The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-05
BASEBALL NOTES.

By the terms of a trade put through yesterday Springfield gets Louis Bar bour, third baseman who was with Meriden last season. In return for this l Bill Yale and Mike McAndrews. Yale | was booked for the local club for which 1 he formerly played but the wires could | not be worked right
 Dave Braun will cover the third sack
 for the Buffalos in the Eastern league race this season. His release has been secured from McGraw; his usefulness
 to the Giants ended when he was oper-
 ated upon for appendicitis last season.
 Rev. William Thompson. the Metho-
 dist leader of the so-ca1led reform
 movement in Memphis. sTenn., has come out flat for Sunday baseball. He
 says it is no worse than gossip in dulged in by society sisters on the Sab bath when Hooked together.'
 President Tracy of the Connecticut league said that thus far he has not received any complaint from any of the Waterbury players in regard to back pay Unless there is a speedy adjustment of the trouble the league will take the matter up at its next
 meeting. as he. sees plainly that the course the Waterbury club had pur- sued is a bad one for the league and
 one that will place it in poor light.
 "Red'' Waller again comes into the limelight. This time he adds another
 of the Giants to the injured list. Yes-
 terday in the game between the Regu-
 lars and the Colts Bugs Raymond,
 pitching for the Regulars was hit in
 the groin by swiftly batted ball from
 Walters bat, and painfully hurt.
 President Pulliam of the National league who is enjoying a much needed
 vacation has arrived in Florida where
 he will remain for five weeks. He is soon to undergo an operation on his
 eyes. perhaps to see things tn a diff ferent light.
 The Brooklyns will leave New York to-day for their training quarters in the South. All of the players have signed up and will depart with leader Ebbets except big Tim Jordan the giant first baseman. Jordan received an increase in salary last season but fell oh in his playing. The Dodger president is willing to give Jordan the same salary as last season, but asks that he attend strictly to business.
 Charlie Kennedy. formerly an umnire in the Connecticut State league, was fined s5 in a Springfield police court on Tuesday. It was brought out in court that Charlie started a rough house in front of his home on Saturday.
 Manager Bone of the New Haven team has come out with the usual phrase that he has a bunch of wor d beaters. He announces his team as follows: Jope and Peaster, catchers: Carrick, Behrendt. Keenan. Fred Doll and Phil Corcoran. pitchers: Havel second base; Sherwood. third base; Cantwell. Ambros. Phoenix and Bob Stowe, shortstops: Snyder left field; Zacher. centerfield; Conneu. right field.
 Dutch" Sherwood of the New Ha- ven team has received raise in salary from Manager Bone and says that he will appreciate it by showing how much the increase is worth this season in his playing. Phil Corcoran is also to come in for an increase.
 Manager Teller of Springfield has put one over on Manager Hanna of New Britain, when he announced that ] he had signed Paul Wachob or Watch | fob to catch for the Ponies this season | Hanna had been trying all winter to | land this man but Zeller was there | with the coin.
 Accorsini. first baseman for North i ampton will in all probability be dr~p- ped from the team now that Bill YaXe | has been secured. He stands a good | chance of landing with the New Brit ! ain team as he would easily be mis- taken for Cuban. Zeller has also signed lest handed pitcher named | Dobems from Nashua, N H.
 It was rumored yesterday that when | Joe McGinnity purchased the Newark l Eastern League Club from George T. | Stalljngs he was acting as agent for John T, Brush, president of the New York National League club. As the Giants made more than s300.O0O for Brush and his partners last year. it is argued thst McGinnity knew where to secure q bank roll. If there is any | truth in th's report the Newark club win probably be used as sort of tr aiming school for McGraw's team.