The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-17

III duo1CIOn 10 plck1nS up prom ls1ng bunch of youngsters. Manager Zeller of the Ponies has booked an attractive list of exhibition games
 For Patriots Day, April 19, Newark
 or the Eastern league is down fo1
 games in the morning and afternoon
 While the Ponies are at their train
 ing q uarters at Asbury Park, they
 will work out daily with the Utica
 New York state league club, which
 is also to train at the same place They will play together from April
 2 to S.. On April 8, the Ponies go to wick and to Reading, Pa, for games on the 10th and 11th. They will be
 in Wilkesbarare on the 12th and 18th, and in Scranton on the 14th Then trip to Binghamton on the 18th and to Troy on the 16th. The game with Utica while the 18th will bring Troy to Springfield. On the 18th comes Newark. There is a rest on the 2Oth with the grand op- enlng of the league season the 21st.
 Tom Stankard whose work mater ially helped the Cubebs make their grand spurt last season will probably be with another club this season. Stankard is the property of the Brockton club of the New England league. He gained a poor start last
  the remainder of the year. Stank- ard was drafted by the Denver club of the Western league the year O'Neil brought the Connecticut league pen nant to Springfield. Last season he was turned over to Brockton.
 Tommy Dowd. manager of'the New Bedford team of the New England league, who is to that league as Gene McCann is to the right little Nutmeg orga nization, it's slickest dresser, is sending out his annual winter bunk about some of the great men he has corralled whom he wishes to trade. He has written to Manager McCann making number of offers. He wants McCann to grab both Harry Moves and Pop Rising. Dowd's of his men fairly flow with adjectives and adverbs, but the managers are wise.
 Milwaukee needs a. first lbaseman, but players are rather shy of offers. No one seems altogether anxious to tackle the proposition since Dan Me Gam committed suicide A look back would almost convince one that the position was hoodooed. Dan McGann committed suicide; Pat Hynes, who was there before him, was murdered, and Quate Bateman. who was tfsere just before Hynes,was SCdDDoQ duO nearly klllI0u III d TOW with another ball player. All these incidents, have made the players a bit timorous about the po S-!iOn
 The offices of the Bridgeport Base ball club, Room "A, Connecticut Bank which have been closed since the last baseball season were opened to-day for the first time. Man. ager McCanns has fitted up the place Turkish style with divans and win dow seats scattered throughout his suite of rooms. The room which he and his secretary utilized last season for the conduct of their business has been entirely changed and fitted into 3 dressing room for Genes many changes. To-day the typewriter was taken from McCann's monster safe and went through the evolutions of striking out few notices to Me Cann's big squad as to dates to re- port for the season. From this date on all 1itera ture'- to the Bridgeport Club should be addressed to the clubs offices.
 The directors of the Connecticut League will meet in Hartford this aft ernoon with an unsettled circuit star ing them in the face. The builders of empire who reared cities in the did not have a harder task than the circuit makers of this league. There is considerable talk of transfer ring the Northampton franchise to Bristol and before tonight the, trick is likely to be accomplished. Should he change be made it will be a big saving in the matter of expenses for he Nutmeg managers. Bh1stol could 1ot prove any worse than Northamp- .on.
 If the transfer is perfected. it is that Jimmy Canavan. for nerly leader of the New Haven team, md now owner of the Elm City club, II the National Polo League. would De interested.
 Look for some big sales and trad ngs- tonight. There is to be mon- ,ter pow-wow after the league meet ng is adjourned. with numerous rades as the result. Manager Me Sann, Manager Teller. Manager Wink CT and Manager Edwards have numer- JUS players whom they would like to ret mixed up in trades.
 In speaking of the taking in of Bris- 1 ol as a State League representative. I he sporting writer on the Hartford courant states that it is not always he most thickly populated places that make the best football towns, citing l New Haven as an instance. He re- l CTS to the 102.054 souls in Bridgeport | IS follows: Some light is now thrown | lpon the census boosting methods in 1 Bridgeport. The State was surprised | vhen the Bridgeport figures were pub ished and the census people down here must have added the men that | I. Eugene McCann signed for his cam. He has ten pitchers and other | tositions have been provided for with | he same generosity. By adding the aseball players and the circus en- loves. Bridgeport went up with a ound. If they had also counted the eparate pieces of Manager McCann's wardrobe. they would have broken a ew more records
 Dan O'Neil has signed up two semi who bid fair to make ood in the Nutmeg ranks They are Dug'' Renault who heaved for the club. and Kenney who aught for the Coe Brass team. Rem ult has been sought by many man. gers. but the youngster wanted to uddle under O'Neils wing.