The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
Baseball News

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 The recent changing of clocks to | meet the daylight savings plan | brought out an interesting story by l Truck Hannah of the Yankees re- 1 garding tho change that was made l last fall to set the clocks back to the 1 usual schedule. Truck was working in a California oilfeld which was op- erating on triple shift system, each shift working eight hours Hannah 5 schedule called for his working from II o'clock at night until ' in the morning. He started as usual that night at II, and after having worked until 2 o'clock they set the clock back to 1, and he and his fellow workers had to work that hour all over again. Truck says that that hour was the longest he can remem-
 Der, waiting for the hands to get back to the place where they had
 been. When he quit work in the morning at o'clock he had put in
 nine hours on an eight hour shift. For the past two or hree years Arthur Fletcher has fallen somewha. below the standard of hitting which he set for himself in other seasons, but there is reason to believe that he is back in his old form. He did remarkably good stickwork while with the Giants at the Gainesville training camp. The Giant captains fielding, which has never fallen off, is as fine this year as usual. and the general prospect is that he will have perhaps the best sea~on of his major. league career.
 Eddie Sicking is said to have a great deal more pep this season than he displayed during the last base 1 ball campaign. This is very likely the result of his experience with the army.
 Hunter Goodbred. the young right 1 handler who has been training with 1 the Robins, has received plenty to do at the training camp. He should | be able to stand a lot of hard work as he is six feet four inches tall l and weighs about 220 pounds. Be cause of his great bulk the players | have dubbed him Tiny
 ] Ernie Shore has been nursing his l arm carefully and, under orders from l Huggins, has taken all the time he ] desired, as the Yankee manager fig | ures on the big fellow taking his turn 1 in the box from the beginning of the l season.
 1 During the early days of practicing l at the training camp Uncle Robbie
 used his veteran catcher, Otto Miller,
 in the outfield. Later Otto was ! .sy 1 Jimmy Johnston was shifted from 1 the initial sack to the outer garden. | Miller made several pretty catches 1 in the outfeld, and as a first base l man he also did some top-notch field 1 ing.
 Frank O'Doul, the southpaw pitch
 CT, drafted by the Yankees from the
 San Francisco club, may never ap- 1 proach the heights as a ball player 1 which Iris Speaker has reached, but 1 he closely resembles the Cleveland l star in many ways. He has all the l mannerisns of the hard-hittinE 7 l Texan in the outfeId and in going around the bases. He walks like Iris and has certain resem blances in profile and physique, appearing much | as Speaker must Nhave appeared in | the days when he was more slender. O'Doul, though drafted as a pitcher. is good outfielder, being fleet of 1 foot and hitting the ball hard.
 Joe Kelley's Cincinnati Reds train
 ed at Jacksonville twice and at that
 time Miller Huggins was a private in
 the ranks. Now Hug is boss and
 Kelley is his lieutenant.
 George Terhune, the little left ! handler of the squad of recruit pitch 1 CTS working with the Giants, is a
 protege of Heinie Zimmerman while | Frank Polan, the young backstop,
 was discovered by Bennie Kauff at 1 Camp Sherman last summer.
 Part of the Robins training session
 has been devoted to work with the
 medicine ball. The players form a
 huge circle and the ball is passed
 around. This stunt lasts about 20
 minutes every morning, and 1t is
 hard work, in which Charles Ebbets,
 owner of the club. has not taken l nar4s