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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
TAKING IT EASY
 AT HOT SPRINGS
Ray Heating and Other N. Y. Americans Walk Over
 Hills.

Hot Springs. Ark. Feb 1S-There were no new additions to the Yankee party at the Hotel Eastman yester- day. The weather was almost like summer. and Marty McHale, Ray Gala well, Ray Heating, Dode Criss, Dutch Schultz and Billy Reynolds, the young Texas league catcher, took advantage of the elegant day to roam over the hills and take off a little surplus weight. The men have not started to ,throsvA the ball as yet. se
 Word was received from President Farrell thata Coach Tom Daly, is on his way here now and will get in to- morrow. morning. When Daily gets in the Tanks may be subject to a little more discipline. At the pres- .ent time they are suiting themselves. Pitcher Rose, the prize left-hander from Houston, is also slated to get in today.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
It's All Here
NO JERSEY CITY
 TEAM IN BROOkL YN
Ebbets Wants Too Much Money So He'll Oppose
 Federals Alone.

The deal to switch the Jersey City International League franchise fell through yesterday. when President Tom Fogarty of the Jersey City Skeet- CTS absolutely refused to consider Charley Ebbetts' terms for the trans fer. President Barrow of the Interna- tiona1 League said yesterday it looked for quite a while as though the ar rangements might be completed, but that Ebbets terms were too steep.
 When the deal was originally broached Ebbets made the Interna- tiona1 League an offer to play his New ark team in Brooklyn, and permit F'o- garty to go into Newark, provided hc came across with $1oO, 900. Fogarty could not see this at the dnaes and negotiations were dropped.
 However, they were opened again after it was announced that the Fed erals had moved into Brooklyn Bar row said Ebbets came down conSddera- hIy from his original offer, and it is said he cut his $10O,000 stipulation in half. and agreed to pool the players of 4he two teams Fogarty was unw1ll- ing to give up any money, or only a small sum. and. as both he and Es0- bets would not compromise. everything was called of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
WHY ATHLETICS
 SHOW LOYALTY TO BOSS CONNIE MACK


 Recently when Eddie Collins turned down an offer of $50,O 900 to play in the Federal league he showed in his words just how the Athletics feel to- ward Connie Mack. Connie is the man that made me, and would not jump to an outlaw league as long as were a member of the Athletic club was the way Eddie pit it Look ing at the Athletic club from another angle. we find that Mack looks cn his players just as they look on him, and ms they look on each other. Coombs not only was paid by Connie Mack his years salary, but he was given his share of the worlds series coin B1 his fellow players
 When all these things are taken in to consideration, it Is not to be won dered at that the Athletics are the greatest bunch of baseball players that ever lived, to say nothing of be- Ing men whose examples might well be ernuIated by the American youth
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
CITY SPORTS sCORN
 FOR RUBEs IS NOE fss4
 WARRANTED BY FACTS

The scorn so often expressed By city sports, and occasionally by the sporting writers of big city papers, for
 the athletes of smaller places and
 country communities. is based on a
 prejudice not warranted by the facts
 in the case. The sophisticated city fan sneers at the so-calIed bush lea gue,'' forgetting that most of the dia-
 mond stars have come from the viI-
 iage and the farm and have secured
 their early baseball training In the
 minor circuits. McGraw is a small town product and Connie Mack was
 once a 'rube." John Franklin Ba-
 ker was born in Trappe, Md, Chief
 Bender in Brafnerd, Minn., Mordecai
 Brown in little Indiana village,
 Frank Chance in Fresno, Cal. HaI Chase in Les Gates, Cal, Ty Cobb in a Georgia country town, Sam Craw-
 ford in Wahoo, @Neb., Larry Doyle in 9 specl< on the Illinois map, J ohm Ey-
 CTS in Troy, N. Y., Russ Ford in Man itoba, HugI1ie Jennings in Pfttston,
 Pa., Walter Johnson in Humboldt,
 Kan, Napoleon Lajoie in Woonsock-
 ct, R. l., Christy Mathewson=in Fac. toryyille, Pa~s Eddie Plank in Gettys-
 burg, Pa-, Fred Snodgrass in Ven tura, Cal. Iris Speaker in Hubbard
 City, Texas, George Stovau in Leeds, Mo. Joe Tinker lin Muscoda, Kans, lIonus Wagner in Carnegie, Pa. and lCy Young in. Gilmore, o. None of these birthplaees of great men are biz league cities, and some of them are
 not even ssbush 1eague'' towns. Base
 ball, boxing and lmany other sports eve their developHent more to scoun- try communities than to- big cities.
 : Recently the sporting editor of the New York Sun, commenting on the lbippodrome etcome-baclk', perfornan- ces of old Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom
 my Burns, remarked that fighters who have regulations employ these tactics in small towns where gullibIe ring followers do not know the diff ference and cited the "setups' o1 Joe Jeanette and Black Bill as an ex- ample of the ease with which bucolit boxing bugs are imposed upon. The reference was unfortunate. for of the bouts between Jeanette and his meal ticket, Black Bill, the records show that two were pulled off fn-t11e village l of Philadelphia. Pa, two in the .'snall town of New York, sNse T.5 on the Hudson oppesIte HoBoken, IAnd fwo1 in Brooklyn, asLong Islandsnountrg town It is a shame that Joe and Billsshould have thus. .preyed' on the e'gullible ring foI1owers,' of those unsophisti- cated communities.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
BASEBALL WARS COME
 AT REGULAR PERIODS

