The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-18
By Wagner)

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 The merry rattle of the tinware was heard about the Atlantic hotel today. Manager McCann allowed three can- didates for the Mechanics to depart. Outhelder Buster Brown, Catcher Ma honey and Pitcher Hafey were the unlucky ones. Brown, although he made great reputation in the Tide water league, could not hit enough pears to be too slow for a catcher. He went back to Peabody, Mass. Hafey was not seeking a job with Bridgeport, but hoped McCann would land him elsewhere. The youngster injured his arm in practice and de- cided to return to Hartford.
 Manager McCann is negotiating with an infielder who hits .3o5 in a class B league last season. He is a right hand batter. The manager. does not wish to give out the players 8 landing Him. '"The trouble is that the fans are apt to think the management is bluffing about these men," declares McCann. You see I send out tele- grams to great many players and negotiate with them without signing them. Ball players will do business with five or six clubs at the same time and it's hard to pin them down to anything. But if people see Bridge port is after a player then they think he is as good as signed"
 The Jersey City club sent Outfielder Norris to Bridgeport last night. Nor- the Boston Red Sox and was taken to Bermuda on the training trip by Jersey City. He is right hand hit ter and is said to be a good man. Boston grabbed, Norris from the Whit insville, Mass. club of the Mill league. That was strong organization com posed Of mill towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Andy Coakley. the former big leaguer, worked for one of the clubs. and Pitchers Hall and McHale of the Boston Red Sox also twirled Saturday games. Bill Luby, Chief Miller. Doc ShorteH and other Connecticut leaguers were in the or- '.ganization in the latter part of last season. In one game Buck OfBr1en, the former Hartford star, was hired to come from Boston and work against Hall, also Boston star. OBrien won his game. If Norris can. bat against that. kind of pitching he ought to help the Mechanics Manager McCann gave the youngster permission to go to his home in Boston today. He hasn't been home since February. Norris win return Sunday night.
 
 Nothing further has been heard from Elmer Duggan. Manager Mo- Cam is anxious to land him but fears he may have signed with some other club because nothing has been heard since the local management told the player to report here.
 Ray Heating, the local boy who is one of the mainstays of the Lawrence. New England league club, pitching staff, will twirl in the opening game of the season tomorrow. Heating has been. going fine since he reported and Manager Pieper of Lawrence regards him as a coming star.
 Outfielder Norris says Bermuda is an ideal place to train. The Jersey City players found it difficult to be- come accustomed to the negro police men. One night when the players were sitting on the lawn a burly dinge with slight package aboard lurched along and began to swear in front of some ladies. Pitcher Mains, one of the Jersey City squad, told the man to stop it and the negro replied with a collection of oaths. Thereupon Mains knocked the smoke into dream- land with a left swing. It was af- terward learned that the negro was