The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-01
AL 0'DELL AND ART DEVLIN IN BOUT QUIT EVEN. Husky Bridgep0rter Says M'Graw's Giants Are Bunch
 of Quitters
 Devlin Resented Charge Offered
 Al to Show His Colors and
 Corking Mill Followed Until Interrupted by Managers Be,ligerents Shake Hands and Make up

Evidently Southern breezes and Al
 O'Del1 do not mix we'll. The zephyrs
 are inclined to make AIS blood ripple
 warmer than it should be. The resu,
 is that O'Dell becomes a little too hot
 headed, and wants to swing his arms
 Thursday he wanted to bat the New
 York Giants out of the National
 League by beating Christy Mathewsoli
 on the thatch with his hickory stick.
 Perhaps he was right in desiring t..
 hand a beating to the Giants maiE-
 stay, and perhaps he was not. There
 is no way to judge from the account
 sent out by the war correspondents
 with the Giants in Atlanta
 They are So garbled and some so
 one-sided, with of course the Giants
 always in the right, that there is no story, however, that the big league clubs have a hard lot to travel in their practice games. The fans d not seem to take to them, and nat urally pull hard for the home team to bring home the bacon. When the
 resident talent cannot turn the trick the big leaguers have to stand the gulf the case in the Thursday encounter in which one MT. Brewster was very conspicuous. Some reports had it that he cleaned up three Giants and others that he was himself cleaned up. ss4te Anyway, Al O'Dell was in the melee, and threatened to dash out Mathew sons brains with few wailops from his stick. He tried a few swings but did not get within a bat length of the 1 big leaguer. Yesterday the i'll feel ing broke out again, and resulted in a personal encounter between O'Dell and Arthur Devlin, the Giants third 1 Sacker -s:- 1 It started in this way: As soon as the Giants went on the field, Devlin and O'Dell entertained with little boxing exhibition. O'Del1 made. 9. crack toe Arthur that the Giants were
 yellow bunch of athletes for attack ing one man, and that there wasn't
 a good fight in them. The remark made Devlin peevish and he inform ed the Bridgeporter that he would not mind trying his hand at the sparring paStime. Both men are the same size. and as the story goes, they apr peared to be evenly matched. The players of both clubs formed a ring and bet on their representatives. Dew 1 lin soon showed that he was also a big 1 leaguer in the pug stuff as we'll as in 1 the national pastime, while O'Deli made it appear that he was no minor 1 leaguer The battle waged warmly 1 for fully five minutes, when the man. agers of both clubs appeared on the field and put an end to hostilitfes. That was the end of the rumpus be tween the two. for they then shook hands and made up There were a l few more tilts during the contest, but no more exhibitions of fistfcuffs. Evi- dently the Giants are peevish crew, ] for three were put out of yesterday s 1 contest, Marquad, MerAde and Dev- i lin.
 The Giants won the game easily, III. ODen secured the only Atlanta run. In the sixth, Al hit Marquad l for single, went to second when the l next batter was passed, to third on an l infield out. and scored while the fol- l lowing batter was being hurled out at first. Al secured two hits out of four times up, had two put outs and l three assists.