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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24
IT'S EDIT BY
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SNODGRASS is
SIGNED UP AT
BIC INCREASE

Los Angeles, Jan. 24-Fred Snod-
grass. the outfielder of the Giants
who was the goat of the 1912 WORLDS
Series after his error in the tenth
inning of the deciding game helped
to bring about the defeat OF the
Giants, yesterday signed a contract to
play with the Giants in 1913 ana mail
ed 1t to Manager McGraw.
Snodgrass says he is well satisfied
with the contract McGraw sent to
him. He says he would have been
satisfied to sign for the same salary
that was paid to him last season, but
wac Rratfffed when the contract call
ed for a substantial increase.
Snodsrass is in no way discouraged
because of his fatal mistake of last
fall, and says he will play better ball
fer the Giants next season than ever
before He has been managing a win
ter league team called the Oxnards,
which team is composed of major and
minor league stars.
In addition to SnodErass. the major
1eaguers on the team are Myers and
Shafer OF the Giants Hail Of the Red
Sox and Easterly OF the White Sox.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24
(By Wagner.1

n
Foot Rus11, who played third base
for the Bridgeport club in 1911 and
has also done time in 7olyOke and
Waterbury will be in the Tvilds Of the
northwest next season. He has signed
with Vancouver of the Northwestern
league, --l1ich IL class B organiza-
ton, with the largest salary limit Of
any league of that classification. The
national asSocia ton allows che North
western to pay $4,000 a month to its
regular Glass 3 limit. It will be a
long walk home Foot.
Young McAu1iffe of this city has
been matched to- box Joe Shea of Wa
terbury in New Haven on Feb. q.
will weigh In at 12z at O'Clock in
the afternoon. The boys met in this
city.
Bill jacobson has signed with the
Giants for next season. He is the big
ol1tfelder who was fRrmed TO Mobile
last season.
The washington team will open the
American league seasc1 in New
York on April IL. THIS Will be quite
a fat purse for Manager Griffith for
the opening game with Frank Chance
as the attraction is sure to attract a
mean capacity crowd.
While students of Columbia Univer-
eity were making great effort, today,
to encourage their basketball team,
which has not won a game, this sea-
son, Cornell men were jubilant over
the victory scored, last night, when
the University of Pennsylvania by a
score Of z8 to 1S. This game put
Cornell far in the lead for the inter-
collegiate championship.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24
PENN. AND CORNELL
TIED FOR HONORS
Exciting Fight. For Lead in Intercol-
Iegiate Basketball League.

Since neither Pennsylvania nor Cor
nell have lost any games played so far
in the intercollegiate Basketball
League championship race, naturally
these five are the centre of attention.
Pennsy and the Ithacans are dead
locked for the lead, but a change of
affairs is to soon come, as the result
of tonight's game, which will bring
Penn and Cornell together at Ithaca
one or the other must ultimately re-
linQuish it's topTnost position.
This game should see one Of the
hottest fights in the present race. Cor
nell has a rafting good five this year,
as is evidenced by the form it has dis
played against Dartmouth, Princeton
and Columbia. Penn, too has shown
championship skill. Penn and Cornell
have not met this season, and for that
reason the result of the game lis an
uncertainty.
Columbia, is still in the rut, having
lost all three Of its games played. The
Morningsfde Heights men are now
counted out of the race. Princeton, by
it's victory over Columbia, has moved
up to third place, two games behind
Penn and Cornell. Dartmouth is a
game behind Princeton. The teams
are punched as follows:
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24
CALLS BASEBALL
CHARAC1 ERlSTlC
COUNT Won BERNsToRFF THINKS
TT A SPORT THAT TKPTFTg
sFTHIT OF ABTERTCAE
PEOPLE.

