The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-26
IN MAJOR LEAGUES

The Yankees are just now plugging along a hopeless course; but they promise to burst out next April with a makeup in which they will not be recognized by observing fans wh: have seen them beaten and battered at the hilltop and elsewhere this year. Harry Wolverton has been as patient as an old family horse in the effort to rebuild the team, and he is now beginning to get results.
 Wolverton has taken the prescrip- ton which Clarke Griffith applied to the aiiing Senators with such great success and is reconstructing team by setting a few budding youngsters around centre of tried veterans. The new piece should sparkle. There will be added speed and enough vet erans to supply a needed balance.
 Finn and Sterrett have been finds apparently. Simmons is another promising player. Also one or two of the recruit pitchers may come through by next season. With Cree, Wolter, Chase and Sweeney, Wolver- ton should have a first division club.
 Hank O'Day is steering a slow but steady course downward in the per- centage column and is now possessed with a fear that his permanent berth will be in the second division. With the advent of Eppa Rixie in the Phil- lie camp the Dooinites have been playing real baseball and their claim for place ultimately in the first di. vision seems to be a good one at present Which means that the Reds will have to go into fifth place for keeps.
 It has just been discovered in St. Louis that the real reason why the Cardinals slumped so terribly on their Eastern trip was the poor work of the pitchers. Before looking into the pitching staff, which is the first ailing point usually on any ball club, the Mound City folks blamed Bres- nahan, the directors of the club, in- side politics and everything but the right thing for the failure of the team to produce victories.
 With the Red Sox making their claim better every day to the pen- nant in the American League and the Braves trying their utmost to drop out of the club standing altogether. the National team is sure suffering a terrible slump in attendance. Nor has this lent courage to Gaffney, Ward to unload the Boston burden on any shoulders possessing a little ready cash.
 It is now said that Manager George Stovall wants to trade Rhody Wallace whom he displaced as leader of the Browns. Rhody is slowing up. He has been in the game a great many years and has been one of the pas times stars in his day. But Stovall is attempting to improve the team and wants to make room for young CT blood. It is quite probable that Wallace would refuse to take any po- Sition other than that of manager of some club, major or minor, and fail ing to get this would retire from the game.
 Eddie Foster of the. Nationals is de- veloping into one of the best place hitters in the game. His ability to draw in the outfielders and then lace the ball to the fence has been great help to Griff's team this season.
 Cincinnati is truly getting a hard rub. The Reds are in the lament able position of having two short stops, one of whom can hit but not field we'll and the other cavort with grace but is shy a batting orb. Busi- ness Manager Bancroft has suggested that the rules of the game be changed so that he can use one of them to field and the other to bat. Esmond is the fielder and McDonald is the