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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
NEW HAVEN BALE CLUB MAY BE SOEQ
Illness Or Owner Cameron Like Iy To Result In Change Ir
 Ownership

(New Haven Journa1-Courier.D D1rTl5 gRumors of a change in the New Haven baseball management ars5 a5r- ing thick and fast as a result of tEls alarming reports from the bedside of George M. Cameron in Chicago. Gam eron has already undergone an opef- ation in Dr. Murphy's sanftarfum. ana another will be performed shorelg. The exact seriousness of Camerohfs condition cannot be determined as re- ports received here are somewhat cou- flicting. At baseball headquarters last night 1t was Stated that acs'ae is get ting along nicely bnt this responss has been current eyer since Cameron's invasion of the Chicago sanitarium,
 When MT. Cameron was indisposed two years ago Mrs Cameron took charge of the club affairs But this year tbe entire responsibility will fadI upon the shoulders of Manager Jerry Cornell unless the sale Of the club becomes @ reality.
 Mrs Cameron,s brother. Jarnes Murphy, formerly owner of the New Britain franchise it Is understood, might assume the New Haven man agement- Because of the importance of the league having a good manage ment and a successful nine here, the condition of MT. Cameron is watched closely by baseball lovers in other cit ies for reasons.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
BRIDGEPORT CLUB
 DEFEATS SEA SIDE
 IN OPENING MATCH

z The Inter-C1ub pool and billiard tournament started last Saturday night when the billiard experts from the Bridgeport club defeated the Sea Side cue wielders at the Sea, Side quarters Bridgeport won two Out of three matches. Charles w. Hall, Bridgeport, beat Leslie E. Vaughan, Sea Side. 200 to 98 Richard Everett, Bridgeport, won from Harry s. Pear sons, Sea Side, geo to 176.
 The most exciting match was be- tween T. M. Adams of the. Sea Side club and Murray Ezlin, Bridgeport club. Adams won by 200 to 187,s ; .af- ter overcoming big lead E1in led practically the entire distance but fell down in. the last 30 points. tf lg
 The pool tournament begins We'd resday night when thes AlgonquIn players invade the Bridgeport club. The drawings are:
 Osborne (A) vs IAgoIdsby R); Bowers CA) vs. Elin (B); Hale (A9 9.vs. Booth (B).
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
AFTER
 RAGE WITH HARVARD

Cambridge, Jan. 19.-Syracuse Uni ysrsity, whose eight-oared crew won the Pougf1keepsie regatta has asked Harvard or a race this spring.
 Concerning the race, Coach Ten Esyck of Syracuse has written here stating that he has always favored a match with Harvard and is also not averse to taking on Yale and Prince ton.
 Captain Reynolds of Harvard said: 'sWe= have had word from Syracuse regarding such a. match, but negotIa- uions have not gone beyond the cor reFpondence stage We will row Cor nell and Yale next spring, although the date Of the former race ds still hanging fire. As Coach Wray and myself do not favor over two races for the varsity, the only possibility Of meeting between Harvard and any college than the two named is making the race with Cornell g, three cornered affair.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
FIGHTER NEEDS BIG ~ PUNCH TO SUCCEED

The defeat of Bob McA1lister, a per feet specimen of thu gymnasium box er denonstrated the fact that no fighter can hope to go far without a. punch. Speed and skill are helpful but they are not all. The limit of at tainmert by siacl1 tactics must ever be restricted to a comparatively narrow circle.
 Especially is this true in all grades above the feather weight class. Among the big men the Corbett- -McAIlister style, although pleasing to look upon, is a mistake. after alL Strictly speak ing, men of that type are not really scientific. True science, pugilistically speaking, includes efective hitting; Is in fact the most essential part of it and the hardest to acquire.
 Big muscles and great strength are not all that is required for effective hitting. It is the way a blow is de- livered that makes it dangerous, and it requires as much study and prac- tice to develop the knacks as it does to become profcient in the other branches of scientific boxng. Merely to hit and get away safely is com paratively easy when the blows de- livered are only light taps. The real scientist is one who can hit with force and still preserve an fnvu1nerable de- fence. ,5s =s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
IRW N FAv0RS
 OLD RESERVE RULE

Arthur Irwin, business manager and scout of the New York Americans, says that he thinks it would be a, good plan if the major leagues restricted the number of reserved play after each season. S Irwin points out that in the early days of the National League. each club was allowed to re- serve only five players for the follow ing season. Of course, the best five players were reserved and then there was a scramble among the other clubs to land the other players, who were. practically free agents.
 Scout Irwin does not believe in cut ting down the reserve list to five, but if it was cut down; to fifteen or twenty, he believes that the weaker clubs would have better chance of getting some of the surplus baseball talent and thus strengthen their clubs. Irwin believes that the result would be strong teams and a better pennant race. In reply to Irwin's argument, however, baseball men who have dis cussed it with him point out that the result would be that the most prosper ous clubs would still be able to buy in the most desirable players.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
Today in Pugilistic Annals.


