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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
FRITZ MAISEL AND RAY CALDWELL IN
 LINE FOR sEASON


 Following the precepts laid down by Ban J ohnson. the New York Yankees are losing no time in getting treir men signed. The contracts of Fritz Maise1 and Ray Caldwell were receiv- ed at headquarters@ yesterday with great joy MaiseI, the expensive third baseman imported from Baltimore last season, sprang into great popu- larity and gave every indication of developing into a star. He was one of the most promising players in the new in1eId which Chance is trying 10 construct, and his assertion Nrolll d have been keenly felt. He is now safe for another year at leas9
 Caldwell, who started bravely on his big league career several seasons ago but fell by the wayside, returned to his best z. form last < August and pitched in such sterling fashion that the best hatters in the league were helpless.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
D00IN SORE AT
 MEN WHO JUMPED
Says Brennan and KfIlifer Are Ungrateful After Fine
 Treatment.

Philadelphia, Jan. 12-.It was a rotten deal-rotten to- the .core-that Brennan and KiIlifer handed me- and they will regret it.''
 So said Charlie Dooin, directing boss of the Phillies, on his return to with President Baker toward prevent ing any more of. the Quakers from Jumping to the Federal League
 Dooin, while excusing Knabe, was extremely bitter toward Freeman and Killifer for deserting him. What hurt me most explained Dooin, '.is that they quit me without giving me a chance to hold them.
 1T don't want fans to think for a minute that the loss of Knabe, Bren- nan and Killifer will put us out of the pennant race next season. While the defection of several of pur real stars would wreck kDHt ca adb. SSe can i'll the places of the three men who jumped with out trouble. wesare going to be in the pennant fight just the same next season.
 .sAs for Ki1lifer and Brennan, they owe everything to Pat Moran. and my self. who worked with them for hours to make players out of them. I won t miss Brennan. We paid him $3 900 last. season, which was mighty good for a man who could not pitch more than fifteen or sixteen games a year. can't for the life of me see where he ever had a. kick coming we carried him along when he was i'll and not worth a cent to the club. He might in time have developed into a useful man, but as tsis he has been getting more money that. he was worth. sSA 9s
 ssKi1IifeF has been treated haAd- somely by the club. He drew $3,8GO last season, which is mighty good for catcher in his second season as a regular In addition srnade e Kfalifer g. present of $40O.at the close of the race because he had to catch out of turn after I became injur ed.5 He filled the breach all right. but he was only doing what I did in 1912, when he himself was out of the game almost all the time during the first half. of the season. ssN sasa x ss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
EXETER TURNS DOWN
 TWO CRACK SPRINTERS

Exeter, N. H., Jan. 10--Arthur s. Robinson of Mereersperg, and Irving T. Howe of Westbro6k seminary, for merIy of Boston English high, two sprinters known by reputation throughout the country failed to get the proper credentials, and have left town, the former to go to an Indiana preparatory school. and the latter back to Maine.
 The former AGercersberg runner has a record much better than any ever made here for the 22O-yards dash and Howe, during his career, has defeated Teschner, the Exeter fliersof last year.
 Capt. Kelly of the football and hockey teams, first enrolled at Mer- cersberg. Exeter has also had ath- 1etes go from here to finish their ath- 1etic career at Mercersberg. By fail- ing to admit the two athletes, Exeter has lost a chance to have a track team of world -beating caliber.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
ZEYSK0 COMES
 TO WaESTLE ALL COVERS IN N. Y.


 Things are humming in the wrest- ling world over the international tournament scheduled for Madison Square Garden, New York; on We'd nesday night, in which the worlds s best giant grapplers will compete. Zbyzsko, who is one of the entrants, is due from Europe tomorrow. He is aboard the Cecilia, which is due to dock at Hobokenes He comes direct sfrom the Paris tournament. George Lurich, who defeated the giant Pole in the Garden last spring, hopes that Zbyzsko willTbe his opponent.
 Iurich said yesterday: .tI- am glad sZbyzsko. is. entered I defeated him twice in Europe and once at Madison Square Garden. I think that is enough to prove to. everybody that I am his master at the mat game. Zbyzsko did not enter in the Paris tournament un- til he knew I had sailed for. New York. Had I known he would enter. would have stayed there and forced him to meet me. may have the chance on Wednesday,,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
FINISH .GRADl
 AT YANKEE PARK
New Baseball Field to Seat 3O,OOO and will Be Ready
 in 1915.

