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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-01-07
and Mrs. Chas. Cook

Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Cook and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Vern Conner
and baby, MIR. Dan Cock and family
and Mrs. John Cook were guests at
the Wallace Cook home Tuesday.
Rieka Gronewold is assisting Mrs.
r. f. Kemple with her homework.
Mrs. L. Conner spent the latter
part of last week with her daughter
and family at Castlewood.
Mrs. and Mrs. Thomas Chandler
and children spent Wednesday, even.
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. John Krier.
A large number of young folks were
invited in to spend Friday evening at
the home Of Mrs. Anna Jurgensen.
The party was given in honor OF
Miss Mary's eighteenth birthday an.
.niversary. The evening was delight.
fully spent in dancing. A delicious
supper was served to the guests at
midnight. Later the guests depart
ed wishing Miss Mary many more
such happy birthdays to come.
Misses Tillie Fttje, Martha KruiI
and Fred Aderhold r confined to
their homes with the humps the past
week.
Miss Alma Scharn visited with her
sister in Watertown the latter part
of last week.
Messrs. Lyman Dean, Fred Wolcot,
Matt Zerfas. John and Ben Fittje,
Mabel and Ray Chandler and Mollie
Krier were visitors at Robert SchulIs
Sunday. !
Raleigh and Cliff Conner, Mabel
and Ray Chandler, Alma and Emil
Scharn, Carrie. Victor, Arthur and
Bert Schulz, Harry and Arthur Jurs
gensen and Bruno Aehterbewg spent
Sunday evening at the GroneWold
home.
Jake Zerfas marketed some fine
live stock in the live city Tuesday
Arthur ~Jurgensen was a caller III
L. Eonner's Sunday.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-01-07

Popular Priced Ready to Wear
tertown. Look over these prices aand then consider that our original
prices are twenty to twenty-five dollars lower than most and You will
have some idea Of the saving possibilities of this sale.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
FRENCH CYCLE CORPS
 DOES VALUABLE WORK

Paris, Feb. 15.-tThe winged in fantry'' or French cycling corps, has rendered such good service that the contingent is being increased consid- erably.
 Though cycling as a sport continued it's hold on France longer than on any other country it was, like the auto mobile, neglected by the army until August 1918, when the Minister of with the cavalry, with the object of the latter. War has proven that it able to replace the cavalry entirely the added efficiency of the infantry
 Cyclists in the army receive the same training as the infantry, with a special course of instruction in the use of the bicycle in the field They are trained in the exercise of folding their machines until they are capable of making as halt, Hshou1dering their outfit and transforming themselves into infantry ready to charge in one minute.
 One of the oldest cyclists in the ser vice is, no doubt, the veteran Diners who was one of the champions of France 80 years ago. His two sons Edouard and Eugene, who were also champions in their turn, are cyclist messengers. Honore Fossier, anoth- CT veteran, and his son Henri, a well known long distance rider, are also | carrying despatches.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
WANT CORRl TO
 REFEREE RlTCHIE
 AND WELSH BOUT

New York. Feb. 15-Jinmy John ston, matchmaker for bouts in Madi- son Square Garden, last night, assert ed that he had cabled Eugene Corri, the English stock -broker referee, to come here and of1ciate at the Willie Ritchie-Freddie Welsh bout on March II.
 Ritchie is. said to object to Billy Roche as referee, but he is likely to object more strenuous1y to Corri, who refereed the Ritchie-WeIsh bout at the National Sporting club in London last July, when Freddie took the worlds lightweight title from the American champion.
 The question also arises: Why is 1t necessary to import a. British ref cree when there are so many good ones in this country? When dt comes to refereeing bout a Ia American, Kid McPart1and, for instance, could give Corri cards and spades and beat him at that.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
JOHNNY DUADEE
 AND JOE MAhD0T IN 2O-R0UND DRAW

