The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-12

less the club is successful in
 getting out of the league.
 Jack Flynn, the former big league infeIder and manager of varioUa clubs in the Eastern league during the past two few years, will in all probability manage the Waterbury club this season, according to reliable information just received from the Waterbury and with the proper ma terial he should furnish that city with a crack nine-
 Jack Flynn was present at the meeting the other day in Springtield and conferred with several club owners. He and Jim Clarkin, owner of the Hartford club, also had a long talk and word from Hartford today had it that Clarkin had made the for mer Lawrence manager a proposition What the nature of the proposition is has not been disclosed, however.
 This season losing clubs can not att tribute long jumps as the cause of their trouble, for the Eastern Leagua circuit this year is the most compact in Organized Baseball Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford. Springfield and Worcester are on the main Boston, via Springfield line, of the New Haven road. Pittsfield is only forty-f1ve miles from Springfield and Providence 44 1 miles from Worcester.
 Hence, the schedule committee l should have no trouble drawing nm q schedule. There will be four Sunday | towns. These will be lay off on Mon- 1 days. The Sunday towns are Provfs ! dence, New Haven, Waterbury and | Bridgeport. .-ssr, 1 Jack Ferry will manage the
 Pittsfeld club, which promises
 to be the strongest supported
 team on the circuit. Hundreds
 and, yes, even thuosands of peo- | pie spend the summer in the Berkshires. With professional league established there the Pitts
 should not worry over the atten-
 dance question. -7 ~l5-r- Bringing major league clubs to this city for exhibition games this season will be & near impossibility, if the baseball bill which has passed the New York General Assembly is signed l by the Governor. All teams that or dinarily loafed in New York, opening | Monday, will play on Sundays. The l only chance Business Manager Kel- | " Will have Is to bring down a team | from either Boston or up from Phil adelphia
 The Eastern Leaguers have put s good one over on the Internationals and Dave Fults, president of the lat ter circuit, is not the happiest man in | the world because Providence has been forced to remain in the local | organisation. Dave had matters all arranged so that Providence could get in, even going so far as to postpone a league meeting so that the circuit
 might welcome Providence. The friction between Red Sox 1 and Giants will not increase the 1 popularity of either team Critics
 will at once take up the old cry | that the Giants are poor losers, and in view of the reports that
 have come from the South 1t 1 would seem as If there might be some truth in this charge Ger tainly there Is no excuse for
 rough play on the diamond. Re
 ports of players sliding into the air will not be received with
 favor by the baseball public. There is a deal pending whereby the Brooklyn Nationals may yet land Lee Magee from the Cincinnati Reds. | Gene McCann, scout for Pat Moran'a 1 team. is still in the Robins camp at l Jacksonville. Fla, and he has had ! several conferences with President Ebbets and Manager Robby Not one ! nF I1a vi to scribes with the team that they were discussing deal whereby Ma gee will be transferred.
 Dave Robertson, for many years an outfeIder with the Giants, will in all probability be released to tha Washington club today. The deal with McGraw of the Giants will be | concluded before q week has passed In order to keep in form Robertson is playing with a eemi-pro club of Richmond, Va.
 Dutch Leonard, who has turn
 ed down the New York AmerI-
 cans offer to pitch for that team,
 will twirl for the Fresno. Cal. team this season. He will re- ceive s15O per game for his ser vices. Baseball must be on a big boom on the Coast when a. man. ager will guarantee a hurler that
 much for a single game.
 St. Louis fans will get their first | glimpse of their two teams today when the annual city series will be 1 inaugurated. The Cardinals, piloted by Branch Hickey. have been training in St. Louis under favorable aus 1 pIces. Jimmy Burke, manager of the | Browns. has Q wealth of material and expects to take the series without 7 any trouble.
 Now word comes from ChIcago | that Owner Comiskey would like to use Dutch Leonard this season. Man , ger Gleason Is not trying to hide this fact. He says he wants Leonard and is going to get him. but how he has not attempted to explain. Gleason doesn't know which players to offer the Yankees In a trade for Dutch. So thsrss you lare.t