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\BY TY HETTINGER.s ,r;' Staff S lengthened* :-Bridgeport’s pitching staff has-been', bolstered by * the addition cif two new twitlers,' Chambers and ; McHenty of Philadelphia, Neither'' one ' ha's. had. an opportunity, - .to - show, yet, but .jtiheir ■ value do ;the clu'b. was evident-yesterday when Pitcher Eddie Xennori lurried i'n-onXof.his best ■performances of . the' season.: .-..tphe- merej fact that .there are ' 'Others ready and •waiting to''step intoX the shoes' ; qf : those who 'taiiter-•-is.,\ehough -to'-put- the boys on dltoir hetal.',•- -■ -lr ’ .■ ' ,.... . 1.‘.F'af: he i.t from us to suggest that-bur words of yesterday cam ried any',-weight with the' management—but-a perusal of the ■ box .score -of. yesterday’s gamediscloses the fact that the sacrifice was -used five times arid apparently with success,■ — • . ftX- - - Pickling: lleoprds,. .■ “Bridgeport H o wi e” Bn it e r desecrated the. family name-'yesterday,' according to- “Holyoke Howie/' He com'piled for. mis-plays in .one game;' which isso m’e thing “Holyoke I-Iowiri never did. ,. '•, ■ .✓ The 'Bridgeport 'boy’s'-'.record for'the day, (two .games,)' when .set down in ibox score figures, looks like, this:’Baker•• ‘ . S 0 :1,5 6 4. Batting percentage,:.3T5; .herding percentage, .733,At that. SchreiberXshortstop for the’ Waterbui-y, Mattutucks . and one- off the heaviest'hitters ■ in th* league, established.“some record” ' when be made three mi splays in one game' on- two .' consecutive daj-s.■ Chance for Erison to get busy on a-magnetic fingerfg-Ihve withan affinity for a baseball. ,Peck After Record;' Holders. 'Roger Peckinpaugh/pnce the•ilight-hitting, but now the hardhitting 'Yankee shortstop, is/ rapidly putting: all consecutive 'hitting'records behind him. He -has.now hit safely in each'’of . -his last 28' g’ames.-passing , the v21-game mark set by. Babe Ruth.: of'the Boston Red Sox'earlier in , the season, and-,- that of Zick-Wheat (-2G. games.) made; last season. He is now pointed' to-■wards Cob’b’s ■ record of 40 straight made in the 1910 campaign/- '' 'if Roger ever-passes Cobb'smark safely he will be' well on his way t©ward the major league ■ record of 44 straight games . held ,-by Willie Keeler.Jack Dempsey having won the Championship will allow each and , every man in the U. S. .A. to look upon him at fifty cents a look.„ Jess Willard having uplifted■ the fight giimc for the last five years will now. try his hand at uplifting. Oil from the Texas fields. . .• '. Maurice' Shorty” Dee, Woe-*• 1caster shortstop, - complains byletter to this office that'he was liot' credited with a stolen' base in the Telegram’s box score of Monday’s game. Dee is eminently correct. He stole second base in the ninth inning, and■ credit for the- steal was accidentally given to Redmond;.* * ' ’.-j-'On'' glancing over the box ' scores t/ublislred by three afternoon 'papers in the city,, we note- that .by some strange coin-. cicienee they all made .the same mistake—credited . Redmond with 'the, *.stbren base .which should have gone to 'Dee.ft is Dee's earnest request that the Official Scorer,, rectify •the mistake the leaguriaccords.
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Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Wed, Jul 09, 1919
Page 31
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Marty H.
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