The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-13
IN MAJOR LEAGUES

ii z E Bob Hedges has a new catcher for the Browns next year in the person of Crossin. of Bingnamton. He has been mighty good backstop for the New York State League team. and will work with the St. Louis aggrega- tion for a while in the fall.
 The spitban is introducing all Kinds of jumbles and rumbles into the game. At Philadelphia the other day. Johnny Evers obtained evidence that the horsehide was being doctored. Knabe then picked up Evers' glove and showed it to Umpire Johnstone. It: was blackened with some peculiar substance. The umpire looked at it. felt of. itl and smelled it, then said Play .Ball.''
 Block the pouthful catcher sent to St. Paul by the White Sox is back ing them up strong and batting ..345. He is almost as good as Otto Miller of the Dodgers in grabbing foul tips, too.
 Harry Krause hasn't won a game since he quit the Association, joined the American League, and was re- turned to the Association. He had not lost a game this year up to the time he was taken from Toledo by Cleveland. He lost while he was with the Maps and after he had been sent back, however.
 Laporte, purchased from St. Louis. has joined the Nationals. He will be used as an emergency batter for 2 while.
 The around -the-world tour planned for the Giants at the close of the reg ular season will introduce the, game in many places where it has never been played. or at least not by pro- tralia and the Orient are on the itin- erary as it now stands.
 In Bill Louden, who is covering second base for the Tigers, Manager Jennings seems to have found a man Jim Delehanty's shoes, Louden is a great fielder but as yet not as great batter as Del.
 Ira Thomas, Connie Macls's lconsid- erable backstop, is &dickering fer a franchise in the New. Y ork State Lea que andNSify he gets it will branch out as magnate.
 It is said that Roy Hartel1 views with more or less misgiving the work of Del Paddock, the Yankee recruit. duuOCh IS IldkInS an earnest en- deavor to unseat Hartzell at third base. He seems also to. have. added strength to the club both with his fielding and batting.
 More news from Charley Victory Falst. Charley is out on his farm at Marion, Kan, pursuant of a. tip would send for him as Boston sent for Hub Perdue. After spending ten days there, however, c. Victory be- came impatient and now writes to learn why he has not been summon ed.
 Washington continues to hang close on and about the heels of the Red Sox. They. are closer to the Sox than the Cubs are to the Giants and those who concede Chicago good chance have to include the Senators in any contemplation on the American Lea que winner.
 If Griffith should fail to overtake the Red Sox he can at least figure on flying start next season with a team that should be a contender all the way. He has done wonderfully well in making pennant possibility. of an also-ran club and he will be entitled to a lot of glory even if he does not win the pennant this season.
 Big Jim Vaughn has shown inn provement since he went to Washing ton, but he still has his bad inning or two, the ailing that cost many a game to the Yankees.
 Otto Miller continues to impress the Brooklyn fans favorably. He is getting to be a very valuable catch CT and promises to supplant Tex Err win next season as the regular re- ceiver. Roger Brespa han racentIp >S >--A--~ s.~ss-1s hA-z--S$ .S-----NeeA@