The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-20
INTERESTING MEETING.
Connecticut League Mngnates Gather
 at Hotel Garde Saturday Night.

Hartford. July 19.-The directors of the Connecticut league of baseball clubs held a special meeting in the baseball room at the Hotel Garde Set urday night with President Tracy in the chair and Secretary O'Rourke in charge of the dope. The sale of the New Britain team to William Hanna was ratified and Mir Hanna was made a director of the league.
 The first business that came up was black eye for New Haven though, and 1t wae said that Hanna entered the league inauspiciously. On June 24, New Haven played In New Britain and Umpire Rorty forfeited the game to New Haven because the New Bri- tain team refused to play out It's half Of the ninth inning. It was very dark and the New Britain men claimed that the game should have bene called long before, when New Britain had lead Tho New Britain fans were very wrathy about the for felt and Manager Hanna received about bushel of letters protesting against what they called robbery. President Tracy was at the game and i in an interview backed up the umpire. The New Britain team appealed from Rorty's lewiston President Tracy made an investigation, that is, he asked himself what he thought about it, and he decided that the umpire did right. Then, the New Britain man. ager appealed from the presidents de- clsion. The directors last night by a unanimous vote upheld the presi- dent and the umpire.
 The following directors were at the meeting: Clarkin of Hartford. O'Rourke of Bridgeport, O'Neil of Springfield and Hanna of New Britain. ONeil held a proxy for Waterbury. Merlden, New Haven and Holyoke were not represented. Chief Ken nedy was present. The change In ownership of the New Haven team I as there was no representative from New Haven present nothing was done
 Dan O'Neil was in one of his raging fits the other day and Springfield reporter who thinks 1t Is his duty to print everything that Dan says turned l out a yard or so about what ONeil was going to do at the meeting about 1 kicking Padron of New Britain out i of the league on the ground that he was not q Cuban but a baseball player. l As matter of fact O'Neil was very angry at Padron because the Cuban was responsible for two or three Springfield defeats and O'Neil was afraid that ho might win a few more A pitcher who can defeat Springfield has no place in the league, according to O'Neils ideas, so he thought he would trump some kind of charge and see if he could have him dis. barred.
 Mir, O'Nell denied all knowledge ot the matter when spoken to about Il yesterday and ot was supposed that he had been strlnglng the reporter but the latter said that the manager was really and truly in earnest and was so angry that he had difficulty in ex- pressing himself Just why MT ONeil did not bring up the matter at the meeting is not known, but 1t i' supposed that he was afraid that some of the other directors would get back at him for some of his moves in the baseball business which would moi look very well If shown up, The fun niest thing about the matter was the statement that Allie Paige had made an investigation and discovered tha' Padron was not a Cuban, but as the investigation was not made until af. ter Paige was discharged from the team 1t was not believed that the in. vestigation was of much importance