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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
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e young contractor In a Missouri
town fo1nd himself after the war in
dire financial straits. He owned few
pieces Of property, all of which were
mOrtgaged the mortgage In each IN
stance being held by an old man who
Mxed with his one son. BroclEy, In q
tnmbledowa hut that could not be
rented 10 any one else. In the course
Nf time the miser forec1osed, taking
ever ali the contractors property,
which was valued in excess of the
amounts loaned. The contractor began
TO pay rent on the house in which he
lived. Three months after the fore
nIosure the mGser lay dying. An urgent
message reached the contractor, and
he, supporting that the other, knowing
his end to be near, wanted 30 make
what restitution he could for the good
OF his soul, buried down to the cabin.
He found the old man IN r1ekety bed,
covered with a tattered quilt and an
old overcoat. The contractor bent his
ear hopefully TO the others lips. The
ntser drew a long breath, cEutehed
the QHilt In skinny hand and whis-
pered:
'Pay your next months rent to
Brocky. City Star.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20

+ From the time of King John till 1889
Nov 1B was known as bull running
day. IN Stamford. A seventeenth CEN
fury historian gives an interesting ac-
count Of the observance.
"The butchers provide the bull and
place him overnight in a stable belong
ing to the alderman. The next morn
ing pEocIama ton is made by the bell
man that each one shut up his shop
door and gate and none under. pain OF
imprisonment do any violence to stran-
gerss none to have any iron upon their
bu11 clubs or other slaves, which they
pursue the bull with Which proc1a-
nation being made and the gates all
shut up, the bulI in turned out of the
a7de1xnan's house, and then hivie shvy,
tagrag, men, women and children of all
sorts and sizes, with all the dogs in the
town running after him"
at the close Of the chase the animal
was Killed and it's flesh sold at a nomi-
nal rate 30 the burgheFs--LondOn Spec
ta&or.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
CORNELL CAN'T LOSE
BASKETBALL TITLE
First Time Championship Ever Went
to ithaca University.

CornelPs basketball team cannot be
beaten for the intercollegiate league
championship although it still has to
meet Dartmouth in the final game of
the season. The Ithieans have won
six of their seven games The Cor
nellians have shown great ability this
season and the five has the honor of
capturing the first basketball cham
pionship that has ever gone to ithaca.
Pennsylvania and Columbia, which
for years have been the contending
teams for the title, Will finish far in
the rJrck, with Columbia. probably in
the last place and Pennsylvania next
to last. Princeton played poorly in
the early season, but in the last few
games has had g. run Of luck which
has put it well UP with the leaders.
Dartmouth got OF to poor start
and was beaten by both Pennsylvania
and Cornell.
Three more games will wind up the
league season. Dartmouth faces Co
1umbia in New York on Saturday
night and on March l. Cornell will
meet Dartmouth at Hanover and Co
IuTnbfa will journey to Philadelphia
for it's annual game with the Quak-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
Reasonable ohisctio,.

Conan Doyle WAS once asked why he
didn't establish a detective agency and
employ Sherlock Holmes tactics in
conducting the business. "For the very
good reason" he replied, 'that all the
knots Sherlock Holmes united were OF
my own tying. should fail IL under
took to unravel other people's entangle-
ments. I believe that on one occasion
could have done 80, though. was in
= tailor shop when a rather unattrac-
tive man was selecting pair of trou-
gsrs. He fatty objected 10 striped
goods, and got the idea that he was
an dx-couTtcG To satisfy myself / VS.
HE'D one or two prisons and, sure
enough, found the mans picture In the
rogues' gallery. He had had enough of
striped clothes DETROIT Free Press.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
IN MAJOR LEAGUES

Jimmy Sheckard of the Cubs is
coaching a. college team in Florida
until time to report at Tampa
Manager Sta11ings Of the Boston
Braves plans to use McKetchnie, the
former Pirate infielder, at third base.
Clark Griffith, according to late ac-
counts had 81 players on his list with
possibly a few more Cubans to hear
from.
Pitcher Nordecai Brown has had
his right knee put in q plaster cast
which he will wear until he reports to
the Reds for spring work.
The Philadelphia National League
Club has sold Pitchers Horne and Dit
ter and Outf1elder Mangus to the At
lantic City Club Of the Tr1-State
League.
The tang7e involved over getting
Catcher George Yantz past the waiv-
ers blocks has been Strengthened out
and he goes from the Chicago Cubn to
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
KILBANE PUTS
KIRKW0OD OUT
IN 9Th ROUND.

