The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-24

It is all off for Newark as Eastern league winners. Two defeats yester- day by Montreal; while. Rochester took a contest from Baltimore.
 The paid. attendance at Rochester this eason was 241,83 The team was on top all year.
 It's the Boston Red Sox for Capt. Mike Mccormick of the Holyoke team, Secretary O'Rourke receiving word from President Taylor yesterday that the Red sox had drafted that star from this organization. Mccormick is due to report in the Spring. It is Bill Bannon, not Bannan, who is the new umpire in the National league Bill is one of the famous Bannon family, being also a well
 known polo player. having been with New Britain and New Bedford in the National roller polo league last sea- son. He is brother of George, who was on the Orator staff during the season just closed.
 Yesterday was the first anniversary of ttMerkle Day" which the Giants celebrated by taking two contests from St. Louis.
 Some one must have told Merkle that it was the first anniversary of the day he did not touch second, the information seeming to cloud his bat ting eye, as he went through the two games without the sign of a safety.
 Seymour flushed a quartet of hits in the first game against St. Louis yes terday and corralled two in the sec ond.
 In the, first game of the double header yesterday between the White Sox and the Highlanders, both of which wereF won by the latter club, Earl Gardner made two two baggers out of four times up, and in the sec ond contest three hits out of the same number of tines.
 The Morning Sun in commenting on Earl Gardner's play yesterday says: With the able assistance of Earl Gardner, who looks better every sec ond, that keystone position was guard ed as never before this season."
 It was history making day for the Highlanders. They not only took sweet revenge on the one club that has had them trailing in a second di- vision berth but set their seasons rec ord for consecutive victories at eight They made it a clean sweep of the ser ies with Chicago, a trick that had not been accomplished in many years, and the second consecutive series of the year in which New York has been re- turned victor in every game. More over the double defeat for the Sox pulls that club back to within a game and half of the Hillmen. puts Stall ings' chargers within striking distance of the first division and also establish es the claim to undisputed fifth posi- ton. Going further into the matter it puts Ed Walsh and Doc White in the discard stall of Jim Scott as bro- ken hoodoos so far as the locals are concerned.
 Not until after the Worlds series will the Pirates consent to pose for a group picture. Ball players believe group pictures bring bad luck, and the Pirates rather than run any such chance in the coming series will not consent.
 Shortstop Oy1er of the Minneapolis club of the American Association is between life and death in a Columbus, O., hospital as the result of being hit in the head with a pitched ball. Phy- sicians say the skull is not fractured but that some small blood vessels in his head probably are broken.
 wilkesbarre of the New York state league took the second game of the series from Lancaster of the Tri-State yesterday Il to 6.
 Joe Casey who has been playing catch with Little Rock in the South ern league all season stopped off in Hartford, his old, berth yesterday, in route to Boston where he is to join the Detroit Americans to which club he has been sold. Casey caught 129 out of .140 games for Little Rock.
 The Central Baseball Association closed the season of 1909 yester- day. when Hannibal Mo-, finished a pJn ed the year with s50,117 paid admis- sions. This is a record breaking at tendance for a city of 10000. Last year Hannibal had her first league