The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-05
B,H,S. NEEDS TO DO BETTER
 MYTH THE BAT
By GEORGE HAWNIAN.

 es booked with the Danbury, Meriden and New Haven High schools. That students at the local school have not lost the confidence they had in the team during the great showings it made at the workouts, however, is evinced by the intense interest that the coming games has aroused an assurance that the<locals will be sup ported with large cheering squads.
 The Danbury game is perhaps the most important of the week as the Hat Town boys hold a decision over the B. H. s. Last season when the two teams met in their annual clash the Danburians won from the Bridge porters because of hitting ability on the part of the local players. In that game, fans will recall, the Park City boys were literally lost and ran wild on the bases whenever a man was fortunate enough to be planted on them.
 Meriden will follow, put little troub- 1e is expected to be experienced with this contingent. But one can never tell in these days. The Bridgeporters believed the Greenwich High school nine was a comparatively easy op- ponent last week, but what a tumble 1t received when the two teams came together. From Meriden the writer learns that the school contrary to belief here, is represented by the | strongest team it has turned out in many years.
 True, the Meriden team of 1918 was a comparatively weak one, but the weaker spots have been strengthened this season by the substitution of new ma 1 teriaI. The infieId is constituted | of four very clever fielders of l whom two are reputed to be | wonderfully hard-hitters. Their pitching staff is nothing to brag about, but held it's own in the two games in which the Meridens | participated last week
 l While it could not be definitely as- l certatned today there is a strong pos l sibility that the Bridgeport and | New Haven High schools may figure | in a double header this week. Ne 1 sottations to bring this about are now
 underway and chances are that the
 efforts of the local mana cement will | be crowned with success.
 1 The statement has been made that | the New Haven High school twas | weak last season. That is true, but | the team that is representing the Elm | City school this year is a far diff l ferent contingent. The pitchers, New 1 Haveners claim, are the best in in- | terscholastic circles in Connecticut
 The secondary line of defence is good | The only weak spot on the team seems to be at short and this is ex. | pected to be strengthened before thu | local game.
 So far the baseball season for the
 Bridgeporters has been somewhat O.
 a failure, financially and otherwise
 The season opened about ten day.
 ago, but the team has been playins
 poorly. This is due to the lack O
 hitting power and the tendency O the players in inc first game to resor
 to individual tactics and ignorinI l teamwork
 Against teams admittedly con- siderably weaker, the locals, all though victorious, did not come
 through witk the expected score 1 Take, for instance, the game with
 the Greenwich High last Tuesday
 afternoon. This game should
 have gone to the Bridgeport con-
 tingent, but individualism ming led with inability to hit in the
 pinches. defeated the hill top pers. The team could have
 scored time and again, but poor
 judgment and wild running of bases cast these opportunities to the wind.
 1 In that game it wasn't that Bridge port was weaker, because as a mat s ter of fact it was the contrary. Tn fact was that the local players wer
 in no mood to play; they could nc 9 get started. The locals had a bette :. fielding lot of players and when l came right down to an analytic stud s of the hitting ability of the twt
 Bridgeport High, as weak it is i ] that departme ent, was superior. BU r the base runners werefa wild as = hawk. They didn't use judgment ono f they got on the bases with the resu l that they were walloped-and d. i servedLy so, for no team that behave
 as wretchedIy as they did is deservin {, of anything buS defeat.
 = Then along came the game wit $ Waterbury on Wednesday and tf a only reason Bridgeport took this COT Il test was because of the splendt $ pitching of Jim Lavery, who was
 per cent. of the team on that o, II casion. He not only pitched a spe, Y tacular game, but he made bot
 Bridgeport runs as the final score W; 3 2 to 1.
 rt Without this hurler the Bridg y porters would have lost that gam e for their showing was anything b
 commendable. Jim, as a matter
 fact, was the only man on the tear h who showed any signs of life la e week. He did his share, but when d came to taking the offence his tea 1T was lacking. Tn that game with w l. terbury he wan the outstanding st It and had it been left to the other pIa -e CTS the B. H. s. would have lost. Ie Here is one pitcher who will d be heard from some day. La e very is a speedy twirler with If wonderful assortment of perplex- ,e ing benders There is nothing l. slow about this boy. In that I, Waterbury contest he whifed 12 . batters The presence of this
 player on the mound seems to .d inspire the tam, but he would ell prove himself very foolish lad ie to allow the Bridgeport H. s. ,e mana cement to use him thrice a
 week. He is yet young and with
 little more schooling will be all able to strike professional ball