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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
JOE SHUGEUE
 BEATS WELSH
 IN FAST BOUT

New York, Dec. 3-Freddie Welsh, the lightweight Champion, was beaten on points last night at Madison with Joe Shugrue of. Jersey City. It was not a highly satisfactory. bout. however, for the champion seemed to be far below the standard which has marked his ring career since he con- quered Willie Ritchie in London.
 During the entire ten rounds he worked mostly with his left hand, and this would presume that there was something in the story which came from Taunton, Mass, a few days ago. that Welsh had broken his hand in his bout with Yene.
 Shugrue seemed to realize that the moment of his career had arrived. He was the aggressor from the instant that the first gong changed and in all but one round he held that command jing position. He bored in close and appeared to relish the infighting game much more than the champion. Time and again he landed telling blows while the men were close locked or breaking away. The one round that could be called the champions was the seventh. Then he broke for an instant into his old stride. He landed repeatedly, but for all that he scored there was not apparently enough power behind the blows to cause his opponent any inconvenience.
 There was no one but would on mere physical looks have accorded the battle to, Shugrue. He is short and thickset, while Welsh lowered ap- parentIy a full two inches above him. It was this concentrated weight, as it were that Shugrue made full use of. He was able to rush the champion, and get in at close quarters Welsh, on the other hand, while he was at times aggressive, was in large meas ure on the defensive, and seemed to be impressed too strongly with the responsibility of his championship or his sore hand.
 The champion was by no means helpless or suffering when he left the ring. and many less inclined to give a man a, bout unless he displayed much more superiority than Shugrue did would call the bout a draw, but on the number of blows landed fairly and with force Shugrue had it on the Britisher.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03

NEW ROWING ORGANIZATION
 OF COLLEGES


 Philadelphia, Dec. -Intercollegiats rowing is likely to receive a severe shock and undergo a complete change 1T the plans of the various college managers and coaches materiaIizes.
 Pennsylvania has started a com plete change in college rowing, and the other universities in the East promise to follow in the path of the Red and Blue in a sweeping reformal- tfon of the water sport as 1t is run in. the East today
 Manager Hastings of Cornell Man ager Cobb of Harvard, Manager Paul of Princeton. Manager Lackey of Yale Manager Rockwell of Annapo- lis, Manager Walker and Captain San born of Columbia, and Captain Mer- rick and Manager Fred Davis Of Pennsylvanfa met at the traiuins house at Franklin Field and formed an entirely new organization and called it the Collegiate Rowing Assoa citation of America. It is directly in contrast to the present intercollegiate association which binds the Eastern and Western colleges
 The main purpose of the new or ganization, however, and one that promises to become an established fact within the course of the next year, is the abolition of f9ae Yale Harvard and Poughkeepsie races, and the institution Of a regatta along the lines of the famous English Henley.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
CHlNAMAN
 SIGNED BY
 CHICAGO TEAM

Organized baseball is threatened with
 an invasion from China Cuban7.
 Indians and Italians have been sue
 cessfu1 in America's national game
 but up to the present no Chinaman
 or Japanese has shown himself suff1-
 ciently proficient to be carried on the
 roster of 8 major league team. It is
 learned that Manager Jimmy Callahan of the White Sox has secured Capt. Lat Tin of the Honolulu Chinese team and will, take him with the team to Southern Ca1ifornia for the spring
 training trip. where he will receive
 a hard tryout. In the event of Lai.
 Tin fulfilling expectations he will en- joy the unique honor of being the first Celestial to play on a. National or
 American League team. fe
 Capt. Lai Tin is one of the best
 athletes in the Far East. He played shortstop on the Honolulu Chinese team that visited the United States in 1912 and 1914. He holds two Hawaiian
 athletic records. He has been timed in the 100-yard dash in 10 1-5 seconds and has cleared twenty three feet in the running broad jump. In two games against the University of California team Tai Tin had twenty-four chances while playing at third base and ac- ceptedl all of them. In addition to be- ing clever fielder he is crack bat ter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
TO PLAY FOR HIGH
 SCHOOL TITLE

