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The evening world., 1914-01-14
Reception and Euchre for 81. Rita.

A euchre and reception to be held
under the auspices OF thes Queen
Daughters" of 81. Rita's Church. One
Hundred and Forty-fifth street and
College avenue. will take place tonight,
At the Burland Casino, No. $40 West
chester avenue, between Prospect and
Union avenues. There are many valu-
able prizes. also prizes for non-players
and dancing during the euchre. which,
will commence promptly at s o'clock
The proceeds OF this affair are to be
used for tho charitable purposes of the
parish.
The evening world., 1914-01-14
NEW CIVIC BUILDING
| CONTRACTORSMAy
ASK MORE TIME
Bridge Commissioner VIII
Try to Learn Why There
Is So Much Delay.
CAVE OF COLD WINDS.
New Structure lnadequately
Heated and Clerks Work
in OvercoatS.

0rtdgs Commissioner Kraoks 10 to get
aktsr the contractors doing the work
o the new Municipal Building. He has
arranged for . conference at ne, sar.
ueae epportunity and he proposes learn
~ just when the big structure viii be
reA1y for turnlhx over to the city. The
ceamisstoner yesterday resigned, his
N1oab'tcan district isadership In Brook
~ % that no viii have no outside In
The evening world., 1914-01-14
FIRE REVEALS MURDER.
Man FOund Dead In BED when
Door IL Battered Down.

YOUNGSTOWN. o.. Jan. 14.-Durlng
the progress OF a IRE In East Federal
street to-day the hremen broke open
door which had been securely padlocked
and found the body Of a man. appar-
entity foreign born. lying on q bed with
the skull battered in. An AK was lying
nearby.
From the condition OF the body the
murder must have been committed sew
erai weeks ago. Identity OF the body
has not yet been esta blished.
The evening world., 1914-01-14

nee OF the Corporation Counsel to the
effect that the powers Of the Bridge
Commissioner were supreme-that he
did not have to give the reasons. mas
much ~ the entire responsibility was
rcposed In him.
The evening world., 1914-01-14
Mrs. William. secures Her Divorce

Mrs Olga Everard Williams, wife OF
william Williams, once a chauffeur for
her father, James Eyerard, the brewer,
with whom she eloped three years ago,
received an ;nterlocutory decree Of d.
vorce from Justice Van sicklen In tEe
Supreme Court In Brooklyn to-day; the
custody Of their child was awarded to
the mother. Mrs. Williams has been ,s.
ported engaged 10 Robert HWl,rd. IA.
actor. She will be free to ma ~ when
the nnal decree 10 signed after thrs a
noaths have slaossA.
The evening world., 1914-01-14
EXPRESS Thief GOT $4,000.


PITTSBURGH. Jan. N.--It became
known to-day that u package contain
Ing $4,000 was stolen from the ON 20
OF the United Express Company at Con-
nslisville. Pa. last Monday night. The
money had been sent by a Pittsburgh
bank to the Second National Bank of
Connellsvtlie.
Express company detectives and N.
police are looking for Ralph Wyant
nixht clerk In the express company
once At Conneilsviiie It IL said he
has not been seen since Monday night
when ne reported for duty.
The evening world., 1914-01-14
$40 CLERK STOLE $4,000.
kenaeth Gsrto. VALVES Exaniaa-
tien aad VIII Go to Enslsnd.

Kenneth Gorton. a young English clerk.
who was arrested In New York. charged
with the embarrassment OF $1,000 from
the arm Of william Graham In Man.
chester. England. waived examination
and extradition papers when he was
arYaisned to-day before Commissioner
John A. Shields.
The papers were sent to Washington.
and upon their return Gorton will be
played In the custody Of tho captain
OF . liner returning to England and
taken to Manchester for trial
0orton. who received ten dollars q
week A. chief clerk. ssys he could no,
live on his pittancs. and that after he
began to embexxle small amounts the
lure OF the raoetrack got him and he
lost large amOunts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27

trained in the latest methods or car- ing for and educating those infected. and third. the co-operatfon, posnfalr by legal enactment of the disDensar- les, the visiting nurses association, and the public and private hospitsls and sanatoria built for this elass Of pa- tients.
 We are engaged in a noble fsis. Let us not 1a.Iter on the way. but keep straight to the goal It is within our reach. We have but to put form cur hand and seize the prize.
 have faith in this good old statss faith that now we have been shown the way, that willing hearts aa1 helping hands win externtinate this pest and we can show posterity thaf this age of reason haW also been on age of scientific cIeanliness. and tf1s by systematic endeavor win the nS1t
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27

at any problem of health or politics or morals, I can find the solution only in those simple precepts Of religion. which were taught ages ago and which have never lost or never can Jose their compelling force, because they are spredicated upon eternal truth
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27
BETTER BAHrEs

