The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-27
MOGRIDGE PROVES
 BIG WINNER FOR
 TANKS THIS YEAR

New York. June 27-Big George Mogridge has developed into one of the greatest southpaw pitchers of the day. Bill Donovan is indebted to Mo- gridge for the third place standing of the Yankees. Inch by inch the local team is creeping up on the Red Sox for possession of the second rung, and this is due in a large measure to the return to form of most of the pitchers. Caldwell, Slim Love, Urban Shocker and Bob Shawkey, in addition to George Mogridge. have been twirling winning ball.
 There is one team in the American League ensemble Mogridge can spot runs and beat. Jack Barry, manager of the worlds champion Red Sox, will substantiate this statement. Mo- gridge got off to his winning ways at the expense of the Hub outfit early in the campaign. He humbled them two games running on April IA and 24. The first time his companions rolled up score of seven runs, while the Sox had all they could do to get three. n
 Ten days later George earned a niche in the no-hit Hall of Fame, de- feating the champs to 1. They scored the lone tally in their half of the seventh, viz: a base on balls, a mun of a thrown bail by Peck, an infield out, an intentional pass and a sacrifice fly.
 Donovan rested his minion until May 2, when the pitched him against the Athletics. George downed them to the tune of to 4. It was in this game that Frank GilhooIey met up l xxyif1 ov, fv,i ShA icJ, I., e kept him out ever since.
 Mogridge and Nick Cullop took turns at trying to dethrone the White Sox out Chicago way May IF, but the Tanks ran foul of the Ed Cicotte jinz and George had to suffer his first de- feat
 | Then came the celebrated tilt with the Tigers in Detroit on May IS. The | teams were dead1ocked up to the I ninth. Moeridge had been pitching
 his arm off. It was 3 to 8. Wher Frank Baker came up in the New ! York'ss half of the last frame he found the bases clloked. He smote the first pitched ball to deep left fol | two bases, and three Tanks dashed
 home. Frank scored the fourth tally I on another safe blow. The Tigers
 earned seven hits and one run of IMogridge's delivery.
 On May 29 Mogridge essayed to re- peat over the Mackmen, but theJ turned the tables on him by pulling
 a rally in the eighth for enough run. to clinch victory
 The Tigers batted him out of the
 box on June on the home grounds
 Love replacing him. The Tanks tool
 the bit in their teeth and tanned Cobt
 & Co. in their half of the ninth.
 was Baker again who started tn,
 cannonading. Three runs broke tn,
 tie and the game for the locals. I Mogridge was taken out in tn,
 eighth inning of the first game of series with the hite Sox here on Jun ] 12 to make way fSr a pinch hitter
 This was the game Baker tied up il
 the ninth with home run. Tn
 Tanks went out in the twelfth ol
 Pecx's double and a single by~Hen
 dryx, aided by an error made b, Catcher Scha1k. Allen Russell tool
 the mound when the contest was
 tie and got credit for 1t.
 '. Donovan's scouts pulled Mogridg
 out of the minors before the sprin,
 training season of 1916. He wa
 playing with Des Moines. His pitch
 ing with the talk of fans in that sec ton of the country. Rill lost no tim