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The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
ROYAL DUCKPIN TOURNEY.
Sims and List Win Qualifying
ROuud Prize

The following teams have qualified for
the semi-fnals in the Royal two-man
duckpin tournament. Sims and List get
ting first prize in the qualifying score with
a total of 7OS for five games. Parker and
Phelps received second prize with a total
Of 665. The seni-1nals. three games. will
be rolled Wednesday. April l. and the
finals. four games. Thursday. April ,.
starting promptly at p. m. sharp.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
JAMES o'sHEA REELECTED.
Capital City Baseball League Names
Officers for Season.

Officers for Season.
At a regular meeting of the Capital
City Baseball League. in the Office OF
President O'Shea. yesterday a constitu-
ton for the coming year was adopted
and officers elected.
President James A. o'Shea was re-
elected for his third successive term.
Ross Blosser was reelected as vice pres
ident; Thomas l.. Fortune was reelected
as secretary. and George z. Cornell was
elected as treasurer
II was decided to start t,,e season May
f. and each team will play its full quota
of games. it being decided 10 play thirty
in all.
The constitution underwent several i'm
portant changes. notable among these
being the rejection of the clause referring
TO protests. The erection of a fence was
left in the hands of a committee
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30

New Rochelle. y. 7. March 2s-De-
sPondent over the death OF her sister in
England yesterday, Miss Olive Trearin,
housekeeper for Miss Eliza Moulton,
a wealthy woman Of this city. COM
mitted suicide tonight in the home Of
a friend.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
Totals
'Batted for Railing

by Peterson, 2; by Gehring. /. by Wilson.
l. Home run-HugheS. Two-hase hits
Cocash. Shipke, Milan. Sacrifice hit
Kaphan. Stolen bases-Milan (9 Smith
Kaphan. Double plays-Gehrlng 20 Smith
to KahOe, Williams. 10 BeTringer. Hit by
pitcheT-Niian. Wild pitch-Gehring
Passed ball-Warner. Umpire-Mr. Set
ley Time of game-1 hour and 45 min
utes
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
Great American Road Incorporated.

Pierre, S. Oak, March 29-Articles were
filed with the secretary of State yester-
day Incorporating the Great American
Railway. with a capital Of Si50.0Oo. .O0o
According to the articles Of Incorporation.
the road is to run between Chicago and
Winnipeg.
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Double by Pickering.

Pickering opened the first inning with
a double. took third on Ganleys sacri-
fee, and scored on Delehanty's sacrifice.
Mcbride started the sixth with single.
and Kelley sacrificed. Karger's wild
throw to catch him mapping put Mcbride
on third He scored when Karger errored
on Pickering. In the seventh DeIehanty
doubled and was out at third on Clymer' S
felders choice Clymer scored when
Murray mishandled Freeman's hit. Joe
Delehanty scored in the first inning for
the Cardinals on a hit. a steal. and
Streets bad throw Three singles gave
ST Louis another in the seventh
Ine elghth was nightmare. Charles
MI 10 Gates and got third on Gates bad
throw Barry walked. Mcbride let Joe
Delehanty's blow escape, scoring Charles
honetchy beat out a bunt. filing the
bases. Murray's triple brought in three
runs Murray scored on O'Rourke's out.
The Nationals left here tonight for
Fort Worth.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-30
TITLE TO NATIONALS
ST. Louis Wins Deciding
Game of the Series.
POOR SUPPORT FOR KELLEY
Washington InfieId Blows Up in the
Eighth Inning, Pitcher Lets Down,
Thereby Forcing the Cellar Cham
pionship Upon CantiIIOn's Crew.
50 % DE Wa.hington HeraIa.

Special 10 The Washington Herald.
Houston. Tex, March 29.-Washington
is it, BY losing to-day's game to the
ST Louis Nationals. by 10 3. it won
the baseball bum bunting of two hemis-
pheres
Kelley pitched to-day. and deserved a
better fate. although in the fatal eighth
inning he let down. His support was
miserable and his luck bad. Had il not
been well known that the infield OF the
Houston diamond is extremely rough. the
scorers would have charged the new
champs with three or four more errors.
The lack Of a regular third baseman was
shown, for Gates was off in mis- judgment
OF fast ground balls. despite the fact he
made two stops and throws that were
exceptionally good. Mcbride missed one
grounder and stopped another with his
jaw. Pickering made two sensational
catches and punk error
Washington's weakness with the stick
was again apparent, and Karger had lit
tie trouble
Altizer was sent to Washington to-
night by Manager Cantillon TO rest up
and get into shape for the opening of
the season, there or in Boston He was
utterly respondent and showed no i'm
provement here. Gates will continue at
third.
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HennInK

FOURTH RAcE-Maiden three-year-olds and up;
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
THE DIAMOND
GOT IT LIKE
 UNTO A HEN
New Britain Pulled Us Down a Bit in PlainvilIe Town-Joe Con-
 nor Was Real Angry.

