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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
FEDERALS IN SPRINGFIELD
 HARTFORD AND NEW HAVEN NEXT
Outlaws Negotiate for Leases of Parks Controlled by Ousted Eastern
 Association Maanates

Hartford, May 11-As the result of a conference held, ip New York yes terday afternoon with Robert B.
 Ward. presidenro of the Brooklyn Fed erals and e-president of the Feeder al league, Hartford, Springfield and New Haven, the three cities thrown out of the Eastern association, are to become identified with a Federal league movement, and will make up a part of an eigh-club league that will get under way before Mem oriaI Day.
 This announcement was made last night by James H. Clarkin, the for rner owner of the Hartford team in the Eastern association. and the own CT of the Wethersde1d avenue ball grounds and similar announcements were also made last night in Spring field and New Haven by William E.. Carey and George M. sCameron. own CTS respectively of the Springfield, and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
Outside Observations
REILLY. YALE
 STAR, WILL NOT BE PROFESSIONAL


 New Haven, May 11--Reports that John Reilly, star third baseman Of the Yale nine, would enter profes- sional ranks at the close of his coI- Iege career were given a jolt yester- day when it was announced that the big athlete will forsake the diamond at the end of the season to enter business.
 This information comes from a per son close to Reilly, and sets at rest the rumors that have been flying thick and fast of late regarding his future exploits. It is known that Reilly has received several lucrative offers to join big league clubs. But he has reached a decision to enter a line of work that should prove more profitable to him than baseball. Reilly's action will come as a, surprise to his many admirers who l have expressed a. desire to see him | in big league uniform.
 l The present season marks the third for Reilly as a member of the varsity baseball team. He prepared at Elk eter and is a younger. brother of Bar ney and Jim Reilly, who played stel- lar baseball while at Yale, ReilIy's star work during the year 1913 was one of the outstanding features of the | college season in which Captain Bios 1 son's team registered seventeen con secutive victories and later lost the series to Harvard. Last season Reilly was woefulIy weak in batting. As a fielder he ranks head and shoulders above any college third baseman.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
NoTRE DAME DEFEATS
 CORNELL IN. BASEBALL

Ithaca, N Y, May 11.-,A batting rally by Notre Dame in the eleventh inning yesterday afternoon gave the weaterners a to ? victory over Cor nell. Up to that frame Johnson had allowed the visitors only two hits, but in that Inning 9. hunt by Wells and singless by Dugan, Iathrop, and Mills and q sacrifice by Bergman netted the indians four runs.
 In CoEnelTs half of this inning the Ithacans had three men on bases, but only one run was scored. StrebIe, bat ting for Johnson, was hit by a pitched ball and crossed the plate on Bills grounder-
 wells and walsh. pitched for Notre Dame
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
WEIRD nROM BY KAUFF LOSES GAME FOR BROOK TN FEDS


 6Ezys1 Moriz, May. 11.-Benny KaiIff.. centre fielder flor the -Brnokfeds, who was a member of the Giants for 3. few. minutes two weeks ago, assisted Kan sas City An winning yesterday at Washington Park by the score of 4 to when he threw the ball from deep center field into the visiting players bench allowing two runs to score.
 It was in the fifth inning that Ben- ny begged away the two runs. Gill; more, the first man up for the Kaw- 5 feds. had singled and Brown drew a pass Packard flied out to centre and then Chadbozlrne poaxed 3. safety in- to centre. Kauff grabbed the ball and threw 1t toward second base.
 It wllizzed it's way past Holt at sec ond and continued on its journey past third at a terrific rate of speed, fin ally bringing up with aduH thpd against the conerete sFWfdH sback of the Kansas City players bench. Gilmore and Brown in the meantime had crossed the plate and staod around watching the progress Of that wild heaNe-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
TANKS FAIL
 TO HIT BALL.; LOSE TO BOSTON

New York, May I11-The inability to connect safely with the offerings of George Foster at opportune mo- ments and Spectacular catch by the redoubtable Iris Speaker in the ninth inning were directly responsible for the High1anders losing the final con f1ict to Bill Carrigan's Red Sox before a fair sized gathering of fans, inc1ud- ing several hundred of Uncle Sam s sailors, at the, Polo Grounds, yester-
 day.
 Old Man Opportunity krrocked con
 stantly at the Donovanites' door. but
 our boys turned their back on him 1 repeatedly, and as a consequence they l departed last night on their first western tour with a to 1 defeat trailing them. The Highlanders didn't score thei1 lone tally until the ninth inning, al though they threatened to- cross the plate long before the final session was I reached. McHa1e pitched good enough bal for the High1anders, but the Red Sox l unlike the Highlanders, punched thei1 l hits off him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
OLD TIME OUTFTELDERS
 MADE MORE ASSISTS THAN PRESENT PLAYERS