It. had been thought that the foot. ball season as far as New England is concerned, was clossdj but there is just one more bit to offer next Satur-s day when Connecticut, after being. sadly disappointed at the showing of Yale, will make one more bid for championship honors on the gridiron.
 The honors sought are interschol- astic ones, the Stamford High School eleven of this state. which has finish ed two successful seasons without single defeat. tacking the wonderful Everett High eleven, which has al ready been generally accorded cham pionship honors among thess high schools of the country since it's over whelming defeat of Oak Park igh School of Chicago last Saturday.
 Stamford High has been hard at work. preparing for this game and while it is none too sanguine of vic tory, in view of the comments upon the wonderful work of Everett High by noted football authorities, yet it believes that there is a chance for bringing the interscholastic title to Connecticut, and hopes. at least to make a better showing against the Bay State aggregation than has any other eleven this season.
 It is expected that fully 200 foot+ ball enthusiasts of Stamford will make the trip to Everett Saturday the team leaving at 2So'c1ock Friday afternoon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
DISLIKE
 MALE COACH FOR
 GlRLS' BASKETBALL

Quite an amusing situation has been placed before the Athletic As sociation of the local high school in regard to the coach of the girls bas- ketbaI1 team. It seems that one of the male members Of the faculty has held the position for the past two years and at tIe beginning of the present season was engaged to again coach the young ladies. Practices have been held for the past few weeks at St. PauPs hall on Beach street and everything seemed to be progressing smoothly.
 But like a bolt of lightning from a clear sky. a protest arose, from where no one seems to know. Suffice ft to say though that now the girls have a well known female athlete to coach the team
 what the objection to the male coach is or was cannot be found out, though runor has it that the parents are the ones who found fault and would not let their daughters play un- less the team was coached by wo- man. And also no boys will be allow ed to attend the practices, although at the games different policy will be followed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
WHY BENDER OF
 MACKMEN FAILED

Bender failure gives rise to two lines of thought, says Ed. Wray in the St. Louis Post Dispatch One is that the famed Indian finger, des- pite his record of IT victories and defeats this year, is about all in, and can no longer show the speed and stamina that once co-operated with his intelligence and experience to make him formidable
 His downfall also suggests that the vaunted superiority of American Lea que pitching and batting may as a whole, have been overestimated. The fact that a finger like Bender, who is worrying along on his wits, with his physical assets waning, could lead the merican League, with such a rec ord as the tfChief' owns, would con vince some that the American Lea gue hitting is not what it has seemed.
 But opinions based on one game should be taken with a grain of salt. For. while it is certain that no weak ening of nerve contributed to this game veterans downfall. it possibly may have been due to a ssbad day. such as even the best of them en- counter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03

his average was better than 400. No other player since the organization of the National League in 1878 has bat ted over 400 for three seasons in the major circuits. Burkett first broke into the 300 class in 1890, but 1t was not until 1893 that he commenced his consecutive string of ten 300 annums. Tn 1895, while playing left field for Cleveland. he made his high mark of
 423. The next season he again led the league with an average of .410.i In 1899 he went to St Louis, where he again broke into the AGO class, al- though that year he stood second, being surpassed by De1ehanty of Phil adeIp11ia. In 1900 he batted .36O, and in 1901 he again led the league with an average of 1882. In 1902 he slumped to .306, and after. that van fshed from the select company of 300 swatters. Burkett usually played in the left garden. Ross Barnes. of Chi cago, also batted over 400 three years. but two of these years were in the old National Association, before the launching of the National League in 1876. A
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
B, fl. s. AGAIN ENTERS STATE ASSOCIATION