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 The work. of grading the site of the New York Americans new baseball park at 225th street and Broadway has progressed so well during the past few months that it is not unlikely that the new park will be finished be fore another season has passed. The grading has been finished and the in field has been built. The newly made ground is now being allowed to settle, and the work on the grand stands will be begun in the early spring.
 The area. of President F'arrelPs new park will be the largest .in the major leagues. The outfield fences will be so far from the home plate that 1t will be impossible to bat the ball out of the park. The three outfields are so deep that a home run can be made in each of them. The distanceafrem the home zplate to the centre field fence will be more than 300 yards. sf
 The New York Club has decided not to build a double-decked gran ndstand. The single story stand of concrete and steel, however, will extend for some distance along the right and left field foul lines. and with the bleachers which will be built beyond the exten- sions of the grandstand, the builders plan for seating capacity of 30.O0o people.
 The New York National League Club has already consented to the Yankees playing at the Polo Grounds during the coming season, but in granting the permission to the other club, President Hampstead made it plain that it would be the last season that the Yankees could use the park.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
WOLTER AND CREE
 GOING TO MINORS ! ,
Veteran New York OutfieMers Slated for JobsaIn Amer
 can Association.

New York baseball fans have prob ably seen the last of the veteran Yan- kee outfelders Harry Wolter and Birdie Cree. Bert Daniels, the other veteran outfeIder, was released to Baltimore late last season, and when another sSeasonebegins the, outfeld will see Thank GHhooley, Jimmy. Walsh, formerly of the Athletics and possibly Lester ChanneIl in the outgardens.
 Wolter will go to Indianapolis as part payment for Channell, who was purchased from the Denver Club, which is owned blythe same men swho control the sIndi lana polis Club. 3. The Chances plan to make over his club with younger men, It is also likely that Birdie Cree will go to some of more than one of them is after him. Last season Chances tried to trade Cree with the Athletes. but the ouffeIder's contract with the Yankees was more than the Athletics cared to carry.
 No deal for Cree has yet been terfni- mated, but it is known that negotia- tfons are under way with some of the clubs Of. the American Association. An | other one of the veterans who may be used in a trade which Manager Chance has under consfderation is Jack War hop, the underhand pitcher. Warhop who has pitched good ball for the Yankees in the past. did not. show his best form last season, and as. the Yankees this year have several prom ising youngsters to try out,s it is likely that Warhop will be one of the veter- an boxmen to be dropped.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
TO-DAY IN PuG1LrsrIo ANNALS.

18s9-Torn Allen whipped Bill Da- wis in. 43 rounds at St. Louis This battle was for the American heavy weight championship. and Aliens vic- tory gave him the coveted belt. The aAm erican title was first held by Tom Hyer, who won 1t in 1849, and interest in the game soon, produced 9 number of great scrappers. including John Morrissey, John c. Heenan, Yankee Sullivan, Joe Coburn, Mike NscCoo1e, Tom Allen, Bill Davis, and many oth- CTS. Soon after whipping Davis, Tom Allen was defeated by Mike McCoole, in a battle described as for the acham- pdonship of the world',g''y McCoole was a comeback" having lost the Amer ican title in 1863 to Joe Coburn, in 67 rounds. bare fists, at Charleston, Md. In 1870 Allen was whipped by Jem Mace in a bout for the world g heavyweight title. Allen spent most of his life in St. Louis, and died there in 1905, at the age of sixty-fve.
 1s85-Jonn L.. Sullivan defeated A1g Freenfield in rounds at Boston.
 1894-Georges Carpenter, cham pion of Europe. born at Lens. France.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
PENN ELEVEN TO "a
 DROP BROWN TEAM
Only Game Away From Home will Be Given tO
 Michigan.

