Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-04

week, although positions are open to
 him in this league. | Nothing has yet been heard from
 Pitcher Topham, who was to have
 been here couple of days ago.
 He has received advance money
 and may get here to-day.
 The Hartford Courant writer will
 have to find another foeman worthy
 Of his steel, now that Eddie Sulli-
 van is leaving New Haven. Those
 two chaps have been playing jinks
 with each other for many weeks. ] Edward Mack, pitcher for the Syr-
 acuse university, hass signed with the
 Chicago Cubs and will report this
 week. Last season he pitched for the
 Seneca Falls club in the Empire
 league and was the mainstay of the team.
 The players on the Washington team of the Union league took possession of the box office yester- day and divided up the spells. They
 then scattered in all directions, go- ing to various leagues. McDermott
 was one of the bunch.
 Walter Ahearn's home run at Hol- yoke Tuesday was one of the longest belts of the season up there. The ball went over the right field fence, vaulting the screening and had it been turned over the short left wall 1t would have undoubtedly dropped into the river. Joseph Courtney of Worcester has been elected captain of the George town university baseball team for next season. Courtney has played left field on the Georgetown team and previous to entering the Washington university was a student at Holy Cross in his home city. s...
 Umpire .McCloud ought to take a few lessons from his fellow-worker, Wilkinson, in the art of running game. Instead of improving, Me- Cloud is growing worse with each game that he oflciates in, and it's time Supervisor Kennedy dropped him line to ginger up.
 If Waterbury had won the game, Hartford could have protested 1t because Sam Kennedy did not wear a Waterbury uniform. His trousers looked as if they had been worn by member of the Baltimore Zouaves But it would not have been protested as Dowd is not Sof- fel.-Hartford Courant.
 Tn the retirement of Farley from baseball which he announced after yesterdays game, clean and gen. tlemanly player has gone by the boards. The football injury of last fall has no doubt put him out of the running, as many predicted 1t would. His record as a twirler, however, is one that he can feel proud over.
 President P. T. Powers of the East ern league says that business is 25 per cent better this year than any other year of the leagues existence. Each club has made money thus far and the race ies such that 1t will compel the attendance to keep up it's present average until the fight is over. The financial depression does not seem to affect the baseball world in the slightest.
 Jack Flynn, the former Holy Cross player, has ben requested to report to Milwaukee by the national commits sion. Flynn is now at his home in Providence and expects to start west in a few days. His main objection 1 to the Milwaukee job is cut of sI0O 1 in his salary from that which he re- ceived with Toronto last year. Flynn Is studying law at Georgetown and | expects to enter the Harvard Law school next fall.
 The New Haven club announces that it will protest the New Haven game at Savin Rock Mon- day. The protest is based on the ground that in the ninth inning Umpire Charley Kennedy waved Zacher to first on balls and that Sim mons. who was on first, was there fore privileged to take second. As q matter of fact the umpire declared that be did not tell Zacher to take hrst. as he had called only three halls on him. and when Simmons started l for second Meriden man tagged him put.
 Anent the Meriden claim that Wa terbury was afraid to play the Sat- urdsy afternoon game In Waterbury with MeTiden and that a biz crowd of Meriden fans were disappointed. Eddie Simons. business manager for Waterbury. said yesterday that by actual countsthere were zs Meri- den people present and about 200 He said that if the game had been started fs could not have been finished and as for the game In SpTinEfeld. why Dan o'Neil rouId pull oz a game Ia '