Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-20
SPORT NOTES.


 Kenneth Halliday of PawtuckeL fer 9 portion of last season on the Red Sox pitching staff gaas signed with Jack Flynn and will report in Springfield on Tuesday. Flynn has a good ball team aside from the pitchers, his heaving stan being one of the weakest in the East ern league Halliday is a couple of inches over six feet in height and is said to have world of stuff
 Scott Perry has eftaer been dreadfully disa ppointed in Franklin, or has the wanderlust so badly as to keep him Eo- ing from place to place to keep from fretting himself to death. He jumped the Athletics to pitch for the Franklin team and now has bundled the Franklin club to join an independent team al Hornell. N. It is said he is to get i s2200 for pitching the remainder of the season. But having acquired the jump ing habit it will be hard for him to stay with his latest friends more than a few weeks. So look for Scott to jump again | in a short time. But it's a cinch he won't jump back into organized ball. not i right away. 2,
 Jack Ogden of the Baltimore orioie. is rigat on the track of Rube Mar guards record of 19 consecutive gamet won and has to win but two more to tis 1 1t and three to establish a new mark Ogden has now won r straight games.
 There is likely to be trouble before long between the Seattle club of the Pa ciic Coast League and the Nationa
 League over the sale Of Jimmie Sm.th by Cincinnati to Philadelphia SmiDl
 was purchased by the Seattle club from Cincinnati, but did not report, giving al
 sorts of excuses, finally declaring he had quit baseball On the strength of
 this statement Smith was turned back
 to Garry Hermann. Then he was turli-
 ed over to Bill Donovan. Now Seattle
 is believing and Smiths loahng, pending la decision
 The fine brand of ball the Athletics are displaying at present has set the fans
 of the Quaker City to predicting at least
 fifth place for the Mackmen at the end
 of the race. They point with pride al
 the pitching staff. claiming the only thinc
 ming is a corps of efficient beavers. This
 they claim they have in Naylor, Nasty.
 Harris Moore and Rommel. The bunch
 does look pretty good at that and being all youngsters. give great promise for the
 future. With this staff to begin with
 next year the At-letics should have
 about the finest bunch of hurlers in the American League next year. And theu look out for a great comeback
 Lefty Gallagher of the Waterbury
 team the other day performed a great
 pitching stunt against the Worcesters. He started in by walking the first three bat 1 ters up and then with the corners loaded struck out the next three batfers He ? kept up the good work by flaming six } more and letting Worcester down with one hit in nine full innings. He has on, l of the old-fashoned. roundhouse curvet 3 lthat completely fools the batters used tc
 the sharp breaks of present-day pitch ing.
 Eppa Rixey appears to be the only ; real twirler on the Cincinnati starf and but for him the Reds would be in bsf place indeed. Marquard is not the mar he was by a lot. although now and ther ' he ,shows flashes of his oId-tiue form Hod Eller has been big disappointment and the others are not much better - Rixey would be a great help to the Phil lies right now. Donovan didn't gan much on the trade that sent Rixey f- Cincinnati
 The present troubles of the New Hs . ven team, champions of the Easterr , league, is being made the occasion o' | great joy with some of the snort w-fE CTS about the bob-tail circuit Evident , ly they believe that knocking the tInS. . tunate champions is a boost for th, Q league. But the fans of the Elm Cit, , are just as had.