During the season of 1898 George Van HaItren of the New York Giants, in- a game against the Washington club. was playing center field. "Cy'' Swain, who was pitching for the Sen ators, while at bat happened to make what looked like a safe drive to cen ter Nine times out of ten it would have gone safe, but Wan" made mad rush and gathered it in on the second bound, and, without stopping, threw to first, the ball beating the slow footed Swain by a good six feet, and "Cy'' was sprinting his best all the time Of course, ''Van" didn't perform this stunt right along.
 Statistics show that the outfielders back in the sos and 90's had the shade on the present-day outfielders in making assists. The best record in number. of assists made in one season | in the majors in recent years, or since 1 19oo was stacked up by Harry Niles then with the St. Louis team in 1906. | Harry nailed 39 men from the out field: getting them at different bases. Mike Mitchell, while playing with the Cincinnati team, equa1led the mark set by Niles, heading of 39 men | by his power to shoot a ball from the sufficient accuracy and speed to get | his man.
 .@ry'' Cobb, Joe Birmingham, Iris Speaker, Joe Jackson and Milan of 1 Washington all have made especially good records in this direction and lead their. respective teams on throw ing out base runners from the remote corners of the outer garden. In this day Fielder Jones was a past master | in begging the ball from the outfield and nipped many runners.
 In the National League since 1900 l Murray of the Giants has the most 1 consistent record of all old league
 outfieIders in making assists. he lead ing the league in four different sea sons. Ellis, who used to be with the | St. Louis Cards, was good at making | long throws and had an average of 25 per season. Titus, Bates, Cravath and NSnodgrass have good marks for ac-
 curate throwing from the outfield.
 But the old boys back in the | halcyon days of the sos made some astonishing records in throwing out | base runners from afar off. Jimmy
 Fogarty of the Phtllies averaged an
 assist from the outfield every third game he played. Sam Thompson of
 the old Detroits and Phillies was a
 mighty thrower in his day.
 1 Jimmy Ryan of the Chicago Ma | tionals, left-han6ed though he was
 could shoot a, ball from the farthest
 corner of the outfie1d with deadly ef- feet Bill Lange had wonderful l throwing arm and was feared by all
 base runners in the National League
 The great Mike Kelly, hack in 1885
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
FACTORY LEAGUE WILL MEET TONIGHT

There will be a meeting of the Fac tory baseball league at the '. M. c. A. to o-night at 8 o'clock. Much business of importance to the League is to be transacted. New officers will be elect ed and the official schedule for 1915 adopted.
 The league consists of Electric Cable Co., Singer Manufacturing Go, Rem ington Arms Go, Burns & Bassick Co.,. Bryant Electric and Bridgeport Brass Go.
 The six teams composing the Fac tory League have aAtota1 of over 1 B. 900 factory employees to pick their players from, and good games are as- sured. The opening games are to be played Saturday May 15., oppos- ing teams and fields to be announced later. Thes chedule will also be pub 1ished soon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
ew Haven baseball grounds.

New Haven baseball grounds.
 Leases of the three grounds have not been ratified as yet, as there were one or two minor matters that re- mained-to be agreed upon, ahd that he would meet MT. Carey and MT. Cameron in Springfield this afternoon and at that conference final decision would be reached.
 At the present time the Wards are known to be the real packers of the Colonial league now operating in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which was established last year. There is an impression gaining ground thai these three cities will be linked up with the Colonial league, which con sists at present of i've clubs, New Bedford, Fall River, Brockton, Taun. ton and Pawtucket, Woonsocket hay ing dropped out since last season This would make an eigh-cIub circuf for a starter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
FIGHT TO GET :. BOXING FILMS
 INTO COUNTRY

