The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-08

Aferiden captain and Pittsburg recruit will cover the second station.
 ! Bobby Peterson, the Midd1etown youth, who was with Northampton last season and who had to give up be- cause of typhoid fever, is going to try He has fully recovered from his ai1- | ment. but has little trouble with a bad leg.
 Tom Fleming, manager of the Haver- hill club of the New England league, is a big booster for Neal Brown, the outdelder secured by Manager Zeller of the Ponies along with Pitcher Coff1n in exchange for Pop Rising. Spring field fans will forget they ever saw Rising says Fleming. Fleming has been trying to land Brown for the past two seasons.
 T1olyoke team will be given a free rein in signing new men or making trades involving the old ones that have outlived their usefulness on the river. Foster is not expected in the paper town for several weeks as' he has planned for a post series of games be- tween the Trenton, N. J., and Reading, Pa-, basketball teams.
 Patsy Donovan will be the first manager of the Boston Americans who has had major league managerial ex- perience before taking the position. Jimmie Collins was elevated to the po- S1t1On rom the ranks. The Sd me can be said of Chick stahl, Bob Unglaub, Jim Mcclure and Fred Lake. Dono- van handled the major league clubs of PittsbnEg st Louis, a WashingtIoa n,., ag ton to furnish him with drst-class line of players.
 Owner Cameron of New Haven and Manager Finn of Waterbury will be the absentees at the league meeting in New Britain today. Both magnates f-- south. Finn looking for ball players and George on his honey moon.
 According to a reeport from Wilkes barre. 'eswat'' Nc Cabe the leading slugging of the Connecticut circuit last season will play with the Albany team turned over by Cincinnati.
 All kinds of narrow escap pes are being reported from the training camps of the major leagues in the South. Yester- dayat Southern Pines, N. O., where the Philadelphia Nationals are camping. a bolt of lightning struck the building in which the players were stopping. It burrowed it's way through the roof ripping a hole in a big room on one side of the inn. In this room were stunned by the shock, and were also covered by the debi IS torn from the wall. Pitcher Louis Shelter was blind ed by the stuff and could not talk for two hours he was so shocked When the bolt struck one of the sleepers grabbed a bat thinking that he had been attacked. When he found out what the matter was one of the young twir1ers said, Even the lightning can't hit me-
 Down at San Antorio where the De troits are stopping. Wild Bil1'' Dono- van is out of training and in a crip- pied condition as the result of an au- tomobiIe accident. Bill was speeding along at a lively clip in one of the townsfolks cars when the machine skidded throwing Bill against the side of the car. Tn endeavor to save himself, the Tiger pitcher threw up his left arm just in time to rake it over a jagged piece of metal, which had formed part of a broken fastening for the door. The result was clean cut, five inches long and to the bone of the wrist.
 Known to fame the only man who ever got honesick enough tc run away from a big league club and return to the bushes, Joe Jackson, the young South Carolinan, has rejoined Connie Mack's Athletics at Atlanta. Ga, Jack son has fully recovered from the run away feeling now, and is anxious to make good in this, his second trial, | with the Philadelphia club. He played with Savannah in the South Atlantic | circuit last season and led the lea que in batting with a percentage of .36S. | Mana ger Mack has strong hopes that he will earn regular position and Jackson has promised to stick the sea-