New Haven, Jan. 24---''Just as cricket
is characteristic, with it's slow -solnE
play, of the English people, 80 L flzf1lz
baseball, the great American sport. -
characteristic of the American people.
with its swift plays, it's throbbIEg zc-
ton and its superabundant vitality
These words you might have expected
to have been delivered BY soEae Chriaty
MatthewSon, or baseball fan. and IN
the words aof the dfgnff1ed German
ambassador to the United State
Count Won BernstorfG, they sounded
1omatic subjects are taboo for verE
obvious reasons, with she Count the
subject of the great American sport
Is one on which he will deliver Him
self with freedom, and while he e. not
a fan in the Strictest sense Of TIE
word, he takes a keen interest Ia
baseball and has ATTENDED many q
the big league games while in this
HIS Introduction to the intricGcieB of
the game, for he considers IL n coin
plicated sport, from the viewpoint Of
the German mind, was made b the
American ambassador to the United
States, a few years before Won Bern
storff was assigned to this county
81 saw my first game of baseball o.
Berlin" he said yesterday to = Jour
na4-Courier representative. after thg
luncheon at the Hotel Taft, re go
dents of an American medical colleG1
in that city played with the IneEibe1
of the American colony there, nud 4
can assure you it was a most fNterelt-
ing and myStifying game to ne Who
saw it for the first time. I cant say
that I understood the game very thor
oughly then, nor do I yet. but I found
it intensely absorbing.
1--WE play the game a little In Ger
many, especially where there are
Americans. When I came to thls
country one Of the FIRST things cid
was to attend a national league game.
that's what you call it. fsn't ftz. a.
Pittsburgh. While I am not fan.
in the American Interpretation Of tbs
word, I suppose, yet I am fond q
contests on the diamond, - not that
In answer to the question whether
he considered it a typical AuleFican
game from a foreigners standpoint.
the Count said: yes, indeed, 10 seems
consistent with American vitality and
speed. In fact I think st compare
faVorably with the English game 0f
cricket which Is the great EnsilGh
sport There is this differences, how
ever, in favor of the American game.
and Incidentally the people: while tie
English take two days to play n game
of cricket, you Arnericans play 4
game of baseball in two hours. That's
quite typical, Isn't ftg''
Count Won BernStUrff had zNOEd 90
comm endation for the system Of fnte9-
change of professors between German
and American universities, adding that
it contributed to the breadth c& uni-
training and incidentally CO.
nations, Germany and the BHltad
States. On any other subject he WA
mono ommittaI
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24
WHY WOODBURY. WAS
CANNED BY ST. LOUIS
VentriIoquist Pitcher Was Caught
Kidding Manager Roger
BresTahan.

Cincinnati; Jan 24.--'''The Mystery of
the Wandering Voice" or why
WOODBURY. Got the HOOK This thrill
ing title, so says Bill Sweeney. might
justly be prefxed to the romantic sto-
ry Of Eugene Woodburn, till recently
a pitcher for the ST, Louis. Cardinals
about the last official act of Roger
Bresnahan. 1t will also explain why
WOODBURY. got the prong so suddenly.
after being carried nearly two sea-
sons without much pa1pable excuse.
"Gene WOODBURY. says Mr.. Swee-
ney lis a ventriloquist, and far bet
have ever heard in vaudeville. He
also has a strongly developed sense of
humor, and combined the two Quali-
ties last summer, to the intense dis
always sat on a little extension to the
ST. Louis bench, and WOODBURY. would
locate near the other end.
Pretty soon a coarse. rouzh-necEzed
sort Of a, voice would srowf in RDg-
er's ear: Say, Bresnahan, why don't
you get in the game? Rajah would
prick up his ears, scowl, and try TO
figure out who could be- making the
remark. Then the voice would sound
again: You four-f1usher, what right
You got to call yourself a manager? p
the bench. Pretty soon the mysteri-
Gus voice would make remarks con-
corning Rogers ancestry, place of fu-
ture destination and personal habits.
by this time Bresnahan would be
about dippy and would run round in
circles, g1aring into the stand in
search of the mysterious tormentor.
One day, noticing that WOODBURY. had
nothing TO do, Roger capped the eli
max by asking him, as a personal ia
vor, to go UP into the stand and see If
he could locate the insulting indiyid-
ual. Woodlourn almost cholxed, but
faithfully searched the pavilion, re-
turning with the report that ne
find the guy.
f72Nr -.
st. Louis, Hub Perdue was warming
UP, and the mysterious voice doomed
out: If that stiff of Perdue wins
this game, I'll bounce a rock off his
head Perdue looked around and saw
Woodburn near by. say, Woodie,'
walled Perdue, who was that?' Him I?
bad kid, a tough guy. Liable to hurt
you, sure Perdue began practising
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24
YOUNG M'AULIFFE TO BOX JOE
SHEA IN new HAVEN FEB. u
Lynn Baseball Club Wants To Book Mechanics
For Exhibition Contest

