The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-07
BASEBALL GOSSIP FOR
 OUR ENTHUSIASTIC FANS
Mechanics Have Hard Week Ahead of Them
 and Will do We'll to Break Even
(By Wagner.)

l (By Wagner.)
 In second place for the first time in
 many weeks.
 T Ivor Swanson couldn't deliver. The
 giant Swede got himself into the hole } with easy batters.
 Its hard luck to have the pitchers i go bad all at once,'' said Manager
 McCann after the game. Walker will probably be in shape by the lat
 ter part of the week, and then we ex- pect to get after Springfield again." I Sporting Editor Jack Sullivan, of the l Springfield Union, sat in the press stand: He says the Ponies are draw | ing well at home.
 The stupidity of the league officials in sending the most incompetent um- pire of the staff to umpire the con- test that decided the leadership of the ] league, is almost beyond belief Sut- ton probably means to do the right l thing but he is bloomer as an um-
 pire. He let the players argue at | length on every decision, and he miss
 ed plays at second by not working be-
 hind the pitcher when a runner was on first. Tn the fifth with two strikes on Gardella, Swanson put another one | | Stones good throw had Flaferty by a block but Sutton said safe, and then | to make matters worse the umpire called what should have been third strike ball. Gardella then made a
 three bagger and scored F1aherty. Tom Crook did some high and lofty
 tumbling. In the second he shot into the air and pulled down Litschi's high
 throw of Mason's grounder. In the l fifth, Swanson had all kinds of time to field Pages tap, but he threw
 away over Crooks head and Tom had to leap up and catch the ball with his bare hand.
 | It was the largest crowd of the sea- son at the island. There were 5000 paid admissions.
 l The slump of Hi Ladd and Benny | Kauff with the slap stick combined with the poor work of the pitchers is accountable for the slump. The two
 outfielders ought to come back this week. l Rocky Stone was going great. The Vermont boy caught two Ponies who tried. to steal. F1aherty was the only | one who got away with the attempt, and everybody but the umpire thought he was out.
 ' The Mechanics have a hard week | before them. Tomorrow they show | in New Britain. On Wednesday they are booked for double header in | Springfield, and on Thursday they play New Haven two games at Newfield. 1 On Friday they go to New Haven, and Springfield comes to; Newfield | Saturday. With the pitchers going so
 bad the team will be lucky to stay in second place.
 Tommy Downey accepted ten chances in a double header against Philadelphia yesterday. He made a 1 in the second
 Greenwell had good control yester- day. But at that the Mechanics got l more timely hits off the Springfield
 southpaw than they have been able | has faced them.
 | Page, Swander and Genest. who have been doing the slugging for the Ponies, couldn't get safety. Genest. | who has been touted as the base run- ming sensation of the season, didn't even get on. He famed twice. Poor Waterbury keeps on losing. With Tom Tuckey in the box the Brass City crowd lost to New Brit ain yesterday by to 3. Lower twirl- ed for the Cubebs.
 It is said that Dan ONeil has to pay Arthur Nichols s225 a month and OHara the same amount. They horn- swoggled Carl Pace into putting those 1 figures in their contracts. OHara and Nichols are good players but not | worth that much a month [ Gardella was sore when he was caught off third in the fifth. He had just tripled but overran the bag, and a quick throw by Litschi to Ruell caught the spaghetti merchant. When he came back to the bench his fellow players bawled him out "You ought to be satisfied you got down there instead of getting fresh and taking too much of a lead," said Page. Chief Miller, the former Waterbury first baseman, has joined Whitinsville in the Massachusetts Mill league He is to get SIS game and expenses. Owner James J. Murphy of New Britain threatens to move his team to Bristol unless the home attendance increases. Although the Spuds have been playing as well as any club in the circuit lately, the crowds have been small. Joe Kustus, the former Mechanic outfielder, is now with Canton in the O.-P. league. Out of the wilderness came the Brooklyn rubber plant brigade, after giving Boston a hard fight for last place, and just simply walloped their Cub opponents off the field. With three leaders in the National leag within the scant margin of 13 points, it appears that the real fight for the pennant now begins with the Cubs. Pirates and Giants as the con- tenders
 The much despised Cincinnati Red- legs can play real baseball. They lifted two good, ones from the Phillies in grand style. It was the first game Cincinnati had to use 15 men in but the winning was good
 The tail ending Boston Nationals