Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-27
STILL THE HOOK IS WORKING
 BEAUTIFULLY Captain Nichols Case Causes An other Forfeit and Now the Captain Would an Out
 law Be.

President Tracy was in Hartford yesterday and among other things he said that he intended to stop the fool ishness with the Waterbury club. He sent instructions to Norwich to the effect that if the fines of Captain Nich- olS of Waterbury were not paid the game should be forfeited to Norwich and that no exhibition game should be played He said there was no req son for New Haven playing an exhi- bition game with Waterbury after Kelly had declared the game forfeited. MT Tracy said that the rules of the league provide that a club that gets forfeited game from Waterbury at this time can collect damages from the club Tn addition to this, the league is expected to levy fine on Water bury The president said that all the fines in the league had been paid ex' cept those of Nichols and there was nc reason why he should not pay his.
 The Waterbury captain attempted te spike Umpire Kelly and that was the reason the player was fined. The fines of Nichols amount to S20 and nom has been paid. Waterbury patrons oi the game collected $5 to pay the flrsl fine levied on Nichols and that has no1 been turned over yet.
 President Tracy said that in regard to the claim made by Nichols that ht ] had not been officially notified Of the fines, that the player had no excuse | for be had been notified three times President Davenport of the Norwich club and Umpire Rorty received theil | instructions yesterday about the mat ter. After Nichols had made the sec ond out in the first inning, on foul tt Bridges, Rorty announced that Nil Davenport had been notified that Mich ols was ineligible to play and that ht should not be allowed to play in tht game. Waterbury refused to play without Nichols and Rorty forfeited the game to Norwich, to 0. Rair | checks were issued by the Waterbury :. ticket takers. These were cashed the box office and Waterbury did no receive any guarantee money.
 There was no excuse for the aetioI 1 taken by the Waterbury management and if that is sample of the way th' game is run at that place it is not tt | be wondered at that some of the back CTS of the team are anxious to with draw. Manager Durant has had ex | perienee enough in athletic matters t' know better than to defy such an or ganization as the Connecticut Leagu' | of Base Ball clubs. It is not believed that Waterbury will be found out O
 the league as there are other men il that place who are willing to run tn club There are some good players ol the team but it Is not as strong al aggregation as the one that represent ed the town last season.
 | President Tracy said he had beel notified by Secretary Farrell of tn National association of base bal clubs that the league here would hav' to rescind the vote it passed givin; tle unIpires discretion about O
 much coaching could be done iron the bench. This is violation of tn national agreement and the league |
 liable to get into trouble. Coachin
 is prohibited from the bench. A man
 ager can shout orders to his owl players but he must not hold conver I sation with players on an opposinI
 team or with >ehe umpire. It will b
 seen by this that Umpire McClou
 was justified the other day in order
 ing Dan o'Neil removed from th
 ground.