The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-25

Next home game on Monday when Dan O'Ne1 brings his Aviators to town. There is a postponed game
 with the Cubans which will proba bly be worked in on that date The Mechanics have a chance to
 again be at the top of the standing
 by the end of the week. As the next
 five games are with second division clubs, the team in their present posi- t1on should turn in a win on every one. There is the game with Holyoke
 today, a double header in Northamp- ton tomorrow and another twin bill
 in Springfield Saturday.
 The first game did look like a bat
 tle> between two teams fighting for the pennant, but that second contest was unworthy of tail enders The two games showed up the Me
 chanics lamentable weakness in bat
 ting especially by those fielders who
 stand either side of Hi Ladd Imagine
 club trying to win a pennant with one outfielder batting at .1sS and the
 other at .223.
 Jackson is not the classy article that he was claimed to be- He was said to be a fast man, which is true But he rarely shows his speed. being unable to make the paths.e He was up four times in each of yesterdays games, striking out twice in each game.
 Gene McCann has lost out in his fight for Pitcher Jack Cronin, the Ma tional Commission declaring that he was a free agent but now the prop erty of the Buffalo Eastern league club with whom he has signed a con- tro ,if game for the Mechanics.
 Manager Tom Connery of the Sem ators has again come under the dis pleasure of President Tracy and has been suspended for the remainder of the season. Connery in one of the games yesterday with New Britain rushed from the bench upon the field in citizens clothes disputing with the umpire. Tracy says that Connery by his abuse of the umpire intended to incite the fans to riot. Dick Nal lin, the former Mechanic was doing the stunts with the indicator.
 President Tracy states that this is his last season as the head of the organization, and says he will posi- lively refuse nomination. There is talk around the circuit of making James H. O'Rourke, now that he has no interests in any club, and because of the great fights he has put up for the organization, it's president. O'Rourke would make an ideal execu- tive.
 Former Connecticut 1eaguers are doing well in the American associa- tion. Dave Altizer, the former Pony leads the league in stolen bases, hav- ing pilfered 4S sacks and is hitting at a .29s clip. Other hitting figures are Rossman -2S2. Mccormick. 26o. O'Rourke. 2o0, Tourney .245, Boucher .217, Arbogast. 175.
 Pitcher Lee Fairbanks of the Ponies after the game here with Springfield on Tuesday was let go by Manager Teller. Some of the local wagS call ed Fairbanks and Larkin the soap battery Fairbanks of the Gold Dust Twins fame and Larkin of the Lar kin productions)
 Fred Reiger. the former New Lon don pitcher, has joined the Paper makers. He will not be signed un- less he shows that he has something. This season he has been playing with New London in the Connecticut Asso- citation.
 All Connecticut league records for a mid week crowd. except for holidays, were broken yesterday when exactly 6 225 paid admission. This is the greatest crowd ever to turn in at Newfield There were hundreds who made the field by other routes, mak- ing a conservative estimate of the at tendance about 1000. The nearest to yesterdays mark was on last Sat urday when there were 5.0O4 paids. Of the 1000 there was about 750 from Waterbury.
 sCy'' Seymour, the hard hitting center fielder of the New York Ma tfonals was yesterday sold to the Bal timore club of the Eastern league af- ter a long and checkered career, in which prize fights, tumbles from the sprinkling cart and cratic work fig ured more than once. Seymour started his baseball career as pitcher. but was later chased to the Outheld be- cause of his hitting.
 How about it Fitz? Won't the lea que pension c. E. Walker off. You can't lose him. Assistant manager Crane No. ? now.-The Standard) To start that pension it is suggested that Jim Fitz contribute that one bone which he lost on the South End-West End series last season. and for which C. F. is still waiting.
 SAM HILDRETH's s4.5oO
 COLT ZEUS, 12 TO 1 SHOT,
 WINS ADIRONDACK HANDICAP.