New York, May 11.-F'reddie Welsh. holder of the lightweight champion ship title, was scheduled to appear be- fore Judge Hough in the Federal Dis trict Court in the Woolworth Build ing and tell how he wons the title from Willie Ritchie in Olympic Hall. Lon don, on July z, 1914, but neither Fred ance, much to the disappointment of the gathering. who had hoped to hear the details of the famous contst.
 Welsh's appearance in court was to have been made in an attempt to show that it was neither prize fight nor a. spugilistic encounter in which he had won the title from the American and so permit of the entrance to this country of the moving pictures of the battle
 George Considine brought 3.542 feet of motion picture film to the United States showing the two men in the encounter, but according to the Sims act passed July S1, 1912. movies" of prize fights or pugi1istic encounters are forbidden admission to this coun- try and also forbidden carriage in dn- terState commerce, so the films were detained by customs officials on the contention that they came, within their category
 Mir Oonsidine through his attorney Frank S. O'Neill, State Boxing, Com missioner, is attempting to show thai the films do not come within the meaning of the act, but Assistant Unit ed States District Attorney John Walk er's assertion is that they do, and yes terday he submitted a brief in whicf he gave dictionary derivations tending to show that a prizehght and pugilis, tic encounter are one and the same and the films should be barred
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
LAJ0IE COULDN'T
 BE OUTGUESSED IN
 HIS PALMY PERIOD

If Napoleon Lajoie has an admirer among the baseball men of the past and present it is Malachi Kittredge, the veteran catcher, who now is nak- ing his residence in Cleveland. Ac- cording to Kittredge it was almost impossible to outguess the Frenchman when the latter was at his best, To illustrate his argument Fzittredge re- Iates two anecdotes.
 When was with Washington we had a left-hander named Jacobson g he said. stOne day when we were playing Cleveland he told us before we took the field that he had solved Lajoie's weakness. l.
 Larry came up with three on. Ja- eobson gave him that slow curve rather, low. Larry swung. away went the ball over Charley Jones' head. It Durham avenue. bounded back and hit Jones on the head, knocking him down.
 Say said Jones when he came in when the inning was over, if when you pitch Larry's weakness to him an outfieIder down after it hits the fence, I'd hate to be playing center if you pitched one in his groove.'
 Then there was a Hunter Hill We had him on third base. The third sackers used to play short left field ffA-01- A~0AJOAO CeA4lS IO OcIs dLA0 so did Hill the first few games he played against Cleveland. Larry of course took advantage of it and used to lay many 8 one downsand beat it to first. This got Hill sore and he came to us one day and announced he had studied Larry and could tell by his movements when the French man intended to bunt
 He won't fool me any more,' said I1ilL T have him begged and you'll see me right on top of the plate by the time the ball leaves the bat
 He did it all right and Larry bounded one off his knee into the third base bleaehers. Larry got a home run and Hill did not put a uniform on again for five weeks. In fact, that blow he got practically put him out of the big league"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
GILMAN MAY JOIN
 HARVARD IN FALL

Cambridge. May 11-Later inform ation about the plans of J. A Gilman the Harvard football player, who dropped out of college. few days ago to take a position in Washington. in dicates that he is perhaps not lost to Capt. Mahan's eleven.
 1t is said that Gilman has practi- ca1ly made up his deficiencies in studies, and that in spite of losing the results of this half years work; he will be able to come back next fall, in good standing, by passing off one entrance condition He will have to drop back enc class and will became member of 1917 instead of the present junior class, with which he entered college.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
GOOD BOUTS FOR FANS AT CASINO
 SMOKER LAST NIGHT

