The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-12

Today the moguls of the Eastern league are in session at their an- nual meeting in New York. They are to elect president the concensus of opinion being that Edward G. Bar row. manager of Toronto last season will be the choice succeeding Pat Powers who will not allow his name to go before the meeting for re-elec- tion.
 Manager McCann of the local team will be in the works during the week. With the Eastern league meeting to- day and the two majors before the end of the week, McCann will have an extensive program to carry out. It is just now the time when the big teams are turning their surplus play CTS adrift. McCann is there to haul in the drift wood
 That Harvard Law School football holiday jaunt to Memphis and New Orleans, is pretty classy bunch. Among others it includes such bril-
 liant veterans as Hamilton Fish, Jr., Ham Corbett. Sam Hoar, Paul With ington and Bob White, of Harvard; {; Auchincloss. of Yale and Moore and Pfeiffer of Princeton.
 Zbyszko. who wrestles Hjalmar Iiun- din. Wednesday night at Eagles hall. has big proposition on his hands to- takes on Dr. F. B. Roller. the Seat -le expert. Roller a few nights ago in Pittsburg gave Hackenschmidt stiff fight. Hack agreed to throw the med icine man in an hour. but could not do it. Instead he had a hard time keep The giant Pole and the physician will wrestle to a finish.
 Eleven players in the American As- sociation hit over 300. the leader be- ing Jimmy Barrett of Milwaukee. hide for .33s. Dave Altizer. who was formerly with Springfield. was one of those in the charmed number. Next season he will be with Cincinnati.
 Harry Burke. Bridgeport's fastest marvel on skates. and Howard Chat field of Waterbury, are having great success in their matches at the Met ropoit tan rink in New York. Last Thursday night in a relay race against William Blackburn, the Eastern pro- fessiona1 champion, and Frank Brow meg State kids showed great form, winning by nearly a half lap in the fast time of 15:20.
 Los Angeles. Cal, Dec. 12-At last the world will know whether. in the opinion of James J. Jeffries. the maui ing he received in Reno on July last was in "real prize fight or in mere boxing exhibition"
 A subpoena was served on Jeffries, Saturday, summoning him to appear as a witness in the case of B. Byrne, charged with exhibiting moving pie lures of the Reno flight" at Arcadia, Cal. Byrne's defense will be that the pictures do not show a fight, but a boxing exhibition.
 .Jeffries is expected to testify in sup port of Byrne's contention, though per sons who saw Jeffries' face on July last today expressed a faint suspic- ion that perhaps Jeff be mistaken in his opinion. :.
 It now appears that Tom Connery, manager of the Hartford team, has made such rapid strides in recovery from his injury of last season when he was hurt in an auto accident. that he will again guard the initial sack for the Senators. Associations are of the New England League for a deal for First Baseman Yam, who suc- ceeded Connery
 The New Haven club has just pur- chased Martin Craig, a young inf1elder. from the Dayton club of the Central League. Craig is about 21 years old and is considered a fast fielder and a good batter.
 The third block of the 500 point pool game bstween Bill Ricketts of this city and Fred Stewart of New Haven will be played in the latter city ot- night. The score now stands Rick etts 300. Stewart 169.
 Eddie Root of the Root-Moran team finished in the final mile of the six day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden in New York Saturday even- ing. His time for the mile was 3 minutes 56 1-5 seconds and his dis tance for the six days, 2,545 miles, 3 laps. Jackie Clarke of the Clarke Rutt team finished second by half a wheel. Joe Fogler of the Hill-Fogler team, third and Paddy Hehir of the Goullett-Hehir team, fourth. The victors divide s1,6OO. The record is 2.7S7 miles, 1 lap made by MacFar-
 Many locM fight fans will be in attendance tonight in New Haven looking over the card being put on by the Anchor Club of that city. The main bout of the evening will be be- tween Mike Glover of Boston and Fighting Dick Nelson of Brooklyn. Both boys will weigh in at 3 o'clock at 143 pounds. Bunny Ford of New will furnish the fire works in the semi-final and Joe Marcks of High wood and Fighting Fitzpatrick of New York in the preliminary match laE10