The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-19
Hawaiian-Chinese Is Failure at
 That Position and Only Weak \ Spot on Bridgeport Lineup.
By ROGER FERRI.

vN HIIE the Americans have won " four straight games and prom ise to lengthen this string of consec- utive victories, fans who have watch ed the team at Newfeld park cannot understand why Manager Ray Grimes continues to show Bill Tai at short What the motive is behind the trans fer of Braun from short to third and llal from third to short is prob lenlatcal and something that Ray himself can not explain satisfactorily. 1t does not require the study of critic who has devoted all his life to baseball to realize that the Chinese infelder is lost at short.
 No one appreciates this fact any more than Grimes himself, but yet he continues to use Lai as a shortstop. The players behavior at that berth has been the one weak spot in the Bridgeport lineup. As the perform or would say, Lei has been absolute ly mis-cast. He never will amount to anything as a shortstop. He has 'a played third base during the greater part of his varied career and for Ray - Grimes te attempt to make a short stop of him is time vainly spent. Bill is a. clever player, but a t short he cannot do justice to himself or his ball club. He has fumbled in each of the three games played here this season. He cannot pick up g. fast drive and his pegs to first from short are disheartening and anything but encouraging to his colleagues.
 By keeping Lai at short and Braun at third Grimes is doing justice to neither the Bridgeport club nor the two players. Braun is good all- around player. He will show as well at short, at second or at first base as he will at third. But Lai will never play as well or be able to give as good service at short as he did last season at the hot corner. The Bridgeport team is seemingly the strongest combination on the circuit, but it can still stand improvement and the transfer of Bill Lai from short to third would certainly be an improvement that Is not only essen tlal, but one demanded by the fans of this city.
 A LL-STAR bouts will be the rule A in Bridgeport boxing circles. i. The Akron A. c. set such a. splendid example that all future clubs an ucipating promoting bouts here will be forced to lay out a considerable amount of money to furnish the fans with the like of the entertainment furnished by the bouts of last We'd nesday night.
  ders of Terry Lee to stage the second ( show. And judging by the card hs has announced his show should be an even more exciting one than that pro noted by Ben Fischer and Phil Campwe1l last week. A card, that in- cludes the following: Kid Norfolk Larry Williams Pete Hartley Louis Bogash and Mickey Travers-Sapper Conan, is one that is impossible to !. beat.
 ' That sBridseporters will receive a surprise in the fam outcome of sev- eral of the above mentioned bouts seems probable when one takes into consideration the past performances .a of the principals. It will take all that .+fhe Bridgeports boys can do to hold their own against the experienced and hard opponents that Lee has selected for them.
 d ~ ONyIE Lewis of Bridgeport and S0 Joe Porto of New Haven will meet again tonight for the duckpin bowling championship. The first block of the series will be played at Connie Lewis own alleys. the Park City, on Fairfield avenue. Connie de- a rfeated the New Havener several 1T weeks ago and by so doing managed to wrest the championship from the New Haven Italian.
 The writer was present on that oc- caDfon and when it comes to a ques- ton of selecting a prospective winner we rather like Connie's chances in more than one way. In the first place. Porto ie one of those bowlers who does not and can not sustain defeat He hurled many false accusations at the local man after their match here. Despite the fAct that he was defeated W fairly and square1y he "admitted' that he was Comics master. Another rood defeat will probably make Porto . wiser bowler. Barking and bowling never teamed well, anyway WHEN we heard that Larry Will wv Hams had consented to meet Kid Norfolk after he had emphatical- 1y stated in a statement to newspaper men that he would not fight here again because of the unjust and cold .srectpion he received from those who he supposed were his friends. the blonde heavyweight said that he had changed his mind because he had been openly accused of cowardice. Why anyone should accuse the local man of cowardice is more than we " can understand, for we have yet to see a tougher and gamer man than "A Larry willian1e.
 As a matter of fact he had been matched to box Kid Norfolk on two other occasions in clubs in other ~citics. but each time something hap Epenod than nccessitafed a postpone mont If Bridgeport fans would give williams half a chance they probably would forget this idle talk of ths blonde having streak. Larry could 1 meet Norfolk in Boston and Buffalo TOT moro than hs will receive in box NJ fne him here, but for the purpose of proving concluNvely that he is not afraid eof tAckifng the colored man he has consented to take him on here.
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