4ew ctrIeans. La, Feb. 15-Johnnie Dundee. the New York lightweight, and Joe NEandot, of this city. fougne sz-zs,,fv rr,.4rsds to a draw Saturday afternoon
 It was the. second meeting between the pair and they put up a fast bout all the way It looked as if Dundee were the more clever, but AandoC v,ada ID for that in aggressiveness- A draw was the. only fair decision that could be given
 scotty Monteith, Dumdee's nia17aae- CT, was very sore over the decasaon- He said:
 Dundee outfought and outPoxed S4andot in sixteen out of the twenty rounds. and yet the referee called it draw. If ever a boy won light Dundee beat Ma.ndct- have posced s2.OoO forfeit for 2. return match, but FMandotss manager refuses to accept the gtts-Dyndee 126 pounds Mandot 133 pounds at 10 a. m.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
OFFER SiO,O0O TO
 ]. KILBANE FOR BOUT WITH KID WILLIAMS

Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. 15-Ten thousand dollars has been offered for the privilege of staging the proposed KiIbane-Wi11ians bout.
 Promoter Harry Edwards of the Olympia A. A. made this bid at a conference between the fight man agers and the hstic promoters, held at the Bingham hotel Promoter Jack Michigan of the National A. c. was present, and at the time was unable to raise this offer until he had consulted his packers.
 Promoter Edwards made it clear that this purse of $1O,0OO would be divided equally among the two par ticipants. To this the manager agreed.
 The weight question has been set ted. Kifbane has withdrawn his ultimatum of 122 pounds at O clock and is ready to make ringside wei ght for Williams.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
FOUR VETERANS OF CUBS RELEASED TO
 CUT DOWN EXPENSE

Chicago, Feb. 15-Four veterans of the Chicago Cubs have heard the rat tie of the can as a. result of the re- trenchment policy which the National league clubs are following. Outheld- CT Tommy Leach, Infielder Sweeney, Pitchers Stack and Charley Smith are the. ones to go.
 A difference over the salary ques- tion. led to Leach's release. while it was also said he was disappointed at not being appointed successor to Hank O'Day. Leach wanted $6,0O0 a year not $5,oOO. Leach came to the Chi cago Nationals with Lefty Leifield in the trade that took Holman and Cole, the pitcher, to Pittsburgh.
 Sweeney was given to the Cubs as part solace for the loss of Johnny Evers, who, busted as manager by c. W. Murphy, declined to play with his team, and was signed by Boston. Sweeney's work was a disappointment to the club last season. Waivers were asked last year on Smith, it is un- derstood, but the club finally decided to retain him. Stack made his big league debut with the Cubs, later played with Philadelphia and Brook Iyn, and returned here.
 James Sheckard, former Cub, and last year manager of the Cleveland American Association team, probably will work as 8 scout for the local club.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15

Numbering football players Is one of the most perplexing questions Yale athletic officials have recently tried to settle. There; are several objec- tions and protests from several sour cest to adopting the numbering system although Captain Alex Wilson and the football management are eager to sat isfy the public demand that numbers be placed upon the backs of the players.
 Three distinct objections have aris- en to the ordering of numbers for the Yale players next fall The first and oldest lies in the belief Of the Yale coaches that strategy will be sacrificed if the players are number ed Experiments with numbering have recently been made at Yale and will probably be continued at the spring practice.
 These have shown that it is much easier to detect. a star player who has a number on his back than the same player without his number. Yale and Harvard strategy relies much upon masked plays and numbers up on the players backs are believed to detract5 largely from the effectiveness of the hidden plays Harvard won
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
Birmingham Has Big Job to Get Winner
 With Cleveland Club

