The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-15
Sport Notes Of Interest
(Special from United Press. )


 New Orleans, March 15-Johnny King, premier Cub catcher, is ex- pected to join the team here today, following his start from Kansas City yesterday. The veteran backstop is confident that the coming season will be the greatest of his career.
 Boston March 15-Arrangements were completed at Harvard today for the first Southern trip of a crimson track team for several years. Twen- ty athletes and Coaches Donovan and Flynn will leave April IA for Balti- more, where they will use the Johns Hopkins track and equipment until April 19, when they go to Annapolis for a meet. The team returns April A
 New York. March 15-There is new record for the indoor mile relay today, as the result of the New York quar- tets victory over Boston and Phila- delphia pastime games, last night. The time was 3:25 2-5. The Gotham team was composed of Dorland, Ro- senberger, Shephard and Gissing.
 The three standing jumps mark was twice lowered during the games, the record finally going to Dan Healy, who covered 35 feet ' 3-S inches
 Brockton, Mass, March 15-The Crescents of this city hung up a new worlds record for duck pins, last night, bowling for 1878 Burr was
 The Walkovers, bowling against the Crescents, set up a second new mark, toppfing 742 pins in a single string.
 Cambridge, Mass, March 15-Har- ward and Cornell will probably row at Ithaca on May 27. The date. arrang- ed at conference held Saturday at which it was finally decided to con- tfnue relations in this sport, was an- nounced last night. It has yet to be formally approved by the Harvard Athletic Council but it is expected this will be done within a few days.
 Paris, March 15-At the meet at Maisons-I.af1tte yesterday, W. K. Van Prix Sornette for three-year-olds, s1,- 200, distance six furlongs. In the Prix du Vieux Moulin, selling event of s60O, distance ten furlongs, Nash Fur ner's F'riand> II came in second.
 Salem, N J., March 15-Thomas B. Pancoast, one of the greatest checker players in the United States. died in Hancock Bridge yesterday. Years ago he played draws with Mathew c. Priest, then champion of the United States, and defeated James Wylie, the Scotchman, when he was considered champion of the world.
 Charleston, Miss, March 15-Amos Rusie, New Yorks famous pitcher of former days, thinks he can come back. and has been given a chance by a mil lionaire lumberman at this place, who has agreed to furnish Rusie with all the money necessary to gather a win ming team for the coming season. The big pitcher writes that he will pitch and play first base. Many Chicago ap- plicants have already been received for places on Rusie's giants
 Cincinnati March 15-The National Commission made a recommendation to the National and American Leagues and the National Association, yester- day, to arrange section 1 of article 7 of the National Agreement so as to make it compulsory for clubs to ten der contracts to players before Feb ruary 1 of each year. Hitherto this da te has been fixed at March 1, and in- case a contract is not rendered to a player by that time the player is declared free agent.
 Until such a change is made the commission rules that the player does
 
 contract by March 1, but the contract must be in the malls by that time.
 New York. March 15-Announcement was made yesterday by Secretary John Heydler of the National League, of the National League umpires who will officiate in the spring series between the Athletics and the Phillies and be- tween the St. Louis Browns and Roger Bresnahan's Rejuvenated Rajahs, for the city mpionship of Philadelphia and St. Louis, respectively.
 Albany, N. Y, March 15-Sports- men monopolized the time of both branches of the Legislature yesterday. The Senate passed the spring duck shooting bill which received 26 votes, just the number necessary to secure its passage. The Assembly defeated the Sunday amateur baseball bill by a vote of 73 to 65, much to the sur prise of its promoters.
 The Republicans, with the aid of the insurgent Democrats, killed MT. Me Grath's Sunday baseball bill, which permits baseball games Sunday after nOons at which no admission is charged. A vigorous lobby, marshaled by Rev. R. O. Miller the State super of the New York Civic League, opposed the bill on the floor, arousing several protests from some