The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-28
SPORTS

New York, Jan. 2S.-One sometimes has to go away from home to learn the news. A London newspaper which has just reached this side throws some light on the ancestry of Jim Jeffries. It says:
 ."JeIries former heavyweight cham p1on, is a direct descendant of Lord Jeffreys' the famous hanging judge of olden times. Lord JeffreyS had seven sons, six of whom were prominent Ja- i cob1tes. After the rebellion they es- capped to Virginia, and the pugilist traces his descent in a direct line from one of them
 Judge Jeffreys conducted the famous court held after the battle of Sedge- moor in 1885, when 32O executions were ordered carried out. He died in the | Tower of London"
 Paul Sternberg, who worked in the Connecticut League last Summer, will be one of Tom Lynch's umps in the Ma tional League the coming year, and those who aEe acquainted with Stern berg's work believe that he will be able to make good in the big league. One thing is certain-he will be the boss i of the games in which he works, and he won't stand for the rough comedy. It will be all business when he works, and he is gifted with the ability which
 
 | Boston, Jan. 2S.-Manager Patsy Don- ovan. remembering the serious trou- ble the New York American club had when Hal Chase contra cted smallpox last spring during the training trip l in the south, has decided to take prop CT precautions against any such ex- perience for the Boston Americans. He mailed yesterday to each player on the team a request that he be vac | cinated by competent physician at once so that by the time the men reach Hot Springs there will be no soreness left in the arms.
 Each player is further requested to obtain certificate from his physician, that may be shown to any health au-' thorities throughout the south. These are returnable to Manager Donovan that he may show a clean bill of | health for his team on demand. John L. Sullivan Is in Boston and when asked regarding the reports that l he Is to marry Utica, N. Y., woman, replied: "I would like to know the fellow who has been circulating those stories. Marry Why should I? And besides, I never have any thoughts of 1t. AS to marrying a Utica woman ! I do not know any woman in that city. The fellow that is spreading that 1 joke better not let me get hold of him. I am going to Europe, sailing from here Feb. 8, and Jake Kilrain is going with me-"
 Lynch the umpire" was the cry we used to hear frequently in the days i when I was playing ball. said Al Myers, the old time second baseman, referring to the recently elected pres ident of the National Baseball league. But there was comma after the name
 
 of his time. and by the way, he was the only umpire that ever fined me. And he soaked me good and plenty i fined me three times. The first fine. 1 felt at the time was unjust-the oth- CT two were directly attributable to an impression I couldn't get rid of during the game.
 : Lynch as an umpire was mart1net. He ruled the field absolutely, and I'm inclined to think he'll convince the magnates they have held the center of the stage long enough. There's too much commercialism in baseball these days and too much talk about the sayings and doings of the holders of the dough bars. I would respectfully suggest to the sporting writers of the country that Charles Webb Murphy ! stop a grounder or catch a fly before he is again permitted to rave in print. Perhaps it's the tendency of the times to pay attention to the money chang ers.'
 President Tracy of the Connecticut League is quoted as being in favor of pooling the holiday receipts and, ac- cording to the interview, he believes that if the magnates do not agree to adopt such a plan this year, that it will surely come later. This subject has been threshed out for a long time in the Connecticut and other leagues, and mas not been popular. Just why it should be resurrected every now and then is not clear. Why not let a dead issue remain in its grave?
 Manager Jack TiPhe of the Rock Is- land club and a former helmsman in the Connecticut circuit, has signed a William Hunter of Brooklyn N. Y., who is twin brother of George Hun ter, the Brooklyn pitcher and outfeld- CT. He is a left handed hitter. Joseph D. O'Brien, deposted president of the American Association, denies the story that he is to become business manager of the Phillies.
 Gleason, Rickard, Jeffres and Ber- ger are still busy wrangling over the battle-ground for the big fight. a plan of action adopted finely for advertising purposes. Meanwhile Johnson. who is showing in New York gains more newspaper notoriety by hammering another colored citizen into a state of coma. It may be good press work, but it's very, very tiresome in the opin-