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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
SEASIDES WIN
 BILLIARD GAMES
 FROM BRlDGEP PORT
sEosIDEs-sPoRTs.

SEOSTDEsS-SPORT
 The interzclub billiard tournament opened last night and the Seaside team beat the Bridgeport cue experts at the Cannon street clubhouse by taking two out of three matches A. good sized crowd turned out and much enthusiasm was shown. Thad Adams of the Seasides. won from Charles Hall of the Bridgeports, 200 to 1S1: Leslie Vaughan of the Sea sides defeated Dick Howell of the .Bridgeports, 200 to 1e4, and Murray Elin of the Bridgeports, vanquished W. s. Wf1lbrand of the seasIdes, 200 to 174
 The Adans-Ha1I match was the most exciting It was very close and for a time it looked as if Hall would win Adams made great run near the finish. which settled the question, however. Adams made the high run of the evening when he rang up 56 Elin made the second highest mark when he chalked up B. The style of Willbrand. a new member of the Seaside team, attracted much a1- tention and it is predicted that he will prove a. sensation. The. next
 match will be between the Bridge port and A1gonqAin pool teams at the home of the latter.
 The standing:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
JIM ELY LYNN WINS
 FROM AL REICH

New York. Jan. Is--Jipn Flynn ad-. ministered a severe drubbing to Al Reich, the former amateur heavy weight champion. in a, fast ten-round. bout at the Broadway Sporting Club of Brooklyn last night
 Ff1ynnss Fvh ir-lwind tactics and fast attacks completely wore out Reich. and gave the fighting fireman of Pueblo, Col., a decided advantage from the fifth round to the finish
 Neither scored knockdown, but at the finish Reich's right eye was badly damaged, his left cut and his lips bruised and bleeding. Flynn s face was bruised. Flynn conceded twenty pounds to Reich, the weights being: Flynn, 1s7 pounds, and Reich 2O7.
 Refch's friends claimed after the bout that his right hand was brok- en and that he had fought the last six rounds with that hand damaged It was noticeable that Reich did not use his right hand except twice, and then only lightly. in the ninth and tenth sessions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
DID M'CRAW PICK LEMONS
 FROM COAST LEAGUE TEAMS?
Pacific Magnate Says Kores, Stroud and Gipe
 Bought By Giants, Are No Good.

land before the season is long under way.
 McCredie says that he does not Understand how any one could pick Kores and leave Bancroft and Rodgers The latter pair have been grabbed since McGraw took his pick, and they will be stars from the jump, according to MeCredie. While on the subject of Coast League play CTS. McCredie says that McGraw has also picked up two pitchers from the far West, who will not do: They are Ralph Stroud, formerly with the De-
 roit club. and Alva cipe.
 In other words, McCredie believes that McGraws has been badly estung, despite hte fact that the Pacific Coast League had an unusual bunch Of star talent last season.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13

Portland. Ore. Jan 1sManager McCredie Of the Portland club. of the Pacific Coast League. q man who
 majors who have made good than any other half dozen minor league lead- CTS, says that he is sending one man ID thls season who wi II come back This eNr zeznan Is one who str fapge1y has received more press notices than an otherH Anc6 xedae is sending Ssp thls season
 He is Korea who was purchased by the Giants. McGraws scouts thought so we'll of him that he was picked UT, and at once toazted as q, wonder. Now along comes the man who picked him and developed him, and says htat he will be back in Port
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
(By Wagnerl


 Harry Johnson, who umpired in the National League last season, has ap- piled for position on the Eastern as- sociatfon staff. President O.Rourle received the application to-day. John son is wintering in Chicago. He says he did good work in the big show last season but he was released by Presi- dent Tener, although the latter found no fault with his services. Johnson was paired with Byron in the Nation al 1sague and ohaciated in the St. Louis city series. It is believed his terms will be too high for the Blast ern.
 Nothing has been heard from Owen Somers of the Cleveland Americans regarding his plans for the Waterbury club. President O'Rourke wired him that the Eastern directors were ahx- 1oussto know at once if the Waterbury club would be kept in the league. It is probable that Somers was out of the zcity and has not received the wfre.
 Several big changes are planned in the New Haven club next season. Of the II 5 men who wore the Elm City uniform only six will return. Moose. mack, Ramey. Ruegg and PendIeton are among those whs will go. Kid Sherwood of this city, Hyder Barr. Joe Pope. Clyde Waters and Johnny Lower will come back.
 A 2 number of local basketball fans wi IF go to Stamford tonight to see the IB1qle Ribbons tackle the Stamford five in the second game of the series On their larger home floor the Stamford boys expect to atone for last nights defeat. There is some talk that stam- ford will have a. stronger team.
 Tgss,.5y,.av,a 1r,r4Is 1T aIsSxzers
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
I SEES DA ING OF
 NEW EPOCH

