The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

Giants and TOW manager of the To- ledo club of the American Association. has cast envious eyes on several play CTS who are going South for a trial with the Yankees. If Higgins de- cides to do any farming out" Roger will have first call.
 Old Mordecai Brown is some bowler, even if he can't hook a base ball over the plate as he did once. He rolled PIP in a match game at Terre Haute Tuesday night, and in the same game a team mate, Charlie Cade, rolled 300, perfect score.
 Clarence Mitchell has accepted the terms of Wilber Robinson and sent in his contract. He was obtained by the Dodgers under the waiver rule from Cincinnati.
 We'll, Miller Higgins got what he was going after. In Ping Bodie he has a steady, hard hitting outfelder, although not fast on the bases, he LldheS up 1OI lLlS III lOHS u1SIduCe hitting. Last year he had 2S two baggers, Il three-base hits, and seven home runs to his credit and sporting a batting average of .291. which was nine points more than Frank Baker, the Yankees hardest hitter had.
 Hal Volmer, former Columbia swimming captain, has received 3 commission in the Naval Reserve Force, and has been assigned to the Pelham Bay Training station as an Instructor in seamanship. Vollmer is intercollegiate swimming champion and holder of various national cham plonships.
 Germany Schaeffer is the latest big leaguer to become a college baseball coach. He is to lead Lafayette Col lcge this year, having been sent there by Garry Hampstead, who is a mem | Der of the Lafayette Alumni Associa- ton, and was asked to help out in the matter of selecting a baseball | coach.
 Jess Willard has purchased an estate" in Lawrence, Kan. Accord ing to a description of the property | that the heavyweight champion has acquired, it forms one. of the show places of that section of the country There are fifty-two acres and the large residence is of Colonial type. Moose Miller, first baseman of the Murlins. yesterday denied the story printed several days ago stating that he was to retire from baseball. Miller stated that he will be back at Savin Rock on reporting day to make ] another bid for job. The story of Miller's intended retirement is cred i ited to Frank Lynch, prominent in athletic affairs at the Winchester | plant.
 There's going to be an interesting battle between John Henry and Art Wilson for the position of first catcher for the Braves.
 Pitcher Lefty" George of the | Tigers, formerly Of ColumbuS, IS starting the season very well with the $2,240 he has just been awarded after his suit against the Kansas City club of the American Association. Lefty
 sued for $4,5OO, but the sum he got will help him buy ham and eggs for 3
 week or two, anyway.
 This is the story of how Walter MaranvilIe acquired the name ot Rabbit" If you are not interested
 you. can skip this paragraph. Any
 way, here goes: It seems that in the
 spring of 1913 Stallings had the
 Braves at Athens Ga- Art Bues haG been the choice for shortstop, but ill.,
 ness prevented him from being on the
 job. Maranville, who had come up the previous fall from the New Bed
 ford club of the New England League was tried out at short. One day
 Stallings stood at one side of the field watching the workout with a group
 of newspaper men. Stallings was very enthusiastic over Maranville's per
 formance, and made the remark Look at that kid hop around jus like rabbit" Maranville was
 tagged the Rabbit then and there zT,,oly Cinon