New Britain herald., 1915-01-22
SCINSKI LIKE MAN
 WITHOUT A COUNTRY
HdS a fTtnGaSt bUl No PI&3 .s
 to Pul Il.

New Haven, Jan. 22.-The man without a country had nothing on Bill
 Scinski, who is a man without any { territory for ais remnant team of baseball players. He has few left from a rummage sale and the league directors gave him two weeks in or- der to locate town that has got a
 baseball park and newspaper that
 employees some one who knows how to mako box score.
 The first time that team was
 placed into New Britain in the pres
 ent league, that is to say. some years
 after Arlie Latham played on a teain
 there and knocked the town after-
 wards, the men who attempted to
 make up the first box score made an awful stab at it. When it came over
 the wire it consisted mostly of crosses or KS, like ose sees on the tape just before the results from Latonia are announced on the ticker. The tele- graph operators thought at first that The New Britain sender was ticking eff a few kisses to 9 girl operator in
 some nd acent town, as they did rot
 know what so many KS were doing in the hox score. It was learned la- ter that these KS were in the natuse ! Of foomctes and were supposed 10 call attention to some bright play
 made ty the baseball men. Ono of
 tho New Britain scorers later becaine SO expert in the business that Fhe compiled book on baseball averages i and actually prsnted rules about how 1 to score q game.
 scinsId "Dead Sportsman" Eb Rug gIes?
 1 MT. Scnslti is entitled to credit for 1 the manner in which he is sticking by l his guns. With all the heavy artil- i lery of the paragraphing wits yal- { leyed ct him, he continues to have ! faith in the game and expects to he ! reim bursed for the money that he | lost last season. Men of this kiud
 usually succeed and if the league d.
 rectors give this man some encour- l agement they will be doing the fair
 thing and what the patriot deserves.
 It would not be surprising if nr 1 Scinski won a pennant some day and 1 then there would be a big eolobra-
 ton in Linoleum, the town that Mr
 Scinsli came from. And when Lino-
 leum does celebrate it will be some 1 celebration as celebrations go. 1 The new. owners of the New York | American club cannot agree upon | what kind of a uniform to have for l the players. The finest uniform ever seen in this section was worn by | club in Meriden some years ago when ! Joe Theisen was the favorite son on 1 the team. It was magenta in color, | he Iod do aI af hu4 1 tie. Many Meriden fans thought it | was worth the price of admission just l to see the men in uniform. It is l not recalled that the team won msn,y games, but tho handsome suits wefe a good advertisement for the club and | when several of the players were | gathered together in a strange town, some of the people thought there was l a new kind of sunset that made every- 1 thing look bright. l ZeIIcr and Ills Boy Scouts. (. One of the oldest looking uniforma ! ever seen in this league was worn by ! one of the New Britain teams. The cloth looked something like bed ticking and it fig said that some of
 the old suits arc now doing duty as coverings for feather beds in the ! town where the newsboys remove their caps when Tom Lynch comics along. Jack Zeller introduced khaki uniforms last season and when his aggregation from Pittsfield was first
 seen in civilization 1t was thought
 that d troop of boy scouts had ar
 rived. Some wanted to know when
 they were going to make fire with
 sticks in Indian fashion like the boy
 scouts do. When they were ready
 for batting practice, some thought they were getting ready for wigwag- ging.
 When Jim O'Rour<e was managing the team in Bridgeport, he never had to bother about uniforms. At the
 end of the season they were sent to
 the cleaners and pressers and when
 the new season opened the suits looked as good as new and everyone remarked how handsome the Orators
 looked in their new suits. Jim had some kind of preservatiye put on the suits and they looked as if they con-
 tained about one-tcnth Of one per cent. Of benzoate of soda or whatever it was The old uniforms arc now on exhibition in the old Parnum museum in Bridgeport and attract as much at- tention as the old battle flags in the tomb of the emperor at the Hotel des Invaldes in Paris.
 ROCCO NS. LOGAN.