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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
GIANTS EVEN UP
 WITH SENATORS
Merkle's Homer Gives New York Decision Over Washington
 Team

Washington, April 9-CIark Crff- hth's ambition to repay the Giants in full Of their two defeats of the Sena- tors, last spring, was frustrated yes- terday afternoon by Mathewson and Marquard, whose pitching colIabora- ton resulted in a score of to 2 in the second game here and the finish of a long exhibition tour by the Ma tionaI League champions.
 A crushing blow delivered by Merl6le in the fourth frame upset Griff's cal culations altogether. It was fitting that Merkle should win the game, for he undoubtedly lost Mondays fracas. Some luck was needed, and the Giants had it. With two runners on the bases Merkle drove on a line to centre field. The alert Milan set himself for stop, but on long bound the ball shot to one side and deluded the centre field CT. The ball rolled for a home run and Washington was beaten right there, although the customary nine innings were played to prove it,~
 Griff presented two recruit pitchers who were good enough to hold the Giants to seven hits and strike out ten men. Both Matty and Marquard pitched championship ball, and 1t now appears that both of these standbys are ready to toll in turn from hte good news in New York, as Marquard was not expected to edge in until May.
 Everybody wanted to see Thorpe, so McGraw sent him up as a pinch hit ter, and Jim whiffed after fouIing off four balls. He finally succumbed on a wide outcurve, but managed to tip it, so Griff cannot claim a clean decision.
 As Germany Schafer and Nick AL trock, the clown coachers of the Sem ators, were absent on business with the Washington seconds, the game
 
 Baseman Morgan entered into acrim- onious debate in the sixth inning.
 From that point to the finish the pastime was built around this argu- ment, which produced much bitter repartee. The Senators operated a loose-jointed double play in the sixth, and, not satisfied with that, claimed a triple play where none existed.
 McGraw took a prominent part in a. mass meeting of athletes around Um- pfre Colliflower and had the Wash ington claim overruled. At the break manager exchanged sharp verbal thrusts.
 The Giants presented a perfect de- fense, though some scorers gave George Burns an error on his mis- Judgment of Fosters line drive in the fourth. Foster scored Waslhingtons first run after getting on the bases that way.
 The Washington pitchers struck out ten men, against six famed by Mathewson and Marquard, but were also more liberal with bases on balls. GaIIia extricated himself from a seri- ous predicament in the first inning when the Giants had runners on sec ond and third and only one out. Doyle and Murray punctured the rally with high flies and not until the fourth in- ming did the Giants really get started again.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
RED SOX HAND OUT
 WHITENASH TO HARVARD

Boston, April 9-It was so cold yes terday afternoon that no one could justly pass criticism on the play of either the Red Sox or the Harvard team when they met in their annual exhibition at Fenway Park Of course the worlds champions won and they managed to keep the Crimson players from making the circuit, the score being to O.
 It was the first game of the season for Harvard, but the team showed pretty well. F'elton pitched the first six innings and allowed but three hits, two of which were for extra bases by Yerkes. Frye succeeded him and a1- lowed but one hit. Both men were wild. In the second inning Felton struck out Gardner, Stah1 and Carri- gan, with a pass to Wagner sandwich ed between the last pair. Hooper muffed two easy flies and Wagner aI- lowed a grounder to go through him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
HOPES SHAMROCK
 WILL SECURE CUP
Sir Thomas Lipton's Designer Already at Work OF New
 Yacht

London, April 9.-"The luck will all be with us, this time. The challenger is the four leaved Shamrock while the New York Yacht Club will be de- lending the Americas cup for the 18th time," said Charles B. Nichol- son, today, the yacht designer of Cos port, Eng, who is to design the boat which will seek to win back for the British the Americas cup.
 This will not be Nioholson's first connection with the contests for the cup, his yards at Gosport having been used to dock the original America when she was under repair. He told the Associated Press, 'I wish to cor rect the unfortunate impression pre- vafling in the United States that am afraid of a 90-foot yacht. I be- Iieve I could build one which would cross the Atlantic Ocean safely
 t'I have the greatest admiration for the genius and cleverness of American designers. These coupled with the fact that the conditions are in favor of the defender, make the task of de- signing challenging yacht one of the keenest interest, calling for every ounce of ability I may possess.
 'I hope Gardner as well as Heres hoff will be given a chance to design the defender. If so the preliminary races will be almost as interesting as the final cup contest.
 'I have already erected a shed at the Gosport yards for the challenger and have her blanks we'll under way. I expect to launch her in April 1914"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
PITCHER GREEN
 GOES TO PIRATES
Former HolyOke Twirler Bought from Yankees by Pitts
 burgh

