perhaps little coaching on coming in for a ground CT would make him one of the most finished players in the league. Supervisor Kennedy and one of the chief rooters had few words after the game Thursday and the boss of the indicator holders came out of the wordy battle badly worst ed. ,stH..s .. g..
 That spasmodic spurt of Bridge ports seems to have taken all the life and ambition out of the players. They have made beautiful record this week with every day a defeat recorded against them.
 And now Conny Danaher tells us that there is going to be shake-up in the New Haven team. That has been promised since the opening of the season, but somehow or other a demurrer has been entered each time and each time sustained.
 The Cottage Place Sluggers beat the Buffaloes this morning by score of 21 to g. Batteries: John Morgan and Bert Beeman for Cottage Place club and Caffrey and Gable for the Buff faloes. Brennan was umpire.
 | so far this week with beautiful chance of landing high and dry, un- less there is an unexpected banging of the ball by some team. Hartford and Holyoke are close up in the race.
 The City league games tomorrow will be the most interesting of any that have been played this season. | The race is so close that each man. ager will put in his best team to make win possible. Riverside grounds should be crowded to-mor- rowaalsiuo4 gH1 giast 'r4
 Pitcher Coughlin, formerly with Bridgeport and Norwich, has been re. leased by the Wilkesbarre club of the New York State league.
 Malachi Kittredge. who was re. gently dropped as manager of the Montreal club, says he mas no definite plans for the future. but that he may sign with a major league team. He says that the Eastern league is a strong organization, and that he had made many friends in Montreal and the other cities in the circuit.
 Holyoke is certainly we'll supplied with pitchers. In addition to the five regulars Hoffman can go some in the box. as he demonstrated Thursday Third Baseman Grubb has twirled winning ball in the Eastern league and George Bannon has done some creditable curve throwing.
 George B. Dovey of the Boston Ma. tionals is casting covetous eyes on Tom Stankard and is seeking to pur, chase the big ball mauler. But the Boston magnate has offered enough tc tempt Manager o'Neil and unless ht chips in several carloads of baked beans in addition to the figures ht has named Tom isn't likely to go tc cultured Boston at the end of the Connecticut league season.
 Cincinnati is reported to have pur, chased the release of Chic Hartley the Philadelphia policeman and form CT Holyoke star. now with the Lan. caster Tri-State club.
 New London's exhibition at Holy. oke Thursday was the rankest seer there this season. There was no life in the Whalers' playing and they were beaten before they took tn, field.
 Tn a letter to a Hoiyoke friend Mike Mccormack, the former Holy oke captain now in Nashville. Tenn. says that he has had his fill of South ern league ball and will not spend another season there. The hot weath CT has knocked him out several time. and he longs for the north once more The Southern league season will clos September and Mccormack plans tC be In Holyoke September s.
 Fred Klobedanz. the old New Bed ford pitcher. is to get into the game q week from Saturday. when he wil hold down first base for the Matta poiset team against the Fairhavens
 Just before a recent game Della, hanty went strutting across the nelt with that peculiar swagger of his shoulders back and chin out and fist clInched. They are all alike. thoss Delahanty boys" unused Jenningl following him. Big Ed. the best oI them all. walked. talked and acted like the ones now playing. And iti peculiar. too. the younger boys all stand at the plate just as Ed did. De was the one man without a wesknes' at bat He could hit anything h, could reach h---Detroit News