The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-08


 Terry used to play professionally it generally took about nine policemen to hold his coat.-Springfield News. Says the Sporting News concerning the proposal from Massa chusetts for a change of name for the Connecticut league: 'The old name is good enough Northeastern or Southern New England are too confusing This cir cult is known all over the country rom the fast games played and it fs better from an advertising standpoint to let it's present name stand" George V. Ronlag of New York clip ped five seconds off the indoor record for three miles in the Seventy-fourth regiment A. A. games in Buffalo Satur- day night. ack Tait, a Buffalo man, was Bonhag's opponent. The New Yorker won handily in 14.29 3-5 sec- l onds. The former record was 4,34 3-5. Allie Latham, the Giants coach and jester has also signed and will go into training with an ol6 almanac early in March. He says there are so many young fans nowadays that he can work off some of the eldest gags successfully while on the coaching lines this sea- son.
 
 backStOp secured from Worcester, has been traded for Outficlder Mike Dono- van of the Brockton New England club Donovan is the last of the old guard to leave the Shoe town, and has played in it's outfield for the last three years. Donovan batted .266 last season, but his fielding is said to be only fair.
 Jim O'Rourke has been given some hard knocks during his connection with the Connecticut league but he has been a faithful worker and the organization has reason to feel elate that he will remain as one of it's off cerS. He is without doubt as hard and IS able a worker as this or any other league ever had.--Waterbury Republi- can
 Baseball magnates will probably wear muzzles in the Winter time hereafter. Garry Hermann and Clark Griffith devoted the most of their time since ing Hoblitzel Now Hobby claims that if he is all that his bosses say he is entitled to much more money than the figures of his contract.
 There is probability that next sum- mer will see a three cornered inter national yacht race in waters not very
  three contestants, in the event that plans which are still embryonic can be successfully consummated, will be Great Britain, Germany and the Unit ed States.
 Busy days these for baseball bat manufa cturers. really good bat is three years in it's making. Hickory and ash lumber of the finest growth, absolutely straight grained and free from knots, is not so easy to secure. A big factory will have on hand 25,- GOO squares to be sawed up and lathed The big league run-getters are thoroughly seasoned; some are burned then carefully. shellacked. Men in fast company generally order their particular style of weapon, and they nurse it as carefully as a mother does her child. Bats mean victories and victories -~fnean everything to ball player.
 Mana ger Griffith of Cincinnati will send Tom Downey, the Bridgeport boy, to Hot Springs with the Red pitchers. and the twirlers. will go in ad- vance of the rest of the Squad. Griffith says that Downey, with all his clever ness, has one glaring fault. This the willy manager will endeavor to correct before the season gets under way. Downey, according to Griffith, is too anxious to throw the ball. "He does not wait a moment before throwing the ball to first or second, whichever bag he is supposed to toss to, and he makes more wild throws than he needs to on that account.
 Tom McCarey has arranged a forty five-round bout between Monte Attell and Danny Webster for the bantam weight championship of America" to be decided near Los Angeles on Feb. g. This bout has been substituted for the Nelson-Wolgast battle, which will be decided just outside of Frisco on the same day. Attell and Webster are good bantams, but experts do not class them with Johnny Coulon, Jimmy Walsh and Pat Moore.
 Owner Weitzel of the Reading Tri- State league club has offered his hold ings at $50 per share and assurances have been received that they will be all taken. It is hoped that the deal will be closed this week, which will mean that Pop Foster the former Bridgeport outfielder, will take hold
 You can't fool Tom Dowd all the time when it comes to ball players. He has recently completed deal with Manager Teller of Springfield whereby Pop Rising is to join Dowd's New Bed ford club in exchange for pitcher and an outfielder. This ought to cause the Hon. Percy to puff up some, for it was. only a few days ago that Teller to present him free gratis to Manager Cameron of New Haven and the latter has now got married and fled to Florida DAVE OSBORNE BEATS
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