New Britain, May 19.r-The New Britain boys took some of the brass out of the Brass City lads from Wa terbury at Electric field yesterday afternoon by beating them, 6 to 8. Particularly pleased was the large crowd when Lachance, the, big first baseman of the Waterbury nine, came to the plate and struck out in the fifth He had sent ball from his bat to the fence at the left of the field and insisted on running to sec ond, although the ball was a foot outside third base. When the um- pire called him back he attempted to argue but it didn't work. When he took up the big stick again and fan ned out the crowd gave him the ha- ha.. ~s 5
 The happy mascot for the home team was the 4-year-old daughter of Bunyan, the stalwart first baseman of the local team. She insisted on crying out Papa" when he took his place at the plate and with those lit- tie eyes watching him, he knocked out the ball in great shape.
 The home nine started the business of scoring in the second inning, With Burns and Bunyan on third and sec ond, Ward made a nice hit and both men got home. The visitors evened things up in the next inning. Single ton got in on Fitzpatrick's hit to right field, leaving O'Drain, Bastian and Fitz on the bases. . Swander flied out to center field and O'Drain ran in on the throw in. Lachance got his base on bals and Bastian stole third, but the Hardware boys pulled themselves out of the undesirable sit uation in good shape. Kelly hit to third and Bastian got out attempting to run home, which made the third out.
 The excitement of the crowd was heightened by Waterbury getting an- other run in the first of the fourth and New Britain getting two in the las of the fourth. Shincel for the visitors made a two-bagger. He was advanced to third on Singleton's hit and came in on O'Drain's hit. Finn, was the first up to the plate for the Hardware crew and got first. Burns sacrificed and Finn got third. Then Bunyan stepped up and to the little cry of Papa" from the grand stand made clean hit and scored Finn. He stole second and upon Rufiange's hit to left field got in.
 Ward warmed up considerably dur ing the rest of the game and there was no more scoring for the Brass boys. In the seventh the locals riv- eted the game by adding two runs Waterman singled, Connaughton ad- vanced him and he was put out try. ing to steal third. McCabe went out on a fly and then business began. Marsans got first on an error and Connaughton came in. Burns hit and Marsans scored. Finn was caught attempting to steal third. The score:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
THE AVERAGES.

The state official scorer, Sid Chal- lenger. has prepared the following records of the teams and players:
 Despite some crack pitching per- formanees last week. the batters kept up their work and the 300 list in creased instead of falling of. as is the usual custom after the first week or two. There were several swat fests around the circuit and as a re- suit the averages were nicely fat tened. There are no less than twen- ty-fve men in the charmed circle to-day and all teams are represented.
 A week ago Marsans. the Cuban, vas hot stun in the stick line, but the real bird this week is our old friend. Joe ConnOr. brother to Roger. l if you please. Joe Is batting for fair and is at the top of the column with fine per cent of .455. Real class In that performance. Joe has been doing all sorts of stick work. run ming from three base svipes of mighty movement to the dainty sac rifice tap that advances the runner. Joe is a good big part Of the Spring field team.
 Strange to say our despised bunch from Bridgeport furnishes the next three men on the list in Rumer. .O-Rourke and BertWhistle. There Is nothing the matter with Bridgeport's hitting. anyway. O'Rourke did great work and moved ID into the 400 class while both the others i'm proved their figures of a week ago.
 Of the others there were some tumblss and some advances. Mar sans fell from grace and the top round fO be fourteenth in the list. On the other hand young Mr Bar bour continued to punch the ban for Msriden- Barbour failed to make a safe hit in the first game of the sea son bat he has been good for one nr more in every ether contest since up to yesterday. when he missed of Bronkie.
 The fOIl0ring is the list of -soo men or betters ineludiag all gzres
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
JOE LOST HIS HEAD.