The crusade for better ba5isF r- spread from coast tc coast, and tsE. firm hold of America Mother. I women realize how much frr health of the mother snduarr1r t. unborn child. both phyaicaIlv r- mentally. Women who e1Wsr
 ness mental deprersfcf, hes.c-.sH.. etc, should rely on Lydia E
 hams Vegetable Compour1. e. from roots and herba. ~hict fr
 iys forty yeare has been th4 remedy for tnees nfln1anta.--I I|r
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27
CONNECTICUT STATE CONFERENCE
 OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION

have given to the community a source of income and to the audience and performers training school. How long shall this great opportun-. ity remain unfuIhned
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27

I1aElaaeE VFnnl AIla. oa. - V -
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27
WoMAN,s AID NEEDED.

But referring again to the commits sioner's report for 1912, 'ttlle women of the state have not enlisted in suf- ficient numbers. Except for the Wis iting Nurses associations and a few so- cieties of women whose interest in tu-, bercuIosis is only incidental, the hun dreds of thousands of women in the state have done nothing but sympa- thize from afar with the states efforts at relieving the. tuberculosis sick Our patients arc helped, not hindered by visits from members of a society of interested ladies. as it assists us in making the state appreciate the kind of work and the amount of work the commission is doing
 RECAPTTUIAATTON
 To recapftulate-The state is ex- pending large sums of money, not to take care of those suffering from this deadly disease solely, but in an att tempt to eradicate sthis scourge.
 Systematic effort is necessary in order that private means and public funds should not be wasted.
 First Tuberculosis dispensaries should be esta ablished with the proper installation of medical officers Tn charge. and proper facilities for exam nations and records of patients.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27

Social health. as I said, is a matter primarily for the priest. There was time in my early development when the cry of modernism might have had it's attractions for me and might re- gard religion as a little o1d-fashIoned, but have studied too much not to be
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27

We have felt this in the activities of the world within the last fifty years. It's effect has manifested itself in science, Tn politics. in literature, in art Dogmastim assaiIed in relig gion has revenged itself by assuming con- troI Of irre1i zion. There has grown up among some scientific men a dog matism as unquestioHing and as in tolerant Of conflicting opinion as any re1igfo1ls dogmatfsm ever was. The only difference is that the dogmatisrn of reli zion made the high claim Of being but q formulation of truth di- vfnely revealed. while the dogmatisnn Of science can claim no higher auth or
 fly than the changing i1teHGct t4aa
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27

With no dispensary, the advanced case would have continued to infect the others in the household until the whole family would be removed to the hospital or sanatorium. where the ex- pense Of maintenance would be con- tinued until death.
 The next step in the systematizing of this matter is the organization of Visiting Nurses. This is no new meth of this character in the state having cd ,as already there are associations a. well developed system, composed of active, big-hearted women who are not content with the empty name nor the outward form of s.scientific'' char ity, but are intent upon doing as much real good with as little red tape as may be possible
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23

ROWING and lawn tennis, two of the cleanest of amateur sports, out rank all others in severity Of effort as an athletic competition- Many people look upon boxing. wrestling and foot ball aAA contests most to be dreaded and consider lawn tennis something of girls, game, but this is not so with any one who has ever taken part in a hard tennis match or who has seen star players fight for the championship in a big tournament.
 To play lawn tennis as it should be played and as it must be played to win against an opponent who is equally as skiIlfuI as yourself a man must not only be physically fit but right on edge or pay the penalty.
 But great as is the strain on a play CT in a national singles lawn tennis match the effort may be abandoned at any time the player is willing to ac- Ecept defeat This is not so with a member of a crew in a rowing race. Every man must do his best in order to defeat another eight that is equally good and it usually occurs that one or more men in the boat row themselves and are obliged to punish themselves as only an oarsman can punish him. self in order to save his crew from de- feat
 When two or three men in an eight cared shell are seen to collapse at the
 