Thomas J. Lynch of New Britain
 must think he got through president ing for the National league at the right time. The outlaw storm that
 dent Lynch will give John K Tener plenty to do besides governing the great state of Pennsylvania. John
 K is big man, mentally and physi- calIy, but he has his hands full An editorial writer in the New York Fri
 bune discusses the situation as fol- lows.
 Baseball wars come around in cy-
 c1es. Blood has to be let just so of ten in order to relieve the apopIectic condition of an overfed patient. It is time for little al1eviative surgery. through the air. Disaffected "Joe''
 Tinkers and Miner Browns have
 been jumping for some weeks past
 from the camp of tsorganized base
 baIr' into the insurrecto Federal lea
 que. There was notA much to fear
 while only $10.000 and $15,O0O
 "peons" were going on the warpath.
 But now. in the very citadel of re-
 served rights and interlock1ng con- tracts, the real t.rnagnates' of the
 game are flying at one. another's Some of the ehieftains of. the inner
 circle want to discipline Mr. Charles w Murphy, the owner of the Chicag go Cubs for putting oyer'' a. contract
 with one of his unsuspecting employees 1 by which the latter bound himself to observe it's stipulations for three or l four years. while the canny Murphy pound himself to respect them for
 not exceeding ten days. As one comm entator aptly put it, the player was Standing on a trapdoor and didn't know it. Murphy sprang the trap at the worse psychological mo-
 ment possible, and now his National league associates are being urged by the other "organized'' interests to cast Murphy into the outer darkness.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
ELBERFELD WILL
 DON HEADGEAR ITO
 PLAY ON BROOKLYN

Chattanooga, Feb 1S.-Norman EIberfe1t, who has signed as assistant coach to W1Ibert Robinson of the Brooklyn Nationals, will wear g. head gear if he plays any games next sea son with the BrookIyns- Aside from helping Bobby to coach, Elberfeld will also act as utility man.
 EIberfeld quit ball playing last year because of an injury to his head. After he was hit by pitched ball El- berfeId was troubled with a nervous complaint and pains in his head. These have disappeared, but if he is called upon by Bobby to play, the s-Tabasco Kid" will leather headgear for protection
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
TODAY IN PUGILIsTqC ANNALS

1S90-Jna Corbett defeated Jake Kilrain in rounds at New Orleans By the case with which he defeated KiIra1n, '.Gent1enan Jim" won the right to meet John l.. Sullivan. Only the year before the Corbett-KiIrain bout, the latter met John L.. in what was destined to be the last cham pfon- ship fight under London rules in America. The champion was. several times near defeat. and 1t was not till .thes75th round that he triumphed over his durable. antagonist. The clever sCorbett, however, had Kilrain at his mercy, and the wise ones realized that the Californian was going to be the next champion. The dope was justi- fled in 1892, when Corbett whipped the Old Roman of the ring. After winning the title Corbett knocked out Charlie Mitchell in 3 rounds, whereas the EngIishman had held John L. to draw in 39 rounds.
 19o8-Ray Bronson knocked out Kid Hogan in 5th round at Spring field, III.
 19o84Jim Barry knocked out Larry Temple in 11th round at Boston.
 1912-Johnny Coulon defeated Frankie Burns in 20 rounds at New Orleans.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
N. Y. c. EXPLAINS ITS
 PROPOSED BOND ISSUE

