The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-08

Bill McKechnfe, the ex-Fed to whom McGraw sent IS. o. S.'' for help to plug the hole at third, has had a variegated diamond career. Like so many other professional ball 'playens, he is a Pennsylvanian by birth, and he is about thirty years old He got his first league experi- ence a, decade ago with Washington, Pa, and made his first appearance in the big show toward the sunset end of the 1907 season, in the garb of the Buccaneers Bill played only two complete pastimes with the Pirates, and in 1908 was with Canton, O.. He covered short foR Wheeling in 1910, and a couple of years later got an- other chance with the Pirates, but finished the season with St. Paul. He was drafted by the Boston Braves but jumped to the Indianapolis club of the Federal League, anad went to Newark last year. He succeeded the veteran Bill Phillips as manager at Newark, and kept the Peps in the pennant chase the greater part of the. season. McKnechnie is a classy man at third, but his batting has always. been a bit weak.
 Duckyv Holmes. this year the pilot. of the Lincoln club, has shad a lot of Fexperience in managing Western League clubs. Ducky's most heart breaking experience was in 1909, when he was the war chief of the Sioux City scaIp-1ifters. On the last day of the season Sioux City and Des Moines were running neck-and-neck. and each had two games to play. The Sioux had a slight advantage, and had to lose both their games while Des Moines was winning one if they were. to be beat. Ducky'S team was play ing, at Omaha, and the Sioux lost the first contest. In the ninth chapter of. the second pastir1e Sioux City had a. lead of three runs. Ducky waited un-, til one Omaha swatter had passed out, and then hoped into his car and set out for home, confident that the pen nant was his'n n. Then the whole Sioux bunch took a balloon ascension. and sgon the bases were crammed with two out. At that juncture an Omaha. player knocked a home run, four men scored, Omaha won and the Sioux lost the pennant Holmes was then speeding away, stopping nows and then to sprRad the joyous tidings of victory and there is a tradition that it re- quired several men to hold him when the news was broken
 MArshal1town, Iowa. celebrated in baseball history as the birthplace of f"Cap'' Anson, is also the native baili- wick of James e. Dunn, the new president and principal owners of the Cleveland Indians Dunn has shown n1InS0l1 game, anO1I1OuS maSnaCo by engineering the Speaker deal, and he has already won the plaudits of the fans of the Ohio metropolis Dur ing his residence in Marshalltown MT. Dunn was an ardent fan and booster of the local club. He has made his money as a contractor, starting in that
 business while still in his teens,
 when he successfully put through a sewer contract. While of late years a, resident of Chicago, Mir. Dunn lived in Cleveland some years ago. and helped to build the Belt line railway
 He looks to be valuable acquisition to the game, for he is a devoted lover
 of the sport and is not in the game for revenue only.
 Louis Drucke, who was on the pitching staff of the Giants some years ago, is now a broker in Waco
 Tex. and is said to have amassed a neat little pile as a business man. Although retired from the game.
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