Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-25
THE DIAMOND
THE BEST MAN
in HIS CLASS
Eddie Farley Has Finally Signed a
Contract With the Local Team
Other News.

One more joy has come into the
lives of the baseball fans. Eddie
Farley, the popular twirler of the
local team, and the leading pitcher
in the leagu who tas been on the
outs with Manager Durant, has
patched up his differences and last
night affixed his signature to a con-
tract for the coming season. What
the amount Of salary will be,
neither of those interested will dis
close. 1t is sufficient to know, how
ever, that. the famous battery, Far
ley and Schincel, will be in the
limelight once more, and that means
whole lot for the local team. Far
ley injured his shoulder during the
football season, but he has entirely
recovered from that injury and
says he will do even better work
than he did last season. As the
time draws near for the opening
games, all the old ones are getting
the baseball fever and lovers Of
baseball will in all probability find
Waterbury represented almost en-
tirely as the composition was made
up last year.
Parry Thackara reported to Man
ager Jack Tighe in Holyoke yester-
day and reports from the burg say
that Parry is looking very fit. He
wintered in Trenton, N. j., and lost
about ten pounds during the cold
weather. Tighe weighs less now than
he has for fifteen years and it is said
that he expects to make as good a
first bag as any man in the league.
Tighe fleshened up considerably
when he lived at the Wauregan house
in Norwich and he looked so healthy
that the manager wanted to have
him stand in front of the house as
an ad With the player-manager
down to fighting weight the other
basemen will have to go some to
keep up to the Holyoke manager and
captain.
Moore, the big mountaineer catch
err that Manager Dowd added to his
backstop staff, is the inventor of a
patent appliance designed to teach
base runners how to slide. 1t is
modelled something after rolling
pin and a player who uses it can
travel some distance without losing
any of his skin. Some of the college
mines have written for sample sliders
and it is expected that they will be-
in universal use among the up to
date teams.
THE adoption of that new rule
giving batters a sacrifice on fly toI
the outfield that advances man a
base will improve the batting aver
ages somewhat" says Hughie Jen-
nings. Time and again heavy hit |
tiers like Crawford come to the plate
in pinch and knock out long fly, |
which either scores or advances |
runner. Formerly they were given
a time at bat and their good work
was not recognized Now, with this
rule in vogue they will have less
times at the plate and by the time
the season is over you will find that
many a player has been benefited in
the base hit column"
THE trouble with playing league
says Tyrus Cobb, lis that
there are too many rules. The play
er isn't given chance. A man
comes into the biggest league in the
world at small salary. He expects
10. But even if he makes good it is
Years before he gets decent sum for
playing. OF course If fellow makes
/ good record he can hold out for
more, but he hasn't the chance of a
'abbit unless public opinion is with
him, and then he hasn't much chance
o get what he. wants. The league
las him just where it wants him,
md it isn't going to pay him any
more money than it has to. There
'ught to be new SYSTEM" continued
he leagues premier batter. "Nol
Tub ought to control any mans SER
ices for more than given term of
ears. AS it is they have a man for
life. The rules ought to be changed
o that every man in the league
rould be absolutely released every {
ew years and given chance to bet I
er himself If he can. He should be ;
iven a chance to let the other teams I
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