The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-10

| ager McCann that heAlS al HDefCy 10 start negotiations with other clubs. l Secretary Jack McGuinness gave the
 day
 1 The New York American regulars cid we'll yesterday when they elected
 Hal F, < Chase as captain of the 6 team 1,1r for l fans but is popular with the players. l Chase has been a Tank since 1904. l For the want of news the war cor 1 respondents with the Yankees have l Catcher Lou Criger, lost, strayed or stolen; Griger no noW R puts 2 the e., fans ms i way to Hot Springs. He stated that
 he was in excellent condition to work. l but desired to take the baths as he has done for number of seasons I past. Criger has the permission of ] his owners to remain at the springs as long as he wishes
 eff had man like Mathewson on my club last season, says Clark Griffith, manager of the Cincinnatls, ttI would have been up there with the Cubs and Pirates. Matty was the ] whole New York team Where will 1 Ead?" The same question is heard ] all over.
 1 Manager Mccann has a surplus on l his hands he is willing to become I separated from. It will be the rattle for Pitchers .'Heine" Whitmeyer and | '.SIats,' Sweeney. Utility Man Bunk McKenna and probably First Base
 man Doe" Bunyan- The New Ida-
 ven lineup is apt to contain a few of l these names after the season is well
 under way. Pop, Foster writes from Reading, l Pa, that he will bring along with l him to his Holyoke team a number 1 of crack Pennsylvania players. who
 are now performing in the basket ball leagues in western Pennsylvania: Among them will be a youth named Ferat, who Foster says will make ager will have to produce a good catcher as Ahearn has gone to Wa terbury and it is reported that Frank Tom Fleming. the old HoIyoke manager who is now directing the HaVerhiI1 club forces says that he in tends to play regularly in the outfeld this season. Fleming attempted to hold down the right plot for the Pa permakers, but his poor work made him an object of ridicuIe from the start and was the means of shorten
 Manager Jack Teller of the Spring fields who attempted to cover first 1 last season, he couldn't see where he was bad. and stuck. Zeller got wise and took to the beheh.
 Simmons, the former. New Haven | second baseman with Rochester last season and now with Detroit, has re-. fused to try out for short stop, al- though Manager Jennings is anxious 1 to see what he can do there. He will go out for any other position, as he states that the short field has al- ways been hoodoot position with Tim. He, also, is not anxious to
 antagonize the other Detroit players either, who might resist his attempts to fit in as short stop now that Ownie Bush is holding out for more coin. Jimmy Walsh, the Niagara college youth with Northampton last year, letics continues to be the most com sistent hitter among the recruits try
 ing out for positions on the team. W 1len Wash Jolned the training
 to make the big show. Already the
 sporting writers about the country
 are including Walsh among the list
 of wonders Connie Mack has picked
 up for almost nothing.
 Manager Gil Edwards and the owners of the ball park in North
 empton are at war. It is understood that the owners have asked for an increased rental price this season and Edwards does not want to meet it There has been a noise in the girls college town that the team might be removed to another city, and the ence is placed in it.
 Pride No. 1, Sam Mclean, and Pride No 2, "Rube' Pollard of Glastonbury, are figuring in trades ton of the Tri-State for Short Stop Price and Sam Mclean goes to Lynn in exchange for Catcher Ball. Mo- Lean has kicked however, and may
 Hamilton of Lynn. Already Sioux
 City of the Western league and Utica