Pittsburgh, April 9-Pitcl1er Paddy Green of the Highlanders has been bought by the Pirates and will join the team immediately. This an nouncement was made yesterday by Barney Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburgh club.
 President Farrell of the Highland CTS asked for waivers on Green, with the intention of letting him out with a string attached to him. However, DreyfusS was tipped off that Green is an Ed Walsh in the rough and re- fused to waive. It is understood Dreyfuas paid considerably more than the waiver price for Greens release
 Green is a. big spitban pitcher, and there was a dispute last winter to whether he was the property of the Giants or HighIanders. The National Commission decided he belonged to the New York Americans. It was said that McGra;w was willing to pay $6, 900 for the youngsters release when he played for HoIyoke last Sea son
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
BROOKLYN AND
 PHILLIPS MEET AT
 NEW PARK TODAY

New York, April 9-Under brilliant April sun, major league baseball got 8 running start for 1913, today, at the official opening of the National League season at Ebbetts Field in Brooklyn and the initial clash of the big league baseball for the year. Not until to- morrow, however, will the game pc on for all leagues.
 Partisans of today's competing teams, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, each braced by new material and with the old stars nearly all back in form, anticipated an interesting battle. Man ager Dahlen planned to put Nap Fucker against PhiIadelphia's fittest, the likely selection Of Manager Dooin being Chalmers. In the event that the warn up'' tests showed either lacking, Brooklyn had Allen groomed for the fray and the visitors stood ready with Seaton or Brennan Or pos sibly the great Alexander. Klem and Orth will umpire the game.
 President E1bbetts, of Brooklyn, had a band out early and a flag raising and other opening day ceremonies for his fine new park arranged for the benefit of the loyal home enthusiasts The probable batting order:
 Brooklyn-StengeI, of; Cutsihaw, 2b; Myers, If; Wheat, If; DauIbert, 1b; Smith, 3b; Fisher, ss; Miller, c; Ruck- CT, D; Allen, p; Raga, p.
 delphia-Knabe, 2b; Ibobert, 3b; Magee, If; Luderus, 1b; Miller or Ora vath, If; Dolan or Capron, Of; Doolan. ss; Killifer or Dooin, c; Chalmers, p; Seaton, p; Brennan, p.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
JOE RIVERS HAS
 BETTER OF LEACH CROSS IN SLOW GO

The ten-round bout between Joe Rivers of California and Leach Cross last night at the St. Nicholas Club, New York, was in many respects a disappointing affair. In view of the former contest between the pair it was expected that the battle would assume a near-championship affair, but instead the bout did not material ly differ from dozens of contests that take place in and around New York. Both boxers have been in line for the highest lightweight honors, but neither showed. sufficient class to be placed near the top of the ladder.
 Both boxers are possessed of dan gerous right punches, and each tried to reach his opponent, but with little success. From a boxing standpoint, the efforts of the two lightweights failed to please the big crowd of fight ing fans present. Rivers not only out boxed Cross, but also outfought him. Rivers blocked many of the east sid er's wild swings and jabbed his man throughout the ten rounds.
 Cross was unable to elude the arm jabs of the Californian, and appeared to show undue respect
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09