Directly on the heels of fhe runer that Penn State had been drODpsl from the University Of Pennsylva.uie schedule comes the news that Brown University would not meet the Red and Blue on the srfdiFOu next fall
 The reason for. this move onz tEglr- part of PennsyIvania- ts fhlss Lher-- faculty committee on athletic made rcd. ruling that-only one game annually -. was to be played away from hcfne- and as it has been decided that 1Elct- igan is to be played at Ann Ar5or- all possibility of a game with Bros9l at Providence is precIudeds
 During the last few yeara B,Eu-TD has had @ contract with Penn EEicl called for annual games a1terna4sIv ae- Providence. and Philadelphia Thfa . agreement expired last fall. and when the time came for renewal tho1e fn charge of the football stuaffous PennsyIva11iab decided That on acecuu of the faculty committee rzIluE would be unwfse to take up Ghe con tract again.
 This leaves a date on che Penn schedule open for a hrst-rats eleven and it looks now as though the Naval Academy might meet 4he Red and Blue in PhtIadelph1a next fan.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
It'S All Here
lM'CAaN CLLlMS
 FEDERAL IS JOKE
Former Bridgeport Manager Says Outlaw Magnates Experience Will Be
 Expensive.

Gene RncCau,s, believes that the life of ethe Federal league will be short and expensive to the promoters of the new circuit. .'The prom oters of the rible deIusfon," declared the New Lon don manager the other day.
 s@Tfie organized forces of baseball are teo formidable for any new league to cope with and the sooner Jim Gdl- more and his flock realize tn at fact the more money they will save. Be cause of the fact that enormous prices Knabe, young ball players should not feel that the financial backing of such an orranization is of the concrete variety. Tinker and Brown have been lplaying major. league basebal1 for lsoue wears No one realizes any bet ter than themselves that the curfeV Twin 2rang and their careers as star lbaseball performers will be over.
 ssEzihher man cannot last more than three more years at the most. Why Ishouldn't they jump at the chance to lget more money in. the outlaw league ISupposing the league does go to i1ieces7 Tinker and Brown have a leubstantial piece of change and would care little the organized faction or ,professional baseball clubs refused to let them march in the ranks.
 .sI3sat notzsoi with the young player who#has a promising career ahead of him tfrl the big leagues. Supposing he jumxs for a fancy price He gets his monsv on paper. not the coveted Ereenbacks- He has only to play one game in an outlaw league to be ostra.- cized from organized baseball. If the Federal league goes bl1es way of the transgressor his baseball aspirations have sbeen shot-to pieces and he is a gone-by without even being a has been. What guarantee does1 the out law league give the young player so that he is sure to receive the salary for which he signs?
 ssTffe Federal league will never be- come a part of organized baseball and the players who participate in one game under the direction of that league will be barred from organized baseball forever. The National and American leagues are here to stay and the Federal league is a risky expert ment- The young player with abi1- ity whe is anxious to succeed in the baseball world will do a wise thing if he lets well, enough alone and stays in the ranks of organized baseball
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
LEVINS KY WILL. ' s>s. 5
 HAVE HARD TIME
BattIef Writes That He Expects Jack Heating to Make
 Trouble Here.

That his bout with Jack Keatfng before the Liberty A..C., + gre a week from tomorrow night. is one he con siders most important in his cam paign for} heavyweight :. championship laurets, is the statement given out by Battling Levinsky,s, Danny Morgan,s clever erscampaigner, in "a letter wrl tten by his manager, today ssA .4-ss ., E It is remem bered that on one occa- sion, about a year ago, Heating who was then and is now, the heavyweight ch ampion Of Uncle Sam s navyss suc- Eceedede fiji gaining a decision over @Le- vinsky1 in 5a9 fast nndu ecleversss battle in RhfIadelp11ia. Although sLeyinsky was not the bearcat then that he is now. he feels that this affair may prove to be a smudge in his strenu- -ous efforts to reach the top Of the ladder e sss
 .iBeIfeveF me- there will l@fbe- sno4. fool ing done byas asyours truly when get into. the ring. with. Keating,'' says Le- yinsky sI know can lick him, but what I've got to do is prove it to the fight. fans. Just now my great test ob- tAct is to get a match with Gunboat Smith If Heating should repeat, which he wonst,:I am sure, | would have to hang around~for another cen ti1ry. suppose, before the. Gunboat would even recognize my name. You can easily see what the bout meaI-s to me
 Keafing,s record, however, is one to inspire respect: has disposed of such E me as4 Frank McGuinness. Sailor Burke, Larry Coyle, George Gall and Soldier Bachus- inside of from t Wo to- seven rounds. He was much the same sort of sensation about six months ago that Levinsky has been for the last four or i've. a
 In the seInf-hnaT of eight rounds Bud Palmer of this: ,cfty. will go on with Phil Monroe, formerly known as Kid DorkiI, in what will provesao be an express train go from start to. fin- ish. s-5Fs ss4e e.l.s 9sg : s4s
 Jimmy Perrene of this city will go on with Teddy Fabryck, the pride of Fairfield, in a six-round entertainn1ent that should prove Of big calfbre.
 In a four-round prefin intended to amuse the fans while the other fe1- lows are getting ngaready- Red Farrel. the < fl gating snewsboy, 2 and Kid Jehn- son,ssnow of s1his city but formerly of Buffalo, will get together. Slim Bren- nan will be the announcer and Mike OConnor will jugg1e the watch and the bell. Matchmaker Lee assures the fans that there will be no waits be- tween his bouts, which means that the show. will be increased 100, per cent. in senjoyabilfty. =.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
ROWING COACHES
 SIGN UP AT YALE

