The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21
SPORTS

Al O'Dell. the old Bridgeporter, and who makes his home in this city when the snow flies, has been turned over to the Syracuse New York State league team by the Reading Tri- State club. In exchange for O'Dell Reading gets Anderson, an lnfielder, who did good work in the Western league last season.
 What the interested ones say: Governor Spry of Utah-There will be no fight in Salt Lake City or any other place in Utah. The authorities will take whatever drastic steps are necessary to prevent it.
 Jack Gleason-I have been prom ised a special permit to hold the big fight, and it will surely take place in | California.
 "Tex" Rickard-I said I would pull off the fight at Salt Lake City and ] that is final So confident am I that | I will post the entire purse of $101,- 900 with Final Stakeholder Big ''Tim" | Sullivan.
 Jim Jeffries-I hope the fight takes place in California.
 Jack Johnson-I am willing to fight any pace.
 Another player who will be skidded | is Catcher Herman Schincel, the si- lent. Schincel is one of Dufant's standbys and is in business in the Brass City, running a pool and bill Hard room and. bowling alleys. It is probable that some State league team will pick him up. He is a reliable but quiet player. Finn is to have McDon-
 aid and Ahearn for backstops and
 figures they will be plenty. |
 Billy Papke will sail on the Baltic on Saturday for pastures new He
 will go direct to Paris, and hopes to
 arrange 8 fight. with Willie Lewis
 Later he expects to get match with Tom Thomas in England at the mid
 dleweight limit.
 zbysco, the Polish wrestler, defeat
 ed Roal De Rouen, the French cham pion, in two straight falls in Buffalo
 last night. De Rouen was disquali-
 field in the first bout for clinging to
 the mat, losing in 26 minutes The
 second bout was won by Zbysco. John
 Lemm, the Swiss threw three men in
 10 minutes and challenged Zbysco. Charlie Schmidt, the Detroit catch
 er says that there are more new
 shoes worn by players in the Ameri-
 can league in one season that in all
 of the other leagues in organized
 
 they carry new spikes. In the Amer
 ican players go after everything in
 sight, and when they catch b9ck-
 stop who will not give them the path they come into him feet first all the
 time.
 Edmund Lamy, the Saranac Lake
 champion, the question of whose
 eligibility caused the International
 Skating union to revoke the charter
 of the Eastern Amateur Skating as-
 sociation in favor of a new organiZa-
 tion to govern ice racing in this sec-
 ton of the country, will be the at-
 traction at the skating race meeting
 to be held next Monday night at the
 St. Nicholas skating rink, New York.
 Lamy will meet all the New York champions in the special one-mile
 handicap for Class A skaters.
 The director of the Michigan gym nasium has upset certain theories of long standing by advising the athletes
 to eat sweets while training. He maintains that they are builders of muscle and aids to good digestion. . All the pure confectionery the man in training wants will not hurt him,
 according to the theory which has been adopted in the gymnasium train ing and which has shown good re- suits.
 The report that Fordham had drop ped football because of a poor finan-
 cial season is emphatically denied by ] the college authorities. Football at
 Fordham has been quite free from se- | l riouS accidents, and the game is very popular there The teams coached by
 Howard Gargan are getting stronger and stronger every year, and it would
 be considered very foolish to give the game up. Joneo Arai, a Japanese student in the sophomore class at Harvard, has
 been appointed second assistant base ball manager. He will become var sity manager in his senior year. Arai ! spent year at Yale before going to Harvard.
 Yussiff Mahmout, the Turk, and Stanislaw Zbyszko, Polish champion, have been matched to wrestle a handicap bout in private in Chicago On Jan. 30, for $500 a side. Accord ing to the articles of agreement, Nah mout is to throw Zbyszko twice. in one hour of actual wrestling or lose the match. If the Pole gains fall . he shall be ceclared the winner. The place is to be selected by E.W. Smith, who will act as referee, name the of ficial timekeepers and arrange other details of the match.
 Stanley Ketchel is also after Tom Thomas, who holds the middleweight championship of England. He has sent cable message to Thomas say ing he would be in England next June and would challenge for the English
 title. Ketchel is matched to meet Tommy Burns in Australia, but will spend six weeks in England on his way around the world.
 Jack Bennett's two-year-old lilly
 AldiVia, by AlfortenD Divination amaz-
 ed racegoers at Moncrief park track
 yesterday by the great speed she
 showed in the first race. She ran
 the quarter-mile course in 0:22 1-5-
 full second faster than the previous
 records hung up by the young racers
 It was her first race.
 Two former Connecticut league
 players may figure in trades within a few weeks. Bert Grubb, the former Holyoke third sacker, now owned by the Albany club of the New York State league, is being considered in | connection with a deal that will mean
 $4OO additional, and the turning of
 Clay and Brown of the Trenton club } of the Tri-State league to Albany ! Utica is anxious to land Steamer g Flanagan, the former Pony, who wore z