Considerably peeyed at Buffalo
fight critics. who, h says, didn't give
him square deal when he fought
Jimmy Duffy, the other night, Leach
Cross, the New York dentist, declared,
today, that he would leave no doubt
as to the decision when he meets Joe
Shugrue in theDGarden next Wednes-
day night. Cross began work at the
grue who is a likely youngster, has
been training for more than week. =
The Lynn club wants an exhibition
game with the Bridgeport team when
the Mechanics invade Massachusetts in
fered game in Lynn on Patriots
Day, April 10, but are already booked
for morning and afternoon games in
Lowell and Lawrence.
Tht New London club is busy sign
ing players. Hafey. q Hartford young
ster who was seen here seeking a trial
with the Mechanics, last season, has
caught on with the Wha1erS. Manag-
err Hugh Jennings Of the Detroit IL
Garvey who was with the Stroudsburg,
Pa, Normal school team last year.
The atory that Jim Thorpe is a pro-
fsssional has been denied by Charley
Clancy, the former Waterbury pitch
er who was alleged to have made the
statement. Clancy says he knows
Thorpe but denied ever making the
remark that the olympic hero receiv-
ed money for playing baseball.
Willie Hoppe worlds champion bill
HARDEST, appeared at a local pool par
lor yesterday and played against
Louis Goldman of New York. Hoppe
400 to IS at. night. Hoppe made runs
of 81. 70 and 81.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24
BROOKLAWNS WIN
AT BASKETBALL
But Lose to North Ends at Indoor
Baseball BY to 3.

The Brook1awn A. G. put on a dou-
BILE bill Of sports at the club house
on Brookla;wn avenue last night. The
Brooklawns defeated the North Ends
in basketball by Z to 0, but lost to
the North Ends at indoor baseball
by to g.
Manager Carr of the BrookIawns
says his team Is willing to meet any
basketball five in this city or vicinity.
He wants the Blue Ribbons or Ramb-
Iers of Stratford to accept his chal-
1enge. Address all replies to Man
ager Carr, % Harrison street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24
EXPECT BIG CROWD
TO SEE KETCHEL
and 0'BRIEN MONDAY

When Matchmaker Williams of the
South End A. G. was in Waterbury
last evening distributing postal cards
bearing the picture of Young Jack
O'Brien who is to meet Al Ketche1 at
Eagles hall next Monday evening, he
met many of the Brass City sports
and they assured him that they
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24

New Y0r1k-Mrs. Lena Weiss, sec.
und of Charles Weiss five wives, suE-
gested to the court that the bigaf1ist
be forced TO support all of his better
halves az a punishment.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24
TotaI Pinfan of Teams.

Schedule for Next Week
Jan. 2s-Arcade Jrs. vs. Giants.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24
Standing of Teams.

League Records.
High single, Mo1iinelli, 134.
High three strings, Harper, $50.
High team single Cubs, 536.
High team three strings, Arcade
Jrs 148S
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24

Totals '....s.451 442 45o-1343
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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24

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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24

Bill Jacobson has signed with the
Giants for next season. He is the big
o1tfieIder who was fRrmed TO Mobile
last season.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-10
Big Display of
Fireworks at Fair