The executive committee of the Athletic association has decided to again enter the teams of the school. in the Connecticut association of high schools which has to do with the requirements and statistics of all members Of athletic Steanas of the schools The association was former lyz known as the Principals Associa-a ton and governed the athletics in the high schools about the state. The only high school of any importance in the state that is now not a mem Der of this association is Stamford and because of that fact they have not been awarded the football champion ship which is rightfully theirs. Hart ford has been given, this honor al- though their eleven bowed before the Stamford boys in their annual game.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
JACK SHERIDAN TELLS
 HOW HE BECAME JUMP
fsporting News.l

-
 The death of a diamond celebrity Invariably brings forth some story re- lating to the first experience of the notable in breaking into the game. Here is. the way that Hugh Fullerton relates the debut of the late Iamented Jack Sheridan, than whom no greater umpire ever lived.
 Sheridan had one yarn he told. It was Of his start.
 tI had been playing in the South erns' he said, land was sold to- the Oakland club on the coast. They sent me money to come son-but the land lord or some one took 1t and I could not get to the coast. The Oakland team WAS going in bad form. T think 1t lost 14s of the first 16 games.
 The club sent me 1nore money and wired I would be fhere. The next three days the Oakland papers were printing seven column lines announc- ing that Sheridan; the greatest of all second basemen, was coming to res- cue the team; that Sheridan would make the team a champion.
 They printed my, picture five eol- llnnns wide, and got out extras am nouncing that I was approaching, and bulletins announcing my progress were posted all over the city. The and escorted nie. to the ball park. That afternoon I made five errors and kicked away the game
 '@The next day made seven errors and the next day six. At the end of that game the long suffering public Ieaped from the stands. T saw them coming and fled.
 Flour after hour fled, with the sounds of wild pursuit, cries of lynch him following me. At dark had outdistanced them and at midnight I threw myself exhausted in a giant redwood forest
 "The next day, I lodged through the forest, going further and further frc1n Oakland until at last I came upon a lumber camp. I was hungry and des- perate. was glad to see that they did not recognize me and I applied for work. The boss gave me an ax, took me into the forest and marked two redwood trees for me to cut down.
 All day I worked, ichopping at that tree It was late afternoon before I got through the bark T chopped around and around and, toward night fall, the boss came with a team of oxen expecting to drag in two logs. He was angry and cursed me I was starting to fight when a windstorm canie up. blew down the tree. which fell upon the oxen and killed them.
 .aThe man seized an ax and sprang toward me. Again I turned and fled deeper and deeper into the forest For days and days fled, subsisting upon the bark of trees, roots and berries. dared not go near the haunts of man. On the eighth day, exhausted and worn, I sat down upon a log in the derth of the forest and solilo- quized.
 ' Here I am,' I said bitterly. .an outcast, a pariah, hated and hunted by all men; an Ishmaels driven from the haunts of man; fugitive with all human beings seeking my 1ife.s
 ssI sat there, thinking thus bitterly for an hour Then suddenly an in- spiratior came. brightened.
 tsWhy. then, shouldn't I make a good umpire?
 ..That is the way started umpir- ing"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
GLEES TO USE GEORGETOWN
 STAR AGAINST YOST ELEVEN
Eastern Association President Secures Crisham for Next Seasons Um-
 pire Staff

York American league club. He holds 46 per cent. but prospective purchasers won't do business unless they can get a majority of the stock. So far President Farrell has refused to part with any of his stock.
 Manager Roger Bresnahan of the Chicago Cubs has 15 pitchers and is willing to part with any of them for a. good second baseman. Bill Swee- ney, who was sent to Chicago by Bos- ton, is regarde1 as too slow.
 There is a possibility of a. split be- tween Fielder Jones and the packers of the St. Louis Federals. Jones is anxious to buy thesPortland franchise in the Pacific Coast league but would have to quit the Federal league in order to do so.
 Coach Brooke of the University of Pennsylvania football team says he will not attempt to do any active coaching next season but will turn the details over to his assistants. He will be directing head coach. Bfooke planes the disorganization of the coaching force for Penn's failure in the past season
 Carlisle had to travel a. long dis tance but finally managed to find 3 victim at football The Indians beat the University of Alabama 20 to 3 yesterday.
 Joe. shugrne, who beat Champion Freddy Welsh last light, will be seen in the star bout at the Armory here December IS, He will go againstsSam Robideau, who is regarded as first class boxer.
 Eddie Brawley of Medford. Mass, has been elected captain of the Holy Cross football eleven. He played quarterback.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
ANNIVERSARIES
 OF RING BATTLES

