The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-22

arrangements last evening to have the Pittsburgh National league club stop off at Bridgeport on Sunday on their way through to start a series in Bee- ton on Monday. This means that Hans Wagner and the rest of his bold bucan- eer band will mix up with the Cross men at Newfleld Park. Sunday after noon, the contest to start at o'clock. The fact that twenty-six rooms are held in reserve at the Stratfeld for the | Pittsburgh players is evidence enough that every member of the Pirate band will be on hand and that the regulars will be worked in the contest. The Pirates have just completed winning l 3. series with the Giants and found the runner-up Quakers easy picking yes terday.
 The Pirates are the best drawing | card in the National league and all l ways put up a snappy article of base 1 l ball. Recently they began a squirt In l the league race which brought them up from sixth place to third and which l caused Manager McGraW Of the Giants | to get busy and spend regular money to secure Pitcher F'romme and Catcher Larry Mclean from the Cincinnati club. If the club showed the same stuff at the beginning of the season as they do at the present time, the Giants would not be making arrangements for the worlds series
 | Pitcher smith of Pittshe1d tried the Iron Man stunt yesterday against Hartford and came near getting away
 with 1t. After winning the first game
 of the double bill, 7-1, he went in and held the league leaders to a a-2 nine
 inning tie. All clubs look alike to the Elect-ios these days
 Tom Connery, former Hartford man
 ager, now scouting for the St. Louis | Nationals, has been lowering around these parts for the past two weeks. He says that his club will draft about | IA men this season and that some or them will be from the Eastern Assoei- 1 ation.
 Now that Hopper has been pur@ l chased from New Haven by the St Louis Nationals his record Of two mo- | hit games and one one-hit contest will l be spread all over the baseball world
 Mention Is not made. however. of the
 many hit games he has pitched since. He's there just the same and too fast 4 for this circuit. He has won IS and lost games
 Jimmy Garry, manager and center 1 fielder of the 1feriden club, says this
 will be his last year playing baseball I He has been in the game 30 years,
 which he considers is long enough for
 any man. He probably will take up
 umpiring.
 Hartford fans would feel better 1T there was no such club as Pittsheld in
 the league. Tn the four games just i played, the nearest the Senators came
 to a win was the 2-2 tie yesterday. ssRohbie" Stow, who has only recent Iy returned to the Bridgeport lineup, worked very we'll at short with the ex- ception Of one instance when he made
 a poor throw to hrst.-Springdeld Re-
 publican.
 The Crossmen continue their stay in Springfield today by ripping off a dou-
 ble header.
 Tomorrow the Crossmen work back to Newfeld park where the Senators will be tackled in a double affair. The first contest is due to start at 2;16 D. m.
 The Hartford players are in wrong , in Pittsheld In the double bill in that town, Wednesday 1t is stated that the Senators laid low in the second game which the Electrics won 14-0. The Sen- ators were playing so poorly and pull ing off such stunts that the umpire called the contest. Under the circun-
 stances he had right to forfeit the
 game to Pittsfeld.
 Word has drifted out from the sum
 mer camp of Capt. Ketchan of Yale te } the effect that football practice will start in New Haven on Sept. l.
 The Boston Braves look with favor upon the Rochester players being tu~ ktored by Manager John Ganzel- The
 Braves a few days ago purchased ' Steps Finn and yesterday paid out regular money for Pitcher Jack Quinn
 and First Basernan Schmidt, Finn got 3 into the game with the Braves yes- ! terday. gathering three hits. one : triple.
 Next Sunday the Chinese players on the University of Hawaii baseball team
 will be presented with -four foot cup in New York It will be their last ' game before departing for the Orient. The chinks have won 9s out of 1os s They split even with the Remington
 Yosts here.
 s Joe Pope of the Wings broke into the : : hall of fame yesterday by slammine @ out two homers against Waterbury. o The score was a tie, 7-7 Pope drove
 in three runners and scored himself
 In another inning he had chance to
 drive in three more. but breezed
 Catcher F1aherty of the Ponies is out \ of the game with a split thumb which
 he received in the contest with the
 Crossmen yesterday. Mutt waters, the h gink who beat the Mechanics out of 3 d pennant in 1911. has been secured to g take his place.
 d Former Eastern Association players 1t in the New England league are doing
 quite we'll Lusyster, formerly with Ia Hartford. Is biflng for 1895 with Law renee. ''Rufe" Rufiange. the former l. New Britain backstop, with Brockton n is batting PTS, and Lavigne, once with e Bridgeport and New Haven, IS batting 1t 261 Yount let out by New Haven le has won 16 of 22 games, while Cunning d ham, a former Mechanic. has broken
 even with II games each way.