The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-23
DAN TIERNEY OF BRIDGEPORT
 CLUB JOINS NEWARK TEAM
Local Management Believes It Has Right To Players SerVi- ces-Remarkable Showing of PhilIies Drows Big Crowds.
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Dan Taerney. who played center field for Bridgeport last season, has signed with the Newark International league club Tierney some time ago wrote to 1 the local 1nanagenaent saying he was willing to accept the terms offered
 Bridgeport can probably hold him if 1 he is wanted here this season Iderney
 Is a fast man on the bases but he will tnot hit well enough for the Interna-
 tional league.
 Organized baseball is not putting the Iscrews on men who jumped to the
 Federals. Pitcher chappelIe, who. quit the Chattanoogas club of the Southern league in 1914 to join the Brooklyn 1 Federals. has been released by the out
 laws. He has been signed by the New ark Tnternationals and nobody made any objection. Chappelle did not jump 8 contract. He was only reserved by l IChattanooga so that lets him out
 | If Sunday is a warm day 1t is prob l able that a large number Of fans will game at NewdieId park when the Mon
 treal Tnternattonals will play Bridge port,
 s Rain fell today and promised to slow 9iup the track for the first days events 3of the University of Pennsylvanda's g
 carnival Of relay races and field sports II at Franklin Field Philadelphia late
 this afternoon, With a fast track it :. was expected that exceptionally fest ; time would be made in the spring med ; Hey relay race for the American cham , pionship Harvard, Yale, L.ehigh, Chi cago,s Pennsylvania, Michigan and ; Pennsylvania. State were the entries in ; this event }, The Harvard baseball team was E ibeaten in a ten inning game by Cath 2 olic.~ university at Washington ysstsr- l ldayt by 2 to 1. Johnson pitched for the II Catholic nine and Garritt for Har- l Ward.
 Since he has become champion Jess a l Willard has begun to pay off some od r his debts He gave Charley Cutler g : check for $1 200 in Chicago yesterday a ICufler was WIl1ards manager at one e time and recently obtained a Judgment s lagainst inc champion in a Milwaukee 7, lcourt.
 : In game between Princeton and 0 Washington & Jefferson yesterda5 s lthree players and the umpire were F IslfghtEy injured but there is no reason [. to believe any of the players took z
 fswing at the umpire. Princeton yvoI
 by 10 5.
 It's too bad about the Phillies The!
 don't care how they shock the fans b IYesterday they tore off their seventl ls straight victory by lambasting tn
 Braves g to 4 in the opening game 8 t- Philadelphia Because of their re F unarkabIe showing the largest crow & that eyer saw a Quaker city openini h 1was present.
 l. Howie Baker Of this city acted as It pinch hitter for the Chicago White So 'a yesterday but he didn't get a hi n iagainst St. Louis.
 ,d | m Benny Kaun is becoming an unpfr
 batter. He was banished in Newar l. yesterday after kicking on strikes. Il le Pete Shields, the former waterbur se first sacker, is not batting much The
 lnad to put a pinch hitter in for mir arI against Detroit yesterday. "
 Clyde Waters, the veteran New Ha d lven catcher, will play with the Colo ae nfa1s. sernn-pro team of the E1lr at City. Waters tried to catch on wit l.t New York State league teams bu asl without success.
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