The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-01
Former New York Yankee Hurler Has Been Releas- ed to the Toledo Club Manager Grimes Has Busy Day.

6usy Day.
 Baseball practice here started to day when Manager Grimes and hts group of recruits from which he vii
 organize his Bridgeport Easterr. League team, found their way to spa cious NewfeId Park. While the day
 was a trthe windy, the boys were ex~ pected to be put through a grilIing
 workout as it is the intention of the
 local pilot to get the team in the
 finest shape possible fo~ the opening tUssle here later this month
 However, arrangements have been
 made by the management for several
 exhibition games. For instance, on next Sunday afternoon the Bridge
 porters will swap bats with the Red Caps, a coIored tea-l from PhiladeI-
 phia. Manager Grimes has hopes
 of having whipped his team into suf-
 fciently good shape by that time to
 get an idea through that contest wha-
 he really has at his command for 4
 first class local combination.
 Chances are that by tomorrow the roster Of the locals will be complete
 Hank Bracket and Braun have yet
 to sign, but both have written te
 friends, it is understood. and said
 that they would probably submit theAs signed contracts before May l, so it is assumed by President Lane that their contracts are probably on the way now.
 One bitter disappointment, however, was experienced today when 1t was learned authenticaTy that Manager Grimes visit to New York to cinch Alex Fergu- | son, the popular hurIer, got him nothing, as the Yankees have re- | leased that player to the Toledo Club of the American Associa.- 1 ton for a, little more seasoning. 1 He will probably rejoin the Yan- 1 kees later in the season
 l The New York Nanks see the nak- 1 ing of good pitcher in Alex and l they don't intend that he shall come | to this city. The National Commis- i sion has decided in their favor on 1 the appeal taken to that body by the l Bridgeport club, which claims being i entitled to his services. Fergie was i taken South with the New Workers. ! but failed to show major league ] timber For a while 1t looked as if i he were to be sent back here. but all ! hope of this happening was cast aside ! today when he left New York for 1 Toledo.
 l The Red Sox made it three out of 1 four in the series with Washington i by winning yesterday, 6 to 1. Both I Thompson and Shaw were hit hard by the visitors while Caldwell was 1 effective at all stages. Hooper got q 1 double and three singles in five times
 at bat
 : Bunched hits in the first and sec
 ond innings off welIman gave Cleve- | land Q lead which the Browns could not overcome, and Cleveland won 1 yesterdays game, to 9 Opposing ] Weilman was George UhIe, who made i his big league debut.
 Norman 1EcNeiI. the catcher who joined the Grays of the International League while the team was playing
 a series in Buffalo under the leader ship of Jack Egan in 1917. declares ] that he under no circumstances will 1 play in Providence this season, as a result of which Chief Eayrs is nego- i tiatins with a major league club for
 2 receiver to handle the slants of his | mound artists in the Eagtern League
 campaign which is scheduled to start 1 in the course of the next three weeks.
 EIcNeiI made the Southern training
 trip with the Red Sox aid is wanted l by Pat Donovan Of the Newark club, 1 but President NTouIton believes New
 ark is planning to turn him over to 1 Boston iii the event of the purchase. i In view of the fact that the player wo-l1 cost Boston S1, 250 if taken from Providence, President 3ICulton has a i Wel-defined hUnch that Barrow is
 using Donovan as the go-between in
 order to save money.
 | If Newark will agree to give Provi-
 dence first chance tco ly him back
 at the price paid, the deal will be
 made. Otherwise the club officials
 will hang on to the player. Because
 of this turn in affairs, NIcNeiI is on