The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-02
SPORTING GOSSIP


 l New York where 1t will meet Colum. bia in the second game the blue has played in the intercollegiate series | Columbia has been beaten three times i by close scores so far and Yale defeat ed Cornell last Saturday after showing 1 great improvement from their beating at Dartmouths S hands early in the sea- | son.
 New Haven, Feb. 2.-The local base ball fans are lending their, support to 1 the management in an effort to sign George Paige. the twirler from Char leStOwn, s. C., who was recently drop ped by John McGraw, manager of the Giants, for the coming season. Paige signed with the Giants last season but was later farmed out to New Haven The record he established here placed him in the rank with the best pitchers in the league. When McGraw began dropping some of the extra, material this year Paige was among those elim- mated.
 Philadelphia, Feb. 2.-With little to
 boast of in his victory over Tommy Langdon last night, Jem Driscoll said today that his future fighting dates
 will keep him so busy he would not
 have time to meet Langdon again within the present month. The six l round affair between the two feather weights was fast with Langdon com ing up for more. Driscoll had a shade the better of it.
 Lorain, O., Feb. 2.-In a. drew with George Frazier, a local youngster, last night, 'Kid" Broad failed to show any of. his old time brilliancy. It was a six round go and under the agreement 1t was a draw.
 New York, Feb. 2.-Matt Maloney, winner of the New York Marathon race on December 26 in the fastest time ever made by an amateur over the distance of 26 miles and 385 yards, intends to turn professional.
 Boston. Feb. 2.-Both Harry Lewis of Philadelphia and Bill McKinnon of fight tonight at the Armory A. A. here. Lewis came down from North Boston today where he has been train ing. McKinnon has been doing his work in this city. Lewis has few equals in skill and it is difficult to conceive how the Roxbury boy can get decision over his opponent. The rounds.
 Boston, Feb. 2.-The crack basket ball team of the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology starts tomorrow on it's annual New York trip, playing Wesleyan and the New York city col leges. Since the beginning of the sea- son the stars of the Back Bay school have not been defeated. The sched- ule for the trip is: Feb. 3, Wesleyan at Middletown; Feb. 4, Manhattan College at New York; Feb 5, College of City of New York at New York; Feb. 6, New York University at New York trip: Captain F.. M. Wentworth, 19O9 Manager W. B. Hargraves, 1910; G. R. Lord, 1910; T. B. Parker, 1911; T. T. Bennett 1912; Sub Tait, 1909, and Sub T. F. Kendrick, 1912.
 Chicago, Feb. 2.-John L. Sullivan said today: "I believe that Jeffries am on my way to the Pacific coast for a heart-to-heart talk with him. [ be- lieve we can convince him that he must whip Johnson even if he has to give the belt away again."
 Chicago, Feb. 2.-The general verdict among patrons of the wrestling game in Chicago today is that RaoI De Rowen, the Frenchman, will never be allowed another match in this city after the exhibition of rough slugging that he gave in his match last night with Yussif Maxwell. who beat RoWen with two straight falls Rowen struck his opponent repeatedly and at one time the police threatened to stop the bout Jack Curley, the announcer. was struck in the mouth by Rowen when he protested against the foul tac- tics of the F'renchman.
 Jerry Denny, bartender at the Strat- field was in New York yesterday and was caught in a reminiscent mood bv some of the New York sporting writ CTS. Denny in his day was consider ed the best third base man in the busi- rcss Denny in h1s conversation drift ed back to the days when gloves were never used.
 "T never used a glove playing third base" he said, land in my day the only kind of glove used was the small one with no fingers to it Many a present day player owes his ability to stay in the game to the gloves worn I have kept pace with baseball and see games every year, but it is my opin- ion that the old Chicago agos-Anson. Will Hanson, Flint, Kelley, Gore, Pfeffer, Clarkson and the others of that crowd were the best ball team that ever played
 Jem Driscoll, of England, beat Tom my I4angdon of Philadelphia, before the Washington A. A., Philadelphia, last night in a six-round tile The BritOn won all the way but I,angdon