The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05
DIAMOND FLASHES

UlhMUND fLhOnEO
 European army surgeons are said to put the hopelessly wounded out or their misery, but Philadelphia doctors are not so kind to the Athletics.
 Rochester papers continue to refer to the local International club as the Hustlers, which would be about as apropos applied to a covey of sna1ls.
 Doc" Reese, the Youngstown bone- setter, is a bear when it comes to treating arms and legs and such, but what is needed in baseball circles is a bonesetter who specializes on the head.
 Some experts attribute the success of Fohl, Bill Donovan and Wilbert Robinson to the fact that they have depended largely on young twirlers Yes, but Connie Mack has also used a few juveniles.
 Rube Oldring says this is positively his last season in baseball, and hence forth he proposes to stick to his farm. Sarah Bernhardt made her first fare welH' tour of America thirty years ago.
 President Ban Johnson proposes that a batter be given two bases when ever he is hit in the head by a pitched ball. Can't see it. A player ought to get the extra base for being hit where he most fragile, which is us- ually the arm.
 Reports from over sballdom indicate that the majority of the minor leagues are having a difficult time of it to make both ends meet. Most of the big minors, with the exception of the International, are getting along fair ly well, but the circuits of class B and under have few clubs that are really profitable to their owners. It is a wonder that Sisler Is able to play ball at all, if the Hermann Dreyfuss controversy about ''the Sis Ter case" makes him as tired as 1t does the fans.
 Cincinnati fans have been greatly disappointed in the 1916 showing of Jean Dale, the tall righthander. Jean was one of the pitching mainstays of the Reds last year, but this season he has accomplished nothing Dale started with Dallas, and was given trials by the Red Sox, the Indians and the Cardinals, spending two sea- sons with Montreal before going to Cincinnati.
 Horace Milan has brother nam ed Clyde" remarks Bugs Baer in the New York Evening World Also, Paul Cobb has brother named Tyrus. Now that Lee Magee has recovered
 his batting eye. has appeared in the New York papers. 1,237 times since the middle of April.
 Practically every player on the ros-
 ter of the Giants has been mentioned in connection with rumored trades in the last few weeks, but nobody has suggested the swapping of McGraw. The Cova1es1xie tribe seems to be
 out to equal the baseball record of
 the immortal De1ehanty. Harry
 Covaleskie of Detroit and Stanley Coy
 aleskie of the Indians have already "oA tO PAtCuluS SIdTQOH. Inelr younger brothers, Frank, also a twirl-
 CT and John. who covers third. are
 said to look like corners The Gov eleskies hailed from the coal mines | of Shamokin, Pa. Cincinnati fans may look like lambs
 to Hal Chase, but the day will come when they will cast off their sheeps' | clothing. And the bite of a Cincinna- | ti fan is the most virulent of any of
 the speciesi
 | ''He reached up and clutched the ball with his bare hand" What a
 thrilling performance that seems now !! How brave and daring! And yet in l the early days of the game all the ! players, even to the catchers, handled | the pellets with their meat hands. and when gloves were first introduced by the young fellows the veterans con- sidered them effeniniate sissies. To make a fan who is in his for 1 ties realize that he is getting along in years, gray hairs are not to be com | pared with the melancholy sight of | ''Wahoo Sam" Crawford sitting on
 the bench. waiting to be called upon 10 pinch hit.
 Eddie Plank, who is now forty. fig
 ures on quitting the big league pitch ing game in 1921. The Gettysburg veteran figures that he has five years
 more of good hurling left in his svs-
 tenn. If Eddie should get away with It, ne would have surpassed the rec ora or old Cy Young, who doffed the spangles when he was forty-four. John B. Foster, the secretary of.the New York National club, was in his boyhood a star pitcher with amateur
 ana semi-professiona1 clubs in Ohio.
 ne quit the game to become sport ing scribe.
 Fred Beebe, who has pulled come- back with Cleveland, was considered a goner six years ago when he quit