The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-27
EASTERN PLANS TO RAISE PRICE
 OF SEATS SOON

It is expected that meeting of the Eastern League magnates will be held in New Haven next week, at which time the problem of the Providence ! franchise, the proposed plan to raise the admission rates and the 1920 schedule will be discussed. Jack Flynn, who managed Waterbury last season, has been offered the Provi- l dence franchise as gift, but has declined it so far.
 While Dan Howley is getting to- gether his machine that will pull Hartford out of the cellar and put l this burg somewhere near the top l during the coming Eastern League l campaign, the other cities in the cir 1 cult are not resting idle by any means, and all kinds of gossip is run ming around throughout Dan O'Nei1s 1 combinat tion. There is the reported i sale of the Waterbury club, which re- port has been going around since be- i fore the .magnates gathered in New Haven last month; another rumor l that George Weiss, owner of the New Haven club, is planning to build
 with the aid of a syndicate, a new
 home for his outfit; besides the news 1 of the coming back again of Everett 1 Nutter, the appropriateFy-n out 1 fielder of the Weissmen.
 The rumors in regard to the sale of the Waterbury club have been fly
 ing around, despite the den!als on the
 part of the present owner. These
 rumors first had it that George Mu1- 1 ligan, the boxing promoter and all- | round sportsman, was the prospec- l tive buyer, but George, when asked
 what he had to do with the proposed
 buying of the club, replied:
 About as much as Napoleon had
 in Washfngton's trip across the Della
 ware.'
 The new men in question-an6 they are still in question-were re- } ported to have formed a syndicate . and it is said that this syndicate ha! | offered a definite sum for the fran chise, but that the present owner Mike Keeley, who, it is said, is reall! just becoming interested in baseball has not expressed any great incIina
 tion to sell at that figure. Waterbu
 is a pretty good sort of a baseball l town and, with the interest that evident in Eastern League ball thi , year, should bring a little of the coil [ of the realm into the pockets of tn club owner. It is not unlikely that all rumors to the contrary notwith
 standing, the Waterbury y club will b
 found under the same ownership tn coming season.
 With all these baseball rumors fly ing around thick and fast, Water
 bury is far from being ready for tn
 coming season and, besides the own l ership of the team being in question
 a pilot for the outfit has not yet bee
 made for the coming campaign
 When they get things straightene
 out down that way, they sure wi have to travel some fast, as Georg
 Weiss of New Haven and Jim Clark
 in, with his energetic pilot, Dan How P icy, snatching up all the prospects i
 sight, are far in advance of the re! of the league thus far. Weiss say
 that he will cop the pennant tn
 year, while How1ey, although not gc '- ing as far as to say he will win th -' flag, predicts that the team ths e beats out Hartford will have to fgl O all the way from start to finish. liar e ford has Howley; New Haven, Ber $ der; Bridgeport, Ed Walsh; Pitt. = field, last years champs, Joe Birn '1 ingham, andSsWorcester, Johnnie NJ l. Mahon, while Springfield and Prov q dence are almost in the same bo; l. with Waterbury. SprinxfeId's ow1
 ership is settled, the change havir = taken place last Saturday, while tt II Providence situation is still unse h tied