for his opponents fighting ability As a result Cross did not show his usual aggressiveness, and was on the re- ceiving end in the majority of the rounds.
 Both boxers have much the same style of action,- but when it came to boxing Rivers was easily in the as- tendency. Cross appeared to be anx- ious to end the contest with a single punch but the Californian, with one experience before him., was wary and kept well out of harms way. Rivers devoted his attention to a straight left jab in the face with an occasional right cross. This blow landed several times and rocked the east sider each time it found a resting place.
 Cross appeared handicapped by weight. as he was but 1924 pounds at the ringside. He looked thin and drawn, while Rivers, who was but half a pound heavier. was sturdy in ap- pearance. The later. allowed Cross to do the leading in the early rounds, but as he did not show any particular desire to adopt this style of boxing, Rivers, in the later part of the con test, assumed the aggressive and keDI Cross on the jump most of the tinC. The Californian made a mark or Cross face, which was badly swollen, with a big lump over the left eye. Rivers carried few marks of the con- test away with him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
YANKEES LOSE
 TO NEWARK TEAM
Russ Ford Hit Hard by Interna- tiOnal LeaguerS in Exhibi-
 ion Game

she Yankees tubed over to Newark <Scerday afternoon and closed their exhibition season by running a poor second to Harry Smiths Indians of the International league The inef- fectiveness of Russell Ford in the second and sixth innings, coupled with some schoolboy playing by his supporting cast enabled the Indians to collect a dozen runs in these two Innings, and these allowed the home team to breeze in with victory. The final count was 12 to T.
 The charley horse which Manager Frank Chance sprang during the game in Brooklyn on Monday kept the peerless from taking part in yes terday's contest, and Claude Derrick suit of the Brooklyn conflict. Harry Wolter was delegated as manager and Charles Sterrett took the man ager's place at first base. Pep Young was in Derrick's place, and he will undoubtedly be kept there during the first week of the pennant race. Chance expects to be in the game when the Tanks line up tomorrow for the little session with Walter Johnson of Washington.
 The Tanks managed to push as many safe hits into the box score as the Indians, and there is little differ ence in the cold figures which tell of the fielding mistakes. But by all the rules of the game the major Ieaguers deserved to be on the losing end of the battle. They showed poor judgment in base running and field ing It looked like a case of the boys playing hockey while the boss was away
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
WIN
 FROM PHILA. TEAM

Philadelphia, April 9-The Athletics made a clean sweep of the local series with the Phillies, taking the last game yesterday, to D. The Americans pounded Earl Moore hard and often and rolled up a big lead. Burning managed to scatter the Nationals hits.
 Mayer relieved Moore in the fifth and, except for infield hit by Strunk, held the Athletics safe. In the eighth the Louisville recruit blew up and the Phillies-on five hits, a pass and batsman hft-tallied five runs. Pennocks pitched the last in ming and Dooin's men went out in order.
 The fielding feature was a fine catch by Collins in the third inning that saved the Athletics from dis aster. This with the hitting of Lu- derus, Collins, Strunk and Thomas, served to enliven the contest. Lobert had an off day at third and his two errors figured largely in the Amer leans victory. Despite the cold the game was fast, though the crowd was the poorest of the series.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
THINKS GIANTS
 ARE CHESTIEST TEAM IN COUNTRY
(BufaIo Enauirer.l

Baseball has produced a winderful variety of ball clubs and players, but the New York Giants are in a class by themselves in more ways than one. AIcGraw's ball club IS the chestiest in any league. McGraw has inoculated them with a serum that makes con hdence and pepper run riot in their veins.
 The Giants think they are the great est ballplayers on earth, despite the fact that they have been crushed by the American league leaders in two recent worlds series. They do admit that the Red Sox or Athletics are superior ball clubs. They blame their defeats to hard luck.
 McGraw has each individual player thinking he is the greatest man in his position on earth. The players actu- ally believe Muggsy and keep going ahead of their natural speed for that reason.
 It is that sort of bunk talk that has made the Giants an unnaturaHy good ball club. There are few real stars in the Gotham outfit. Matty, Meyers, Doyle and Marquard are first string men.
 Merkle might be included. The oth- CTS fall shy of the mark. But Me Graw has talked so much of their greatness and handed them the bunk in such clever fashion, that they keep right on playing winning ball.
 Take McGraW away from the Giants and make them play ball under an ordinary manager and the chances are they would not finish in the first division. He bunked Fletcher, Sha- fer, Merkle, Meyers, Devore, Mar quard and Tesreau into believing themselves stars of the first rnagni- tude-
 ! Mexican athletes are great leaders and McGraw is just about the great est athlete Mexico ever produced.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
BY Waguer.l