Sporting Writer Sullivan of the Springfield Union describes the fra cas between Joe Connor of this city and Umpire Rorty. in yesterdays Springfield and HolyOke game. as follows:
 For just about a minute yester- day one of the best ball players of the Connecticut league lost his tenn per, and that lapse was enough to give him cause to regret an unwar- ranted attack upon Umpire Hugh Rorty. The place was Hampden park, the setting, a HolyOke-Spring- field ball game. and the player, Joe Connor The incident left a blemIsh on about the hardest fought contest in which these classic rivals have ever indulged and took away much of the keen relish that would under other circumstances have accompan- led to victory for Springfield.
 Maddened by what he considered the unjust imposition of a s5 fine. ConnoT caught the OfHcial blow on the face. Rorty wobbled, sank to his knees. partly stunned. bnt pulled himself back to a fighting posture. Players of both teams rushed in and before his anger cooled ConnOr was ordered from the game and the field. That the spectators didat approve of the attack was plainly demon sfrated even though there were the usual numbers vho wanted to take up the iob where C0uno~ left oH.
 When outside the playing fneios- are Counor vas quick to realize the srrcr of his wags- In his favor 1t
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
BASE BALL NOTES.
Down in fifth place now.

Down Tn nth place now.
 Eddie Farley has gone to his home in New York state for a few days. The suspension will be removed when he comes back, as he is bbadly need ed just now to keep us from going lower. ..
 Slow Ball'' Kelly got his yester- day after the New Britain game. He has been doing no stick work of any kind and his throwing from the field to bases was the worst ever. Jim O'Rourke may take him on.
 Goldie Bowler, who was me of the star twirlers for Springfield, until too much bowling injured his salary wing, is once more in form and will join the 0'Neil forces to help out the weakness in the mound position.
 Nichols will take the spiints from his arm to-day or tomorrow. He will then have brace made for the injured portion and believes he can get back in the game in thrce or four weeks. Here's hoping .hat this will come true.
 As Waterbury has been playing rather ragged game one day and a brilliant contest the next, lack of team work seems to have been the difficulty and consequently all the players must now report every morn- ing for practice.
 A new infielder has been secured by the local management. His name is Coyelash. He was recommended by Connie Mack of Philadelphia. Mack loaned him to the Tri-State. but the latter league let him 20 after short trial. He may make good here.
 Pitcher Whitney. who was taken with appendicitis early in the season and who was operated upon in the Holyoke hospital. has been dis charged from that institution ss cured. He has gone to his home. but will be unable to pitch any more base ball this season.
 FitEhenry. who was released by Springfield. has been signed by Bridgeport to bolster up the third corner. Red Waller has .-eported for duty. Jim O'Rourke says the Springfield writers are acquaintances of Ananias and more than thirty fans may attend the game to-day. therefore everybody should feel happy.
 If Joe Connor is suspended. as seems very likely for his sttack on Rorty, Springfield will be given severe handicap. as Joe nss been do- Ing some tremendous hitting for his team. A fine which hits players pocket. would be worse punishment. than injaring a teams chances. Manager o'Neil was not to blame for he affair. and should not be made to snfsr.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
THE PUGlLISTS
GOOD BOUT WILL
 THIS ONE BE
Willie Fitzgerald and Jimmy Briggs
 to Meet in Bridgeport-Other . Fight News.

Jimmy Briggs, of Boston, the lightweight champion of New Eng . land, and Willie Fitzgerald, the Fighting Harp" of Brooklyn, who by many is believed to be second to the old master, Joe Cans, in the lightweight division, will meet in a 10-round boxing bout in Bridgeport on Thursday, May 21, before the olympia Athletic club This is one of the best matches that has been made for Connecticut in long time. -
 sFitzgerald is training at Bonds In Stratford, where most of the great fighters have conditioned them- selves. He is in perfect condition. Sunday large crowds watched him train and the experts declare that he is in the best shape now that he has ever been.. Briggs, under the careful eye, of Steve Mahoney, is training in Boston and Bill Peet, the sporting editor. of the Boston Post, states that he is in prime condition. The pair met once in six round bout in Philadelphia in 1907, and Fitzgerald bested Briggs on that oc- casion. Briggs has had an ardent desire since then to meet Fitzgerald again, and Terry Lee, who helped to develop Terry McGovern into a champion. arranged the match. That the match meets with the approval of the followers of boxing is proved by the advance sale of tickets, large blocks of them having already been reserved for out-of-town sports
 Phil McGovern will be seen in a six-round, preliminary. with Joe Gold man of New York. Terry McGovern, who has re-entered the ring again, will be in Phil's corner. There will also be a four round bout between fast little fellows.
 The prices of tickets are $3, ringsides; s2. reserved and s1, ad- mission. The bouts will be pulled of in Eagles hall, and the seat ing arrangements will be perfect. The ring will be raised in the cen- ter of the floor Tickets are on sale In all the Bridgeport leading cafes.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19