19o2-Kid Carter knocked out Peter Maher in second round at Philadel- phia- The Irish giant had a. consid erabIe advantage in height, reach and weight over Carter, who was little more than 8. middleweight, but Peter was already on the toboggan- Either Maher or Carter would be a champion today, but they were not quite good enough then. After his defeat by Car- ter, Peter went from bad to worse, and was knocked out in turn by Joe Choyn- ski, George Gardiner, Jack Munroe and Jack Williams. Earlier, in his ca reer Maher had put Choynski away and had defeated such good men as Joe Goddard, and Frank Slavin, and had fought draws with Tom Sharkey and Gus Ruhlin. Carter quit the ring within a year after his defeat of Ma her, having himself been defeated by Sam McVey, George Gardiner, Marvin Hart and Joe Walcott.
 1887-willie Moody, Irish-German lightweight boxer. born in Philadel- phia.
 1soO-Jack Hamilton defeated s'Oma- ha Kid''. Gardner in 20 rounds at Youngstown, o.
 1sos-Joe Walcott and Young Jack Johnson fought six round draw at Haverhill, Mass.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
BOXING NOTES

There is one Milwaukee fighter who has been having quite a time of it in Europe. Anton the Greek, the well terweight champion of wisconsin, started to visit his old home in Ath- ems, Greece, just before the war broke out, but on landing in Europe found out that he was up against it proper. After many mix-ups Anton arrived in his old home, but found that he could not get away again on account the Greek military authorities that he was a naturalized American citizen. However, Anton has landed back in England, as the following letter to the writer will show:
 London, Eng, Oct 29-The MiIwau- kee welterweight, Anton the Greek, arrived here today after a. series of adventures at the Greek customs and again in Paris. The journey, which normally takes three days, occupied Anton over five days, the journey from Paris to London taking twelve hours instead of the usual seven. Anton hoped to get fixed up with Johnny Summers, the British 147-pound cham pion, but Johnny, after a lot of daily ing, was forced by the National Sport ing club to fix up with Sergt. Ba- sham. The latter is a good class well terweight and has a victory over Young Ahearn to his credit.
 Summers has been resting since he boxed a, drawn battle with Harry Stone at the Olympia arena and is in danger of losing his title. .s Eddie Beat tie, the Scotch champion, is thus balk- ed of chance at the British title, but I am trying to fix up Anton with Beat If possible Anten's first bout in Europe will be at the London National Sport ing club, or failing that. at Dick Burgess c1ub.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
MACK WISHES
 EDDIE PLANK
 BEST OF LUCK

Gettysburg. Pa- Dec. S-The, for 4aa1ity of Eddie Plankss jump to the Federal league was completed yester- day when the Baltimore club treas urer visited the veterans home and obtained his signature to 8 contract. :. Plank would not tell to which club he had been assigned.
 s1 wish him the best of luck. 7 said Connie Mack last night. when told tha4 Eddie Plank had signed a Fed eraI League contract
 Ara you sorry to see him go? ?'' Mack was asked.
 ssOh. nS, he replied .:T was through with him. He was liter the money and was quite willing to go to the FederalB. s
 ~HA is a wonderful pitcher 2 Mack said in speaking of Plank's thirteen years service with the Attn letics. 'sand he Is a good one yet
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
Bvwao,er,,


