The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-04
kricheII Laughing At
Rest Of Eastern Clubs
Anything Outside of Bronx
Is Hickville and Local
Pilot Thinks Race Is Cut
and Dried for Him.

EAuA MITCHELL, tue IoCd1 p4IoIS IDS
never been able to quite get over the
fact that he comes from a big town
and that everybody outside of New
York is more or less of a hick. Just
now the manager of the local club is
having the time of his life. He
thinks there is no one in the world
quite SO clever as Paul Krichell and
as proof Of the pudding has been
clever enough to get away to a fly
ing start in the Eastern League race
this season. Should Krichell win the
pennant this season, he will have full
opportunity to tell his Bronx friends
next winter all about it but in the
, meantime Paul has a whole lot Of
work laid out far ahead of him.
To Krichell the Eastern League is
just one great big pie. Look at the
record of his club and you'll find rea-
son for it. In their first five games
the Americans BANKED opponents
twice, limited opponents to two runs
in two other games and won a 13 to
! a slaughter for the fifth. Last week,
from Sunday to Sunday, KrichelPs
men added six more victories to their
string, getting one shutout, it is true,
, but meeting with a lot more compe-
! tition than they had experienced in
the previous period of play.
Any time a club comes from be-
hind and pulls out games the way
the Bridgeport club has been doing
it must be given credit. Providence
! Sunday succeeded in scoring more
runs than any other Eastern League
club has made against the Americans
! so far this season and couldn't win.
The Grays were victims of an eighth
and ninth-inning rally. On Saturday
/ the Ponies were in a position to break
Bridgeport's winning streak, but
again Bridgeport came through with
the punch in the pinch.
And so it has been going in the
other games. New London was VIC
tim of 10th inning rally and so was
New Haven. Where Bridgeport was
getting the jump on her rivals in the
early games of the season, it is now
putting up the big finishes and getting
its wins that way. In the long run it
doesn't matter much, which way the
games come as long as they come
right.
along forever. without keen competi-
ton and the showing of the New Ha-
Ven club last week is proof of the
assertion. Given good pitching, the
Murlins will be just as formidable
club as they were last season and
since that commodity is being pro-
Vided in the recent games New Ha-
VEINS showing of five victories and
one tie last week shows how last
years champions shape up.
New Haven has now played four
errorless games in a row, has scored
two shutouts and no club in the
weekly period has been able to score
more than three runs and then only
once, said once being the 12-inning
battle with New London. Compared
with Bridgeport, New Ravens show
ling for the week is the better.
Hartford continues along it's win
ming way, although rain and absence
of double-headers have limited the
1917 tailenders to fewer games than
the rest of the crowd played. Hart
ford lost only one game in four starts
and showed evidence of considerable
latent hitting ability.
AS for Springfield, it was one of
the four clubs to break at least even
or the weeks showing, the rating be-
ing three each way. After tumbling
in a losing streak of four straight the
Ponies came back and defeated Prov
idence and Worcester. Two games
were dropped to Bridgeport, but Wat
erbury was a victim yesterday. The
club has not yet settled down to play
the ball of which it is capable, but in
the building of club so many things
are desirable that improvements can
not be made all at once. Just now
the Ponies are in need of pitching
material, but the management is do
ing everything in its power to
strengthen the team in the box
So far Jack Flynn has not been able
to get started with the Planters, his
best efforts last week resulting in two
victories, three defeats and one tie.
The Planters have had more men left
on the paths than any club in the
league, which would seem to indi-
cate a lot of poor hitting in the
pinches.
Worcester, with one victory out of
five starts, Providence, with one out
of six, and Waterbury without a vic
tory to its credit for the week bring
up the rear of the procession. The
weeks figures follow: