The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16
FLASHES FROM
 MANY DIFFERENT LEAGUES

Paul Strand, sold by the Braves to the Toledo club, is promising young. twirler The tall southpa.w is only a. few months past his majority, and is a product of the Pacific Coast, having started his career with Spokane when he was a kid of seventeen. Strand is a six-footers and weighs about 180 pounds. Some of the National League experts have predicted that he has the makings of another Rube Waddel1.s Under the guidance of Roger Bresna-s han the young fellow will have an Aex-. cellent opportunity to develop his na-s turall resources.
 Three of the greatest managers in the major leagues are graduates of the old pennant-winning Baltimore Ofi- oles, and pupils and disciples of Ned. Hanlon. When Hanlon's Baltimore Birds won the National Lea que penA nants in 1894, 1895 and 1896, John J. McGraw covered third base, Hughie Jennings was /shortstop and Wilbert Robinson was the mainStay behind the bat. It was by adopting the methods taught them by Ned Han1on that Me- Graw and Jennings built up flag-grab- ping machines. Uncle Wilbert, pi- lot of~the Dodgers, has yet to join the immortal company, but last year his Dodgers made a better showing than they ever have since Ned HanIon him.
 
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 When the Federal League went on the rocks we read that jitney baseball was a thing of the past, but it seems that a number of major league clubs have been playing it since the season opened. However, the regular price has been charged at the gates.
 Ball players who pull a1ibis don't get any sympathy from Sherwood Ma gee. He has had more bad breaks and tough luck in his Mime than almost any other ball player in captivity, but he never tries to whitewash himself. Sherwood says that the ahbi boy re- minds him of an incident of his school doys. The school had a crack debat- ing club, with a long record of victor ies over rival orators, but one day the word Spouters went down to defeat. Sherwood says he met one of the de- baters next, day and asked him why the team fell down. We'll said the young Demosthenes. I've had to go out of our class to get beat. The other team outweighed us twenty pounds to the man.
 Harry Lord has still got the mana gerial bee buzzing in his bonnet The old third baseman of the White Sox is the pilot df the Lowell. club in the Eastern League, and the fans are ex- pecting a lot of him on the strength of his Buffalo record. Lord took charge of the Buffeds last June, suc- ceeding Sch1affy, ,1and from that time were one of the hardest Lunches to lick in the independent circuit
 Little scene at Hot Springs during the training season. Jack Barry is in troduced to Hans Wagner Barry; hi consider you the greatest ball player the game has ever developed" (Barry is a college man, you know, and he spills that sort of talk regularly Hon us: Same to you" (Honus never saw [ the inside of college, but he is right there with the repartee stuff Harry Mccormack, who used to be a pinch hitter with the Giants, and a famous walloper of the pellet, is out of professional baseball, but he is playing this season with a. bunch of New Y York semi-pros. In the same out fit are Andy Coak1ey, Billy Gilbert. Jerry Hurley and several others whose names have a familiar sound to the oIdtime fans
 It is estimated that there are about a hundred Cubans now playing base ball for livelihood in the United States and Canada. Emilio PaImero the young Cuban Southpaw of the Giants and Armando Marsans. the outfieIder of the, Browns, are perhaps the most famous, but there are several others in the big leagues and in such fast organizations as the American As sociation, Southern, Northwestern Virginia and New York State Leagues The smaller circuits have quite a few more, and there are dozens of Cubans in the fast Independent and semi-pro- fessionai clubs of America. Some of the best of the Cuban players are ne groes, and thus barred from profes- sionaI baseball.
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