 HarryeCostello, d Meriden boy who won fame as a member of the George town university team, will play with the Washington GIee club eleven when the New Haven boys come here next Sunday to. line up against the Rem ington- osts Costello win play. half back and as he is a. good drop kicke the Yosts will have to watch him.
 The Glees are very anxious to de- feat the sYostss to get even for the beating handed them by the Y osts last season Nagle and Rogers, the two ends forced by injuries to stay out of the Annex game on Thanksgiving day, will be on deck Sunday.
 President O'Rourke announced to- day that F.. J. Crisham, the star of last seasons Eastern association u1n- pire staff, has been engaged for next year. Crisham writes from his home in. Syracuse, N. Y. that he was we'll treated in the Eastern last season and is glad to return. There will be plenty of unnpires on the market next season for many leagues have dis carded the double umpire system. President OsRourke expects to have no difficulty in getting three more good arbiters.
 Kid Sherwood of this city has sign ed his 1915 contract with the New Haven baseball club. Sherwood did well at third for the Wings last sea son.
 At the University Of Michigan the athletes have banded together to abolish various sporting tendencies which have injured athletics. Drink ing after victories. betting on games and profanity during games by play CTS. will be forbidden.
 It is said that Bill Devery is willing < to dispose of his stock in the New
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
NAME CLICK FOR
 TIGER CAPTAIN

Princeton, N. J..4 Dec. s rank Click of Pittsburgh was yesterday af- ternoon unanimously elected captain of Princeton football team for 1913. He prepared at Pittsburgh Central High School. where he was 9 mem Der of taea football team for four years explaining it during his senior year He played on the freshnan team here and has for two years been a mem Der of the varsity playing at half back and quarterback.
 Click was a leading figure in the Princeton rally in the fourth period of the Yale game.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
MARIAN CAPTAIN
 OF HARVARD TEAM

cnmbr4dge. Mass. Dec. 8HEdward Mahan, of aJaxdck, Mass. halfback on the Harvard varsity football team. was chosen captain yesterday.
 MaIaan, who is in the junior class, 11repared for college at Phtllips- Andover Academy, where he was q 4.lexuxer Of the football. baseball and fTsselS fsarsls. He captained the A1sdover nine. and in his first year -aK Harvard was captain of the fresh man eleven. He is twenty-two years
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
GIRLS BASKETBsLL AT
 PARISH HALL SATURDAY

The girls basketball team of the Bridgeport High school will play it's first game on Saturday afternoon in St. PauI's parish house on Beach street. The game will be with the Newtown high school five. The girls have developed some wonderful team work which will show. out with great prominence in the coming game. It is hoped that there will be a large crowd on hand from the local school.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
MASS MEETING AT COLUMBIA ROOMS
 FOOTBALL SPIRIT

new York. Dec. s-Fourteen hun dszasd students crowded eagerly into fals Columbia Gymnasium yesterday nsSska for the football mass meeting. witch had promised to bring forth many surprises. The one announce 1nent that was hoped for, that foot ball would be restored at Colun1bias was not forthconings but the move nent to bring about this result re- cedved an added impetus and there persists . feeling that 1t will in the end be successful.
 President Ndcholas AEurray Butler addressed the meeting for a few min lrtes. but he refrained from making any mention Of football He urged a greater unity in Columbia spirit, and his words as to what the stud Is want, what the student board wants. and what the university wants were cheered as indicatIng a willingness to meet them half way on any we'll founded proposal even though 1t be for the reinstatement, of football.
 Every reference to football aroused wild cheering by the students, and there is no doubt that much quiet work is planned by the students in charge of the movement.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03

Big arrival of fresh fish to be sold at very low prices. W. D. Cook & Son just received a fine lot of bl9efish, weakfsh, yelIowd1n. sea trout, harbor blues, Long Island eels. fresh salmon, halibutt, smelt, blackfish, hatfsh, king fish, mullett, steakcod, haddock. pol lock, Spanish maekerel, perch, long clams, round clans, little neck clans, oysters, escallops, salt mackerel, salt codfsh, lemons. lines, horse radish and cod liver oil, which they will sell at very low prices:-W. D. Cook & Son, 523 Water street.zAdv.