Captain Denegre of the Yale creEr has received notice of the decislon ct. E. J. Giannini. of the New York Atll- letic club, and of Guy Eiczaflg ol England to accept the terms cf Che Yale navy to coach the Eli ostrlrt-sa for the coming season It fs bellcTe that there Is understandinE rl- they are to remain more than 1ul year. but that this is indefinite. Thn varsity oarsmen are not likely fo lr any rowing until after social Terr- which begins February l.
 Whether N5cI<aIls will take the ear- sity squad and Giannini the fre1hu1el is undecided. Armstrong win be esr- eraI director of the campaisn. but will leave the technical fnstrucfion Go the two teachers.
 Lippincott. No. or the varsity Ir=r season. have given up any idea CT rowing because of a long Eiueas fol- lowing the season last year -Crccrer. who stroked. the crew last Juna against Harvard. and also sElfrr- Princeton the past fall. is genaralr regarded as too light to stand @ four mile race, and it is not believed L1a- he will be found in the shell l1ol races Harvard next June
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
BOXING NOTES

Jinfny C1abby. who 5s a real ullE- dIeweight and who tays claim to fa schaznptonstip of that cIass, has been
 matched to meet Mike cabbonn In L-1s Angeles January 17th- It is stasel that this will be one of the s1indlna.-
 tion contests for the middIeUysl title. There Is hardly any ssason ro -stages an el4mina3dOn tournament Cor Clabby today has more rfghc to tho
 title; that is at 158 pounds Tfnz1lEs. than any other man, or couras o.
 Jack. Dillon could make lhe Treleff he would have as much rfEhf fC la
 claim. to the title as any one el1s, oll
 he admits he cannot do better tnar
 15s pounds four hours before the con
 test, which really lets fi3nn GtzGf if tl are going to adhere strictly to tE arniddIeweisht limit of 158 pouud- 1ringgtde. s Klaus twice by the knockout roCre-
 is also a contender. but in e ionE bat-
 tie with a clever man Ike CIa11T.
 will figure in the short end or fhs
 betting Clabby and Gibbons sdoulL
 put up a. very scientific battle and 1Er will f4ots be surprising to hear luf rflH sboils outpointing< Jimmy for fne lrs eei gEat Sor ten rounds but after thzts look out For the C1abby boy. for le will begin to beat the SL Paul
 toward the end of the contsgt or-I am
 badly n1fstaken
 Ts11s I;evirislry yoath with ths szEg
 fling nafne must beia5BIutton for r7Dll or else Daniel Morgan f8 gCrl1lnT
 good thing to death. The Eaft1lnr eperson has certainly had a strsu11r- time of it the past year. having had i two- dozen afights and agairrt rner.
 much heavier than himself L.svfnr'rl.. -
 Those former cognomen waB Barne Williams, is only a light heaVJ-lTc at best, scaling about 16B pouudo add
 if it becomes nece&ary he can do 181
 at; three o'clock in a pinch UVf7ef1 "a fl1af-f1 Tffer-r7 U|TTrrIHrs1HH Morgan, rDan never inau1res aa tc who. the prospective opponent may rrr. (sonethfng unusual thee dayaJ 1ur as to "what there is in it." Dan dn- Aures that Levdnslry can whip an tnr white hopes in the country and ~ show his faith In the boy offered q.
 stack him against Carl HOEris, En9 [ Oklahoma giant, who sca1ea kpounds. srA1organ's protegs has Dseu f fighting on an average Of once rreel-.r...
 which is going some for e. herrr-. weight, and he has not lost a Da1tlo kthe past year. That tg a record to ba proud of.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
CARPENTER, HERO
 OF FRENCH RING .. . .::. IS 20 YEARS OLD

