The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-24

 worth who NI Wheat last season, hitting .341 in 62 games, hit only .071 in four games, when he was taken out of the Pirate lineup.
 Cubs evidently didn't mind that rain Thursday. After taking those four successive shocks on the Polo Grounds the Windy City Bruins need ed a day to get their bearing.
 What has become of Murderers'
 Row of the Yankees? When
 Duffy Lewis was obtained by the
 club it was believed that one
 more murderer" had been added
 to the row to assist Baker, Pratt,
 Pipp, Bodie and Peck in striking
 terror in the hearts of rival pitch
 CTS. The Yankees occupy a re-
 spectacle position in the race. yet
 they are hitting only .210, at the
 foot of the American League
 class. With the exception of
 Bodie and Peck the entire row is
 under .225, and Pipp and Lewis
 actually are under 200.
 Herman Bronkie hit so light with the St. Louis Browns that Jimmy Aus tin, the former Tank, is back on third Ddoc TUT JlAlli4iS IOui ht OutiAI- otN- eral times in recent years the Browns tried to break in a new man at third, but after a few weeks of the season would roll by Austin's name would appear in the St. Louis American lineup.
 Does any one know just what the great Babe Ruth is hitting? Three guesses permitted. The home run in fant of the worlds champions is the proud possessor of a batting average of .190.
 The Boston Braves have re-
 turned Pitcher Lefty George to
 the Columbus club. Perhaps this
 time George will be sentenced to
 finish out his career in the minors.
 George is a minor league veteran,
 but at periodic intervals he is
 picked up by some big league
 clubs. Cleveland tried him out
 about ten years ago and the St.
 Louis Browns also gave him
 another chance several years
 after that.
 For while this season it looked as though the big leagues would have to get along without single Cuban or Indian. Early in the spring the Reds asked for waivers on -Adolfo Luque,- the Cuban pitcher, and Man uel Cueto didn't join the Reds until a week ago. He started the 1919 sea- son with Louisville. Then it seemed the Cards might let Mique Gonzales put in the summer in Cuba. But he reported Thursday to the Giants, and both Luque and Cueto are with the Reds. But what has become of the Indian in baseball? Ye shades of Sockalexis. Albert Bender, Chief Meyers and Chief Johnson. Has the great game been turned over entirely | to the paleface?
 Miller Huggins has added a few morew rinkles to the collection on his brow in the last few weeks trying | to decide who shall play right field i for the Yankees and lead off his bat | ting order. The Tank 1ead-off men have not been conspicuous for their . ability to get on. Wick, the first one 1 tried out, is hitting .156. Then Halas was given his chance and hit only .11s. Lamar, the third guess. is hit ting .125. The only answer to the problem seems to be for the Tanks to dig up a new outfelder. l Baseball leagues again are | springing up all over the minor | league trail. The Sally League, i which expired in 1917, opened this | week with practically a new cir cult. The teams comprising the new Sally are Augusta, Ga.; 1 Charleston. S. C.; Greenville, S. C.; Charlotte. N. C.; Colum-
 bia- sS C., and Spartanburg, S. C. The new league is a n1er- | ger of the Northern cities of the
 old South Atlantic League and
 the former Carolina Association. The circuit leaves out such former Sally League centres as Jacksonville Fla, and Macon, Ga, and an effort i: being made to get up new league with these cities for a nucleus. The Sally League has turned out some mighty fine athletes in it's day, amont them Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson and Rubs Benton.
 Grover Hartley. former Gian catcher, who jumped to the Fed! when the Giants tried to trade him tt Cincinnati in 1914, is managing tht Columbus, Ohio, club for Joe Tinker this year. After trying his hand a first base for a few days Grover de cided that nature had intended hin to be a catcher, ana he turned the first base assignment over to Joe Nc Carty.
 Rube Oldring, who retired to farm life a few years ago, will manage th' , Suffolk, Va, team of the Virgini; League this season. Last winter be fore the Toronto club signed Ge.rg, Gibson as manager it had negotiation with Oldring., Connie Mack, Rube' ! former manager. has promised to sene him some players Oldring airead, has obtained Gullman and Pierson pitchers, and Berger, a catcher, iron the Athletics