The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-30
BASEBALL NOTES

Smith a day or two back and worked four rounds for the Cleveland Yanni- gans.
 Twelve people faced him through
 this period, and the same twelve pass
 ed back to the waiting bench without having planted a hoof on first. He had the old speed and the old break to his bender and looked to be ready for twenty years more
 This test stands as wel1-balanced answer to the flash of the last fort
 night that he was all through and ready for the. farm.
 When they bury him it will have to be deeper than the regulation distance lowing spring and whipping them through with a wop into the mitt
 If Joss and Young come through the Cleveland club will have a pitching staff which cannot be excelled. The more enthusiastic of the Nap players
 believe that even without these men
 the Nap hurlers will register just as high as any other staff
 There should be some hitting. La 1 joie, Jackson, Easterly, Stova1l, Griggs, Land and Smith should form as hard a hitting combination as any club in the league possesses. If Turner gets into the game another clever hitter will be added.
 Asked if he would change his style | of delivery in the event of his coming | back to partial extent this season, | Addie Joss replied that he believed | he would be able to continue with the l same sort of a delivery as ever with | the exception that he might depend l more upon a slow ball.
 The question was suggested by the | fact that there have been instances | where pitchers had trouble with their
 arms and managed to go along as well
 as ever by shifting to the underhand | delivery.
 Patsy Donovan is trying out enough candidates for first base position to make a team by themselves Thoney | Carrigan, Bradley, Meyers and Engel are the fellows that have had chance 1 so far to make good in Jake Stahl's place.
 | Mrs. Hugh Jennings will root for the Athletics this season, the hated rival of her husbands club. Furthermore, if Mrs. Jennings can induce feminine friend to lay a wager of a box of bon | bons on a pennant race she is willin g | to give the friend Detroit and take Philadelphia for hers. There is req | son in this unpatriotic spirit. t'I new CT won a bet on a ball game in my l life,'' says Mrs. Jennings, "and I am | positive that if I bet against Detroit they will win.''
 Hans Wagner still suffers the an- | noyances of fame He even has been
 asked to kiss a baby. And fans from
 points throughout the land seek just one little word of baseball. ! Two men of fine appearance halted Babe Adams in a hotel lobby in
 Hot Springs the other evening. 'Is ] Honus Wagner with you?" asked one of the pair.
 'T don't see him." replied Adams as he obligingly looked around. But
 suddenly he spied Wagner and said, ''There he is now, mailing letter." The two fans, who had come from Little Rock just to see Wagner play, hailed the great shortstop. You're MT. Wagner, aren't you ?'' queried one.
 Well, we'll" replied Honus. That's
 the third time today I've been taken | for that fellow"
 And Honus made a bee line for the elevator.
 | It's a raw wind that doesn't blow a portion of the cloud away from the silver lining. The rougher the break
 of the climate in March. the better Eoutlook that the Ides of April will report in mid-season form. Washington owners are up against the raw. If they pay Walter Johnson ! that $34, 300 for four years, there will
 be no coin left to build a grandstand. If they don't pay and Johnson quits | work they won't need the grandstand which they can then proceed to build Another case of lounging between Charybdis and the deep blue sea.
 Dan O'Nei has come out of his shell and has announced some of the yvhn trxr n,,f fns
 his New Britain club. The following from last year: Rufange, Brown,
 Parker, Haynes, Cabrera, Almeida,
 Marsans and Waterman. And the fol- lowing new men; Jack Hoey from
 Waterbury, Catcher Lemieux from boy wonder from Collinsvil1e; Pitcher
 Jack Hess, no relation to lawn, from
 Harrisburg, Pa.; Jack Ryan, a sec
 ond baseman from Fitchburg, Jerry D. O'Connell, a second baseman from
 Jersey City; John McRedmond a back Meriden, who tried out at second last
 season: Will Rothrock of Philadelphia
 and George D. Foulke of the same
 village for first base; H. l.. Hoar,
 pitcher with the Coe Brass club and
 Jack Walsh from Southington, who
 will chase the high ones.
 Al O'DelI of this burg was much
 in evidence in the Giant-Atlanta game
 in Atlanta yesterday Al is playing
 third with the Southern league club having been drafted at the end of last
 season from the Syracuse New York
 State league team. Al cracked out
 three hits, one off Bugs" Raymond
 and two off Rudolph. The Giants
 won 10-3 O'Dell being mixed up with
 all of Atlanta's runs. Tn the fifth,
 First Baseman Sykes strolled and
 went to third on AIS first bingle
 scoring on a hit by Right-f1elder Fen lon. In the eighth Al singled. took second on passed ball, and tallied
 on Shortstop Walkers ping for
 base. In the ninth, Watson singled advancing to second on passed ball
 and scored on O'Dells single for the third time.
 Owner Cameron of the White Wings is anxious to secure Harry Moves to fill in in the short field position. Moves is the property of the Lawrence club of the New England league. with which club he does not want to play Cameron is said to have offered two players for the New Havener, but the Lawrence management wants cash
 Rumor has it that Manager Fred Penney of the Boston Nationals will ask for waivers on Pitcher Chic Evans who was drafted from Hartford Evans is the heaver who in 1908 se- cured a name for himself by shutting out the Orators without hit, and having only 27 men face him in the nine innings.