Johnny Ki1bane, featherweight title
holder, showed a bit a his champion
ship form to a New oYrk crowd for
the first time last night, when he
stopped George KirkwOod Of st. Louis
in the sixth round of a scheduled ten
round bout at the Empire A. C. In
the other two ten-rOund bouts, both
of which went the full distance, Joe
honors over Johnny Lore Of the west
side, and Phil Cross Of New York out
pointed Young Hickey
The ringSide weights showed Kill
pound below this figure. When the
match was made the champion in
sisted on Kirkwood making 122 pounds
at o'clock, while he should enter the
weighed exactly 122 pounds three
hours before the bout, but the strain
of making this figure told heavily on
him. 1t was the poorest exhibition
since he first made his appearance
here.
The champion was his master from
the start, but the first two rounds
failed to show anything of a speedy
nature by either contestant. Kirk
Wood was plainly nervous, and when
he was not backing away he was
Leading very weakly. Ki1bane, al
ways stronger as a defensive fighter
than on the attack, had little diff
punches of the st. Louis boy, and
shot in enough light left jabs to earn
him the honors in both the first and
second rounds Kirkwood's nose was
In the sixth round the. title holder
sent KiPkwood to the mat with
rfght-hand CROSS to the jaw. Referee
Dan Tone, fearful of an injury to Kirk
wood, stopped the milling. The action
Of the referee gave: Kifbane a techni-
cal knock out
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
JOHNSONS
in BIG LEAGUES
Smith, Jones and Brown Left in Rear
BY New Invader.

BROOKLYN, Feb 2O.-Barring the fire.
quent welding of the axe during the
spring training trip there is every in
dication that Johnson will be the
name that will keep umpires and Of
fetal scorers of the American league
straighten out. For the name John
son COR Johnston) outranks the
Smiths. Joneses and Browns, although
there is still a gOOd-Sized representa-
ton of Browns in the league.
There were five Joneses in the Amer
lean league in 1907. Today there is
only one, and whether he sticks in the
top circuit or for the whole of the
1913 season is a 1nooted question. In
1907 the ST. Louis Browns had Tom
Jones on first BASE He II nn tba Ibis his
city were Davy Jones and Bumpus
The White sox shad Fielder. Jones,
that name, while the Washington
team had Charley Jones, the first
American league player to reach home
from second on sacrifice fly
This year Ban Johnson's circuit con-
tainsg seven men by the name of john
son or Johnston. OF this number Chi
and he also is a pitcher. Walter al
ready has gone to the Southwest to
begin training, which evidently signi-
des that he's going after the peerless
Washington twirler's honors He
comes from Racine, Wis.
Another Johnston to wear white
nose the COIE1HB summer 1S Slul111y, a
brother of Doc Johnston, of the Maps.
Jimmy is an outfelder. He halls
from Birmingham, Ala. The Maps
heard of uhirn two years ago. but as
he seemed little weak with the stick,
the Maps decided they did not want
him.
other Johnstons belonging to the
tribe of Corniskey are George and Ell
lis Johnson. George is a pitcher, while
Ellis plays shortstop. With so many
Johnsons it might be we'll hereafter to
call CoIniSkey's team the Johnsons or
SWedes rather than the White Sox.
ST. Louis boasts of a player with a
similar name in J. T. Johnston, out
fielder. John T. mot John Arthur
comes from the south, hence his scru-
pies on the subject In Cleveland
there is a peppery Doc Johnston, and
continuing on to Washington we come
upon the most i11ustrous of all the
players of that name, unless it be Ban
B. himself, in Pitcher Walter john
son. !
Altogether this makes seven mem
bers of the family playing in the
American league, and if we add the
RaRas ~ kAa pNeaiaAlt 81 ths oxGant-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
BOWLING.
PLOT 10 SHOW UP OLD
MAN BENNETTO Is Fooled