 only men who have passed through the ordeal know how to appreciate. A crew man who has roWed himself out can not stop. He must continue as best he can and keep time with his mates even though he cannot put much strength on the oar. He feels that each stroke. weak though it may be, will be the last he can make, but gameness and faithfulness to his trust compel him to try just once more.
 He would give an arm to stop, but cannot, and struggles on and on. of ten until he actually collapses in the boat There is no other sport in which man is forced to punish himself more, and yet, as rule, this punish 1nent is made necessary by some fault of the man himself Either he gave his strength too freely early in the race, forgetting how far it was to the end of the course, or else he had broken the strict rules of the training during the long period of preparation and was thus made to pay the penalty &k 1s aa1don that . boxer ex wIakk1aS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23

the AeIders When they fail him or when balls are hit safely n1atty tight ems up'' and shows his skill. .
 Matty has never tried for strfkeout records or for no hit games. He has pitched few games in which there were fewer than six hits, and he recently won two games in succession in which four hits. That was perhaps as great a pitching performances as Matty has ever done. It showed control and a confidence that a dozen needless strike outs in one game would not show
 Mathewson has saved his arm as far as possible, and he will probably be even surpass the record made by Cy Young. who stayed in the big leagues
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23

icos match that was generally regard ed as fake. Curley was also man ager Of the wrestling bout between Hackenschmidt and Gotch, match that killed wrestling in Chicago. More than $10O.O00 was paid by spectators to see that franneup. Considering this aspect of the situation. MT. Edgren writes:
 sIJnfortunate1y, should Willard and Johnson be matched. fake runors will surely go the rounds. and whether or not there was any truth in them the sport of boxing would suffer serious injury. Johnson has absolutely killed all possibility of believing his bouts now are on the level His written agreement in the Moran affair, by which Moran was to receive a certain increased share of the receipts if he didn't go eight rounds, published in English and French papers. settled that. Johnson has passed his prime as a fighter. Dissipation and easy living have left him far less effective fight ing machine. His endurance has gone, and after boxing a few rounds he loses his strength and hitting power.
 Personally I'd like to see Willard fight Johnson. He would probably beat the dusky champ. Willard is naturally defensive fighter like Johnson, and he wouldn't run into anything through over eagerness. When hurt he hits a terrific punch or two before his nat ural caution returns. He uses a fast and hard left jab, and he has great ad- vantages in height, reach, weight and strength. Five years ago Willard would have had no chance with Johnson: to- day it's different matter. as Johnson is all in.
 ''But it isn't likely Johnson and Will lard ever will fight. There'll be no boxing in Europe or England for some time. Even if there were Johnson would be barred because of the Moran agreement in his handwriting. so wide Iy published. He can't fight any one in Australia, as he has been absolutely barred in that country. And he can't come back here and wouldn't be allow cd to fight if he did come.
 "The best thing under all circum- stances is to cut Johnson out of all calculation. By his own actions he is barred from competition in all coun- tries where boxing Is a recognized sport Let Willard, Gunboat Smith. Jeannette, I4angford. Sam McVey and whatever other good men develop fight it out, and then we'll have another champion, and Johnson and his agree uaam4s wHal h@ GaK@D&keA
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23

Louis team of the Federal league, and though he has been in the game twen- ty years, eighteen Of them being in the big leagues.
 Christopher Mathewson is affection ately known to the fans as Matty or Big Six All of Mathewson's profes-i siona1 baseball career has been with the New York Giants He joined the team in 1901. so this makes his four teenth year in fast company. His long service has been due to his tempera- ment and to his good habits. For years it has been a saying that 'Matty pitches with his head instead of his arm He does not try to do 1t all. He recognizes the fact that there are other men on the team, and he depends on
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23