Five thousand dollars worth OF FIRE,
works will be used by the Pain fire.
works company of America each night
Of the state fair IN scores of beautiful
o]yrotechnic effects. This is by far
he most costly attraction eve en-
aged by any state fair In the world.
nd may be obtained only by expOsi-
ions OF established Importance, This
grand fireworks display will be given
in addition to and in connection with
Pains thrilling production OF South
Dakota Pioneer Days and Clusters
Last Conflict" This wonderful his,
torlcal pageant is being adapted es-
pecially for the South Dakota fair,
and requires the acting OF over two
hundred persons. and an immense
amount of scenery. horses. indians,
etc.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-10

ter with him on the firing line he is
soon gone up.
I see by the Minneapolis and st.
Paul papers that the 18th Minnesota
are claiming to have taken Block
House No. 4, also they are making a
great splurge over men who left their
post of duty in a time of great dam
ger. l do not see anything to brag
OF about that, do you? The people
of Minnesota do not know it, but the
18th Minnesota are the laughing
stock of the Sth Army Corps all on
account of their blowing their own
horn so much. They never were in a
real fight and probably never will
be.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-10
Watertown Potato
Company Organized

Pierre, July 9.--The last legislative
session enacted a law providing in
c>1n-sr 145 for the organization OF
cooperative companies for the pur.
pose of conducting agricultural. dairy,
mercantile. mining. manufacturing or
mechanical business, and the first
company to get under the provisions
of this act, fied its articles Of incor.
poration this morning, being an agr1-
cultural organization with a long list
of stockholders. at WATERFOWL. II is
known as the Waterfowl Cooperative
Potato company, and It's purpose be-
ing cooperation in marketing OF the
agricultural products of the members
of the association. 1t is capitalized
at $50, 00s, and directors are: Robert
Schulz, Charles Kreger. Lee Slower,
Ed Lamm, W. H. Alter, NJ. e. HEM
ing and H. A. Hanten.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-10
Hopkins Letters of
Fifteen Years Ago

EXTRACTS from letter written to my
mother, Mrs. F. P. Hopkins, Water
town, S. D.. by me from Manila, P.
L., in the first few days of May, 1899,
at the headquarters of Major-General
Macarthur. Those portions only re-
lating to private affairs are here
omitted, and all statements made
here were known to be true at the
time.-A. T. Hopkins.)
Continued from last week.
We stopped in these trenches for the
night without food or water. During
the night some rations were gotten
up, and were issued to US in the
make any coffee the advance was
sounded. Part of us had gotten some
water from an old hole, and quenched
u thirst SO that we could eat a
little bareback and canned horse. Our
battalion was in reserve this day.
We moved a short distance and halt.
ed, that is. our battalion, to allow
the second battalion to come up and
take the firing line. In the mean.
time the SUI had come up like a
flaming torch, and poured down the
heat, worse than Nauser balls, and
which has ruined more men. We lit.
tie dreamed that on this day we were
to go through the worst ordeal that
we have yet been called upon to go
through. The regiment went on, we
following five hundred yards in the
rear. Presently the brigade made a
left half turn, and VIZ had to scramble
for a while, but we had one consola.
ton, Iowa had it harder than we did,
About noon the artillery opened up
on our left and then we knew that
at last we were at Calumpit, one OF
the strong places of the enemy. Our
regiment kept advancing and soon we
heard the familiar sound. The firing
line was out in a canefield about
waist high; halt vas sounded and the
firing line sank down out of sight.
We lay down Just on the edge. We
remained here for perhaps three
fourths of an hour when the advance
was again sounded. The firing line
had in the meantime opened up, and
as they advanced, we following, we
were met by one of the fercest storms
OF iron hail we have yet faced, Guy
Jones and Charley Peterson were
killed in the cane field. We had tc
advance in the soft ground Of the
cane field for about six hundred yards
at double time, which took all the
wind out Of US. We halted In oul
proper place behind the firing line
and there we stayed for two and
halt Of the longest hours that poor
suffering humanity ever put IN. THAI
demon Of the tropics, the sun, was
directly overhead, we were out b
water, and the cane stopped ans
breeze that might have been blowing
and never for one instant did TIKI
bullets cease screaming. whistlinI
and tearing through the leaves of TIL
cane. Men were almost dying witt
heat and thirst but no Il could d,
anything for them; there was ns
shade ana IT was almost certain death
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-10
Mrs. @. Arneson is
Burned By Gasoline