A nefarious plot to show UP Eddie
Bennetto, the ancient bowler of STRAIT
ford, was nipped in the bud in Strait
ford Monday night by Eddie himself.
The old boy. went down to the village
to get the fresh air and happened to
look in at the alleys where his son
crowd there Come on in" shouted
Fred, land I'll show you how to roll"
The crowd thought this was pretty
coarse work and many requested Fred
not huniNate his poor, old father in
public. ..I'll take you. son. said ed
die and he rolled up his sleeves. He
gave his son an artistic trimming by
96 to 81 and Fred had to buy for the
whole crowd. >ss5t e-s5t
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
BROOKI1AWN CLUB TO
HAVE DUCK PIN TOURNAMENT

The BrookIawn Country club mem
bers are making preparations for their
those desiring to enter are requested
to send their names to William M.
Richardson, chairman of the bowling
committee. A meeting of the entrants
will be held tomorrow evening at the
clubhouse when the makeup Of the
teams will be decided
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20

the Bridgeport club. T. H. Adams,
who has been cleaning everybody mp,
won froc Murray Elm Of the Bridge
port team by $50 to 120. w. A Dorr
Of the Bridgeports won from s. M.
Lockwood of the Sea Sides, by $50
to 80 Leslie e Vaughan lost to Hall
of the Bridgeports by $50 to LIZ.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20

zation it will swell the total to eight.
The aggregation includes three pitch.
ers, two outf1elders, a first basemau
and a shortstop. Two more such and
we could have regular johnson
team.
Possibly before the end of the 1918
season we will hear of one Of two
more Johnsons making their homes in
the camps of the American league.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
Notice

conducting business at the Same old
location, corner of Main and John
Streets, bridgeport, Conn., and our
Private Bank has been established
there continuously. We EaEe received
and paid Out on demand without no
tfce millions OF dollars OF money de-
posted with us and we continue to
receive money subject to depositOEfs
check at sight, ON which we anDEg
three per cent. per aunuun, credited
the accounts OF individuals, buEfmegN
men, Enls and corporations, and an
who want a bank account where tneU
can deposit money, checks or dEalaa5
and leave it for one day,oue week. one
month or one year, and draw fmteEeBs
on fit for any time ff is left with ~
We give to the business OuF Careful
personal attention as the oldest Gru1
of private bankers I'm this state
I'll. WATSON & co.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20

Del Howard, besides playing first
base and acting as captain of the San
Francisco team. will act as scout fol-
the Chicago Cubs during the Coast
League campaign.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20

President Murphy of the Cubs, who
applied the title of Peerless Leader
to Frank Chance, has also found a
catchy name for John Evers. It is the
keystone King e=
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20

John McGraw has sold his interes
in his billiard business in New Yorl
and will henceforth devote all hi'
time to the Giants, not even giving
vaudeville another thought.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
New Orleans.

Former Umpire .-Perrine of the
American League, who has been Ill
since last summer with locomotor
ataxia, is said to be in bad way at
his home in Berkeley, Cal.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
BRIDGEPORT BEATS
SEA SIDE At BILLIARDS

The Bridgeport club billiard team
took two out of three matches from
the Sea Side cue artists last niRht at
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20

Reports from the training camps
of al Ketchel, the popular local light
weight, and Miss Edna Howard, the
champion boxer of Will Roehm's Ath-
ledc Girls, are that each is in shape
for the, exhibition bout to be. given
will be hel, during the presentation
of the Roehm girls act and is bound
to be interesting. Miss Howard can
box well and says she isn't going to
ask any mercy of Ketchel. Terry Lee
will referee the match.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20

Jimmy CalEahan's reply to Frank
Chances offer to take Joe Berger off
his hands is that he thinks pretty. well
of the shortstop himself and means to
give him a real tryout this time
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20

Al man in Iowa who halls from
County Kerry, ireland, says there are
no Bresnahans there and that the
right name OF the late Duke of. st.
Louis Is Brosnan. That simplifies the
score card.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-20
INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE.

