The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-03-13
BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP

While discussing baseball from a
managerial angle Manager T1ghe, OF
Louisville, says: Take a team com
posed mostly of players who are al
ways pulling off inside stuff and out
guessing the enemy. It will generally
make a good showing, In spite of the
fact that the men are not heavy MT
tiers. I will teach my boys to play
inside ball and take all the chances
possible. Grandstand Or record play
ers will not be tolerated. 1 want score
producers and not athletes who are
always watching their batting aver
ages. I'm always for the man who is
willing to learn and trying to out-gen-
eral the other side. He Will get the
preference over the veteran who tries
to int midate the recruit on the field
or in the clubhouse"
Put your faith in the colored porters
and you will have a lot Of misinfor-
mation-about Joe Jackson, at least.
The porters on southern railroad
passing through Greensville, S. c.,
poirt out a mill where Jackson Is said
to have worked before he went into
baseball. AS a matter of fact, Joe
worked in his fathers meat market
before he began playing.
Here is the expert opinion of Del
Howard, former big league star and
Louisville manager, as to Cravath, the
fence breaker. II think Philadelphia
got a great man in Cravath," he says,
zone who will slam the ball for them.
Cravath told me when he came to the
American association that the reason
he did not hit was because he was
fed spitballs all the time and he had
never seen one on the coast. But now
he has learned to bat against them,
and, believe me. he will hit 800 or
more for the Phillies. or I miss my
guess, and he does not hit only into
left field, but smashes homers in right
as WELL He is fast, although he is
big. He may not appear speedy in
going to first, but after he passes the
initial sack he travels as fast as any
and stretches a double into a triple
when least expected. He is only a
fair fielder but what he is capable of
at the plate offsets the fault in the
garden
Manager Dahlen of Brooklyn, says
he has no intention of using Elmer
Stricklett, recently reinstated by the
national commission, and will dispose
of him.
Frank Chance is not SO badly off for
first basemen, even if he is unable to
play the bag himself He has Hof-
man, Safer, Agler and possibly Zin1-
norman available.
While sojourning in California
Frank Chance, the Chicago boss has
picked up a successor to Joe Tinker
in a youngster named Smith, of Red
lands, touted as one Of the classiest
shortstops ON the Pacific coast.
President Murphy, of the Cubs will
always have the "Iast word He now
announces that his million dollar plant
is to be the 'Iast word in ball parks.
Mrs. Helen Britton, being a woman
and entitled to her rights as such,
should take notice
Almost every other team in the cOun-
try i'm the big leagues, with the ex-
ception of the Athletics, has let enough
good players go to make better team
than they now have. How is it that
c. Mack pins it on all of them?
Certain cities overshadow all rivals
in certain departments of play. Great
err New York, as a starter, is well
fixed for first basemen with Chase,
Daubert and Merkle. Boston can
boast of two staunch outfielders in
Speaker, Hooper and Lewis of the Red
SOx, with Miller, Campbell and jack
son Of the Braves. Chicago has always
stood high with catchers in king,
Sullivan and Archer. And Philadel-
phia has the Athletics.
Pat Flahertv says the Donlin- Camp
bell deal IS a corker Said the veter-
an out fielder pit cher-clouter: Both
clubs benefit. Kings aim in Boston
is to build up a team. Pittsburg' S
evidently is to win another pennant
and possibly a worlds championship
For two years more at least DonIin
will better suit Clarke's needs than
Campbell. Campbell ought 20 be an
other stone in the Boston clubs foun-
dation for a club that eventually will
land higher in the race"