 18s5-John T.. Sullivan and Paddy Ryan met in New York, but the .po- lice stopped the bout afters30 O seconds of fighting. Ryan, a Troy, N. r., man, like Heenan, Morrissey and other great fighters af past generation, fought his way ups to the heavyweight championship, which he won in 1880 by whipping Joe Goss in ST rounds at Collier Station, w. Va. in 1880. Ryan held the title two years, and lost it to John L. at Mississippi City, Miss, in 1882. Ryan firmly believed he could come back. and the New ork match was the result. The following year Sullivan gave Ryan another chance. The bout was staged in San Francisco, and Paddy took the count in the 3rd round.
 1862-Jem Mace defeated Tom King. in AT rounds near London.
 1906-.Joe Cans knocked out Mike CTwin) Sullivan in 18th round at San Francisco.
 1908 -Jem DriscoIl defeated Grover HayeN e& 12 rounds at Boston.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
ORDER HEATING
 TO REPORT. SOON
Local Boy Must Journey To
 Hot Springs February IS

Frank Chance has issued orders to his new coach, Tom Daly. to arrive at Hot Springs, Ark, on. February 15. and to take charge of seven members of the New York Yankees.
 The players who have ereceiced word from Chances'to report to Daly are Russell Ford, Ray Caldwell, Jack Warhop, Ray Keating and Marty Mc- Hale, pitchers; Ed Sweeney, catcher and Birdie Cree, outfe1der. They will take the baths for two weeks, also climb the mountain roads nearby, and on March l will arrive at Houston, Tex, to join the other. players with Chance.
 The signed contract of John Jieh. the big4 Dayton, Ohfo,. pitcher, was received by Frank Chance yesterday. It was Picks three-bagger with the bases full in a game with the Attn letics in Philadelphia, at the flag end of the season last fall that finally pull ed the Yankees out of last place.
 Pieh is twenty-four years old, feet inches tall and weighs 90 pounds. With Dayton in the Central League last year he pitched in thirty three games. winning nineteen and losing ten. He struck out 164 batsmen in 262 innings. He signed his contract in Madison, Wis.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
JOE WOOD LEADS 
 IN STRIKE OUTS
Scott Of White Sox Holds Record For Greatest Number
 In Ore Game

Joe Wood of the Boston Red Sox did not have as good a. season lasa year as he had in 1912, but, never theIess, Smoky Joe, ended the cam paign with more strikeouts to his credit than any other hurler in the younger organization. Walter Johri- son not excepted. On ffty-four oc- pitchers famed nine or more men in games, Wood having six such per formances to his credit. Johnson five. Plank four. Fsalbenberg. four, Gregg three, Scott three, Bedierlt three, Groom two, Boeh1ing two, Bender two, Hall of Detroit two. Mitchell of Cleveland two, O'Brien two.s and a number of others, too numerous to mention, one.
 q Had Walter Johnson not been such a wonderful relief artist he would have claimed just as many strikeout feats as Wood. On July 25, going to Tom Hughes relief, the Idaho phenom in eleven and a. third innings famed six teen of the Browns. Before Johnson entered the game, which lasted fifteen innings, Enge1 and Hughes had re- turned four men on strikes, making a total for the com bat of twenty. This was the greatest number of men struck out in an American League contest last season, but it should be rem embered this game lasted fifteen innings.
 The 1913 strike-out record for a nine-inning game was made by Death Valley Jim'' Scott of the White Sox against the St. Louis Browns on June 22.' Then fifteen of the Missourians took the strike-out count, but they. won the game nevertheless, the score being 2 to 0.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
THE SMALL ADVERTISER

Smaller retail merchants sometimes become discour- aged by the competition i'll newspaper space of larger stores. They imagine that people do not read the small CT notices.
 Any newspaper man can give incidents out of his per- contrary. A man with a very small space indeed often tells his story in such a pertinent, businesslike conversational way, that readers turn to his little ads just as a financial operator turns to the stock market.
 It does not take a gift for
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
PITCHER ROBINSON
 GOT RUDE SURPRISE
Didn't Know He Was Traded to St. Louis Until Month
 Later.

