The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-15

Leland of Tufts. an outfielder,i led the sluggers of eastern college hines this year with a batting average or .436 in twenty games. Stafford of the Massachusetts institution also batted over the 400 mark. Tufts had seven men who swatted over 300, and ffn- ished the season with team batting average O. Si5. O;igE. tc be, some masuf league material there. Since Jersey City lost it's "Sweeters" it has attained the. dubious distinction of being the largest city in America without representation in organized baseball. S NsI
 Seattle is the largest city in the United States which has to be con- tent with Class B ball. The North western metropolis has about five times as many people as either Lin- coin. Wichita. Topeka, Sioux City. | Chattanooga, Mobile or Little Rock' all of which are in Class A leagues. Baltimore, Buffalo. Los Angeles, san Francisco, Milwaukee, Newark. New 1 Orleans, Kansas City and M1nneapons 1 minor league cities, are each as large | w by city of the majors in population.
 This looks like a great year for the G. o. P. Meaning Honus Wagner, the Great Old Pastimer.
 | Ohio has had only one major league pennant in the history of the game, which was in 1882. when Gin cinnati captured the first flag of the l old American Association. Toledo and Columbus, as well as Cinncy and Cleveland, were major league towns in the old A. A. days.
 | Fred Merkle has had his nose broken five times since he broke, in- to the American ,pastime, and not long ago he was almost knocked out when a hot pill smashed his back. Fred is said to be considering the wearing
 of nose guard on lthe field.
 Nick Cullop, who won twenty-two and lost eleven games for the Kansas City Feds last year, promises to dc
 as we'll with the Tanks this season Ruppert and Huston paid $8,000 for the Kawfed southpaw. and they fig
 ure that they have already got the worth of their money. Some of the ex-Feds have been disappointing, but Nicholas was certainly a good buy
 Dave Robertson is being acclaim ed by the New York sport scribes as a speedier man than Ty Cobb. Like | the Georgia Peach, Robertson is a southerner, a native of the Old Do-
 minion. The Giants got him; from
 Mobile, where he batted 1885 in 1913. | Bert Niehoff, the second baseman
 of the Phillies, is, developing into one
 of the stars at that position. Niehoff .I had a hard time breaking into the main tent A native of Colorado, he
 started with Pueblo in 1907 and af- ter a couple of seasons with Des
 Moines was given chance with the
 White Sox, but failed to make good. ! Another season in the Iowa metro i polls earned him try-out with the Pirates, but again he fell down. He then spent three season with Indi- anpolis, Omaha and Louisville and was drafted by the Reds, covering third for Cincinnati in 1914, and was turned over to the Phillies last year. \
 President Corprew of the Virginia league has hung up a purse of ten bones to be awarded {, to the umpire who officiates in the briefest nine- inning pastime.
 | Tom Hughes, who broke into the hall of baseball notoriety by twirling a no-hit, no-run game, halls from Salida, Col. Long Tom" won his baseball spurs with the Rochester Hustlers.
 The ethical aspects of the owner ship of ball fouled into the stands have been much discussed of late. As
 Il new ball is more difficult for the pitcher to handle, and makes a better l target for the batters, some fans hold