The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-19

league coin and glory.
 Spring practice has come to play such an important part in the pre-
 parati0n for the baseball season tllat
 the question of training trips demal .ds
 the strict attention of club own ers
 and managers, who direct their affairs With baseball acumen. Poor condition means a bad start, and the loss of early games means as much as the loss of the desperate battles at the end of the season that apparently de- eide the pennant race. It is figured that more than 300 men will be taken to the training camps this spring. Harry Hough, the king of basketball players, who has in years past play ed Ill this section. and Pop Foster, the former orator are locked in a
 great struggle for supremacy as msn-
 agers of the Trerton and Reading fiVes of the Eastern leagne. The teams are tied, having won F and lost five games.
 Reports from Carlisle say that Glenn Warner has received a number of requests for games from Eastern colleges that did not take on the h.
 dians last year in football. These are Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale.
 Hal Chase and Hans Wagner are going to be heroized by Christy Mat thewson in the first of "The Matty l Books," which Big Six is preparing
 to put out. The Giants prize finger said yesterday that he considered these two men the greatest in their
 positions that ever held up an infeld.
 ''I've caled my first baseman in the
 story Hal Chase" said the old king, ''and I guess that ought to be clear enough to indicate the fellow we mean. He starts in as a pitcher, and has II specialist, but it is when accident
 sends him to the first sack that he begins to show up with the big league stuff. Instead of calling the Lowell shortstop Wagner we've named him
 Hagner and I hope this will be sat- | isfactory to Hans and his followers" Jim Rosenberger, the big rangy speed marvel of the Irish American Athletic club, is thinking seriously of abandoning business and matriculat- ing at Dartmouth college. Rosenberger is undoubtedly the fastest all around sprinter in the country, being able to run 100 yards, 220 yards and 40 yards in remarkably fast time. It is generally believed that at the latter he is at his best, although he is at present the Canadian champion and Metropolitan champion at 100 yards and 22O yards. He has run the century | in ''evens," the 220 in better than 22
 seconds and the quarter-mile in 49 1-5 seconds.
 | A number of University of Penn sylvania students will walk from Phil
 adelphia to Washington during the Easter vacation. The long hike is not occasioned through any lack of funds, but entirely for sports sake. The participants will all be members of the Penn Walking club and will be- 1 ix,41 cl1 f1oni1 Voc ia ington jaunt by a series of shorter walks on successive Saturday after moons starting this week.
 Tired of getting up before daylight and taking an early train from New | ident Lynch of the National League | inte nds to establish his home in tk e big city before long. T. J. yesterday commissioned Secretary Heylder to go l flat hunting for him. If the flat st. lected by Heylder proves satisfactory y Lynch will make his residence in Ne "
 York from February 1 on.
 | The National Archery Association, l through Dr.. Edward B. Weston. hs s l invited the British archery champion s of both sexes to come to this countl y next August to participate in u e American championships schedule 1 have the alternative of meeting an 1 American team in dual international
 contest, should they prefer it to tf e
 open competitions. w. Dods, with 8! 1 l points and Miss Legh with 789 points
 are the present British champions for | their respective sexes.
 l Owner Jacob WeitZel of the Read | ing Tri-State team and Clarence F.
 Foster, manager of last years team, have not yet come to terms, and from present indications Foster will not be
 seen on the club this season. State
 ments made by both defining their
 position, created quite a stir anon 3 l the fans.
 1 Neither side has taken a definite
 stand, except to explain the issue, and
 with the managerial bee buzzing in
 Owner WeitzePs ear, it may be safely said that Foster will either be solo.
 to some other team or play his po-
 sition in the field, with nothing to 1 say in the running of the team. He 1 is not likely to accede to this, and
 in his ability will be found a good man
 for some other club.
 l Tn a recent address before the stu dent body of the University of Vir- l ginia, President Edwin A. Alderman
 made an earnest plea for the life of the game of football. He declared 1 that 1t was not only game 0C 10 l live, but fit to be nourished and lov- l ed.
 l Boxing bouts as a curtain-raiser for l the Virginia vs. Randolph con bas- ketban game at Charlottesville was distinct success. There were four bouts in all, three before the basket ball game, one between the halves, all of them between members of the Varsity Boxing Club. The feminine element in the audience seemed to ap-
 preciate the added attraction exactly as much as the college men them selves.
 There is a great deal of, talk about ball players having a short experience in the big league. When Hal Chase
 of the New York Americans was in- jured and out of the game for a cou- pie of months. due to being hit in the
 eye by a batted ball, the Yankees were in a bad way for a first base
 man. There was a big fellow by the name of Curtiss, who woke Clark Grif- filth up late one night to let him know that he was on the job to play first base. Curtiss was from Texas, and was put on the first sack the next day. He went along all right for a few innings. Then a ball was hit down his way at mile minute. Curtiss gave it the shift and slammed bis left init down like one would try ing to get troublesome fly. That was enough.