Washington, Feb. 1S-rWhy the New York Central wants to issue s167.0O0,- 900 of bonds was explained today tc the interstate commerce comnaissioll aby Albert IT. Harris vice-pregide1r and general counsel of the Hines. 2. Aspinwal1 Hodge, of New York, aD- peared for the protestantss nOst or whom are stockholders in the Lake Shore Railroad. Consent Of two thirds Of the Lake Shore stoclrholder1 is required before the new bonds may be authorized.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
INDExING RECORDS OF
 COMMON COUNCIL

The indexing of the common coun- Gil proceedings for 1912-13 has been completed and the work is now ready for the printer. The indexing was done by Miss Gertrude Grove, who was stenograpl1er for J. Alex H. Robinson when he was chairman of the Repub- lican town committee. The work took six weeks and. was performed by Miss Grove at her home in Seaview avenue. It was done on white paper. The com pensafdon uin be $50. or $1o per week.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
tBy Wagner)

Although it is bad form to boast about a baseball player in winter We feel compelled to sound a few blasts on the trumpet for Fred Schneider, the new first baseman of the Bridge port baseball club.s In the first place his name is not Schneider, but Fred l.. Johnstone, and he looks so prom ising that an International club has already offered Bridgeport $500 for him. The, local club has turned the offer down because if he is worth that
 much now he can be sold for a larger sum before the close Of the season.
 The Brooklyn Nationals a few days ago offered to take Johnstone south and give him a tTyout with the other recruits but he feared their only ob- ject was to use him in practice and then farm him out somewhere. John stone played under the name of Schneider because heswas an amateur New York In order to preserve his |standing he did not wish to be known as professional. Johnstone lives in EvergreeM L. I.
 The AIphas of New E Jrk, who will play the Blue Ribbon Basketball five here next Tuesday, light have Al
 Reich. the heavyweight boxing cham pion Of New York in the lineup. He will play center and the battle be tween him and George Smith ought to be a hummer The A1phas are considered asfine club.
 l The SpEfngfeld zbasebaH team has received She {signed contract of Catcher TlarT Pratt. Mana ager Billy FIa.rnil lion is tlles trail or some new inf1elders ind oIltfeI d@rs and expects to h tro tig team. &ssses Lefty Flynn, the for m en Yale full back.zisi a free man agafn.t His chor- us, gil bride received a final decree Eyest erday in Oswego. N. Y She charged that Flynn abandoned herrd1 1 days after the ceremony. She is to receive $2O a month a1imony.
 Eddie Grant, the Giants utility in fielder, is the first of the McGraw clan. for raining caunrsx He
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
ARRESTED FOR
 HOPING CALF TO
 BOTTOM OF WAGON

William Smith, 5o4 Land1ey slrsat a driver for George D. Cham5erlai-l of 49 Reservoir avenue, was arrestel for cruelty to animals 4hfs fcrenool- Smith is alleged to have rOped 70 calt to the floor of his wagon Hunaans Agent Howell made the arrest EnnfEll is held in bail of $50 for the cilv court tomorrow.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
SNEAK THIEF GETS RING
 AND CASH IN Y. NJ. A

Fred E. sFaber, a roomer in the '. M. c. A.. has asked the police to help him locate a. diamond ring valued at s35. which,s with. s2.30 in change. he says vanished from his room during the noon hour. vest terday. .sss.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
BRIDGEPORT OFFERED $500
 FOR FIRST SACKER SCHNEIDER
International League Team Anxious
 To Get Promising Youngster From Locals

