Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-31
TROLLEY LEAGUE IN WORKING FORM
Constitution Adopted st Meeting Here-Many Empires
 Want Jobs-KLng Reinstatement Terms.

Baseball talk buzzed merrily for two hours and a half in the board of trade rooms on Wednesday afternoons where the directors of the newly organized Connecticut Baseball association were holding meeting. and when it was all over they had adopted a constitution ill toto after discussing from every possible angle the different provisions. of the league. was in the chair, with Secretary George J. Fisher of Middle town keeping the records.
 All five of the teams were repre- sented. Manager c. N Burdick of Middletown, Manager Robert O'Con- Hayes of this city, Manager c. H. Humphrey of New London, and Major John J. Manley of Will tnantic, Mayor Dunn,s enthusiastic assistant. making g this city was present as adviser to Manager Hayes on questions of base ball law, and a couple of newspaper scribes kept track of the proceedings.
 Secretary Fisher informed the mag mates that they were now regularly organized league under protection of the National commission and he had a bunch of blank contracts to dis tribute so that the manag gers can sign players. The league applied for a class c rating, but was only granted class D, as that is the highest rating that can be obtained on the population
 
 makes no difference in the quality of ball that will be put up by the infant league but affects the draft price in case any of their players are called tip into higher company.
 When a constitution was submitted by Manager Burdick of MiddIetown, the question of admittance prices was first discussed, particularly relating to the fair sex. All the mana gers told of the practices in their towns some ad- init 9 from 10 to Is cents. fo. ladies tickets. It was at length settled that the gen. eral admission price of men should be 25 cents, the price for ladies and boys to be settled by the home club. Gate receipts, except on holidays and Sat urdays are to be split 60 per cent. to home club and 40 per cent. to visiting club. with a $25 guarantee and $20 that a fund for the general expenses of the league be raised by pooling per cent. of the gate receipts Uf the first fifteen games played
 The appointment of umpireS was designated to President Dunn, who said he had already received appli- cations from 25 hardy men who want to hold the indicator in the Trolley ~ame and s7.50 for double headers. The umps pay their own expenses. Mayor Dunn said that he expected to appoint not more than four, and in V1teQ all the managers to send nm the names of men whom they might have in mind for the job.
 One provision in the constitution was directed against a shift of play CTS late in the season. It is pro- yided that no players might be ex- changed or sold between clubs of the geague after August 1 without the consent of all managers.
 There are expected to be three games a week and it was decided that there should be 1io extra games put in until the dast week. when they might be necessary for playing off postponed games. For holiday dates the pairing will be New London vs. Norwich, Willimantic vs. Rockville and Middle town vs. the sixth team that Is to be secured. The sum of $1O was voted to Manager Burdick for getting up a schedule.
 A ball made by a Hartford manu- facturer was brought up for consider ation but was not looked upon with favor.
 There was no definite report on Manchester or Meriden, which have been thought of as possible claimants for the sixth position in the league, but the Middletown and Rockville managers felt sure that team would be found in their section of the state to balance up the membership to an even half-dozen.
 Manager O'Conne11. who has leased the Rockville race track grounds and has a grand stand that seats 5000 peo- pie, showed a lot of ginger in the dis