The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-12

business men LO DuS SLOCh III (tAG PitssdeId Baseball Association, which is capitalized at S5,O0O and has near Iy $4,0OO subscribed by about 200 sub scribers.
 New Haven, Conn, May 12.- New Haven baseball fans are show ing more than ordinary interest in the fortunes of the New Haven base ball club. The recent acquisition of the club by George Weiss, we'll known promoter of independent base ball and his subsequent appointment of Chief Meyers, former Giant, as playing manager, has aroused un- usual interest and the opinion is prevalent here that the club which wins the pennant must beat New Ha- ven. Weiss, who has been respon- sible for some of the best attrac- tions ever staged in this State. is tremendously popular with local fans. He is willing to spend money to have a winner and is also set in intro ducing novel features which have been his main forte ever since his l entrance into baseball.
 pringffeId, Massa chusetts. May F. When the Springfield Ponies take the field against the Pittsf1eld club 1 Wednesday for the opening game of the season the results of work put in | Icy Manager Ed Holly and a squad of 20-odd players will show itself in one form or another. Holly and all con- nected with the game in the City of Homes are hoping for the best and it | appears as if their hopes would not be | in vain from the way the Pony prop | csition shapes up on paper.
 
 field had a playing manager, and | that's about all. This playing man ! ager, however, went right out to an nex a clan of ball tossers and one | that would not cause Pony fans to 1 blush whenever the name was men | toned. Together with President Ar thur Shean, Manager Holly took a trip to New York and pulled neces- l sary wires there to land a ball club. l Waterbury, Conn.,, May 12.-Not I since Mickey Finn's team nosed out Gene McCann's out in the cham l pionship race of 1910 has there been so much interest in league baseball in this city as there has been since Jack Flynn, last years leader of the New London champions, was signed as the local leader. Waterbury fans have a lot of confidence in Flynn who has many friends here. some of them college mates of his at Holy Cross, 1 and they look to Flynn to give the city the kind of baseball it has not | had in almost a decade.
 Although he has been located in the city only two or three days, Flynn has already indicated that he i intends to have a real ball club. Jack is not much as a taIker, but he ! I<oc in bo on the diamond. It is known that he will insist on fighting club, for he has no use for the man who con siders his baseball job as merely a I days work. He wants players who are out to win all the time, just as he is. No other kind need apply.
 Hartford, Conn.,, May 12. - Ths j manner in which Owner James H. | Clarkin has delved into the baseball situation here demonstrates that he is bent on banding together a pen nant-winning combination for Hart for and his preseason activity in rounding up likely material augurs we'll for a splendid Eastern League season here. Other league clubs will
 find the Senator's, headed by Dan6S
 Murphy, one time captain of the worlds champion Athletics, a fight ing outfit.
 l With one or two exceptions the
 team to represent Hartford will be practically a new one The fact that
 Owner C1arkin has appointed James W. Pyne, a former local newspapsx-
 man, to the post of business man. ager, indicates that he has extensive nlans for taA eaara5aaar.