The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-22
IN MAJOR. LEAGUES

Connie Mack, Harry Davis is not f1nd- ing his path strewn with roses. He is sdisgusted with the way the Maps are playing the game. or rather not playing it. He says: T have been connected with baseball for many years, but never have seen a club with so little ambition as this one. There will be some ' changes in the nearfuture and some of the players ably surprised. I'll have some new players ina short stirfe. .fs
 Answering the question, Does it pay to pay lot for ball players, Clark, Griffdth's friends assert posi- lively that 1t does. r Gandil, said to have cost about $f5.O00; including the CTS that went into the deal, has sup piled the balance necessary to make of a second division club a possible pennant winner And who will. say that a pennant is not cheap at $I5,- 900? No one in Washington.
 Coaching has become a part of the art of modern inside; baseball. ! There was a. time when coaching was simply the vaudeville adornment of a game. But some of the astute leaders like McGraw and Chance have developed 1t until now many games are saved and even pennants are won through the work of competent coaching at third base. All the gesticulations of benefit of the stands. He carries out many plans under the cover of the famous "E-yah!" Instead of feeling downhearted be- cause the, Mackmen interrupted the winning, streak of the Nationals Clarke Griffith is of the opinion. that ming games is the principal business of baseball managers but when q club reaches seventeen games the strain becomes so intense that it $ usually better to lose one and relieve the nervous, tension of the players. s There are "a good many fans who will take issue with the Chicago boost CTS who. claim that Callahan is the best playing manager in the Ameri- can League. Jake Stahl Is doing a little real ball playing himself along with the business of managing the Red .Sox and his work around the of the Western trip of the club.
 Winning pennants has become so much of a habit with John Ganzel of the Rochester Club of the Inter national League that he goes about 1t with the same precision as eating. Rochester started off poorly, but the the lead. and. shows no intention of reIinquishing the lead.
 Manager Bresnahan has purchased Catcher Snyder of the, South Michi- gan League. 5ssgs.s
 Frank Chance claims. that the now than it has been any time during the last three years. eff the Cubs were hitting like they did last year before we would be setting the pace for the rest of tfem,'' he ayers.
 Jimmy Callahan and Ed Walsh are both denying that there is any, fric- ly rumored and pointed to as the real cause for the slump of the White Sox. Walsh told the reporters in Chicago that he was at peace with all and that he expected a change in the luck of the team.
 Eddie Collins, second baseman of the Athletics, says that he does not look for, the White Sox to again get into the lead. He says they are slip ping and just now playing on their nerve alone.
 Boston has what is probably the greatest defensive outfield in the game today. Speaker. Hooper and Lewis form a combination hard to beat. Three outfielders could prob ably be selected who have better bat ting averages, but there would be something missing in the speed and pep, no doubt. And at that the Red Sox trio have among them the lead ing batsmen of the league.