Atsthe National League meeting last Deceznher Ered Clarke and Miller Huggfns got together and completed deaI by which Hank Robinson. a southPaw twiy3er. was transferred from the Pirates to the St. Louis Car dinals- A whole month passed before Hank was apprIsed of his sad fate.
 Robinson<zs spending the winter on farm down in the wi1ds of Arkansas, many miles from civilization, where the sporting section of a newspaper is a great rarity. And so Hank went al 1ng 1nerrily for weeks, doing his farm work entirely ignorant of the terrible blow that had been dealt his baseball aznbitiorls
 Two weeks ago Miller Hugsins manager of the Cardinals, decided to get in touch with Roblason,s and get his contract for 1914. He sent terms to the pitcher by special delivery. but this was upnroductfve of an answer
 Hugg1ns Len tried to reach him by telegraph but this too, failed. He then got Robinson on the long dis; tance telephone late last week and suggested a salary which he thought would be satisfactory to Robinson Who gave you authority to sign me ?', demanded Hank in righteous in dignadon- Whereupon Huggnns 1ln- dertook to break the news as gently possible The shock staggered the hur1er for moment, but, once re- covered. he agreed to terms
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
Englishmen Say They Have Man Who Can
 Beat Jack Johnson

London. Jan- 1s.-Jack MeAuliffe the old light weight, who is now here under engagement with Daily Sketch fin search Of a British pusdfist to whip Georges Carpentder, the Fren1ehmarl has become reconciled to Jezn Carney to whom he has not spoken since their famous drawn fve-hour battle in Bos- ton 90 years ago
 Carney always maintained that he should have got the verdict. Dick Burge has now made them shake hands and give an exhibition illus fraking the old-time style of boxing, " hich British boxers maintain is much superior to the style by which they have been beaten by America and France
 Experts here say J. " Douglas, who is explaining the English cricket eleven now visiting the antipodes would beat Johnson or amy other box CT in sight. but of course being an. amateur. he cannot enter the ring.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
.ANSONIA FIVE IN
 HOPES OF BEATING RIBBON PLAYERS

The Ansonia basketball five, which has been defeating all comerss wlll clash with the Blue Ribbons at Col onial hall tomorrow night. The Vis- itors are laying claim to state honors since they beat the Annex team Of New Haven recently but the locals hope to come out with the big end of the score. Bobby Stow, who was not eligible for the Rambler series5 will pair with Jim Morrison, on the forward line for the Ribbons
 Big George Smith will be at center while Manager Leavy has foIlr men for the guard positions. Snyder ana Hurley will start but in the second half Della. Vaile and LanghamneE may be used. Lapshammer played with the original Ribbons and wants to take another crack at the gam6. There, will be a preliminary between the Bridgeport Boys club and Park City teams. Dancing will follow the main game. The line up.
 RIBBONS. ANSONIA- Morrison, rf.. rf...................lg, North Stow, R...............- ....rgs Tenders smith, c....-... -.cs A11oIett4 Hurley, Della. Valle, rg-....-.lf, Robins Snyder, Lang'mer, Is If, Lowelander
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
McnALE SIGNS TO PITCH FOR YANKEES
turns Down Outlaw l eague Offer And Will Hurl For frank
 Chance

=-nk Chance is sure of another pitcher for the coming season it was learned yesterday when it was an- nounced that Marty McHale had turn ed in his signed contract
 = McHale was not with the New York Yankees all last seasorf but he made a record in the box that pleased the Peerless Leader He won four of the seven games ins which he pitched and Manager Chance expects him to make a. better record this year and prove enc of the mafnstays of the pitching staff The twir1er was purchased from tie Jersey City club last summer and e # from the start showed he was wcr shr the price the New York club paid for him
 McHAze got his early training on college diamonds. Several years ago he was signed by the Boston Red Sox, but was later turned over to Jersey City for further seasoning. He is a six footer and is twenty-four years old
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
ROW Sl RlGLER STARTED CAREER
 AS AN UMPIRE

z !. t
 Z Pittsburgh, Jan. 1e-Unpdre BnI RigIer made a 5con6ession recently. He told how me happened to becon1e an umpire. Rdgfer was among the scores of those more Or Iess wound in Peacock alley or the VVa4dorf at New York during the Enestiue Of the National league
 { Charlie Power sporting wFitsr of Pittsburgh, was Tesponsfbte For Rig ler's debut as a caller or balls and strikes
 Pittsburgh. One day in 1913 T saw Power umpire a game said Riglsr- --It certainly looked easy When tlae game was over I said to aayself that if Power could get real money for do- ing a job like that, me for it ] went right < back to the machine shop where I was working and resigned II have been lI1pirlng ever since.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19