Old Man Hard Luck who has been pursuing the New York Americans for years, got on a trial of the Bridgeport club this season by depriving the team of it's best pitcher, Sunny Sexton Manager McCann has received a letter from the twirler who definitely an nounces that he has retired from the game. Some time ago he wrote that he intended to quit but McCann did not take this seriously, believing it was the usual winter talk indu1ged in by players. The last letter appears 10 settle the matter and shows that Sex ton is serious.
 It is not a question of salary for he had already accepted terms and is perfectly willing to return here if he decided to play again. He has good position with the Seaboard Air Line at his home in Raeford, N. C., and he thinks it wiser to stick to that job. Manager McCann will now have to get busy and sign an experienced twirler to take Sexton's place.
 First Baseman Ed McGamwel1, Jol- ly Jake Boultes, Catcher Harvey Rus sell and Pitcher Bob Strother were the latest arrivals to report to the Bridgeport management, They got in last night. McGamweu came from his home in Albany, N. Y. He is q tall citizen and looks as if he could take care of the first sack. BouItes came all the way from his winter quarters in St. Louis and Russell and Strother made the trip from Manas- sas, Va, where they have been play ing with the Eastern college team. The team was shot to pieces when the star battery went away. Russell :s living in the same place in East Bridgeport. The 1andlady will put in a switchboard and telephone opera tor to take care of all the calls from Harvey's girlish admirers. Call him up any time, girls.
 Strother is a lengthy cuss and wears of much outdoor practice. His col lege team has just returned from a trip through the South
 The candidates had two stiff prac- tices yesterday at Newfield. Manager McCann had intended to have only one session, but the weather was so fine that he gave them an afternoon session, too. The sensation of the practice was Joe F1annery's work at shortstop The boy from Mobile is full of life and covers ground like an umbrella He made a. number of stops that started the rairbirds cheering. Ben Silzer, another infield recruit, was at third and showed plenty of speed. Both boys are flashes in the field but their hitting will tell the tale.
 Bowman took things easy at second, although he showed that he knows
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
SEXTON FINALLY DECIDES
 TO RETIRE FROM BASEBALL
M'GamWeII, BOuItes, Russell and Strother
 Report for Practice

how to play the bag. Joe Phillips, Fred Leid and Bill Butler chased flies in the outfield. All are lively play CTS and favorabIy impressed the spec tators. Pitchers Nissan, Degan, Sa- ger, Hea1y, Tuckey and Goddard advice by Catcher Eddie Bridges, the Erie fireman
 President O'Rourke of the Eastern Association, and Dan Shannon will act as umpires in the game to be played at Newfeld Park Sunday for the bene- fit of the flood sufferers. The Bridge port and Yost teams expect to be in shape by that time and a good contest should result.
 Ty Cobb got into fight with a col lege player named Rutledge Osborne, in Spartanburg, s. C., yesterday. The coIlegians played Cobb's transformers 8 few days ago and Osborne kidded Cobb. They went to a room in a ho- tel to settle their differences and Os- borne declares three men held him down while Cobb kicked him. Fine business, eh?
 The boxing match between Frank Klaus and George Carpenter which was to have been held in Paris, has been called off. The Frenchman de- CPQSo to keep away IFOA1 IAIdoS the American gave him quite a beat ing when last they met.
 The New London baseball club has secured Pitcher Sutcliffe from the Chicago Cubs. He is a, southpaw who was taken South with the team this season.
 Ed McGinley, the Providence young ster who is trying for the utility back stop job with the Mechanics, handled himself well in the practice at New field, yesterday. He throws well to bases The test will come when his batting ability is tried against regular pitching.
 Eddie Bridges and Harvey Russell of the Mechanics divided all the money they got for polling home runs last season, and the same arrange ment will go this year. In the early part of the season Russell had deliv- cred several circuit smaShes and Bridges was going poorly, so Harvey suggested that he'd take his share out of Bridges poker winnings. Eddie was always a great boy to hold the cards and he turned over $50 to Rus sell in three days.
 Club reiterated today that no action would be taken on Sir Thomas Lip tons new challenge until after the fu- neral, on Monday, of J. F. Morgan, former commodore.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09


