The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-22

to the bat.
 Benny, the batty baseball bug, sat in the third base bleachers yesterday. He threw a fit when the Mechanics scored the trio in the eighth. Benny is a big booster for the home crowd.
 Ernie Lush is again without a job. Vest erday he was handed his uncondi- tional release by Manager Bresnahan not played in a full game as yet, being used as a pinch hitter.
 Manager McGraw of the Giants and his eccentric pitcher, Bugs Raymond had a mix up in St. Louis yesterday. Bugs appeared at the park yester- day out of condition and was ordered to remove his uniform. When he re- fused McGraw and he mixed it up. Wednesday Raymond had a run in with his keeper, Dick Fuller, the re- suit of which the Bug is now wear ing a darkened optic.
 O'Rourke. the third baseman of the Columbus American Association nine, who was hit in the head We'd nesday by a pitched ball by y&"Vine- gar" Bill Essick of the Kansas City nine. is still speeches. at Grant Hos pital. O'Rourke dropped like a log when he was hit and the blow para lyzed his vocal cords. O'Rourke was a former member of the New York Americans and is a son of James O'Rourke. who recently sold the Bridgeport, (Conn) club.
 Former Mgr. ORourke stated today morning from Mrs. O'Rourke, Jr. that Jimmy was in the hospital, but that there would be no serious results from his injury.
 Charlie Stis, the light haired second base man of the New Haven team, who is running Bobby Stowe a good race for fielding honors, has been re- leased to Holyoke, where he will cov- CT short, wherein the Papermakers are weak. The coming of Pastor to the White Wings caused the move. Stis will make a valuable man for the Pa permakers infield.
 While in town yesterday Manager Connery announced that Owner Clark in had purchased the release of Pitch CT Sammy Smith from Cincinnati. Smith at present is with Toronto in the Eastern league and is doing great work. Last season with Montreal he won 15 out of 37 games. 
 The presence of Manager Connery on the Hartford bench makes a big difference in the play of the Senators. Tom was all smiles when his team was in the van, but when the score was tied, Tom was wound up into a knot.
 That bunch of noisy baseball fans who make for the middle of the grand stand had a great time kidding Con- nery yesterday with their so-called 'new stuff.'' Connery was in wrong from the start, appearing in a neat blue suit and Panama hit. His regalia was O. K. but he should have left the red tie at home.
 Old boy Connaughton of Waterbury was there yesterday. Three hits in three times up and sixteen chances with nary a slip is travelling a few. big league farm hands look like gram mar school timber.-New Haven Jour nal Courier.
 It must have seemed like old times to Cy Perkins yesterday. Cy in the Springfield-N New Britain game poked the pill over the fence for a homer, his first of the season. Last year Cy made a worlds record in this re- spect with A circuit clouts. As a palliative for the appreciative. Bobby Stowe just to show that he could scratch out better than singles, ripped off three baser which bound ed past Rehg in the eighth. Uppy Upham is a lucky cuss If that game had been lost yesterday it would have gone against him, for when he quit the Senators led 40. Had win been recorded, Freddie Gibbs would have received the credit, as the Senators were leading when he took up the burden. The tie makes Up- hams record still the best in the lea que, seven wins and but one defeat.
 Tom Crooks could not find the pill yesterday, flaming three times. AS a result of his non-connection he fell out of the 300 class.
 The tie game will result in the play ing of a double-header here later in the sea son..
 Jimmy Hall had a happy day in the field yesterday, picking the pill up on all sides of him. He had five as- sists, every one of them of the diff cult variety. His best piece of work was in the ninth, Hart drove hard at Gibbs, the ball glancing off the lat