Danny Morgan, manager of Battling Lsevinsky who is to meet Jack Kea t. ing in ten-round bout att Engles hall tomorrow night, is. expected to arrive in this city tonight, with Le- whisky and Billy Roche. the famous big bout. f 8
 Con. O'Brian who directs the affa frs Of the navy. champion, will not bring Keatirlg here until tdfnorTow. Accord ing to, present xplanss Bob F'itzsin- mons, Swho trained Jack for this bout with Iteviusky, will be one of the men In his corner. OsBrien has promise sed to bring Big Bob here so thait the fans rould look him over, and the Cornish man consented to come provided he was not held in New York on busi- ness.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19

saying smart and sharp things to make this kind of impression. It is simply the idea of writing as you talk, saying the things in advertis- ing that you would say to a customer if you had him be- for the counter.
 A merchant who desires to try advertising in a small way should have his notice put somewhere near the same place right along. He should not try to say too much in that space. Just a few words each time, about some particular thing, is sonal experience showing the most effective.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
RlTCHIE-MURPHY BOUT ON FEB. 22
hampton Says He Will Give New Yorker Another
 Chance

San Francisco, Cal, Jan. 1e-It is probable that articles for a twenty round bout between Champion Willie Rifchie and Harlem Tommy Murphy for the afternoon of February P will be signed the first of the week. E Ritchie notified Coffroth last night that he was willing to fight on that date, provid ed his sore ankle showed signs of improvement within the next few days. s@A
 In case he finds he cannot fight in February he is willing to meet Mur- phy here in April.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19

There wdll be a fast trio Of pre1in1- inaddes~ to the mann event tomorrow night, the card reading as follows: Phil Monroe and Bud Palmer. eight rounds at 136 pounds; Teddy Fabryck and Jimmy Perrone, six rounds at 130 son. four rounds at 1so pounds. The bouts will be promptly at 3:3o and Matchmaker Terry Lee promises that there will be no waits between.
 Local sports wdll be sorry to- hear that Terry is confined to his home with a severe attack Of grippe today. He is fearful that he may not be on hand at the bouts to1aerrow might, in which case Duckey Holmes will be the boss. Lee has been in bed at his home on East Main street ever since Friday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
HARRY HOWELL LIKELY TO JOIN EASTERN UMPIRE. STAFF Jessie Willard And Gunboat Smith Sign
 Articles To Box July 4

to induce Weeghnnan, the Chicago promoter, to buy the St. Louis Amer jeans. Owner Hedges is willing to sell and Weeghman is sadd to be aalx- ious to get. Into organized ball
 mond i'm Pfbtshed next season That what he ought to nave at Newfeld park
 { The. Yale basketball five beat Penn lsylvaniae in the Quaker city Saturday night by 26 to 2s. Other scores dn the Inter- College league were Cornell 20. Princetou 24:, Columbia Is. Dartmouth 13.
 Bonne Chance, Major Jefferson Liv- ingStorps great racing mare, eetaib- lished a. new worlds record for a cir cult track when she ran one mile ori the Jarr'ez Jockey club course in Mex ico in 1:37 yesterday.
 Ga1nboat Smith, champion aneavy- weight, and Jesse Willard were matched today to fight @. 20 round con- test in San Francisco on July 4. Will lardfs manager is said to have guar arteed S7, ,5O0 to Smith win, lose or draw The men met here last May when Smith won a decision from Will Aard.
 All future athletic relations between, the University of Virginfa and George town University will -e broken off. A Announcement to this effect was made today following the receipt of a letter from Albert Lefevre,- chairman of the faculty committee on athletics of the University of Virginia, to the Rev. Francis x. Anglien, atElletic director of Georgetown University. Members Of the Georgetown faculty decline to discuss the action of Virginia It is expected, however, that dts answer to charges will be forthcoming.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
SHERWOOD MAGEE
 SIGNS CONTRACT