(By "OId Man GruInp'' At Ringside) The first smoker under the auspices of the Casino A. c. was held last even ing at the Casino before fully 500 fol- lowers of the fistic game and every bout on the program was run off so we'll that everyone who was present went home satisfied. Great credit must be handed Andy Parker, the
 matchmaker, for the successful man ner in which he handled the affair.
 There were seven bouts on the pro- gram, all of four rounds duration, the latter number being the limit allowed on smoker permits which are issued by the Chief of Police, and interming7 led with the bouts were music and en- tertainment galore. Songs were rend- cred by Heaphy and Perry and the Dunn brothers with their songs and
 dancing made a distinct hit, while the singing of the Park City quartet was good.
 In the curtain raiser Young O'Leary outpointed Young Mccarthy.
 The next bout brought together Jim my Perrone and Young Mickey. As
 predicted by the followers of Perrone, their man was more experienced than Mickey. The fans were treated to a round when Mickey landed 8 'tbeaut on Perrone's jaw, driving the latter through the ropes. It was a draw. The next battery assault brought together Young Monroe and Eddie Kelly. Both boys put an interesting
 encounter and we would call 1t a good
 draw. The fourth setto of the night
 was very interesting and introduced
 to the local fans Young Wetdenhan- mer, of Milford, and Young Levtnsky, from Pond Point. It was g. corking good bout and Levinsky earned the
 decision. He then challenged Young | Murphy for the 100 10 championship. In the fifth bout Tom Hawthorne stopped Young Fahy in the second round. The latter was no match for
 Tommy Atkins"
 In the serni-fina1 Freddie BOsse, or
 the Acorn A. C., outpointed Young
 Boyd, of South Norwa1k. It was a corking bout but FTeddie's blows were the most powerful and he easily earn ed the decision.
 The final and star bout of the ev- ening brought together two old time
 rivals, Al Ketchel, the Yankee boy, and Bud Palmer the pride of the
 Lincoln A. c. The bout was full af action, and time and gain both fight CTS were cheered by their followers at the ringside. Al did not have any advantage over Bud and Palmer is | a very strong fInisher and likewise as he improves as the bout goes along, we feel confident that a ten round match between these two would be a
 hummer. Palmer deserved draw.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
ANNIVERSARIES
 OF RING BATTLES

1870-Jem Mace defeated Tom AL len in 10 rounds at Kennervil1e. La. Although both Mace and Allen were English by birth, the latter had spent some time on this side and was the claimant of the American title. The fight was for $1O,0OO and the worlds title and it attracted thousands of sports to New Orleans The ring was pitched on the turf and the spec tators viewed the battle from car riages and omnibuses Mace out fought Allen in every round, sla.shing his face with his terrible left and in 8 short time one of Toms peppers was closed and the other was little better. Allen was a glutton for pun isment and in the 10th round he put Mace down, but at the same time he fell himself and struck his shoulder against a stake. The impact dis located Toms shoulder and his sec onds had to toss in the sponge. Mace was declared the winner, and, besides the $10,000 stake, realized a hand some sum from his wagers. After that Mace became a lion in the States and Canada.
 1877-Dave Sullivan. former feath- erweight- champion born in Cork Ireland. ~
 188S-George cone sRound) Davis. heavyweight boxer, born in Bufalo. 19O0-James J. Jefferies knocked out James J. Corbett in 23rd round at l Coney Island. Jeff had become cham
 pfon less than a year before by de l feating Fitzsimmons, and in the in l tervaI had fought and defeated Tom
 Sharkey. Corbett's challenge was greeted with derision by the fight fans
 but the Californian believed that his superior cleverness would enable him I to f'come back Corbett certainly. 1 looked fit for the battle of his life i when he faced the cavennan at the
 Seaside A c. In the early rounds the 1 conqueror of Sullivan played with l the numbering Jeff almost at will, ana
 by the time 20 chapters had been fought Jeh's supporters were NIoOking glum. To all appearances. Corbett l the panther had Jeffries the bear at
 his mercy. Tn the 23rd Corbett went
 in to finish his opponent. If he had l continued to play a ''watchful waitz l ing'' game Corbett would certainly
 have @regained his lost title. He was
 so eager to finish that he disre egarded i the advice of his seconds and met Jeff l at his own game. Then Jen, whfpped
 to frazzle, put all his strength into i one punch, and it was enough. | 1S4S-Ton .Cribb, long champion ] of the ring, died in EngIanG.
 1888-Alfred Mercy, lightweight
 boxer, born in Victoria, Australia.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
By Wa gner.)

q, Jack ~Egan, the local boy who made good with New Britain last season and was booked for New. London this year, has joined Lowell, Mass, of the New England league. He w~s on his way to join Newport News, Va, of the Vir- ginia Alea,gue when a telegram reached his home here asking him to report to Lowell. Bill AfcGuire, the local base ball promoter who is also Egan's brother-in-law, wired Jack and caught him at the 125th street station in New York. Egan then retraced his steps for Lowell. Gene McCann, the New London pilot,s recommended Egan to Lowell.
 The story that the FederaIs will in wade New Haven, Springfield and Hartford presents an interesting prob lem to baseball followers. It is said that these cities will be added to the Colonial circuit which is supposed to be in organized baseball. In order to do this the Colonial would have to make application to the National board to operate in Eastern association ter ritory and would undoubtedly be turned down
 On the other hand if the colonial de- cides to come into this territory in spite of organized baseball it will have to cast aside it's pretensions of being a minor league in good standing. It is a well known fact that the Wards i were the financial packers of the Col l onial league last season and fans are wondering how long, they will bet by
 with these tactics. The Springfield pa pers have been talking about bigger i and better Nba sebalI. How do they fec about, being linked in a. circuit with Broekton. Taunton, New Bedford and other tank towns?
 The Washington club gives Walter Johnson great support with the bat yes it does, Tn his last four games he has been presented with just one run
 Not one run in each but a solitary
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
Garnes N@t sur1s4av

