Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-28
BASEBALL NOTES.

If everything goes as smoothly as up to date. the Giants will report to Manager McGraw at Los Angeles at 5:15 this afternoon.
 So far as known, President Comis- key has had little if any trouble In signing all the "Bingvllle Rubinasv
 When the "Old Roman" tells them what they are worth they believe 1t Under the new rules the pitcher may rub the ball in the dirt, tho grass. or may spit on it and rub 1t on his knickerbockers, but no other player may do so under a penalty of $5 fine for each offense.
 l It is understood that Outfielder Me Cabe, who was traded to Providence for Lachance, has been turned over to the Worcester club. Rumor has 1t that McCabe wanted more money than the local owners cared to pay. Since Ned Hanlon has been book ing comedians and Connie Mack signing til the "Bingville Rublanas'' for q ''Si Plunkard" outfit, we have been expecting to hear that some live manager had engaged several tin selled peaches to do the hurdles on horseback. Hoop-la!
 Says Fred Penney of the Boston club: Billy Hamilton was responsi-
 ble for the presence of Cy Young II i on our team. Billy gave us a tip on | him and we followed 1t up. He said that Cy had splendid command, good curves and lot of speed, and it came out just that way I consider Hamilton as good judge of ball player as walks in shoe leather and what he doesn't know about the game isn't worth knowing
 Dummy Taylor and Joe McGinnity joined the Giants, who are on their way to Los Angeles, at Kansas City Tuesday morning. Both reported to Secretary Knowles that they arc ready for the season of their lives. The Dummy indulged in a noiseless oration when he discovered that his old side partner, Mike Donlin, was not With the team. Dummy's peror- ation, translated by Sammy Strang, was, Mike and Frank will he with us when the umpire calls play ball."
 Christy Matherson keeps up his training on the train. He shows great form at checkers. Nobody in the party or on the train has chance with the pitcher at the checker board. As the Giants draw nearer to the coast, the weather becomes moro Dalmy at every mile. Choice quartets rendered by Fred Knowles (tenor). Roger Bresnahan (second tenorl Leon Ames (flrst basel and Sammy Strang (second base, may bel, cheer the party. AS Matty looks around for Bowerman. he warbles, Cant You See I'm Lonely"
 The following speaks for itself: Two more men jumped the Inter- State for the New England league last week. Phil Jason and John Wiley. both of Sharon, forsaking Wilson's hotel for an eastern birth. Jason with New Haven and Wiley with Hartford. Early in the week Jack Berry, goal tender of the Erie team, traded posi- tions with Perley Graham, ex-goal tender of the Youngstown team, who was recently appointed referee to suc- ceed Frank Lowry, resigned. Berry is no youngster by any means. and felt that he would rather have ref eree's berth than players on a, tail end team. Graffam is doing good work with the Erie team. while Der ry Is giving satisfaction as referee. Bill Bannon of the Canton team, with whom President C. H. Morton of the o. & P. Baseball league has been ne- gotiating for some time as an um- pire during the coming season, signed a contract last week. With he and Arlie Latham, the referee, as O. &. P. umpires, the Interstate will be we'll represented in local baseball fields"