Philadelphia, Jan. 19-It was an nounced yesterday that Sherwood Ma gee had come to terms with the PhiIa- delphia National League club, and that he had signed up for next sea- son.
 It is understood that Magee was signed at a very big increase over the salary he got last season. Es
 Magee was wanted by Otto Knabe for his. Baltimore Federals, and Sher- wood was offered a pretty presenta- ble sum to sign a three-year con- tract. lA
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
PROGRESSIVES WILL
 HAVE OWN CANDIDATES

New Haven, Jan 1s.-In outlining the prospective campaign of the pro gressives of the state, Prof. Yandel Henderson, Of Yale, the town chair man, today stated that it has been Laid down as a. principle that the pro gressives sl1aal endorse no candidate of another party next fall.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
By wagner.)

(By Wagner.)
 Harry Howell, who pitched for Meri- den in the early days of the Con- neet1cut League and. later gained fame in the American League, will probably be a member of the Eastern Associa- ton, umpire staff next season He worked in the Texas League last year and twas regarded as a fine official. Wilbur Allen, retired from the presi- dency asshort time ago. however, and his Successor will get a new staff. For that reason the Texas League of fered Howell to President ORourke, who thinks Harry will make good man for thes Eastern. The league executive is trying to locate Howell now.
 The New Haven ,Journa1-Courier said this morning that, Jake Boultes had been selected as manager of the Bridgeport baseball club Secretary ing, that nothing had been decided but that an announcement might be made within a week. Connaughton and Bou1tes are still in the running
 Third Basernan Getz of Newark says he will jump to the Federal league if the promoters WdlI put $1o.50O in the bank in a1ds name. Getz ds a good mamie for him.
 A pitcher named Burr. who made a great record at Choalte school in Wal lngford and later entered NdIlianns college, is sought by the Boston Red Sox and sCth5cago White Sox. > The Tale crew stroke for the com ing campaign will be a variation of the old Bob Cook stroke, according to a statement by Capt. Denegre. Coach Giannid will arrive dn New Haven tomorrow.
 Tn an effert to break up the Federal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19

years before going to Eton, where he was in his class crews for two or three seasons. There is little doubt that he year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19
BOXING NOTES

The other day I received a deter fran Oshk osh, Wis, stating that Bill ly Frazer, of that city, who had been
 beaten by Bill Perkins, of Rhein1an- der, Wis, in 8 ten-round bout, was the victim of too much training. The writer stated that Billy had taken off ten pounds in less than a. week, re- ducing from 16S to 158 pounds. Then to make matters worse, Billy s nose was broken and he felt all bro- ken up because his handlers skipped out when he lost. Billy's plight is no worse than many others who have trield to train down to a certain weight in a short space of time. Many fighters will take off six or eight pounds by going into a Turkish bath and thus weaken themselves, just to make weight and@save a forfeit Many a fighter has lost good match by that same method and a manager who would permit a fighter to do it should get wise to training methods before trying to handle a fighter. The pro moters should put a stop to it, that is, where they know of such methods be- ing employed, for it will invariably spoil what might prove a first class contest. And while Billy was having his troubles another youth from that ,secti ion-Kid Purrier of Fond du Lac was bragging about the way he trained on mushrooms for his fight and succeeded in holding Kid White zofOshkosh to a draw. If Purrier had lost the chances are that he would have blamed it on the mushrooms.
 At last Johnny Coulon, the Ameri- can bantamweight champion. has an nounced his intention of taking on Kid Williams, the Baltimore pocket edition of Tom Sharkey, in cham. pionship match. Tom McCarey of Los Angeles has made a bid for the match and he will likely get it, that city seems to be the only place where a twenty round battle can be held, outside of San Francisco, and McCarey's arena will draw much more with the bantans than the one at Frisco. Johnny thinks that February is too soon for the match and prefers a later date, probably in April. How ever there seems to be good reasons for believing that the match will be made and that is something to glory in for real bouts for titles nowadays are scarce.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19

Former State Senator John s. Fish CT, died of pneumonia at Phi1ade1- phia hospital.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19

CUSTOM ovERCoAT SALE sfe IYFORD BROTHERS S1e
 East Side and West End
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-19

suffragists will begin a canvass at Washington next week to ascertain Congressional members views on the suffrage amendment.