The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-24
DIAMOND FLASHES

Too bad that a baseball club didn't ! accompany that bunch of boxers to l Buenos Ayres. There are plenty of diamond pastimers who could be l spared.
 Umpires always get the worst of it. Pop bottles thrown at their beans are nearly always empty.
 Napoleon Lajoie is the champion catch-as-catch-can tobacco chawer of the big leagues. The Frenchman has nought but scorn for the youngsters who chew gum.
 Jack Warhop, the veteran twirler who was given his unconditional re- lease by the Yankees last year, has failed to make good with Salt Lake City. Leopold Hoernscheneyer is a mem Der of the New York Big Six'' chap ter of the Typographical Union. Leo is known on the diamond as Lee Magee. He worked on the galleys in Cincinnati before he became a base ball slave.
 Certain baseball star announces in | the public prints that he will soon be hitting his stride.'' High time. He hasn't been hitting anything else. Cleveland papers have quit printing the names of those present at ball games. Takes up too much space now that the Indians have acquired the habit of winning occasionally. Rube Benton deposes that he would rather face almost any other batter than George Cutshaw when there are men on bases and he is in a tight place. The Dodger second baseman has a predilection for cleaning up in 1 such critical situations
 ''Red' Dooin has had it in for Hank O'Day ever since a certain game back in 1914. Charlie tried to kick himself out of the pastime, but Hank was wise, and refused to fall for it. A little later Dooin broke his leg. l A new use has been discovered for capsicum vaseline. It is rubbed on the pellet when the opposing club has spitba1ler in the box. Those who have tasted it say that it isn't very pleasant. | 'Albertus Perfecto' Demaree, the pitcher cartoonist of the Phillies and formerly of the Giants, is Said to have | gained several inches in chest meas ure and to have had to buy new and i larger hat. Ever since he broke the winning streak of his former play ! air.
 It is now Prof. Arthur F. Holman, instead of Circus So1ly' or 'Artie," |" as he was known wheTN with the Cubs and later with the Feds. He is chief ! of faculty of baseball school in Chicago.
 If the Giants and the Robins should have a close race for the pennant, l there would be even more excitement in Greater New York than there was in the Twin Cities last year when Minneapolis and St. Paul were scrap ping for the American Association l gonfa1on.
 It is now generally conceded by the Mound City fans that a St. Louis club will not figure in the next world S ' series, althoughsa a few ardent ones continue to believe that Fielder Jones and his bunch will climb considerably before the season wanes
 Baseball is now the sport of kings. The copper kings of Arizona have established a league with many good players on the roll.
 Con Struthers, long a player in the l Western League and latterly a Three-I League arbiter, has quit the diamond to engage in the hotel business in the Windy City.
 Cleveland is said to be Gin the market for Walter Johnson. So are fourteen other big league clubs.
 Ohio scribe, in boasting of the num- Der of big league stars who were born in the Buckeye State, remarks that Ty Cobb was mot born in Ohio, but has always regretted t.' Georgia papers would like to have a picture of Ty regretting that he was not born in Ohio.
 Al BridwelI, who had a brief ex- perience with the St. Louis Feds last years, signed last month with the At Ilanta club. The veteran shortstop started his professional career in the Georgia metropolis in 1903, and, after a year with Columbus, played in the National League with Cincinnati, Bos- ton and New York. Bridweu is now | thirty-f1ve years old.
 This promises to be a big year for l the Meyers, Meyer, Myers and Myer 1 clan. Besides the veterans and Connie | Mack's young stars, there are num- Der of the clan cavorting in the min ors and giving promise of future great ness.
 | The untime1y demise of the Pennsy1- l vania. League. which keeled over and