Cleveland Feb. 15.-Unlike George StaIlings and Cornelius McGiIlicuddy, Joseph Birmingham, manager of the Cleveland Indians, is one of those un- fortunate big league leaders who has a few problems to ponder over prior to the start of the 1915 campaign.
 Stallings knows just how his team will line up, while Connie MacIk's Ques- ton is just where Nap Lajoie will be placed in the batting order. But Jo- sephus enters upon the training trip with three positions unsettled. Wood and Shields are his candidates for first base Perhaps neither will quite fill the bill He has two real aspirants for the third sack, Terry Turner and lBarbare, while he admits that if neither Wood nor Shields makes good at first, he might shift Barbare over to the receiving cushion. He must also decide between Elmer Smith from Waterbury and Harry Eeibold when picking a man to play center field.
 And those three questions are not all that Manager Joe is forced to study. He must also arrange a new batting order, for Nap Lajoie, who has batted either fourth or fifth for Cleveland for many years, has made his last Cleve- land hit.
 The lead-off man probably will be hand hitters. Each is a hard man to pitch to, Liebold having taken 54 passes last year or 13 less than Gra- ney Each batted .265. For the second lplace, there is Turner, who led the American. league in sacrifice hits last season, or Ray Chapman In view o1 the fact that Chapman, despite his ac- cident, batted .257 last season, being e0celled only by Joe Jackson, it is be believed Manager Birmingham will de eide to have his shortstop bat third, as | he did at the close of last season. Joe Jackson of course, is slated for fourth place, the cleanup position.
 | Now, that's the way Manager Joe might dope it out and then again he may have other plans entirely as re- gards the selection of batters for the
 second and third notches of the bat
 ting order Bill Rodgers stole n bases lin the Coast league games last year and a man with such base running ability ought to bat ahead of Jack Ison. Then there is a chance that Bar bare will beat Turner out for thirc base. Barbare batted 1908 in the American league last September al.
 though his Southern league mark was
 only 296.
 Shields, who will battle with Roy
 Wood for the first base job, is appar entity a better runner than Wood Pet,
 stole 38 bases in the Eastern assocfa. tion, while Wood purlofned only six il the American league. Wood. however
 was a very fast runner while in col
 lege, but was bothered by ''charle!
 horse'' most of last season.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
Owner Isann1n Claims Internasicn Clubs
 Won t Join Outlaws

1za-+ov H.et, 15.-Wahatever grounds there may be for the rllnor that forn of the International league clubs are seriously considering a jump to Fseo- eraI league ranks and that some or the rnagnafes of President BaIrows or eganization5 are simply waiting to learn the verdict to be given by Judge Lam dis in the suit now pending, President Iannin of the Red Sox is confident that these stories have little more foundation than host of others that have been started from the same source.
 .eThe international league will start it's schedule as usual and when the gong rings there will be no weaSlings, said the Boston magnate yesterday. essIf [ did not have the fullest conf dence in. the Integrity of the organiza- ton and of it's ability to live through another stormy. season I would not have made plans for the training trip of the Providence team
 Irresponsible men, who have no right to talk for the Federal league have come out with these foolish sto- the Federals in any way have really been to the detrfment of the interests of d few clean and responsible men who have been forced to carry the burden of Federal league activity and provide most of the sinews of war.
 ssWe all have seen how that proteci to put a Federal league in New Eng- land has been abandoned. do not be- Iieve that the FederaIS ever seriously contemplated a move such as this That talked of unison between New EnEIand league and Eastern league clubs fell by the wayside and now, 1T the desperate endeavor to create fur. ther tangIes, these men who make yarns out of whole cloth are origina- ting other improbable stories"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
FUTURE OF
 INTERNATIONAL
 UNCERTAIN YET

New York. Feb 15-The fate of Inc Unconditional League hangs in the balance today, when the club owners get together at the Hotel Imperial but judging from the. optimistic atti- Jude of the advance guard which gathered at the hotel last night the Glass A league will pull through with flying colors.
 President Barrow still hopes that the New York National League club 4zin pernaft the Jersey City club to operate somewhere in the Bronx, but if in the end President Hampstead refuses, President Barrow has other Irons in the fire. The New England territory offers good inducements for : Class AA club, three cities already having become intefested in Poss1- ble transfer.
 President McCAffery and hcten- helm of Toronto and Montreal came put strongly last night against the imposition that the war had affect ed the conditions in thes port world In Canada. Lctenheim stated that he would go right ahead and operate next year He is willing to adhere to President Rarrows' offer that each club put up $10,ooo toward an emer- gency fund
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
YALE OBJECTS TO NUMBERS
 FOR ELI FOOTBALL PLAYERS
Parents Don't Like Publicity Idea and Coaches Think It Will Hurt
 Strategy

