The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-17
BASEBALL BITS

Cobb's chase after Iris Speaker 10 taking up. as much attention as tho battle for the pennAnt. Records of Iris and Ty, also that of Joe Jack son. are printed daily in the West. to let the fans know how the race is going.
 Followers of the Browns and Car. dinals in St. Louis seem to be di- vided as to which team picked up the greater star when they landed sisler and Hornsby respectiv6ly. The ar- gument on one hand is that sisler can play any position, including pitcher. and can bat 300. Hornsbys admir- CTS point to his abiIity to play any infield position and hit harder than Sisler. though he came into the ma jorse from . Glass D league. Both are stars.
 Dave Davenport of the Browns eontinues to show the fine form which he displayed during the recent visit of the Yankees at St. Louis. That double header victory put big Dave on the road to . series, of victories.
 Any time Fielder Jones gets real pitching his team will likely win. In Shotton, Marsans. Sisler, Pratt and Johnson he has about the greatest amount of speed that any one team can muster. Once on the bases. any one of these players will give an op. posing team plenty of trouble.
 Dave Bancroft. the star shortstop Of the Phiilies, is living up to all the things expected of him this season Bancroft last season was touted as sure to be one of the best in tho game and his work this year is an improvement over that of last sea- son. which was his first in baseball.
 Gavvy Cravath of the Phillies has not been hitting in the pinches this season as he did last year. He still holds the cleanup place in the bat ting order. but his stick work is far below his former standard.
 It was sorry day for the Giants when Al Demaree was traded to the Phillies. Dsnaree has won at least . dozen games from McGraw.s men. with one defeat, since his departure.
 
 called the Hitless wonders Pitching fielding and pugnacity have kept them high in the race
 Manager Rowland of the White Sox must make good. this year or re- sign Comiskey has another well known team leader in view. it is said 
 Iris Speaker drew a total of eSs.- 900 in salary from the Red So.s in 1914 and 1915. and will have receiv- ed S15,000 from the Cleveland club when this season winds up. He has helped President Ddnn to put away big bank roll
 Connie Mack told the critics that his ball club might bs expected to show some real form by August. Con nis's team certainly did not "arrive" in advance, but they have already done better in August than in the entire month of July.
 Philadelphia fans are now satis-. fled that Pat Moran got all the bet ter of the deal which sent Sherwood Magee to Boston and brought George Whitted to the Phillies. whitted is playing great ball in the field. at bat and on the hesss.
 Likewise Cleveland fans who had tired somewhat of Joe dickson during the Generals late days with the Maps are satisfied that they got the better of tha trade which brought Bopsy Roth and Klepfer to the team Roth has been one of the heaviest hftters tn the league this season and has done much to keep the Indians in the race. i,
 Red Smith is the only regular of the Boston Braves who is battings above the .360 mark and Red is listed < at .260. He has made his hits count. his collection including thirteen dou-1 bles, seven triples and a home run 9
 The motto of the Austrians seems to be. 'he that nghs and surronders will live to 4ght au thn next v1x.",