has been secured by Manager Harvey to meet Lew Ryall, cf Philadelphia, in one or the six-round bouts to be contested at the National A. c. arena No 147 East Twenty-fourth street, tonight. es
 The ,clinching of this match makes a card of three star bouts. headed by Harry Lewis of Philadelphia, who has hard six-round battle ahead of him with Charlie Hitte of Albany. Hitte has been longing for crack at Lew is, as he considers him the big ob- stacle in his path toward the top of his division. If Hitte wins from Lewis he will go to France at once to box Willie Lewis. Equally as good a bout is carded in Johnny Dohan and lighting" Dick Nelson who battle six rounds. This will surely result in T hot slugging match, and is one of the most evenly matched pairs seen hereabouts this season. %
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
LEAGUE GAMES THIS WEEK.

Tuesday-Springfield at New Britain. New Haven at Holyoke, Mer- fen at Waterbury, Hartford al Bridgeport.
 Wednesday-Waterbury at Spring field, Holyoke at Meriden, Bridgeport at New Haven. New Britain at Hart ford.
 Thursday-Springfleld at Hart ford, Waterbury at Holyoke, Meri- den at Bridgeport. New Britain at New Haven.
 Friday-Springfield at Holyoke, Hartford at New Britain, New Ha- ven at Meriden, Bridgeport at Wa terbury.
 Saturday-Meriden et Springfield, Holyoke at New Haven. Hartford at Waterbury, New Britain at Bridge port.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
Springfield. OO00011*-2 5 HOlyoke O00 q Q q q 0-1 X
MERIDEN WAS WALLOPED.

Meriden. May 19.-The New Ha- ven base ball club made their initial bow to Meriden fans yesterday after noon and made most favorable i'm pression, easily taking the local club into camp by score of 10 to 3. Ev- eryone of the visitors hit the ball on the nose and Halligan, Meriden's clever southpaw, had an afternoon of great discomfort as the reorganized New Haven team hit him Tn almost every inning. The score:
 R.H.E. N. Haven O210110 2-1O14 0 Meriden 0O01o0- 5 3 Batteries-Stoup and Waters; Halligan and Bridges.
 Two base hits, Simmons, Duggan, Halligan; hit by pitcher, Zacher, Wa ters, Cornell: left on bases, New Ha- ven IA, Meriden 9; first base on balls. of Halligan 5. off Stoup 5: struck out, by Halligan 2, by Stoup {: passed ball. Bridges; attendance, 3S0; umpire, Wilkinson.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
CAnoSI AND BURKE TO BATTLE.

New York. May 19.-Tony Caponi. the Chicago fighter. who is now under the management of Jim Buckley. will make hls first appearance in the ring in this city tomorrow night at the Sharzey A. C.. where he will meet Sailor Burke. Brooklyn. in a six-round battle. The fight Is expected to end before the bell rings for the last round. as each fighter has a knockout punch in either hand CapOni has trainel for the last two weeks at the Sharkey A. C. and is confident of gaining . victory over the Brooklyn tar. Burke has been training at Stamford. Conn. and is in the Jest of shape. CaDo1i was to have fought Eddie Chambers. of Philadelphia. last week. but the Philadelrhlan did ncl pat in sn appearance
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
TAFT WAS BEaTEN.

Cheshire, May 19.-Cheshire academy scored its first baseball vic- tory over Taft school here yesterday afternoon by the score of 3 to O. Both pitchers were in fine form, three hits being the portion of each team but Sawyer received perfect support while eight errors were made behind Gilbert. The pitching of Sawyer, who famed fourteen, two fast double plays by Cheshire and the fielding of Cowles were features.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
Team Fielding.

