Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-06
BASE BALL NOTES.


 We are sceduled for four home games next week. - ,., ~et,- ~.-->.
 Tom Crook is now covering center field for the Toronto Eastern leag- uers.
 Holyoke has received a check for $750 to cover half the purchase price of Carson Hodge from the Washing ton Americans.
 Tom Dowd will not be seen in uni form any more this season. The in- jury to his ankle has proven more serious than was expected.
 Tom Corcoran, the veteran infield- CT, is still holding forth at Union town, Pa. Bill Lauder continues to play third on the same team. Dutch Armbruster has left Boston for Chicago and is still at odds with the Boston American management. Dutch has been very foolish fel- low.
 | Mike McAndrews will go to Cuba after the season is over and will play in the all-star team that is going from this country to play exhibition games with the Cubans.
 Bridgeport has released Third Baseman Ingalls, and the younger O'Rourke is covering the corner for the present. A couple of Bridgeport amateurs are to be tried out at the position.
 Catcher Armbruster has been sold to the Chicago White Sox by the Bos- ton Americans. The former New London catcher was recently suspend ed by Manager Mcclure of Boston for falling off the water wagon.
 Since Jim Mcclure took charge of the Boston Americans the team has broken exactly even, with 40 games won and 40 lost. There's mighty fine showing with a team that had not been winning as good as one in three.
 For the best all around ball player Joe Connor takes the prize. He can jump into any position and fiFah 4ac- ceptably. His playing at third for Springfield in the closing days of the season demonstrates this very thoroughly.
 Waterbury has five more home games to play, counting the one to- day and three away from home. We would have to about win them all and have Holyoke lose all hers to get into the first position. so we will have to be satisfied with second position.
 Con Danaher must be smiling these days as he sees his former tormentors the newspaper boys fighting among themselves. That was always a good way to kill off an enemy and Con certainly did not have many friends down New, Haven way in the news paper field.
 A St Louis jewelry house has an- nounced an offer of diamond medals | one for the champion batsman of the | league and one for the | premier hitter of the National | league. The presentation will prob ably be made in the spring, but it has not been decided whether | medals will be offered annually.
 Manager McCloskey has bought from Trenton the release of Billy the former Giant. Gilbert | Is to join McCloskey's St Louis Ma tionals in the spring, if not before. says he has a great pitch er in Pat Murphy. the former Bridge porter. Murphy came near being a Pony once. He pitched in one game Tor Dan 0'Neil, but Springfield was we'll supplied with pitchers and he wasn't retained.
 Red Donahue was pitching against Lajoie here last season, and he big fellow backed away from the Dlate to escape a high in-curve," aid Catcher Payne in a flaming bee 1t Detroit. 'The ball hit his bat md an out on foul was he result. Then Red said: Now
 know that dub's weakness. All I've got to do is to hit his bat when le's got it over his shoulder. Larry sot four hits in his other times at 'at during :he game. Three of hem hff inc hack fpnco s