the Michigan game through the use of a hidden attack and Yale conquered Notre Dame and Virginia the past fall by employing an attack that could not have been masked had the Eli players worn numbers.
 s The second objection has come from parents of undergraduates and from the faculty of the local institu- ton. They oppose much of the pub licity and magnitude Of the present game of football and regard the in troduction of identification numbers Ion the backs of the players as an ap- preach to. professional sport which they do not countenance. L
 The third objection to player mum bers rests with experiments recently made in the Yale bowl. .-s. Numbers have been put on players backs and attempts made to read them from va rious angles and parts of the field. It is barely possible to distinguish numbers of as large size as can be conveniently worn between players shoulders at as great a distance as from one side of the field to the other. Ya1e's decision on. the numbering sit uation will not. be, announced before next fall.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
ANNIVERSARIES
 OF RING BATTLES

1911-Jess Willard made his formal ring debut, losing on foul to Louis Fink in 10 rounds at SapuIpa, Okla Willard was then an awkward, good natured giant, with little but his size to recommend him as white hope'' candidate. Sapulpa was then fight crazy. owing to the activities of Carl Morris, who had, Knocked out the old veteran, Marvin Hart. in the Okla horna town a short time before The Oklahoma. fans were wild about the big engineer, and Willard got little at tention. Shortly after the Fink fight Jess went to Ell Reno and knocked out Ed Burke, and then met Fink again in Oklahoma City. This time Jess won by a Knockout in the 8rd round. After several other successful battles in Oklahoma Willard retired for time, but in 1912 returned to the fing and put away John Young at Fort Wayne, Ind He then went to New York, where his battles with PeIkey and Luther Mccarthy and his knockout of Soldier Kearns put him
 in the limelight as the real article in pale hopes. Willard has improved a lot since he made his debut 4 years ago today, but.
 1s91-Mattie McCue (EFatt Pou1- son,) Danish German boxer, born in Racine Wis.
 1S99-Peter Maher defeated Tom Conroy in T rounds at Hartford, Conn., | 1906-Billy Rhodes defeated Dick Fitzpatrick in Is rounds at Daven-
 port. Ia.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
JIM COFFEY ISSUES OEFI
 TO WILLARD

New York, Feb. 15-James Coffey has been asked to become a bobby in Dublin. He has a, brother on the police force in the capital of Ire land and in a recent letter to the Irish champion he calls upon Jim to come home and join the force, as they need alert strong men to fill the places of policemen who are now at war.
 T won't be a bobby or think of any other position" said Coffey yester- day, until after I fight. Jess Willard for the white hope championship. I am certain that I can whip him. That's why Pm anxious for him to defeat Jack Johnson when they meet at Juarez. I easily outpointed Gun boat Smith and, Smith obtained a referees decision over Willard in a twenty-round bout in California.
 Because of my victory over Smith I claim that I am the. proper man to meet Jack Johnson. After meet Jack (Twin) Sullivan at the Fair mont A. c. on Thursday night will go to Juarez to challenge the winner of the Johnson Willard bout
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
UMPIRE QUIGLEY
 KEEPS WORKING IN
 ALL SPORTING JOBS

New York, Feb. 15:-Ernest c. Qu1g-
 ley. iron man umpire, who graduated to the National league from the New
 York State, is strong for the year round training scheme. Unlike the average arbitrator, who is content to knock off work after calling balls and
 strikes or aibiing himself out of countless Nclose ones during the
 strenous six months of active cam paigning, this member of the National league staff believes in mayings hay while the sun shines.
 In addition to officiating i'll the eight-baH yards of the parent circuit during the pennant season and in the White Sox-Cubs city series, Quig1ey the Missouri Valley and other western college conferences.
 Immediately upon the conclusion of the gridiron activities he turned his attention to dancing and with his wife conducted classes in various Kansas towns exploiting the newest prances in the social realm.
 January II found Quigley back on
 the job in the role of a basketball ref
 cree and all set to ofdciate in Al los 1 ing contests. Those judging assign
 ments added to the 154-game schedule | of the National league will serve to keep Quigley on the firing line in 205 athletic engagements during the 365 days of the year.
 | In fact, the busy official contends it lis a new record for distance ser
 vice. QuigIey served flor 1S years as
 director of athletics at St. Mary's Col Ilege. St. Mary's Kan, and gave ur that position to assume the Umpire Mans burden. Recently he was of fered the position of baseball coach al Purdue University.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
BOSTON MAGNATE SAYS BILL JAMES
 WON'T GET RAISE