yesterday. Catcher Larry Mclean sets out from New York tomorrow and will meet a squad of recruits in St. Louis.
 Outfie1der Leslie Mann of the Boss ton Braves, has signed his contract for next season. He refused an of fer of SIP, 900 for three years with: the Federal league.
 The Imperial Parliament of Ger many has voted to appropriate s50,- 900 for the Olympic games. There was considerable opposition by the Socialists, who claimed their athletes were not given representation on the teams.
 Princeton has lost one of it's best hockey players in Peacock, who has been debarred by the faculty The Tigers meet Harvard Saturday in the game which will decide the champion ship so they are feeling downcast. I The Yale hockey seven plays the. Williams college hockey team at New Haven tonight. The Massachusetts boys have won three of their four games fhis season.
 The championship of the IntercoI- Iegfate basketball 1eague may be de- cided tonight when Cornell and Co., luIn bia clash in Ithaca, N- Y. aCOfuna- bia has not lost game while Cor nell has dropped only one and is in second place.
 Gene MoriaFity, who made such a good showing against Dodo Maner in New Haven Monday night was praeti- cal1y knocked out by Jack Brftton in New York last night The referee stopped thee bout in the seventh. Moriarity is a clever boy but he look ed better than he really is when he was up against an iee-wagon like Maher.
 Peter BiIlikens 2:10 1-4, a six year old stallion by Peter the Great. brought $5,oe0, the highest price at the opening day yesterday of the mid winter horse auction in Madison tSquare Garden, New York. He was sold to the syndicate stable of Syra- tcuse, N.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18

Robert Caugherty, a wor<man. Eal killed and another person -Geri1urlv injured, in an explosion at the Wet Penn Powder Co.'S plant, near Esl vtliss Pa
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
BOXING NOTES
.BvT & Andreus


 $ Matty 1fcCue, the Racine boy who looked like a coming featherwefght champion year ago, until Tom Jones became his manager and made him a. lightweight, had a real .tryout at Ra- cine, Wis, the other night against Jack White of Chicago, who has met many of the stars of the featkerweight division and also others in the light weight class Matty is notA quite up to the lightweight notch yet, but may take on weight in the next year. He scaled 130 for the White match and is of about the same build as Ad Vol gast-short and stocky, with a punch in either hand. He covers well and is fast on his feet, but most. of his blows are. of the swinging variety, aI- though not long oneS.S A boxer with a good left jab, with some steam be- hind it, should be able, to beat Matty; but White. who has a splendid left, his punches for McCue simply took what he offered and waded into him
 For five rounds the White boy pep pered Matty about the face, but with no apparent damage, and then the Racine youth began to find himse1f'' and he gave the Chicago lad a. run for his money He connected sex- leral times with Jacks head and had the latter holding to keep out of dan ger.
 It was Matty's fight, but only by a slight margin. McCue is not yet ripe for any big lightweight match; he needs nursing for another year against boys of his own weight, and. with a little additional beef may de- veIop into a first grade lad.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18

The Shamrock w., sir Thomas Lip- tons challenger for the sAInerdcass s cup. is to be tested as centerboard
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18

Immigrants to Canada during the past 10 months ending iii January to- tailed 356, ,43O, of which 93 3,038 were
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18

Four members of the Besley expIor- ing party arrived at New York from South America. and reported finding remains of the OHiggins- SeIjan party, which was devoured by cannfbaIs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18
RIBBONS TR0UNGE
 FIREMAN SQUAD
Visitors Make WhirlWind Fin ish But Can't Overcome
 Early Lead.
By Wagner.)

Ftzf aS
 After sstarting like a milk train, the Kirkrnan A. c. players of New York fnished like the Twentieth Century Limited last night and. it was with some difficulty that the Blue Ribbon basketball five took a victory by 49 to Al. Better passing has seldom been seen in Colonial hall and the big crowd enjoyed itsto the limit. The KirkTnan boys were going better every minute so it was with a sigh Of relief that the local fans heard the finral whistle.
 The only criticism that could be made of the visitors play was that their passing. although clever, was seldom successful in working the ball near the baslk ct. The players passed too much in the direction of their opponentss goal, so that much of their effort was wasted. t It was pretty to watch h However. ss41e Kirkmans were not very alccilIa;ta in sh ooting during the first half ut Improved in the last per ftt<zss E :; ssss:z:s F .sssssS !.
 was the slassae1s fsl faiia ssvisitors while DeeBaosn al Ixes four Stow. Smith azi ds M gave stellar ex- hi ibition$ for zta1e 3aBBo1ls Manager Leavy <1ised CaTif1 aFS SS1 S1Langharnmer at guards aradssboth dids well CahiIl showed his skill at .dribbling ana prov ed his good eye by caging three
 
