The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-26
DIAMOND CLIPPINGS

The first taste of something Tn tne way of baseball in the Connecticut league this year was experienced Tues day at Holyoke when three full-hedged Connecticut leaguers and a dozen young fellows of more or less ability at the game held forth at the Berkshire street grounds. Two sessions were on the program and a couple of hours were devoted both In the morning and aft ernoon to batting ard chasing the ball Manager Jack righe of the Holyoke club, Catcher Thackhara of the same club and Mike McAndrews, Springfield's third baseman, got in some good prac- tlce licke out of the days work, and they intend to devote morning and aft ernoon to practice unti the .Holyoke squad reports week fro Monday.
 The trouble between Eddie Farley. the we'll known twlrler of the Water bury baseball club, and Harold R. Ru- rant, manager of the club, which be- gan about two months ago and led to all kinds of prominence owing to the fact that both sides of the story were threshed ou. in full was satisfactorily settled Tuesday night, when the big twirler and the manager got together and talked over their differences. What terms were agreed upon were not given out. the only information obtainabls ntlllk iudt luts Wtic tHlilNAS sdhisihN- tory to both parties.
 Frank Burke, who was drafted from the Holyoke club by Providence of the Eastern league. is reported to have been turned over to the Altoona cluo of the Tri-State league. Burke turn ed down the terms offered him by Pro vidence and the reported sale to AL toona is therefore not surprising.
 George Lachance, the Waterbury first baseman. has not signed up yet, but the big fellow says there is no trouble, and that he will be on deck reporting day.
 Uncle Jeems ORourke is very anx- ious to secure the reinstatement of Billy Luyster, who was suspended last season at the instance of Manager ClarlSin after jumping the Hartford team. The Hartford owner refuses to consider such move as 1t was not the first offense, O'Rourke says he does not want Luyster for himself but does not say where he wants 10 send him.
 Gene Tansey, for several years an outfelder of the Springfield team, has I signed up with the Lynn club of the New England league where he played during the greater part of last season. Lynn has five candidates for the outer garden but Tansey is already picked | for a regular.
 Jack Hess has written to Manager Dan ONeil of the Ponies and states that he is fixture with the Nashville club, which he recently joined. He ex- poets to work against several of the big league clubs in the exhibition games to be played by the Nashville team.
 According to report from Trenton N. j., Pitcher Mattern, last year Holyoke who was taken by the Boston Ma Flank Burke, has been let out to Tren- ton by the BeantCwn management Mattern refused to report at Boston owing to the salary he was offered.
 According to admirers of Ruhe Eel Ter, who comes to the New York High flanders from the Southern league the pitcher will be one of the finds of tho coming season. They say Zeller pitches a new ball that makes the batter's eyes blink after a few innings. He !: six feet, three inches in height, ana lives on raw fish This is what he dit in one game to the Montgomery club 1 Struck out 12 men in nine innings and l 1g in i3 innings, pitched 9 strikes ir succession. didn't give a base on ball: in 13 innings; made one of the twt runs made by Atlanta; never kicked or a decision and let only four hit ball. go to the outfield.
 Herman Schmiel, catcher for the Wa terbury baseball team during the sea son of 1907. and who was drafted h! the oakland club of the Pacific coas 1 league at the close of the Connecticu league season. will wear Waterbur, uniform during the coming season. The Boston Red Sox recruits mum ber quite a bunch of college men il their ranks this year. Few have here tofore reckoned Unglaub Daporte an' Burchell among college players. whil Sullivan. Carrigan, Gessler. Carlisle Lord, Robertson and Glaze all swel the number.