The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-01
TERRY ROGERS
 NOW A COP
Noted Ball Player Will Be Fine Policeman and Splendid Addition to Baseball Team of the De- partment.

Terry Rogers, one of the best known ball players Bridgeport has ever turn ed out. became a policeman at the meeting of the board of police com m1ssioners last night, being selected by unanimous vote to fill the only re- maining vacancy in the force ot pa trolmen, Superintendent Birmingham was empowered to detail a patrolman from the regular department to plain clothes duty as a detective, and he will make his selection in, the person of Patrolman Peter Hall.
 The drivers of the automobile patrol wagon will hereafter work in shifts of eight hours. There had been dissatis- faction owing to the burden of the work of repairing the machinery of the patrolwagon, falling on one driver. The apportionment of the work under the new schedule is expected to be more satisfactory.
 Applicants for appointment to the regular department were Robert J.. Eagan, Patrick Sullivan and John L.. Chapman. The name of PatrOlman P. J. Murphy who was injured on duty and unable to report for several weeks was kept on the pay roll. Patrolman Prout received permission to accept $50 reward from the U. $. government for capturing a deSerter.
 The election of Terrence J. Rogers as patrolman was not unexpected amcng his friends. They agree that if he stops crooks as readily as he does hot liners at short, he'll soon be a ser geant.
 Terry Rogers is a ball player of more than ordinary ability. It can be said to his credit that he has more than I,ic nf ha ha Oo generalship. As usual he began his baseball career as kid on the sand lots of East Bridgeport. Developing into a player of note he joined the To- cal team, cavorting about second base and short stop. Bridgeport was not to his liking and he caught on with New Haven when. they were under the man agement ofSJimmy Canavan. That was in the days when such intense ri- valry existed between the O. ators and the Blues, as the New Ravens were then called Terry, because of his ag- gressiveness was made captain of the team, and played short stop. He was up to all kinds of tricks. which he 1ik- ed to pull off more on Bridgeport than any other team. He would give his right to beat the Orators in those days. Terry was captain of the New Ravens 1902 the year the Orators lost the pen nant in the last few days of the sea-
 
 session that followed. New Haven finished first in that year in the num- ber of games won, but had a few talk en from them because they played Pitcher Tuekey, who was on the so- called blacklist. From New Haven Terry drifted back to Bridgeport where he was made a special officer and did work as a regular. Two seasons ago he was with Pop Foster, on the Lam caster team of the Tri-State league, going with that player and Al ODell to the Reading club of the same lea que. Last season he started out with Reading, but sickness brought him back to his home city. He has always been progressive in the game, being the manager and captain of the All Star teams which grace the fields at the end of each season. Terry will make a valuable acquisition to the Police team, which will again be rep resented in the State policeman's lea que.