St. Charles vs. St Augustlnes at Parrots Lot.
 St Marys.vs. Sacred Hearts at Mud Flats.
 St PeterseYa. St. Patriehs at St Pe- terss Lot.
 Games called at 2:s0s p. m
 The league has got down to a fine start and attendance at every game is increasing. Managers and cap. !. tains Of all teams are requested to meet at O'Connorss barbershop in the Arcade toporrow night at 8 p. m. Bnsiness of importance is to be trans
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
TO BOX FOR LORMEN
 OF OUR FLEET

Arrangements for the entertain ment of Uncle San's sailors at Madi- son Square Garden on Thursday night are practically completed. Besides a big vaudeville bill, a series of box ing bouts between wel1-known fight CTS has been arranged,
 Jim Coffey, the latest star in the pugilistic Armament, who looms large as the most logical opponent of, Jess Willard for the championship, will box with Joe Jeanette if. a. dispensation can be obtained from the Boxing Com mission Otherwise Jim will take on Hack Wallet.
 Jack Britton, the star 1ightwefghter will meet Young A11earn: Soldier Bartfe1d will clash with Battling Le- vinslzy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
EsEAsIDEs HAVE ROW IN
 GAME WITH NATIONALS

The Seaside A. A. played tie game with the Nationals Sunday the score being 10 to 10. The Seasides pro- tested the game in the ninth. The Seasides having tied the score in the ninth and a man on third. The Sea- side batter hit to third. The man on third coming home. He slid into the base and was called safe by the umpire who then changed his decis- ion, which is contrary to baseball. < As is could not be settled it was decided to have the game played over on Sunday June at the South End Flats.
 Next Sunday the Seaside A A. will play the fast Pioneer nine of the East Side at the South End Flats at p. m !. May 20 is the date set for the re- opening of the Italian Parliament.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
JACK ECAN, LOCAL BOY, HAS
 CONE TO JOIN LOWELL, MASS.
Colonial League Cannot Operate in This Territory Without Permis=
 sion of National Board
, tally. in the whole bunch.

Coach Vivian Nickalls of the Penn syIvania crew is disguised with the showing of the Penn oarsmen in last Saturdays regatta He says he will give the crew a shakeup when hard training begins again.
 Watson M. washburn, the Brook lawn tennis star, got into the. final round in the tournament of the West Side club, New York, yesterday by beating Theodore R. Pell in the semi final, 6-1, 6-2.
 Brown won from it's old rival, Dart mouth. in baseball yesterday by il to 1. The game was played in Hanover, N. H. Crowen pitched for Brown. Holmes, Perry and Doyle for Dart mouth.
 Dutch Carter, the old Yale pitch ing star, is coaching the Rutgers col lege baseball squad. He was recon mended by Foster Sanford who coach es Rutgers in football.
 The showing of Iron Man Jack Coombs with Brooklyn this season must be an unpleasant surprise to Connie Mack The .1anky Philadelphia leader let Coombs go during the win- ter, thinking the veteran was alT in. BuC COombS has, won two games al- ready for, Brooklyn, beating the lead ing Phillies each time.
 The winner of the YaIe-Harvard boat race, and the successful crew at the Hudson regatta viii be invited to make 8 trip to the Pacific Coast to 1 take part in a. championship event there. Tt is doubtful if. the invitation will be accepted because of the great expense. Leland Stanford university sends a crew almost every year to compete on the Hudson but eastern colleges are not so enthusiastic about going west.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
GAMES TODAY. Buffalo in Richmond.

Tn view, of the g1ave situation caused by the sinking of the Lusi- tania. the Congressional party touring the Hawaiian Islands discussed a plan for securing the cruiser Mary land for a quick trip to San Francis co in case of extra session of Con- gress.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11

while with the Chicago Nationals, made the greatest record in throwing out base rum CTS from the outfield, Mike. by fair means. or foul, pagged out 29 men in 67