New Britain herald., 1915-04-10
IN BIG SHOW WITH
 EX-CONN. LEACUERS
What a Flaming Bee ths Boys
 Could Hold.

Ray Heating, Carroll Brown, Lefty High and Roger Peckinpaugh, all on the Yankees now, must have some great times telling each other what they know about Connecticut base ball. Schmidt, of the champion Braves, was a pitcher with Holyoke a few years ago, and was just about good enough for the league, which would never have made him a big leaguer in the box. He switched to first base and made a name in the international before going up.
 As for Cleveland, half the club this season will be Eastern league grad uates. Birmingham has Lee Fohl, Guy Morton, Pete Shields and Elmer Smith of last years cub, Bill Rodg- CTS, here few years ago, and Ham mond, who second based for Spring field last year.
 The men with the Yankees are all sure of their places, in fact all are veterans of a couple of seasons in the big show. Butch Schmidt hasn't anything more to do than live up to his last years reputation.
 The Clevelanders are different. Morton and Rodgers are likely to stick as regulars. The veteran Lie- bold has had comeback which will keep Smith out of a job and Ham, mond and Shields are probable choices for understudy positions. Lee
 Fohl will be of more use as trainer of young pitchers than as a catcher, although Lee is wise old bird, and in the minors, at least, could ever lastingly hit that ball.
 HieI, and Pinp Just Humans The New York Times today says:
 "The new faces on the Yankee team are Pipp and High. In fact, they have lot of peculiar names on the Rup- pert-Huston, Inc. club this season. You can't say High, Pieh, Pipp and Peck quickly without tangling your conversation. High plays left field and did fine job yesterday. Pipp played first base and his work was also ar tistic, especially in the first inning, when he poked out a three-bagger,
 with two on the bases. In the old days when the Yankees had two men on the bases, the popular plan of pro-
 cedure was to pop to the pitcher. So, you see, the team has changed. High and Pipp seem to fit in we'll 1 with the Yankees. High is low. Pipp
 is tall and skinny. There is nothing
 unusual in the conduct or habits of the new men. They eat three meals per day and speak good English. Pipp
 says that Pipp is his right name and
 that he did not cut it down to fit into | the box scores"
 Will Award Franchises Soon. That the delay in awarding the | franchises necessary to complete the | Eastern association circuit for the | coming season will be short, and that l the proposed packers of clubs in the various cities will be satisfied to go ahead on the decision of the national commission when it Is filed, within l few days, was the statement of Pres l ident O'Rourke last night. O'Rourke is supremely confident that the league | will open its gates, while the critics and fans cannot see where the clubs will go ahead as conditions now per- sent themselves.
 l O'Rourke has spent considerable time during the past few weeks try ing to interest certain parties into taking over franchises in various cities. Although the league head con- tends that the outlook Is rosy and that he will have little or no trouble | getting the league reorganized, those i familiar with recent happenings are prone to believe that O'Rourke and | the remnants of the association will soon die a painful death. O'Rourke
 still has that fighting instinct and will ! not admit defeat until all hope has
 vanished. At the next meeting, to be
 held in New Haven, it is expected that
 the announcement of the leagues de-
 mise will be made public.
 , Binghamton Wants Pope.
 According to despatches from the 1 New York State league, Manager Cal | houn, of the Binghamton club plans to wage fight for the services of
 Joe Pope, who was recently sold to the Toronto club of the International | league. Calhoun insists that Pope
 will be with Binghamton this season.
 as he asserts Manager Clymer | promised to give Pope to Binghamton l in part payment for Catcher Mike l Konnick. Now Clymer is trying to
 back out of the deal but Calhoun says 1 the papers will show that Pope be- : longs to the Bineha mton club