Boston. Feb. 15.-President amney of the Boston Nationals is in line to ing, every little bit of trouble added to every other little bit of trouble makes just a. little bit more" Now he faces a~threat by Bill James, the tall right handler of the world champs pitching staff, and one of the most distinguished heroes of the nota- b1e worlds series of last fall, to take his dolls and go off and leave the Braves fat on their backs.
 BiIl in other words, wants more money than his contract calls for. It appears that Bills p1aint is that he thinks he deserves a sweetening of the kitty because of his remarkable work during the season, and in the worlds s series, in short being morally deserv- ing of extra coin.
 To this Mir Gaffney makes reply by proxy of Secretary Niekerson. When the Braves were in the dumps back in the early part of July Bill James was signed up to a three-years contract, 10- day clause removed, calling for $4, ,O0C a year
 seThere was no indication then thai the team was going to hit it's great stride and come through a winner James was tickled to death to be able ment offered him, as under the cir cunstances he might we'll be- s.Even though the team might have finished in the cellar for last season and two seasons to come he was cer. tain of good salary, a liberal ont
 when the risks and uncertainties G.
 baseball Are considered.
 James can play with no other clul than the Boston Nationals. The risI
 was all on MT. Gaffney's side whe1 James was given the contract and it i,
 up to him to live up to the terms O 1.-the document. That is all there is t it. He is a valuable member Of tn,
 team and is bound by law to fulfil hi Iagreenent with the club. His attitud, Is unreasonable and will gain hin lnothfng.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
GAN ACTORS BANQUEr.v

Everything is in readiness for the big one act musical comedy, "An ,Ac- tors Banquet which will open a two days stand commencing this eve ming at Eagles hall under the aus pices of the St. Joseph's T. B. & L. association No expense, labor or time has been spared by the enter tainEsent committee to make t-An Actors Banquet prove one of the biggest hits ever produced by the St. Joes. Director William Tooney who will handle the comedy and Prof. Harry Ma1oney, taking care of the musical numbers of the program were well pleased with the final re- hearsa1. Due to the length of the program the orchestra will start playing at a:15 o'clock sharp and the curtain will rise few minutes af- ter. Dancing will be in order after the performance. Reserved seats can be secured from the members or at the door. A small additional charge will be made for the same.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
HOLY NAME BASKETBALL

Charles have played their last game in the league. They are not quitters A team that is willing to play twice a week can not be rated as a quitter and they will fight to the last. ditch to have the bylaws lived up to. They call for two games a week and two there must be in the opinion of the directors Of the St. Charles five.
 St. Johns also insist on playing twice a week. therefore it behooves the directors to abide by the sched- ule and bylaws if they wish to have the league continue. It would be a downright shame if the old boat crashed upon the rocks after such a glorious start but if the Charles and J Johns, who have furnished both courts to the league, have to be con tent with one game a week, they will play Independent ball on their own courts.
 Should the 1egue now dissolve, ac- cording to a ruling once handed down by the A. A. U., the St. Charles, having taken the series from all three teams, would be proclaimed the un- | disputed champions. Readers will please note that the contest between the Charles and St. sMarys on Friday is not recorded as a. win fo St.
 Iarys and will not be until the pro- test is thrashed out at the meeting. There was yet one more minute left to play when the St. Mary time keeper called time up' and the All ma Mater players immediately left 1 the floor. Therefore the game is as 1 yet unfinished and finished it must l be before the victory will be re- I corded in favor of St. Mary's. Here's
 hoping that little common sense
 will be used at the meeting of the l directors, Thursday.