Georges Carpentier, the French boxer who recently won the heavy wight championship of Europe by twice defeatfng Bombardder. Wells. will Celebrate his 2oth birthday today. A mere boy in years, Carpentier has shown himself tl1ezmaster, in strength, cleverness, durability. speed and gen eralslaip s@of the best heavyweights England can produce. Heas the hero, the pop11arsfd of Francs. When he apassess through the streets of. Paris men take or. their hats to him, fair ladies throw kisses at him, and the crowd criesz s.Vive Carpentier." With his two; gloved fists he has avenged eWatepIoo, When he returned to Paris after his recent defeat of We11ss hun dreds of men, shedding tears of erno= tion, kissed his hands, his cheeks, even his feet. Fancy an American kissing JernsJeffries or Tommy BurnsI F. Georges Carpenter was born at Lena France, Jan. 12, 1894, ands he was only thirteen when he foughtshfs
 first professional bout with another French boy called sBourgeois,"s, T, win ming in four rounds. With a clever boxer like Bombardier Wells, Carpen- tier issat his best. for hes fs.a fully as swift as Wells, and has more stamina Against rude Americans like Frank Klaus and Billy Papke, however, he didn't show fas well.
 l. lin his bout with Klaus In 1912, and with Papke later in the same year, the Frenchnan outboxed the Ameri- cans iby a wide margin. When Klaus landed a few hard ones in the nine teenth round, however, Carpenters s
 manager jumped into the ring, crying. You rough Yankee. you shall not hurt my little pet" and Frank got the decision Nn a foul. In his fight with 1Papke Carpenter closed Billy's eye, and. boxed circles: around him, but when the Thunderbolt landed a stiff one that brought the claret George decided he had enough.
 Although only twenty, Carpenter has already made a mint of money from boxing and as an athletic in structor and in lending his name to various enterprises. e7is said td be, worth about quarter of a million dollars. Like most F.renchmen, he is thrifty, and does not spend his coin in, ritous living. He is very fond of wine, but he has. so many admirers that he never has to pay for it. Georges be- gan scrapping as a featherweight, and a little later became a lightweight. When he grew into the midd1eweight class he knocked out Jim Sullivan, the English champion, and now. although nearly half a. foot shorter and mary pounds lighter. than Wells, he has per formed the same feat in the heavy weight division.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12
NATE WHEELER TO COACH
 YALE VARSITY NEXT YEAR
Local Boy Named To Instruct Quarter . backs Under Direction Of
 Frank Hinkey

New Haven, Conn, Jan. 12-Nel- son Talbot, Captain of the Yale foot ball eleven, has sent invitations to four former Eli players4 to form his coaching cabinet next Fall, but it is not likely that the set of coaches will be. announced for two or three weeks because of the uncertainty ofstwo of them. being able to accept.
 There is no need of hastes because only .Capt. Talbot and Head Coach Hfnkey are engaged in the light ssnap- back coaching that has been ordered for few days to start the season, and the regular Spring practice will not begin till April.s The present pract4ce will cease within two weeks.
 DisaPp ointment is felt at sithe fact that lsapt. Henry Ketcham of the eleven the past Fall will be unable to return next season.. Ketcham took
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-12

to 9heart, and has made plans to go into business when he is graduated from Yale next. June.
 It is scertain9 that two Eof tnescabinet will be Ben Avery and Nate Wheeler. Avery has played end for three sea- sons, two of them as aFegu1ar, and is regarded one of the brainiest and most effective ends in the East, although a succession of injuries pre- vented him from reaching Ian All American ra ting either year of his regular service. =-
 Nate Wheeler was the most success full runner of the eleven as a quar- ter back, but a tendency to tumble lost him the place. He is xintercoI- 1egfate champion golfer Els He will be the quarter back coach the coming Fall. Two other seniors who are dis cussed as coaches next Fall are Bill Warren and John sPendletons =,