Mrs. O. Arneson, of Brookings, but
a former resident of Waterfowl, died
last Saturday afternoon at the Brook
ings hospital as the result of burns
received Saturday morning from the
explosion Of a gasoline stove in her
home.
Mrs. Arneson was a sister of Mrs.
henry Christopherson Of this city,
n is well known and highly respect
ed by many Watertown people who
will be grieved to learn of her terrible
misfortune.
She was buried at Hayti on Tues
day of this week.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-10

for a man to change his position; no
water to drink and the dust from the
dry ground had gotten into our
mouths, noses and threats. l hope
! may die rather than suffer such mis-.
cry as this again, But all things
come to ar end, and at last the firing
our heads and breathe once more.
The enemy had fled, leaving a position
which, occupied by one thousand Am
erican soldiers, could not have been
taken by five thousand of the best
troops on earth. When we finally
were taken up onto the line, you may
imagine u surprise to find that the
firing line of u regiment had been
lying on the bank of a broad, deep,
swift flowing river, on the othsr bank
Of which were the enemy's breast
works or rather forts. We also found
that four men had been killed and
sixteen wounded that they had been
firing across into the portfolios and
had killed many of the enemy in their
trenches. On investigation the next
day we found that the bamboo up
rights supporting the cover If rail
road iron had been fairly riddled by
bullets, and in some cases entirely
cut off, allowing the roof made of
railroad rails to fall in, SO you can
judge how thick the bullets must have
come.
While we were doing our part of
this tragedy now being enacted on
this island, other regiments were not
idle. Our beloved brother regiment,
Nebraska, found a ford and about two
hundred of them crossed and got in
on the flank and raised h with the
insurgents. Kansas and Montana on
the left of the railroad, did their
share, losing heavily as did Nebras-
ka. This place, Calumpit, is situated
in the angle formed by the union of
the BagDag and Quingua rivers. In
fact, this place is on a number Of
islands. In some places the earth
works were 80 thick and heavy that
shells from a three inch gun did no
damage. The railroad bridge across
the Quingua is damaged beyond i'm
mediate repair; SO is the road bed.
The division has moved on and is now
at San Fernando. or vicinity, about
twelve miles from Calumpit. The
food supplies do not seem to be as
plentiful al they were farther back
and the natives, dead or alive, are
thinner than they were. The rank
and file OF the insurgents are more
than anxious to quit fighting. They
have to be literally prodded into fight.
ing. One volley and one American
cheer will stampede a thousand. Who
can blame them? They have been
licked at yer turn of the road. Can.
not hold anything against the sAm.
~ericano Demoniaa american devils
Our regiment is still in the field,
that is, what is left OF it. The resi-
are In Manila disabled in some way
Or other. You remember my having
written you about having ring-worms
IN many cases these attack men 81
the feet and around the ankles ard
from want Of care disable mar
from walking Some have diarrhoea
some dysentery, sthers fever, and
about every disease known to exist
When q man gets anything the r,at
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-10
c. 0. D. Parcel Post
is Now in Operatian

a new feature of the parcel post
was i~naugurated IN July /, which will
permit the sending OF parcels C. O.. D.
through mail. The coupe is deliver
ed to the sender, another coupon is
retained by the forwarding office, and
a special tag, which is red in color.
accompanies the package. The send.
er deposits with the forwarding Office
the amount of money required to car
ry The package and this amount, min
us the postage on the money order,
is returned to him when the charge is
paid at the receiving Office. Owing
to the fact that the party shipping
Will be out two cents in postage On
each package sent c. o. D. and must
put UP the full cost of the shipping
until II is collected at the other ii
the method is not likely to prove very
popular.
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Pacific Coast. Each he distinctive
attractlons. There is nothing to com
pare with the massive mountains,
many Of them crowned with eternal
snoW, giant redwood trees, yawning
cnasms and towering waterfalls which
IS some Of the things that make q
ZIP g the west 1inger ID our mernory.
Low round trip fares and convention
rates now n effect. Splendid train
service from All points. For tickets
and flll particulars apply to ticket
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