The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-05

Tanning bees are popular at the
 Atlantic.
 The boys started out yesterday af- ternoon, but the cold rain drove them | back.
 e A two mile trot around the park in
 the morning was all the work turned | in.
 "Hi'' Ladd is the youngest looking youngster of the bunch. | Some of the players are lamenting | the loss of a few bats. Kids around Newfield park believing some of the | players had valuables around, broke | into the lockers Monday evening. | They managed to get away with a few | bats.
 "Uppie'' Upham made Bridgeport
 early yesterday afternoon, coming in l from Chicago where he has been for
 the past few weeks. Uppie's home
 is in Akron, Ohio. He threatens to | the summer.
 Uppie reports that he is feeling as great as they make them. The win | ter's lay off has worked wonders with ] him. He looks the picture Uf health
 
 | He always did have portions of his anatomy on which flesh could be plac- and still not be noticed. Tom Crooks is due to report to Manager McCann to-day. "Chalky''
 Clunn and Iver Swanson also wrote McCann that to-day would see their | advent into this city. When Crooks left the Park City at
 the end of last season, he had his mind made up to do two things, to
 take wife and to become a Wash ington policeman. He let the latter job slide by so as to be with the Me- chanics another season, but did not fall down on the matrimonial stuff. He's hitched fellows. Quite few benedicts on the team
 besides MT. Crooks. There is "Hi'
 Ladd who is always accompanied by
 Mrs. Ladd and resides in Stratford avenue, the two Snyders, Frank and
 Ewald. Bobby Stowe, t'Red'i} Waller and Iver Swanson.
 Though he has not as yet gotten
 into practice Harry Gagain, the Wa terville boy whom Manager McCann has signed up for back stop has made a hit with the local manager. "I can see there is baseball in that young- ster," says McCann. ''Ie every way
 shows baseball he looks baseball and
 talks it. He may not know an aw
 full lot about the game, but is one of
 the kind quick to get on. He's the
 most likely looking of the recruits now on hand.'
 It was pointed out to McCann that
 Gagain would not be heavy enough.
 Nothing, to it. says McCann, "the best catcher in the league, Mcdonald
 Of Waterbury, is also the smallest | man. The best back stops in the big leagues are not the big men," Ga gain is built close to the ground, but Is a stocky youngster. Jack Johnson, who played part of the time behind the bat with the Yosts last season will try to show Nc Cam that he can deliver the goods. He is also waiting for the weather man
 to treat us half decently before he gets
 out.
 l Renewing old acquaintances kept | the boys busy all day yesterday. Some l of the players were all in when they | filed to their hunks last evening. Their wings will not need for exercise with all the hand shaking some of them | have done.
 One of the boys was exhibiting, yesterday. few poses of a fair young | creature WnOm ne I6IC D6n1nQ. OI | course all the boys left some one in particular back there, but this player who has to pass through the big ! town to come here, is quite serious. "Uppie'' Upham became rash yes- l terday afternoon and invested in a number of postal cards, most of them | being now on their way to Akron, Ohio. There were two real nice ones which he sent somewhere, where he refused to tell.
 Skipper" Hey is not a believer in | the postal card stuff 1T used to be
 there myself" says the fleet footed | right fielder, "but I'm wise to all the
 moves now. I'll be completely lost be-
 fore I ever send another Should the boys get out and prac- | tice to-day, there will be but three days of training before the first game I Saturday with the All-Industrials. It | will be the first game for most of the | latter group.
 | Manager McCann expects to go to | Jersey City either to-day or to-mor-
 row to have a talk with Hook Litschi
 who is with the Yankee second team,
 now playing in Jersey. McCann has
 the assurance of the Yankee manage | ment that L.itschi will be turned over | to Bridgeport, but then Litschi might | balk. We are never sure of anything ! in this world" is the way McCan puts | it. AS to Russell, the back stop com | ing here, McCann had that fixed be- | fore the players went South While McCann is away the boys | will be under the direction of Captain | Tom Crooks. Manager Gene has great confidence in the big first base
 man, knowing he is there as a leader | and as ball player.
 l Can't call Freddie Gibbs little any more. Freddie now hits the scales at 168 and intends to take off a few l the most he ever weighed in his life.
 He admits that he never felt better, | that the ozone of Saco, Me, is just | the best tonic yet.
 Ewald Snyder is due to become a 1 regular, if he continues the sort of playing he showed with New Haven | last season. Fans wondered why Cameron allowed Snyder to go, but the secret is out. Jerry Connell did not | take to Snyder and requested his own CTS to let him away.
 Manager McCann says he would not i be bit surprised to see Joe Kustus show up any day. In fact he knows he will show up. Kustus writes from his home in Detroit that he will be