Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-17
BASEBALL NOTES.
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Niagara here tomorrow.
 Johnny Moran will be in the poX.
 Bill Lallier will also be with the team.
 Manager Tom McGrath. another Wa terbury lad. will have charge or the Niagara boys.
 Izzy Hoffman has returned to Hol- yoke and decided to play With inal team this season.
 Some of the Niagara alumni ln this city are raising pool to bet on tneir old college in the game with Water- bury.
 The Hartford Trinity second team yesterday noon elected Herman frah- cis MacGuyer, 'OS, of Waterbury cap tain.
 Walter West, who pitched for Rock, vile a part of last season, has Joiheu the New Haven team. and IS sald to be in excellent condition.
 John Harding of Holyoke has been appointed substitute umpire on tne Connecticut league stair. He IS well known basketball referee. If the WIrln WedtuCl uoSSh No pretty soon some of the salary arms will be put on the blink. and some that are not saIaried will take to the blow once more.
 Eddie Swander will scarcely be Ill condition to play baseball for some | weeks vet. He has just recovered from a nine weeks illness with ty- pboid fever and will have to be pretty careful.
 As Parent has signed with the Bos- ton Americans it will probably put | our old friend Wagner out of JoD We could just about use that chap Ill our infield, if we could get him back l again.
 Tomorrow is the last day for the reporting of the balance of those thr- ty or more players signed by Manager l Durant. and every train to-day and tomorrow should bear in one or more. It will be hard to tell what Will bear | them away.
 The Connecticut league managers I who are not holding practice games | with bigger league teams can afford 10 I give those who are the laugh. There has been but one really good day since the spring season opened and the eS- cheauers have been called on to settle. Fred Parent. shortstop of the Bos- ton American baseball tean, signed d contract yesterday to play this season. President John I. Taylor of the club offered to compromise the salary differences between club and player, and Parent will receive $3,Io0 for this season.
 We will have as good T pitching stan as any team in the league. We will have as good an outfield as any team in the league. We are n little shy in some places on the iniield as yet, but we ought to land one or two clever ones from the big bunch that has agreed to play here.
 Bronkie has invented new scheme for practicing pitching, So the story comes from his home town. Man chester. He throws the ball into q bath tub which is stood on end and if the ball returns to him. then he knows he has hit the mark. He could throw some of the players, hack in the old Connecticut league days. into the tub and it wouldn't hurt ihe tub any. The present day crop are exceptions to this rule.
 Connecticut league fans have been wondering how Johnny Hughes. the popular backstop of last seasons Wa. terbury team, is making out in faster company. Hughes was purchased by Pittsburg but was later turned over to the Louisville club of the American association. That Johnny is making good Is shown by the following from the Louisville Times: Kane is par lticularly taken with the work of Catcher Hughes. who he says is going to make one of the stars of the league and play such great ball that even Shoddy Shaw will be forgotten. The particular feat which has attracted Kane and one which is very seldom seen. was Hughes standing fiat.footed behind the bat and mailing them down to second with n speed and accuracy that showed that he was all there."