The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-05
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 Eddie Campi, the clever and rugged little California boxer whose admirers believe he is destined to become ban =ETweiEht champion of the world, passed his twentieth milestone yester lasr Eddie's real name Is De Campus, and he is the offspring of a French father and an Irish mother. while. by rekson of having been born in San Francisco on the Fourth of July. he Is Ia thorough American. In his re- cent important battles. Eddie has demonstrated that he is there" with the best of the bantams- He won the decision over Frankie Burns, of Jer- sey City. in a twenty round bout at Vernon, and before that lost twenty round decision to Kid Williams of Baltimore only after one of the fast est and most sensational battles be- tween little fellows ever staged in Los Angeles Campi easily outpointed Baltimore's pride during the first ten rounds. and in the twelfth almost won by a knockout Williams is one of those chaps who never know when they are licked, however, and he man aged to get the decision by a shade The decision was far from popular, and williams and Campi will have to scrap again before the Baltimore boy can claim to be Eddie's master. CaInpi began fighting when he was only fir teen He won all of his early bouts, and did not know the meaning of de- feat until he was worsted by Jimmy Fox in 1910. He fought four bouts with Fox the following year, two oe- ing draws and the others victories for CarnpL Last year he defeated Jimmy walsh in Sacramento. and then went g1nning for the topliners, Coulon' Williams and Burns
 George Emmett MulIin. the veteran Tiger pitcher, who was recently sold by Detroit to Washington, was born in Toledo, O., thirty-three years ago. When he was sold last May George was, in point of service, the oldest member of the Tiger club. He joined the Detroits in 1902, and three years helped to twirI the Tigers into the American League championship Null fin was educated in Toledo, and began r,layfng ball with the St Johns Aca- | derny nine In his native city. In 1893 md 1899 he was with Wabash Ind, 1 md the following year was with South | Bend- It was while he was pitching | for Fort Wayne that he attracted the attention of the big league scouts. He wiEned with both Detroit and Brook | fvn but cast in his fortunes with De- i froft and the American League In 1904 he batted BOA. but since then
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 Congressnan Thomas Ga1linger, who is leading the fight on the 'auda- rious baseball trust that has reduced baseball players to a state of peonage and slavery horrid to behold, and who has flung the banner of liberty from the ramparts of the republics capital and invited the oppressed and down srodden serfs of the diamond to as-
 
 ing the battlecry of freedom, march forth to assault the citadel where Is entrsnched the baseball octopus, and from which 1t reaches out it's sliny | tentsc1es to throttle the liberties of but. halt. this is getting involved. Any way. Mir. Gallinger, assisted by Horace FoSe1 of Philadelphia, is going to ap- ply the ax to the baseball trust right | where 1t will do the most good. Just you watch him
 Afr. Gallinger represents a Chicago district in the House of Representa- lives. but he is e native of Concord, N. F.. where he was born sixty-three years ago come Sunday. He is a Democrat. a Catholic. and, when not engaged in political and lawmaking activities a dealer in hats. The lat ter fact has led to a suspicion that he may be talking through one of the articles he sells. but MT. Gallinger de- clares he is in deadly earnest in wag- ing war on the baseball octopus that Is ehrottling, etc The troubles of Ty Cobh, the famous Detroit, swatter, started the movement for a congress zional inquiry in which Ga11inger has been the leader. For some time the Illinois conEressman has been in cor respoudence with Horace Fogel, for mer owner of the Philadelphia club of the National League, and he has been assured that the ex-magnate has '-tl1e goods to convict his former as sociates of violation of the antitrust law, peonage, and 'evings knows what
 Representative Gallinger has been on the trail of the baseball trust for some time. and introduced a resolu- rion in Congress last year, but nothing came of it He gives it as his opinion that the constitution and bylaws of the National and American league in themselves constitute a form of or Eanizatfon in violation of the laws. Contracts between club owners and players are so framed, he declares as to be void because the conditions of employment constitute something re- sembIing a form of peonage. Since starting the inquiry. 1t is said that MT. GalIinger has been .deluged with let ters from fans praising him for his stand
 E PUGHIsTTC ANNALS.
 July 4.