The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-19

SPORTS
 Information comes via New Haven of the City Military Indoor baseball league is to receive a spring tryout with the Orators. Recor was also wanted by Durant of Waterbury, but according to the Elm City end he de- cided to cast his lot with Manager O'Rourke. According to the same source of information Recor will no doubt make good as he has all the qualities of a fast ball player. Fordham college announces that it will abandon football, even if the rules are reformed. The game has been found to be a costly sport and has caused the students to neglect their studies during the fall season. The game played Thanksgiving day with Syracuse under adverse conditions, and which attracted but few persons, put a big hole in the Fordham treas ury.
 | Manager McGraw will take twelve pitchers to Marlin Springs, Tex, the latter part of next month. Mathewson,
 Wiltse Ames, Raymond, Crandall and
 Marquard will be the regulars. while | the new men are Bell and Daily from
 Springfield. o.: Parsons. from Marion, To-; and Dickson from Birmingham. l Drucke and Klawitter, picked up in Texas last summer, will round out the
 corps.
 1 Al Kaufman must beat Philadelphia Jack O'Brien decisively in their six
 round bout in Philadelphia tonight if he wishes to be classed among the top
 notch heavyweights. Kaufman IS
 eight years younger, three inches tall
 CT and forty pounds heavier than O'Brien, who knocked him out in sev- enteen rounds more than four years ago. Ketchel knocked all the fight out of O'Brien in two battles last year, but since then Crafty Jack has recov-
 cred some of his nerve and still be- heves he possesses some skill. lie IS
 still a fast boxer and expects to out
 point Kaufman without much trouble
 The big Californian, who was out pointed by Jack Johnson in ten rounds 1 last September, is a hard hitter but slow in action. His friends say he
 can win if he goes in am and oa1l slugs 3 s corner the shifty Quaker?
 | New Jersey is likely to see 1egalized
 Sunday baseball during the coming
 season for the first time in many years Baseball enthusiasts claim to l have secured almost solid support for a bill introduced in the Legislature last year and now before the Senate. The
 bill is not compulsory, but must be | approved by the Aldermen of each l city or town before it becomes opera tive.
 | nj authorities believe in Tad Jones as l football coach. He has been re-en- gagged to coach the candidates next year, despite the weak showing Syra- cuse made last fall.
 | Twenty-six players of the Western
 League batted above 300 last season, according to President O'Neil's official
 averages. Welch of Omaha headed
 the list with .372. Ducky Holmes was
 third with .357.
 Earl D. Wilson of Annapolis. injured | in a football game October 23. contin- ues to improve. His physicians have
 expressed the belief that complete cure will be wrought A vertebra of Will i sons neck was broken in such way
 that it compressed the spinal cord.
 The operation performed relieved the
 pressure and the cord is slowly begin I Wilson is cheerful and hopeful. His
 gameness has much to do with his inn
 provement.
 Thirty-one youngsters will be taken I South by the Phillies in the spring.
 don, Coveleskie. Foxen, Humphries, McBride< McQuillen. Moore, Moren,
 Scanlon, Sparks, Troy; Catchers Doon,
 Jacklitsch, McDonough, Martel; In- fielders Bransfield. Knabe, Ward, Glea- son, Doolan, Grant, Berghammer, Titus, Deininger, Epler. Hartley, Vel chance.
 "Phil'' King, the once great quar- terback at Princeton, is wanted as coach at Missouri university next fall
 in '@Bill'' Roper's place. It is figured
 that with King as coach the record of
 no defeats made last Sall will be re-
 peated.
 The polo team which is banked
 around Big Fred Jean will usually be found near the top Of the ladder For
 all around ability on the rollers it is doubtful if the game ever produced a player equal to the big Frenchman,
 who is leading the Whalers in the
 present National League race. ! 1 Chicago every club in the National | League has made 'overtures for Her.
 zog, Fletcher and Merkle. But in each 1 case McGraw has asked for the best | those clubs have. hence the delay in | announcing a deal. The other fel- 1 lows must give up something good
 for any of these men. The New York club is not selling players. It wants 1 to make a trade
 | The Ohio State University has been very fortunate in securing Howard Jones, the head coach of last years Yale eleven, to coach it's football can didate next fall. He gave the matter
 much consideration and signed up with Ohio this week.
 | There are twenty-five men named Williams playing professional baseball 1 twenty-nine named Clark, thirty-four named Brown and seventy-three nam ed Smith. l Pugilism during the year just ended | attracted more attention and excited | more interest in the civilized world
 than ever before This is shown by the fact that the Jeffries-Johnson fight | scheduled for next Fourth of July has
 drawn record breaking purse of
 $1O1, 900. The Johnson-Burns contest
 in December, 1908, worked up Austra-
 Hans to a high pitch of excitement so hat 1or 9z ,..cz