Totals ....4e3 AL 44O-1314
Game tonight-Handy & Hartman
VS.. Brass Co.
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w. AND L. PREPARES FOR
INTERSCHOLASTIC MEET

Lexington. Va, April l3.-(Spec'al)- En-
tries for the interscholastic track and field
games. which will be held at Washington
and Lee university April %. will close
on the evening Of April q 1t is very i'm
portant that every school. which has sig
nifed its intention of entering this con-
test shall send in its entrance blanks at
the earliest possible moment. After these
have been received regular schedule and
classification of teams as TO events will
be made.
The final details for running off the big
track events have all been worked out,
and the athletic officials have made am
pie arrangements for the most success
full meet that has ever been held in this
part of the south.
Handsome prizes have been received
which will be awarded to the winners of
the several events \ picture of these
prizes has been taken and cuts mailed to
all schools There will be in all about AZ
prizes awarded. These prizes consist OF
gold, silver and bronze medals struck from
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
STANDING

St Louis April 13.-Chicago took the
first game of the series with St Louis
here this afternoon. 10 2. Lange was
effective in all but two innings, the fourth
and seventh. in which the locals scored
their runs In the ninth inning, with
none out, Lange walked three players In
succession and was relieved by Walsh,
who retired the side on strikes.
In the second inning the visitors scored
three runs Mattick walked and scored
in front of Weaver. who drove the ball
over the right fence for home run. Then
Schalk walked, moved up a base on an
error and scored when Rath hit safely to
center.
st. Louis scored its first run in the
fourth inning on Viewers wide throw and
StovaIs double. A base on balls, an err
ror. Schalk's triple and sacrifice fly in
the sixth inning gave Chicago three
more runs. Collins single and Bodies two
Dagger in the next inning gave the visitors
another tally
Two singles and an error in the seventh
inning gave st. Louis its last run. Score
Chicago ..... 03O o03 1907 8 1
ST. Louis ......,........ coo 100 100
Batteries: LANCE E. Walsh and Schalk;
I.everne, Allison, Stone and Alexander and
Agnew Time, pos. Umpires, Evans and
Hidebrand
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Facts and Fancies
of Southern Scribes

From the Atlanta Journal.
Leaving the Atlanta spirit out of 1t,
Atlanta fans should Monday turn out
by the thousands and welcome the At
lanta baseball club upon its first APP
pearance in league game at Ponce de
Leon park There are two reasons
why every fan should turn out and pay
his fare.
First of all the eight cities of the
Southern league are in hot contest
for the trophy offered the city-turnine
in the largest paid attendance on open
ing day. Second, the team went 20
Chattanooga and won three games ali
in a row. What better Inducements
could be offered?
Right now it is apparent that Biz
mingham is the city Atlanta will have
to beat to win the cup. The Baron
city turned out S0SS paid admissions in
the opener and this mark Atlanta must
and will smash. Patriotic Atlanta citi-
zens, may of whom don't care a rap
for baseball, have Joined in the move
ment to turn out an attendance that
will smash all previous marks and
when the citizen who is not baseball
fan is willing to go and put his good
money just to help keep the city al
the front in every line of work then
the fans should certainly be on hand.
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SHOWS |
GAINS IN BUILDING
Leads All Other Large
Cities for Percentage OF
Gain During March