twenty-five years and all that time pitched winning ball.
 Denton Tecumseh Young was his name. He was born and reared on a farm near Pao1i. O. and he remained 8 farmer during all his long years as a baseball player. That was what gave him the nickname of 'sCy." He looked. talked and acted like the typical farm CT of the rural play He did not like the city, and when the baseball season was over Young retired to his farm, where he spent most Of his days out Of doors being in the house only when eating and sleeping. It was this out door life that kept Young in the rugged when he was we'll past forty years Of age.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23
Rowing and Tennis Are Seyerest Physical Strain

spells in a fight. and the same hOld9 good iu wrestling or any Contest where strength and skill ars pateed asataSt strength and skill single handed.
 A marked advantage gained by ei2asE man is likely to terminate the contest then and there. whereas in crew row ing the man who Is suffering must cOn- tinue to try to the end even when there is little chance of victory.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23

is forced to give everything that is 1n
 him for any great length of time, and it rarely occurs that two. men who are pitted against each other prove 50
 evenly matched in skill and strength that frequent opportunities for free, srestfuI breathing do not occur Nat, ura1 caution and fear to rush into a trap will give men who are even in all things a chance for frequent breathing
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23

halted by the man who eats regularly
 sleeps regularly and drinks-not at all. This year has seen the passing of a number of old timers There is John Powell, for instance. Red John'' they EcalIed him when he was with the St Louis Browns. He pitched winning ball for that team for twelve years, and any pitcher who can go through that time in the hot weather that St. Louis has is deserving of notice. Powell did 1t working regularly and consistently whining. To be sure, he, changed his shirt oftener than any man living. for he always took an extra shirt to the bench with him when he was to pitch and between innings he made change, leaving the damp garment to dry.
 Powell was boilermaker before he
 became pitcher. and even after he was star performer on the slab h@ worked at his trade in the winter A big, powerful chap, he had delivery that was easy. He did not wind up = He merely stood still with the ball grasped in his hands, raised both hands over his head and-zip 1.-the ball went over the plate with the speed of q bull let
 perfect control. And he had a hop to his fast ball that was decep tive. It looked easy. and spectators in the grand stand could not understand why bat ters could not knock it 8 mile. Yet Eddie Collins says Powell was one of the most effective pitchers he ever faced and during hts long career with the Browns Powell always had the Athletics' goat. 1Gfve me ball and one run and I'll beat ,ern. said Pow ell And he spoke the truth.
 That ball with the jump either fam ned batters or caused them to knock flies that seemingly went mile high. and those high flies were so long in coming down that a fielder was always waiting for them
 A year ago Powell was sent to the Louisville team of the American asso- ciation and later he went lower. being traded to the Venice team of the Cali fornia league, from which he recently got his unconditional release. He has since then been dickering with the St.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23

Coupled with his excellent physical
 condition was a mind that did not
 Worry and. a disposition that was not Quarrelsome. When a third strike was called 6 ball by an umpire whose eye sight was bad Young did not murnur.
 He took it all as part of the game and served up the next one as if the un- pire's mistake had never been made.
 During his long career Young pitch ed three no-hit games-a record never reached by any other twirIer. These no-hit games were mot premeditated. and Young said they were the easiest | he ever pitched. as. with nobody on
 bases. he could pitch with a longs swinging motion that he could not use when there was danger of runners stealing bases.
 During Youngs long career there
 was not a year in which his winning
 percentage was not higher than his l teams.
 John Henry Wagner, better known as Hans or Honus, is still actively
 playing with the Pittsburgh Pirates, though his requiem has been sung by fans many times. He has been play
 ing in the big leagues for sseyenteen years (this is his eighteenth), and he | is still as spry around second base as a~colt- During all his career there has not been a year until the present sear son that he has not batted above 300. and he may reach it this year, though | it is not likely. Careful living and an outdoor life has also been the secret of 1 Wagners long baseball life Wagner
 is thirty eight years old and he Is
 likely to continue playing for few
 years.
 Napoleon Lajoie, who is year l younger than Wagner, has been in the game one year longer He played his first big league game with the Phila- deIphia Nationals in 1898: in 1901 jump
 ed to the Athletics, where he stayed
 for g year and then went to Cleveland, l where he has remained and where he 1 will certainly be for another year as 1 he fs under contract for 1915. During ] lLajoiess eighteen years in the biz
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23