The fielding shifts were numerous. The leaders lost ground while the tailenders pulled up little. Hart ford still leads in this branch of work and has no less than five er- r0rless games already to its credit. which is pretty near to big league accuracy. Waterbury. too, has . bunch of perfect contests. Bridge port is low. and there's the rub. Give the team improved fielding and two more pitchers. with Waller and Romer. and it will be heard from with the batting noted. Here are the fielding records.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
HURIEY PEsTs HIrTE.

Glens Falls. \. Y.. May 19.-Bill Hurley of this city had the better of I six-round bout with Charley Hi.te of Albany before the Knickerbocker Ath- letic club here last night. The first two rounds were about even. but Hitte had somewhat the advantage Of his opponent in the third. From that on. however, Hurley proved him- self superior. He had the best of the infghting throughout the bout.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
THE SPORTING NEWS.

can be said that he did his best to right wrong. When the game was over he entered the club house and wanted to apologize. Rorty was nat urally in no mood to accept apolo- gies at that time, for he was still smarting over the humiliation put upon him from the force of the blow delivered by a man powerful in physique. a ea
 Connor was far more broken up over the affair than was the umpire. He feels that Rorty had no justifica- tion in putting fine on him, but manfully acknowledges that he was not justified in taking the course he did to resent the penalty. Of course the official must report the matter to President W. J. Tracy, and in all probability a suspension will result. Manager Dan O'Neil of the Spring. field team slapped $50 fine on Con- nor, claiming the player shouldn't have done anything to lay himself liable to suspension when his ser vices are badly needed h. the club.
 The blow was seen from all cor ners of the stands, and it came inn mediately after Rorty had imposed fine of $5 for back talk. Connor claims this fine wasn't justified. He says he had told Standard to get back into his position after clcse decision had been given against Springfield, remarking that there wasn't any use in kicking even if the team was getting the worst of it. He states that he made a side re- mark to Rorty about dressing in the rooms of the Springfield club, but insisted that he didn't insult the of tclal in any way.
 The umpire agrees wi I this yer sion of the case, but says he had am- pie proyocatfon for imposing the fine, as he had warned Ccnnor not to question any more of, his decis- ions. Jack Tighe, manager of the Holyoke team, had already been fined flor calling the umplre a vile name. Rorty said last night he would report the matter to Presl- dent Tracy to-day and that it is i'm material to him whether or not Con nor is suspended. Connor said he was heartily ashamed of himself, as he has never had any such trouble before and doesn't want to be put down by the enthusiasts of Spring. field as rowdy.
 The fracas occurred in the fifth inning, when, with Hambacher on second and Boucher on first, Massey hit down to Murphy, who made the play for Boucher at second. The play was unquestionably close and Rorty ruled that the man was safe. Standard, who doesn't register an objection often, came in with a kick. Connor chimed in and before anyone in the stands had supposed 1t was more than the ordinary gaDlest, the punch had been delivered"
 The score of the game was as fol. lows:
 R.H.E. Springfield. 0OOOO11*-25 OI Holyoke .. 0001O 0--1 8 i
 Batteries-Parker and Connor, Hirst; Lavender and Ahearn.
 : Sacrifice hits, Rising, Luby; stolen bases, Yale, Standard, Rising 2, Ba- ker, Boucher; two base hit, Stank- ard; first base on balls. of Parker 8, of Lavender 2; left on bases, Spring field 6, Holyoke 10 struck out, by Parker 8, by Lavender :; batter hit, Murphy; double play, ,McAndrews and Standard; wild pitch, Parker; time 2h Ism. umnire RCrty
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
KETCHELL TO FIGHT PApKE.

Milwaukee. May 19.- Stanley ketchell and Bill .Papke signed arti- cles to-day to box ten rounds in this city on June 4. They are to fight at 154 pounds at o'clock. S t'
 This match has been under way for weeks and will draw a record crowd to the Badger Athletic club.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
Team Batting.

There was big fall in batting on the part of Hartford. and as a result Springfield is now the team leader. Bridgeport came up with rush and is in third place. only few points behind Hartford There is nothing the matter with the batting anyway. Meriden and Holyoke are both low in stick work. Here is the list:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-19
BURKE AND BRADLEY DRAW.

A large crowd witnessed a slashing sIx-round draw between 'Sailor" Burke and Fred Bradley, of Boston, at the Grand Union A. C., Harlem, last night. The outcome was a draw. Burke started out like a winner and Lad Bradley guessing. The Boston man finished strong, however, making an even thing of it. The preliminar- ies were interesting.