The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23
M' CAIN NOT SPEAKING TO
 HIS PLAYERS

4SAWFenCGs MdaSa~s SeIpC. G$s-H'OT the second time in two years, a New Eng- land League team has defeated an Eastern Association team in Ser1es ! of games for the championship of New England. Lowell captured the series over Hartford last year, four to two. and yesterday afternoon Law Rrence defeated New London in the champ ionship of 1914. Into the final game entered a. lot of luck, a. meek fly over the centerf1eld fence scoring a brace of runs and giving Lawrence a lead which New London all but clos ed instI1e final session The outcome was 4 to B., It was confidently pre- dfcted that the short Lawrence fences would decide the contest one way or the other. and as it happened, Law renee was the Fortunate team.
 O'ConneIl, whose hitting brought all three runs across in Mondays s game at New London. had the distinction of connecting for the circle drive. On an ordinary baseball surface, the ball would have been caught with ease and there would have been no SCOT ing, as the plays went.
 New London players had double cause for gloom They not only lost the, championship, which they. had looked forward to as an easy acuutsf- ton. but they lost also that altogether wholesome relationship between exn- pIoyer and employee, which had edr- isted from tho beginning Of the sea- son. In other words, Millionaire Plant and Manager McCann were a unit and the players were unit, with fists clincheds hgurative1y speaking, and the season begun so auspictous1y and completed so happily in the Eastern AssociatfOn, was naarTed Beyond hope of mentioning by an act of thought lessness on the part of certain play CTS.
 The trouble dated back to Sunday when about half g. dozen New London players went to a little town just out side of Norwich and engaged in a baseban game. contrary to positive or. ders from Manager McCann- Paddy Green. the giant, who worked against Lawrence in Fridays game pitched for one of the teams, and as he was supposed to be on duty Monday the offense was not to be condoned- He didn't wear a uniform in Mondays game, for the reason that Manager AMcCann believed him unfit for work and wished also to pena1ize him for disobedience. The players took Greens side in the matter and just how much bearing the dfssension had on Mon days game is purely copJectural-
 On the way to Lawrence Monday night McCann kept strictly to himself, and it was evident that harmony had Jumped it's contract with the team. Runors of a strike among the ball players were in circulation, but there was no strike. Nothing appeared on the surface to indicate discord except McCann,s studied silence and his ob-3 stinate insistence that he be left alone. In this afternoons game the players spread themselves out on the grass near the bench, where old Sol was not on the job, while McCann remained on the pin board fully exposed to a. tenn perature of ninety-dve degrees. About him he wore q Napo1eonfc gloom He thought lot, but his thoughts were not innpel1ing. Inaction was his spe- cialty for the time being.
 Just before the game a messenger boy came running up with a. telegram. McCann opened it, and if some wished to gaze over his shoulder. the follow ing message might have been seen: 'eAm disgusted with action Of ball players You have my absolute con f1dence. M F. Plant"
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