 Ribbons would make runaway race of it. Morrison and Stow were toseing g them sinr from all angles while the Ktrkn1ans were having trouble getting the ball to roll right The first half ended with the score, Ribbons SS, Krkmans 15. It was more exciting in the second session, though. The score:
 Blue Ribbons (A9.3 asA Ns
 Vzls sE'..tss..ss Pts Stow If =. .sle2 s7sA I6 Morrison. IA Smith, c. IA Cahill, lg ... -e.s..... es Ss5zs E IaIi gharnnef. s0e 7s 0  Totals ly .24 4s
 KfrkI1alis fl. ttss Smith, If. : 6 Sheehan, If. S McW11ia1r1s, c. 19 Deebach, rg. Barry, lg Totals fl
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18

Bob Moha, the Milwaukee Iigf1t- weight Cor middleweight whenever he gets to the 15S pound notch) has been going at top speed of late and is due sticks to his work. Bob has thrown away many good contests by not talk ing good care of himself and he probably is aware of the fact now. He has had several matches down east and has won all of them, his latest being the defeat of Jack Driscoll in Brooklyn the past week. He gave away over fifteen pounds in weight and had Driscon nearly out several times, the bell alone saving him. Bob is about due for a mill with Battling Levfnsky, as the latter had a rest of two or three days this week.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18

Eddie Grant, the Giants utility in fielder. is the first of the McGraw clan sto start for training caTnpsS He began the journey to Marlin, Tex,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18

Farmer want Ads. One Ceat a Word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18

I The Yale hockey seven plays the Williams college hockey team at New Haven tonight The Massachusetts
 boys have won three of their, four
 games fhis season.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent Word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18

yesterday Catcher Larry Mclean sets out from New York tomorrow and will meet a squad of recruits in St. Louis.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-18

OutfieIder Leslie Mann of the Bos. ton Braves, has signed his contract for next season. He refused an of- fer of SIP, 900 for three years with the Federal league.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-05

vegetation is dense and where there are
bananas and pineapples royal palms and
wild cotton trees. There are also coffee
plantations and gardens in which the coca
leaves are raised to give the Indians their
tavorte chew. Bolivia has every product
under the sun, and its tropical valleys sup
ply the highlands with fruit.
Some of these Indians have come from
those regions Here is one woman selling
coffee beans, fresh from the grove; next her
is one with pile of artichokes, while furtl-
er on third is peddling sections of sugar
cane, half as long as my arm. She sells
them for five cents a stick
1t is interesting to watch the traffic,
which moves in and out through the
crowds. Nearly every woman has load
on her back, and there are Indian men car
rying baskets, bags and bundles weighing
as much as themselves. The most of the
marketing is brought in upon donkeys, and
not little on llamas. Here comes a drove
of llamas up side street. Their heads are
in the air. and their ears stand up like those
of a fox terrier They turn their heads this
way and that, and are evidently surprised
at the strange things about them. Each
llama is loaded with bag of freight, tied
on to its back with ropes that pass over the
back and under the belly. Those llamas are
bringing in fuel. They are carrying not
wood, nor oil, but dried llama manure
Each beast has Is or 80 pounds of this stuff
on its back, and before nightfall the train
load will have been distributed throughout
the citV from Kitchen tO kitchen
All of the vegetables and meats in this
market will be cooked with llama manure.
There is no other fuel used in La Paz, and
that Notwithstanding it is city of $4,000
inhabitants One reason for this is the
great cost Of coal. The freight rates from
the coast from where all the coal comes,
are $27. so a ton, and this brings the price of
that fuel here to about 6 10 per ton. or $50
gold. This makes it prohibitive for ordi-
nary use, and the result is there is not fur
mace or hot water heating plant in the
whole city.
The llama fuel is used much like char
coal 1t is burned in small stoves. 1t gives
forth but little smoke and no sparks. 1t is
a safe fuel. La Paz seldom has fires which
told that only few buildings have been
burnt down within the past so years. The
houses never catch fire from the chimneys,
for the simple reason that they have no
chimneys Moreover, they are built of mud
bricks, with trimmings of stone rather than
wood, and it is difficult to start fire in
them. FRANK G. CARPENTER