New Britain herald., 1923-08-04

It is reported that Syracuse has
 made Brooklyn q fancy offer for
 Lanky Bob Vines, former Bridgeport
 pitcher. Vines is with John Hummels
 Twin Cities club of the Penn-New
 York league.
 Hummel. by the way is tied for the
 league batting honors in this league with Bud Weiser of the Twin Cities
 team. Both are hitting for .41o. Hum- mel is doing much better with the stick than he did here last season. Weiser formerly played with New London in the Eastern League.
 Charley Kelchner, the Cardinals Scout, who is making q tour of the Eastern League, is a close friend of "Snubber' Greenhalge of the Red Tops. Kelchner. brought Greenhalge to the Lowell club of the old New England league years ago.
 Johnny Bates is going good with Chattanooga. He is beginning to hit, many of his drives going for extra bases.
 There is report going the rounds that Gus Redman, Hartfords crack catcher, will go to the Yankees. | Whether the report is true or not, it | is almost certain tha some big league | club will grab Redman.
 Speaking of cachers. recalls the fact that of the many players who | went up from the Eastern League last | season, backstops are about the only | ones who have stuck this season out
 Three 1922 Eastern League back stops, Charley Hargreaves of Pitts field, Pinky Hargrave of New Haven and Johnny Wilson of New Haven. are with the big league clubs' Wilson is getting the most experience, divid- ing catching honors with Henline of the Phils.
 Hargreaves has spent most of his time in the Brooklyn bull pen. Har- greave has caught occasionally for and while in Boston last week played several games at third base for the Senators. This position was not new to the former New Haven slugger, as he spent consider able time at the far turn during his career in the Eastern League.
 Tomorrow at St. Marys field at 3.15 Us the All Insurance of Hartford.
 The Pirates go to Wallingford to lefeat the Lennox A. C.-if they can.
 Today at Walnut Hill at p. m. it's he Fafnirs and Cardinals and Ran gers and Berlin. At p. n., it's the Dragons and Independents and St. Mary's and Falcons.
 Harry Wills, the negro heavyweight,J vas in New Haven yesterday. He was lot at all bashful about talking to he newspaper boys and among other hings said:
 They'll probably give me fight with Dempsey when I'm 99 years 'ld." Wills, his wife and another ( OuplC iIOlOlCd uoWii lIOlll INtW OIh hJ o enjoy the pleasures of the beach, eaving after a few hours on the re- urn trip.
 Seldom have two tennis players { hown the strain of severe match n such heat as did William M. John ton, the worlds champion, and R. Norris Williams 2d in their four-set hatch yesterday afternoon. Before | oing on the court Johnston stepped . n the scales and weighed IF pounds. ,. During the intermission between the , hird and fourth sets he again stepped n the scales and weighed Ill pounds. ! n spite of the loss of this weight, i, owever, Johnston was stronger than | Williams at the finish. z
 If Shorty Long, Waterbury's di- linutive hard hitting third sacker, lays in the next three scheduled V ames, he will have played in 400 z games with the Water s ury club, an Eastern league record. f.
 Shorty" joined the Brasscos at the n tart of the 1921 season and played f, very inning that year. In 1922 he e as in the game every minute and I oiled up string of 300 consecutive n ames. So far this season he had \,