Photos by American Press Association- NsMddie PIanIss veteran pitcher Of Ehe Athletics. -t9ans Wagner of the Pirates, who is active after seventeen yeafa in fast company. 3.- Bobby Wallace of the St. Louis Browns oc7 casienally gets in qan1e. 4s--Sy Mor- gan, ewEso retired recently after more than twenty years as a big league pitcher. 5-Rsy Hartzel, utility man for khe New York Yankees, old, huk not decF4si4 S-s1Rsd JohnH Powell, for score of years successful big s4 league fsuirler, rAcertiy "unconditIon- ally ralsased.ss 7.-Banny Murphy of the Athletics may be getting old, but nc erie kncWs it s-chr ristoplaer Makhewson. still premier tsAirlsr for New York Giants after fourteen years, service e-Napoieon Izaioie, sIucser Of the cleveland team is in his nfneteenfh year and seen1a 10 be slipping. f0.--fAiner BrovFns one of tlle oldestsa and hest pitcherss TOW with s Beoetlyn FedIerais-
 sy OSCAR DOYLE
 AsEBALL is q hard game. It
 requires speed and speed re-
 auires youth, so that when player approaohes the age of .eortya age at which business or professional men are just reaching thefr best yearshe is ready for the scrap heap or the minors. And even t1e stay Of the veteran of forty In the minor leagues IS usually brief The baseball player who gets into the big league at tho age Of twenty two or twenty three-and that Is as young as most players arrive knows that he can hope for only fifteen or eighteen years ak the most. and he knows that ten years is likely to see the end of his career on the diamond.
 Exceptions2 Yes. certainly. But there ara not many Of them Players who have remained in the game more than fifteen years are rare-so rare that their passing causes comment They are men with good physiques, quiet dispositions and the best of halo 1ts. Only this continuation will enable a man past thirty -n1e to compete against youngsters with any show of success. Father Time swings his scythe reIsntlessI9. but his progress is
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23

leagues he has dropped below .SuO i his batting two years, but his aYeraEe for eighteen years is .s51 against Vae- ners .344.
 Bobby wanace .sf1ortstop for many years Of the St. Louis Browns, hag been in the game but a few times thll year. He was manager of the BroWna for two seasons. but was not particu- to have the temperament for man agerial post, and when he lost his vel low feather he did not feel aggrieVed. Wallace has been with the Browns since the organization of the AmeEica1 league. in 1902, and he will stay there Lee Hedges, the owner says so, and those who know Colonel Hedges know he is speaking the truth.
 Wallace was recently offered a con- tract with the ten day clause omitted but ha said the contract made no dif- ference to him. I'm not going t9 Jump.,s he remarked, and Hedges be- lieved him. While no longer active as player, Wallace is valuable for bis knowledge of the game and for his zu- fuence on young piayers
 Danny Murphy of the Philadelphia Athletics is no longer young man. but he is still an active player. n he has slowed up at all he is still so fast that no one notices the change.
 Roy HartzeH. while regarded as an old timer, IS young enough 10 pc lhe utility man for the New York Yanlzees and when Frank Chance calls on him to play he gives a good account of hiln- self whether in the outdeld or the in field.
 Mordecai Brown, better lnown as Miner or Three Ftnserede Brown was released a year ago by the Cbieago Cubs after a long and valuable career He went to the Louisville team of che American association, but was later transferred to the Cincinnati National league club. This year Brown 5amped to the Federals and was made manager of the St. Louis team. The team Wa8 not successful which may or may not have been Browns fault, and he wan released in midseason. He rsfused to stay with the team as 8 player Asa pitcher he had a winning percentage considerably higher than his teams ana higher than any other twirler on the club.
 After considerable wrangling tt was announced that Brown had been trans- ferred to the Brooklyn club, where h8 will continue to draw $7,5o0 9 year for two years. Brown apparently has sew eral years of baseball left in him. E7ia habits are good. and he is not an cid man 4y
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23

who vase V any a of the Arneric days later when ne each tn
 
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23
Rx oscAR poYLE.

ASEBALsL Is q hard game It requires speed and speed re-
 quires youth, so that when 13Iaver ax3nroashes The f,rse of