Birmingham building operations con-
tinue to show fine gains, according to The
monthly reports of Construction News.
In the cities of the largest class IN the
United States Birmingham ranked hrs'
in percentage of gain for March of this
year over March of 1872
Birmingham showed a percentage gam
of 22s. In the month OF March, 1872, there
were 9o2 new buildings at an estimated
cost of 1894. $50 while for March, 1913, there
were 81 new buildings at an estimated
cost of s9i9, rs. New York showed loss
of Al per, cent.
Percentage gains made by other south
ern cities, none of which approached BIZ
mingham, We're:
Baltimore Is; Houston, 166; Memphis
16: st. Louis, Is; Tampa, 26: Richmond
10; Atlanta A. Norfolk, 81; Nashville lis
The following southern cites showe1
percentage losses: Washington, R; New
Orleans %; Jacksonville 10; Louisville
81; San Antonio. u; Charlotte, N. Co 4
Chattanooga, IS and Oklahoma City, 81
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a special die. In addition to these are the
silver loving cups, which will be awarded
to the individual members of the relay
team winning the race. A large silver
plaque of artistic design and workman
ship, q by 20 inches, Will be awarded to
the school which wins the greatest total
of points at the meet.
The 90 officials who will have the event
in charge have been selected. All of the
officials are persons who are personally
interested in and who have at some time
taken active part in track events.
Joseph Townsend England of Johns
Hopkins university. president of the South
Atlantic Interscholastic Athletic associa-
ton. and the official Handicapped of the
South Atlantic division OF the A. A. IT,,
will be the referee who will have charge
of the meet. He is recognized by all ath-
letic authorities as being one of the most
competent officials in track and field
sports in the United States.
The winners in the several events will
be publicly awarded prizes at buffet
luncheon held the night of the event. Dr
Henry Louis Smith, president of Wash
ington and Lee university will award the
prizes TO the winners.
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DAUGHTERS HONOR
! THOMAS JEFFERSON
Appropriate Exercises at
Monticello Sunday for His
Hist Birthday
FRoe, a eA,rv,AC
er -. s4usLEe o1r

Charlottesville, Va, April 1S-The sew
enteenth anniversary of Thomas Jeffer-
sons birthday was celebrated at Month
cello today The delegation of Daughters
of the Revolution, who were expected
from Illinois. were delayed, their special
train not reaching here until tonight,
and in their absence Albemarle chapter
took charge of the exercises. Congress
man Henry T. Rainey of Illinois deiiv-
cred brief address. The wreath sent
from Washington by the President and
Mrs Wilson was placed on jefferson $
tomb by Congressman jefferson M. Levy
of New York, owner of Monticello.
In an address. Congressman Levy re-
feired feelingly to the pain he had suf-
fered by reason of much transformation
circulated in the newspapers regarding
the care and ownership of Monticello
Mr. Levy stated that during his owner
ship of nearly 80 years the home of JEFF
ferson had never heen and is not nov
for sale, denying that he had directly oil
indirectly placed a valuation on 1t. He
appealed to the people of the United
States to weigh his ownership and com
pare Monticello of today with Mount
Vernon, the home of Washington.
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Nashville After Trophy

From the Nashville American.
Eight thousand and eighty paid ad :
missions is the record made at the Bir-
n;ingham- Nashville opening baseball
game Friday. The party of Nashville
boosters and fans accompanying the
team on the trip to Birmingham re-
turned to the city this morning with an
avowed determination to exceed this
number at the Nashville opening Mon
day afternoon at sulphur Dell.
The commercial organizations of the
city went to work with renewed vim
this morning to have everybody in
Nashville out Monday afternoon to give
the Volunteers a rousing send-off in
their initial appearance on the home
grounds.
An added impetus has been given to
the enthusiasm prevailing along the 10 :
cal booster line by the announcement
this morning that Judge William Kava-
naugh, president of the league, has Of
fered to the Nashville Booster club
through its president, ALT III. Williams,
an additional trophy in case Nashville
will awake herself and eclipse the S0OG
mark set at Birmingham Friday.
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SUFFRAGETTESA ARE
!. COMPELLED T0FLEE
Women Hooted and Jeered
by Crowded. from
Park by Police

London. April 13.-The weekly attempt
Of suffragettes to hold a meeting In
Hyde park against the opposition of the
anti-suffragettes was made again today
The crowd howled down the speakers
and hurled missiles at them until the
police were forced to intervene and es-
cort the suffragettes from the park.
Wild disorder occurred at Wimbledon
common where an enormous force OF
police was engaged In protecting suf-
frasettes holding an open air meeting.
Mounted police were obliged to charge
several times before they we're able to
rescue the women. The speeches were
inaudible and the mob was riotous be-
yond expression.
A suffragette meeting ut Hampstead
Heath also was broken up.