The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-17
Rain May Be Means
 Of Treating Locals
 To Double Tomorrow

lU5G S1EaasDEIUW | the manager. Make him a pal. Point out his wrongs and show him how to right them. Make him feel as if the team belongs to him and you can't go wrong"
 And Bill must have been right. He was a ball player once. Later a man ager and that year-hts first year as manager-he won the championship for Providence.
 Jack Coombs. who recently retired from baseball after a brief and very unsatisfactory fling as manager of the Philadelphia club, may return to the game as a magnatc. From the Quaker City comes a well founded report that Colby Jack has S1O0,000 of his own to invest in the National League club in that city, and that he may head a syndicate to buy the franchise under which William F. Baker is now operating.
 Coombs first made it known
 that he sought to obtain a ffnan-
 cial interest in the club immcd-
 lately after he was deposed by
 bdkel 10 Ilafse IODlll TOT NdNNy
 Cravath. He told a number of
 his friends that not only would
 he put $1OO,0OO into the club,
 but that he would gladly spend
 one-ffth of that amount to get
 players who would strengthen
 the Phillies and make them pen
 nant contenders. At the time lit
 tie heed was paid to Coombs's
 remarks, but a day or two later
 Baker was approached by per
 son who said he represented a
 syndicate that was willing to pay
 $35O,G00 for the controlling in-
 terest in the club, and the fact
 that Coombs had set that figure
 as the value of the club at this
 time led many to believe that 1t
 was he who inspired this offer.
 After a long conference between Manager John ]. McGraw of the Giants and Branch Hickey of the St. Louis Cardinals, an important base ball deal was completed which may be founda tion of other transactions Pitcher Ferdinand Schupp. who has been the Giants for six years, goes to the Cardinals in exchange for Catcher Frank Synder.
 u Is dSSul1leu that as Jne NTlanIS now have four catchers-Snyder Gonzales, McCarty and Earl Smith McGraw intends to make deal with some other National League club for a pitcher. According to insiders the Giants do not want either Pitcher Woodward or Pitcher Elmer Jacobs, who were traded to the Cardinals by the PhilMes on Monday. It is a well known fact that the PhiIles and the Pirates need catchers, so that 1t may turn out that McGraw is preparing to diclxer with either or both of those clubs for pitchers.
 It is also possible that McGraw is planning to include Dave Robert son in some transaction with another National League club, presumably the Chicago Cubs. But the Giants man. ager declined this morning to go into details or to intimate what he had up his sleeve. McGraw certainly does not intend to carry four catchers and if is reasonably certain he will ! retain McCarty and Snyder inasmucE as the latter is one of the best back stops in the National League and a |. powerful batsman.
 One of the few members of the | Giant hurting corps who are in good | shape today and ready to take his l regular turn in the box is Jean Du- ] buc. The big French Canadian has 1 plugged along, without fuss or furore ! doing about all that has been asked l of him by John McGraw, and it is | quite likely that from now on he will again be used regularly, as he was in | the early weeks of the season. | When Dubuc was signed by the ! Giants this spring, it was taken for | granted that he would be used only | as a relief pitcher, but McGraw start ed him in several games and he wor l them in such impressive fashion that he, with Rube Benton, Jess Barnes i and Cecil Causey, soon bore the brunt of the clubs pitching. Of late Du- tuc has not staHted a game, but has rendered most valuable aid in finish | ing out games.
 The longer one watches Duffy | Lewis in the field the more one becomes convinced that Miller Huggins made a wise move in getting him into the Yankee fold. Duffy is one of the most polished felders in the major circuit to- day, and he is a great man at
 the bat. Nothing ever seems to | rattle hlIn. ana no matter now
 high the rest of the team may
 soar, Duffy Is always in there
 with the reassuring word that | means a great deal when the
 going gets rough and woo1ly.
 Manager Cravath apparently got shade the better of 1t for the Phil lies on Monday when he traded Jacobs, Woodward and Baird to tn Cardinals for Meadows and Paulette Fred Luderus is about through as tn 1 Phil1ies's first baseman and probabl, will be supplanted by Paulette, wh, is a faster infielder and a much bet ter hitter. Meadows is a diamond il the rough, according to Cravath, am can be developed into a first clas right handler. Baird is a mino league third baseman, while Jacobs i cratic as a pitcher. Woodward i