The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-25
BASEBALL
 NOTES.


 Jimmy O'Rourke. Jr., left Bridge port yesterday afternoon for Colum- bus. Ohio. where he is signed to play during the coming season. The Am erican association teams start the seasons practice during the coming week, and start the ball a rolling on April 2oth Local fans, no doubt, will watch young Jimmys work with inter est.
 Manager O'Rourke says the mag mates needn't worry any about the Bridgeport team even if he has lost the services of it's best men. The Ora tors he says, will be a factor in the fight. The announcement of the line up is due within a few days.
 Manager Lumley of the Brooklyn team has cancelled the game his team has with Hartford in that town on April 21. Lumley thinks the Trolley Dodgers will get more practice out of playing alone at Washington Park on , that day then could be gotten against Connery's men.
 Dumphause, the young catcher whom Manager Teller of Springfield let go because he thought he had catchers enough in Joe Connor and Watchob has been signed up by Manager Hugh Duffy of the Providence Eastern lea guers. This s-the third player with in a short time that has been let go by Springfield, that has been picked up by a classier league. Tom Crook, who could not move fast enough to keep warm on first base was dropped only to be picked up by one of the Tri-State league teams and make good. Then Frill, was dropped because he was not good enough, and now he is pitching great ball for Newark in the Eastern league. But Dumphause has not made good yet. He has had ex- rovtanco with tha Atlantic association. Both Tuckey and Mattern, two Con- necticut leaguers.a are expected to make good with the Boston Nationals. Both have been doing finely this season, and will survive the first cut in the pitching staff, which will take place next week.
 Joe McGinnity was 37 years old March 19. The .Iron Man" who prob ably holds the worlds record for win ming double headers. says that he will l continue to pitch until he has won 800 | games. the mark that "Cy' Young is | aiming at and will reach if he can win | p games for Cleveland this season. l In his first days practice with the | Tigers ny" Cobb knocked six balls | over the right field fence-and they were inside the fair grounds. also. Dubuc, who pitched in Waterbury and Torrington last year, is showing up well with Cincinnati. He is con sidered sure of making the pitching 1 staff. for he showed Cincinnati some l thing last fall. He is an ex-Notre ! Dame player.
 | There will be a hot contest at the ! Connecticut league meeting tomorrow i in New Haven over the services of Player Frank Kirkpatrick of the Wa /! terbury club. Fitz says he is free to sign anywhere because Waterbury 1 owes him $100 back salary. Durant says the player has been paid in full. according to the terms of his contract. but that is matter for the league to settle. Underneath all this controversy O'Neill of Springfield who still has the clubs vote in the meetings. Ciarkin of Hartford. Bone of New Haven and O'Rourke of this city, each of whom patrick. Manager Durant of the Wa ;rterbury club has deposited S1O0 with Secretary O'Rourke to be paid to Fftz- patrick in case the National board de- cides the money is owed Fitz.
 Eddie Swander of the Waterbur, club is in Lexington, ky, looking over the youngsters who are to be farmed Swander told Ganzel that Waterbury would take all that could be obtained.
 The. Washington team is playing at present at the stamping grounds of the New York Nationals. Yesterday they defeated Dalls by the score of 3-2 in a ragged game. In each of the first three innings a Washington batter hit over the fence for home run.
 Manager Stallings of the New York Americans has announced that the ser vices of Earl Gardner are for sale but that Neil Ball who makes his home in this city will be retained to play sec ono base. Several major 1eaguers have
 been after Ball, the price offered fo1
 him one week ago being $5.QO0. but
 Stallings. says he will not take less than twice that amount for him. Stall ings will buy the services of Paul Krichell, the young backstop now with the Newarks and formerly with Hart ford. He has offered Sweeney and Parkins for the services of the former
 Nutmeg leaguer.
 "Young Cy'' Young who was with the Pfttsburg Pirates last season and who formerly played with the Boston
 Nationals, is angry to-day. A tele-
 gram from Barney Dreyfus informing
 Young that he had been traded to
 Minneapolis and that the Westerr
 team would send him 8 contract is the
 cause of Young Cy's" grief. The | south-pay declares he had no intima- | tion that he was to be traded but
 would do nothing until he saw the size
 of the salary the Flour City team is
 prepared to pay.
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