The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-17
SPORTS

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 bile accident at Philadelphia recently Joe ORourke. an infelder on the
 Waterbury team during the latter
 out the season of 1907 and for few
 days in 1908, may never be able to
 play professional ball again. While
 riding with his brother the auto col
 l1ded with truck and Joe was thrown
 out, landing heavily on his right
 shoulder. He sustained a severe frac- : ture close to the shoulder and fears
 are entertained that his great throw
 ing arm will never be itself again. | O 'ROurke was such a promising ball
 player that he lasted several months
 in the National league before being
 turned back for more seasoning. He
 was with Indianapolis for a greater part of last season but was later I turned over to the Lynn club of the
 New England league. A few weeks
 ago he was traded to one of the
 clubs in the New York state league
 not affect the trade.
 l Boston baseball fans are feeling a l bit happier today, for one of the fav-
 orites has sent in his Red Sox con- | tract. It is Bill Carrigan from the State of Maine, the greatest youngster catcher in the business. A worthy l successor to Lou Criger who has the
 passe veteran beaten many ways and
 some more in comparison today. James Edward Johnson, a New 1 York negro, will have $30,00O to bet
 on the illustrious fighter of the same
 sme and color if he so wishes. The surrogate upheld and admitted to pro- bate recently the will of Bridget l Torpy. white cook, who died re-
 gently leaving her entire estate to the l negro because he befriended her.
 Relatives contested the will. but the
 surrogate holds that Bridget was of
 sound mind, and that Johnson is
 legally entitled to the bequest. $16,5OO
 of which issin cash.
 Keinath, the famous all-around i Pennsylvanian athlete. and a most /! sensational college basketball player,
 has received many offers from pro- l fessional teams, but says that he is
 through with the game.
 The old-fashioned baseball spikes
 will be retained in the American
 league according to decision reach ed by B. B. Johnson, president of the
 league. and Charles A. Comiskey. president of the Chicago Americans
 after a conference Friday. we have
 inspected several devices intended to l supplant the present spikes" said Johnson, "but have found none of 1 them satisfactory::"
 Frank Erne, the former champion 1 lightweight who has been in Paris for
 several years, is on a visit to this l country. He says that the money is 1 coming in so fas to him in Paris that
 he is going to return in a few days.
 Hughie Jennings is of the opinion 1 that schedule of 168 games would be the worst possible move. The leader of the champion Tigers de- | clares the longer playing period makes the game look altogether too
 commercial to suit the public's tastes. Vernon Austin, the middleweight
 champion of Canada, who will op- pose Dan Sullivan in Boston Tuesday, recently knocked out Billy Rhodes in one round. This is a trick that Billy Papke, Joe Walcott and Terry Martin failed to do with Rhodes.
 l There is no reason why the Ameri- can Indian should not excel in base ballaRs in other athletic pursuits. The Carlisle Indians have proved to us that they can play football and the Canadian redskins are among the fin- l est lacrosse players across the bor- | der. Longboat and several other red men have kept alive the reputati | of their race as great distance rum n0TS, dIlQ the fOcy uOGS nOC seem Tar l distant when the Indian VIII force his way into major league baseball. We have had Bender, Myers, Bruce, Leroy and Sockalexis in the major | leagues, not to mention Mig" Clark, l who, has Indian blood in his veins. Poor Lo will bear watching.-Boston
 Journal.
 l Bill Robbins, the former Cambridge lad, who became prominent through | out the country because of the speed shown in the famous 40-meter race that he will throw aside the spike shoe. He is to leave New York to again take up his residence in Bos- I ton.
 According to the Hartford papers,
 Mana ger Tom Connery of the Sena- | tors is being urged to coach the Trinity college baseball recruits this spring. Connery is considering an
 offer from Washington college in St. | Louis, Mo.
 Charley Harvey may succeed in getting lem Driscoll to come to this country the latter part of next month. DriscOll can make more over here in
 a month than he could by boxing in I England and Wales in two months, as he was a great attraction when he
 last visited these shores. The little | Welshman is the cleverest foreign
 boxer that has appeared in this coun- l try since the days of that unfortu-
 nate Australian boxing marvel, Young Griffo.
 | Managers Hugh Duffy and Patsy Donovan were discussing old ball players the other day, and both de-
 ciared that Jimmy Collins was with out question the greatest third base
 man they had ever known. The con- sensus of opinion of all ball players would probably agree with this judg- ment of Collins.
 ! Mike Murphy says that Pennsyl- vania plays the hardest football schedule, and is anxious to have the red and blue engage in a couple more 1 hard conflicts next fall before it winds l up it's season with Cornell