The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-21
IN MAJOR LEAGUES


 league race now.
 a The Tri-State league has 24 men batting for 300 or better.
 "Kid" Eaberheld leads the Southern league in batting. with a mark of .S44.
 Each major league club may in- crease it's roster of players from to- day on.
 Jim Vaughn. once with New York and Washington, is now on the Cubs payroll.
 President Navin of the Detroit club says Detroit fans would never forgive him if he sold '"Ty'' Cobb.
 Tincup, the new Indian pitcher of the PhiIlies will get the job as water boy if he ffzzles on the slab.
 Tn nine days past, Worcester. Lowell, Lawrence and Portland have held the lead in the New England league
 Jack Barry may be out for the rest of the season with his sore arm. Jack intends to see "Bonesetter" Reese. shortly.
 Ty Cobb is playing great ball these days, but he is so unpopular that the scrTbes are not paving much attention to him.
 Mafsel of the New Yorks and Chap pell of the White Sox, two of the lat est high-priced recruits. lead off in their teams batting order.
 George Burns has been a big help to the Giants this season, in fact he has strengthened them in the defense. and offense. He is playing wonderful ball.
 Hughie Jennings of Detroit seems to have secured the cream of left handlers from the Southern league when he got Coveleskie, Williams and Cavet.
 Pretty soon it will not be a, rare thing for a pitcher to twirl at least two no-hit, no-run games a season They have come thick and fast this season.
 and such players as Larry Mclean, Christy Mathewson, Jeff Tesreau. Rube Schauer around, the Gotham nine would look lige real giants
 c. Jones of Toledo. with .s4o, leads the American association in batting. Rehg is quoted at .3Oe; Rossman at kie, .265; and Paddy O'Connor, .245.
 Manager Johnny McGraw is bound to brace the Giants. He realizes that Ed Konetchy is not satisfied with St Louis and that Merl<le is not playing up to form, so he goes after the big Windy City first sacker.
 It was hit or miss with Jim Thorpe in the Giants exhibition game at Long | Branch Sunday. The Olympic star struck out three times and made two | home runs in five times up. He cer- tainly has 8. wallop, if it lands.
 Sir Nique DonIin was very much in evidence in the Jersey City Rochester game Three runs for an old veteran with legs all stiffened up isn't so bad | more like him and the Grays are sure to get into the cellar.
 If the Giants trade Charley Herzog, Lew Wiltse and a couple of more members of the team to the Cardi- E nals for Ed Konetchy, the under standing will be that the former play CTS win be guaranteed their share of the worlds series money. Pretty soft. A side angle of the Cobb offer by Griffith is the view Walter Johnson may take of it. So far the pitcher smiles, but says nothing. While being on the subject, Grim said that Johnson was worth twice as much as Cobb, or $20O,000. Johnson gets s7. GOO, Cobb S12,OOO, this season. At Griffs own rating, Johnson is entitled to S25,OOO a year. Suppose Johnson decided to ask for this amount in stead of the modest $10.000 which he Is expected to demand, will Griff be able to refuse it? Can he call it too high after all his josh about Ty Cobb's vaIue? If Johnson does succeed in getting $12,OOO or $15,0O0 next year, he may thank Griff for having such an exalted view of a players value.