Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-20
THE SPORTING NEWS.

 out headgear that he ought to wear 1t some day just to see how he would look.
 Johnny Kling. the thoughtless per- son who hit the ball last Saturday where nobody could get 1t uses a twenty ounce cue when he plays pool and twenty pound bat when he plays ball.
 Blair, a catcher from the Williams port team; Manning, a pitcher from the same team, and Louden, an in- fielder from Texas, are three new men Griffith has picked up for next season.
 Tom Crook, the former Pony, has been released by the Trenton club of the Tri-State league. Dick Harley, the outfielder, has also received his walking papers from the same club.
 It is not often that two emergency hitters make good on the same af- ternoon as they did for Griffith last Saturday. Kleinow batted for Chesbro and made hit, and Orth batted for Doyle and made hit.
 In the gruelling race to the wire in the American league the Chicagos and Athletics have one advantage over the Detroits, and that is that they are more seasoned They have been through 1t before.
 In the last sectional series in the American league the Eastern teams, playing on home grounds, won 35 games, to 31 for the westerners. In the last trip west by the National league eastern teams the customers won 30 games, to 43 for the western CTS.
 Fielder Jones of the White Sox says the surface at American league park, New York, is so hard the ball is likely to take all sorts of false bounds. So long as they are such good grounds to hit on patrons w.. forgive topography that promises err TOTS.
 If American league umplres would carry two or three balls in their pock- cts instead of chasing to a valise some distance away every time a bal Is knocked over the stand, less time would be lost at games. So long a. this custom is in vogue players are not entirely to blame for time wasted. When young MT lift is in the box facing young MT Stone there is a study in attitude, grotesque yet na- tural grouping fit for a sculptor. lift bends his body sideways at the waist almost at a right angle. while Stone lunches up and crouches down until there is nothing of him but shoulders. The secret of successful batting has been disclosed by Frank Chance Hit the ball in the eye, he says. Oth- CT authorities say bit the ball on the nose, still others hit 1t in the solar plexus. while there are those who de- clare that the only correct and re- liable spot to apply the punch is the trade mark.
 Walter Johnson, the new pitcher of the Washingtons, who has done ex- cellent work in the two games he has pitched for the Cantillons, is de- scribed by Jack Warner as being of loose build and with a free, easy de- livery. He reminds me more of Christy Mathewson than anybody else" says Warner, "and has a barrel of speed"
 Chief Zimmer has picked a team composed of what he calls champions of all champions. It Is as follows: Bennett, catcher; John Clarkson, pitcher; Comiskey, first base; Pfeffer, second base; Nash, third base; Glass; cock, shortstop; Tip O'Neill left field; Hanlon, center field; Thomp- son, right field. A majority of pres ent day fans would make the team more modern. Doubtless rome of them would find room for Cy Young, Jimmy Collins, Hugh Jennings Chr!sty Mathewson. Hans Wagner and Napoleon Lajoie on the team.
 The Elizabeth Atlantic league club has made a raid on the Hartford (Connl league team and has landed four of the latter's best men. They are Flick Luyster, the Elizabeth boy, who played with the Union County Atlantics earlier in the season, and Hartford's mainstay in the box, 0'Connor, another twirler: Billy Ross. a catcher, who was with the Newark Eastern league team couple of seasons ago. and Gastmeyer. a. shortstop. who was tried out by the Philadelphia Athletics early this year. The players jumped national agreement contracts. They arrived in Elizabeth Friday night and played in the game against Brooklyn Sat