The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-12
lNDUSTRlALS READY FOR
 BIG BASEBALL SEASON
Here Are Eight Teams and Every One Pennant Win= ner--GentIen1en, Lay Your Bets -= Something About the Managers and the Men Who Have Been Secured t0 Play the Game.

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 Baseball players may come and baseball players may go. but the In- dustrials live on forever-Winter dope may come and winter dope may go but there is but one pennant." Words spoken by Jakey King between sunrise and the vestibule.
 With the coming on of spring and the annual meeting of the Industrial league directors just held. and a schedule committee out on it's job looking up plumb dates for the teams offering the best inducements, talk be- gins in earnest about possibilities for the coming year.
 The Ashcrofts. the team that man aged to get out of last place. last sea- son on the last day, by winning double header from the lowly Bullards, has thrown up the sponge. for the want of enthusiasm and players. and the league has taken the American SS British team into it's fold. What the baby team can produce remains to De seen. Nothing has been spoken as yet about a possible City League to play Sundays, thus leaving the Industr.a .als the only large league in Bridgeport. The past records speak for themselves. The Industrials have now been in the limelight for two seasons. nave TUT nished some of the best baseball pos sible and at it's close gave two of the greatest pennant chasing exhibitions ever witnessed, especially last season, when three teams were tied up at the close for first position. necessitatlng play off.
 This season. in the opinion of the managers, will be hummer. New material has been secured by all the nlo h0v haan added fa the roster of each and spring practice will be begun earlier. so that at the begin ming of the season the players will be able to put up mid-season games. It is very noticeable that the weaker teams of last year have done the most hustIing during the winter. thus mak- ing it all the more difficult for the leaders of last season to get along. The managers of each of the teams have been interviewed and all express their hopes for 1909. Below appears the new dope in relation to each team in the league in the order in which they fin- ished in 1908:
 UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE co.
 Fresh from their success of 1908 the U. M. c. team will appear on the field with but few additions. There has been but one new player added to the list. that person being Gaffel of the Newfields. who Is some hit as a catch CT. The team will get out on the lots early and practice team work under the watchful eye of Captain Toomey. The old member who will cavort about Thompson boys. "Cy'' Miller. Jimmy Jackson, Capt. Toomey, and Bill Jag gers Manager Arthur Ball says. Nothing to it but U. M. C."
 UNION TYPEWRITER co.
 Trouble has started out in the Yost factory. it's not in the team. but among those who are to hold official position on. the team. They have it so well all want to get in on the pictures at the end of the season. The manage rnent of this team seems to have made further stride in the copping of play CTS than the other teams. Already a long list has been secured as follows: Hearts: Rohrback. from the Black Rocks: Gustropski. from the St. Josephs; Luke White. from the Secor Typewriter team of Derby. Of the old ones. from last season all will be on hand. including. "swampy' Whaley' 'Brute"t Regnery. Tommy Keenan, Tommy .Smallwood. Bill Dubee. Abe Howell, Joker Burns. and Jake De- laney., Manager Keenan says Tt has always been the idea of the YoSt to go one better. and in this respect there will be no difference"
 SINGER MANUFACTURING co.
 All the forces that combined to wreck the Singers. last season, have reunited and a first class team will be the re- suit this season. able to cope with the direction of Fred Wetstine the new manager, great things are expected As the Singer shop is in the midst of East Bridgeport, and as that part of the city is the home of baseball, local ly it is no wonder that a large major ityi work on the sewing machines. Of the new product there will be Ed. Wet stif,e nephew of Fred'S and pitcher for No. l Burnhams when they won the pennant in 1908; Mohyde of the Orioles, Christy Mcclure of last seasons Ash crofts. Hilsinger of the Brooksides and Steinmetz of the Columbia Jrs. Man ager Wetstein says he can see no req son why his team should not land on top of the heap.
 Tn the old guard will be found ''Wig- gie' Halpin. Iryy Laubscher. Al Bur- dick, Joe Strickfuss. "Old Man" Mee- han. Jimmy Noonan, and Al Ryckman.
 BURNHAMS NO. g.
 Undiscouraged with the showing made last season by what some experts con-
 
 No. Burnhams will again be on duty and will furnish excitement for the rest of the eight. Manager Colljung is num- but Assistant Manager Sullivan says that the plant has not started to get players as yet. but when they do, the result will be that the league will be set afire. Already one great big wonder from the west has arrived, in the person of Jim Sheridan. late of the Logan Square team. Chicago. Man ager Sullivan says that baseball will be received more enthusiastically there this year than ever. which means that larger crowds will turn out to see the games.
 In Manager Sullivan's old lot are s'Eddo" Heating. Shorty and "Hic' Efwood Lalley. Rocky" Farrell. Skinner Finnerty. Mulligan. Guss- man, and Chap Beck.
 BURNHAM NO. 1.
 Whoop-Pee! Oh you George Ells- worth: George says. Impossible to beat us out" Despite the loss of Ernie Lush. No. 1 will still be heard from. You can't stop George when baseball talk is started he's all alone when 1t is talk. George says he will have the biggest Surprise of all the teams to ;,, 4Iaa ofo Tv,I