New Britain herald., 1914-05-30
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l - he has been awak
 S.--- ened from his lethar-
 gy. It is amusing to hear those who l can recall some of the old days, the old teams and talk about some of the 1 scenes and incidents of former con- tests on the diamond. A party of men
 were gathered near Keeney's theater l the other night and as usual were dis | Cussing baseball when D. J. Donahue | produced a score card of the game l played between the Chicagos and | IIartfords at Rentschler's on Septem-
 Der 20, 1883, with the late H. c. Guss- rcan as umpire. The reason for the game was that the late rom" Burns l was then with the Chicagos his New l Britain friends wanted to see him
 play in such big company. and Thomas | J. Lynch and the late c. H. Faulkner l arranged for the game The score card was rather small affair scarce l ly large enough for the names of the | two teams on one side, and the fact was announced in large letters on l the other side that Dan" Krause,
 who was supposed at one time | to have been the best looking l man in the town, was still engaged 1 in the clothing business in Hanna's
 block and that he was the leader in
 styles and crusher in prices. The | Chicago team was made up of | Dalrymple, If; Gore, cf.; Kelly, C.; | Anson, h.; Williamson, 3b.; Burns,
 ss.; Pfeffer. 2b.; Sunday, rf., and Gold | smith, D. The Hartford team was 1 composed of Jones, 3b.; Cramer, lf.; | Murphy, C.; Hatfield, 1b.; Pierce, 2b.; Dolan, ss.; O'Neil, D.; Griswold, rf.,
 and Creeden, of. The latter team had l
 Hartford and had been known as the
 Metropolitans. The game was wit
 messed by about 2,0OO people. When
 MT. Burns stepped to the plate for
 the first time the game was stopped and the late Ambrose Beatty, then mayor of the city, presented him with | a diamond pin. The answer was a l three 'bagger which pleased the mayor | and set the stands wild with applause. | Burns played a splendid game that | day and when the contest was over | the score stood 10 to in Chicago's l favor. O'Neil, who pitched for Hart | ford afterwards went to St. Louis, l played in the field and for long time l led the, American league in batting.
 Sunday, who played in the field for | Chicago that day is now the famous ! evangelist and is driving the devil l cut of the various communities m
 which he finds him intrenched. No
 one at that time, however, thought he | would ever be engaged in his present work. He was a great ball player and | one of the speediest base runners in 1 the country. There are many around
 town who can talk as interestingly of
 that contest today as they did when
 the game came to an end and the l crowd rushed. on the diamond to shake hands with Tom Burns.
 A lull has come in politics and
 even Mayor Quigley is unable to stir l LID enough enthusiasm to create an l argument. The novelty of the early
 days of his administration has worn
 off and there is no longer the in 1 terest in what he says and what he | does that there was when he took
 up the reins of government. It Is
 announced that he is quietly investi-
 gating the conditions at the various l sources of the citys water supply 1 and that when he has collected all
 his data he will send a special mes sage to the common council. Just now all the reservoirs are full and
 up to @ few days ago they were over | flowing, a condition which did not | exist when the mayor was an al- derman in the, council and his re- | marks were far from being compli
 mentary to the members of the board | of water commissioners. He has l gone the right way about acquiring | information about the department, l however, and his special message
 ought to be different in tone from what he used to say when he was | campaigning. The board of char 1 ities matter which aroused a great
 deal of interest in the city has been
 followed by the regular routine and
 it is popularly supposed that the last
 has been heard of who got the rooster
 or where the superintendent was
 when the bird disappeared. The
 board of public safety has several ap- l pointments to make to the police
 force and when the work is complet-
 ed there may be something new to 1 discuss. There are a number of ap- | plications for the various places to be l filled; there will naturally be some | disappointment and perhaps a little l criticism. There usually is, but the ! members of the board know the men l from whom they pick the for | tunate ones and if they cannot make | the right kind of selection then it seems as if no one can. visit to l the police station and the fire sta | tion, both being located in the same | building, will convince any one that l either department should have new | quarters. It would be better that | the police should be provided with
 a new home and the present Com mercial street structure left to the | firemen. They need it in order to 1 house their apparatus properly and l give suitable accomm odations to the | men who are virtually obliged to make | their home there. There was talk
 at one time of locating the police in | the rear of the City Hall, but it is