The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17
|LIVE BASE BALL TIPS

A meeting with Springfield in the latter town this afternoon.
 The Orators are going while the Po- nies have hard work to hold up their heads.
 Jimmy Savage, supposed to have been sold to the New York Americans. played his first game with Hartford at third base yesterday.
 Red" Waller has been turned over to the wilkesbarre club of the New York State league by Jersey City to which club he was released by the New York Nationals. Red" pitched good ball for the Skeeters but could not seem to land the games as the other pitchers held his team mates to fewer hits.
 John Bunyan is certainly going like "house on fire'' with the Bridgeport nine. He is cloutirg, the ball widely along with fielding his position in good style.-New Haven Palladium
 As a matter, of fact, the team play and fielding of the Orators has picked up woSderfully since John made his Red" Rorty, umpire, and all around hard luck merchant has been dismiss ed by President Murnane of the New England league. The reason given out was that Rorty was too hasty in getting back at the players.
 Tony Pastor got in a hot remark yesterday when .Shincel chased as far as the grandstand for a foul fly, only to have the ball land on the roof: ''If you had a Reach glove you could have made it, yelled Tony-Waterbury Republican.
 1 Treasurer Fred Winkler of the Hol- yoke club has fined second baseman | Baker a months pay, besides sus- pending him indefinitely. Baker had stated that he would quit the club un- | less his salary was increased from $15O | to s175 a month. When the increase did not come, Baker did not show up. He will now be given a chance to think over his nasty move. The threatened big shake up in the | Boston National club has come at last. Last evening Frank Bowerman Catcher Smith being appointed by | President Dovey to fill his position. | Bowerman says he will quit baseball | for the present and go to his home in Romeo, Mich, for rest He en- ago with Baltimore, afterwards play | ed with Pittsburg and New York be ing traded to Boston with other play CTS during the winter of 1907. Prior te | this latest move President Dovey an nounced that he had traded Fielder Bates and Second Baseman Starr to the Philadelphia Nationals for Pitch CTS Richie and Brown and Second Baseman Shean- He has also asked Lindaman, Mccarthy and Beck. Ii is probable that Brooklyn will refuse | to waive on Dahlen as they wished him at the beginning of the season te | ol,1K I,iln MoC r,C Lindaman both pitchers will land eith- CT in this or the New England League
 The Hartford pitching staff is in g bad way at present. Fisher is suffer ing with ivy poison, Schuman has { bad knee, Evans is not pitching the game that he did at the beginning oi the season while Leverenz is not the
 best thing that ever happened in this little circuit. Manager Connery has stated that negotiations are on witt the Boston Nationals for Mccarthy and Lindaman.
 Right Fielder Harry Smith, the lead ling outfielder in the California league who has been batting for 1855 for 9t games has been brought up by the Chicago Nationals.
 The Brooklyn club believing that f is youngsters that put life into a team ihave been quite busy gathering in ths material. President Ebbets has an
 nounced the purchase of outfieldel
 Wheat from Mobile; Shortstop Meyers from Anderson, sc, and Pitcher Fin layson from Brockton- There are stil
 a number of other deals in the wind 1 But 67 points separate the leader! and tailenders in the American Asso
 citation race, Minneapolis being higl
 with .53S and Toledo bringing up tn,
 rear with AT. Toledo has lost 4 mor, games than the leaders.
 The Orators are away on visits fo
 the first three days of next week | Monday in New Haven, Tuesday il
 Hartford and Wednesday in Holyoke
 On Thursday Hartford is here for
 double header; Holyoke comes on Fri day and Waterbury on Saturday.
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