 Minnesota light weight, who is rapidly coming to the front among the 133 pounders and who has been promised a match with Willie Ritch- ie, providing he keeps up his standing, is just another such a lad as Ritchie when it comes to home conditions, etc.
 Pal is a good name for the boy. for he has been a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
BIG CROWD FOR
 BASKETBALL BATTLE

At Colonial hall tonight the Blue Ribbons and the strong Brooklawns will fight the last game of the city championship basketball series. By the looks of things there wifi be one of the largest crowds that ever at tended a game in the city. The game will start at 8 o'clock sharp, with Doc Hull of New Haven as referee.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09

real Pal with his friends up north and there is nothing that he enjoys more than to mingIe with the lum-
 berjacks when they are driving logs or to mix with the miners on the Iron range. He is one who likes the open
 air at all times and if it were not
 that he needs boxing to keep his eye right for distance, etc, he would do all his work outdoors while training for contests He is just in his twen- tieth year, does not drink nor smoke,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
THORPE MAY BE
 SOLD BY GIANTS
 TO ST. LOUIS TEAM

St. Louis, Mo-, April e-"Jim' Thorpe, Indian athlete, who signed with the New York Giants, and join ed them yesterday at Washington, may become a Cardinal. All that is needed for the Carlisle man to join the local National League club is for John J. McGraw to accept an offer made by Miller Higgins It is be- Heved here that waivers have been asked on Thorpe, because Tuesday
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09

morning Higgins sent the following telegram to McGraw:
 "Will take Thorpe off your hands. What is his salary ?'''
 Huggins would not say whether waivers had been asked or whether Thorpe had been offered to the Car dinaIs. He declared that he was eager to get the Indian and that he would outbid any National League mana
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
NEW TROLLEY DUMP CARS.

NEW TROLLEY DUMP CARS.
 New Haven, April 9-At a cost of $135, 900 the Connecticut Company. it is learned today, has ordered nineteen of an enlarged styeI of t4olley dump car, each with four compartments, which can be emptied singly. The cars will be used in distributing stone over the State in connection with tire building of the new State highways.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
CORNELL BEATEN BY
 CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY TEAM

Washington, April 9-The Catholic University won over Cornell in a hard fought, no-hit game yesterday afternoon. The score was to g. The winners showed brilliant form from the start Their fielding was partic- ularly effective, while Prayers, the Catholic pitcher, showed a flash of big league speed that held the Itha- cans without a single safe hit.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09

New York, April s-It looks as if the jinx has signed a 1913 contract with the New York American league team Frank Chance, in the best condition he has shown for years, wrenched a muscle in his left thigh recently in Brooklyn; Claude Derrick was spiked in the right hand, which was gashed deeply between the thumb and forefinger, and Jack Warhop, af- ter delivering five balls in the first
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
ByT. s. Andrews.

There seems to be a feeling among the better class of boxers nowadays that it is very necessary to follow the straight and narrow path in order 70 keep up with the procession, the same as with the baseball players of the big leagues to-day.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09

inning, found his right shoulder stiff and sore. The jinx's first putout of the campaign was at the expense of Hal Chase, who Gprained his ankle in Bermuda. Up to the recent injury Chance had been showing his old time form at first base. Although Trainer Barrett says that the Tanks manager will be out of the game for a few days the skepticaI ones thir7s it will be weeks before Chance wifi re- gain his form.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09

Officials of the New York Yacht Club reiterated today that no action would be taken on Sir Thomas Lip tons new challenge until after the fu- neral, on Monday. of J. P. Morgan, former comm mOdore.