New Haven, Jan 1sYale sees he dawn of a new era n it's athletic soItcy. The Alumn Weekly says that he Bls1a has finally arrived at the onc1usion that Ya1ess rivals came to- sreraI years ago in regard to coach g systems and the nkes and that rom now on Yale may be expected . the per1od of f1olnderlns through Vhfch the university has gone in the asst tI1xee or four years sss .ss, s.s5
 Tl1e tone of cheef fuIness Easst the Ea1A Alumni Weekly sends out is as DIIaws
 lang period when her rivals were lounderAng and Yale herself had set led systems. Then the pendulum V7rag the other way; others took aa Aaf out of the Yale book and adopt d coaching systems in the various nssrco1le egzaste sports in which tdne Vsis given a chance to help solve the lrClls1ena-
 .aH ale. forsakdng that solid ground. Ell into the mira from which her 6vals had extricated theEnsefves-5 he results, for some years past. 5 have been what might have been. npscted With no system. no per. manent policy, no graduate ulanaG- Kw head no general aE11 e81Gx fE0z12z F9fch to develop perennial nsss v uni ] feTsff material ol1r EpoTIs 1SlA @1ese-z1 baItI sio UT. ft1 solnet hing had dsfFtos 5e done abouf It
 Tn football a long period of unset ned o3fcdes and changing head slosches was ended last fall whsn q nsyE leader was secured on q $a1ree- fea1rs contract Whoae results. until h1< 6ns1 Harvard game showed 5 eaIneases that were naturaliy iy the keuaaty of the chaotic conditions of he last few years were the most hriIi ant in recent football history. To- take a green team that sk first nrenaised no rushHne at a1ls taach it $ new and brilliantly interesting of sancA, and to win one of tho two Es4S hard final games WAS ai 1arge nllfsxtaking
 Ehls point is that we have at last etzrted settled footba1T system that. To those who know all the fassts and Elae 1zan in ci1axg is the us1eIt D rom lsffstz ming we beHeEes that liag yet happeaed in Yale football That be- Ing Che case, we think that 1t be- hooVss the rest Of us to give moral support to the effort to get back into eha game We are glad to observe tnax graduate opinion is just as ern- phatis about holding to tho tEadi- fiona1 zake idea of taking defeats zvifh0uE public discussion of the reasons for them
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
TEN OF MACK'S
 CHAMPS ARE lk
 NE " PLACES NOW

F
 Ten of the players who figured in the distribution of the funds of the 191S Worlds Series set aside for the Athletics players. are no longer con nected with the club.
 The first to go was Johnny Lavan, who was sent back to the St. Louis Browns. Lavan got chance to play regularly for the Browns last season and he made an excellent record
 During the winter Manager Mack shad a deal on to send Danny Mur- lphy, who had been captain of the Athletics for two years to Baltimore, sput Dapny jumped to the Brooklyn Feds.
 Bill Orr, substitute infielder. was Rent to the Sacramento club of the Pacific Coast League. and there is a Arepcrt that Bill will be back next spring for another trial.
 Byron Houck followed the ex ample set by Danny Murphy and went to the Brooklyn Federals, srather than to Jack Dunn's Interna- tIonal League team.
 Carroll Brown, the 'sspitbalI'' art ist was sent to the New Y ork High- flanders after the pride of the board walk had arranged satisfactory terms with Manager Chance.
 Pete Daley was shifted to New York, and Jimmy Walsh, who had been sent to the HighIanders last winter. returned to the White Ele- phantss fold.
 Then came the asking of waivers Eon Plank, Bender and Coombs, which was followed by the former pair going over to the FederaIs and ICoonbs being given his uncondi- tiona1 release. The last shift was that of Eddie Collins to the Chicago ! Americans.
 Fourteen players and Harry Davis are left of the 25 men who split the
 Athletics end of the 1913 World s Series divy.
 Of those who remain on the 191s team, two-Schang and -etfd l the regular work behind the bat last year; t11ree-McInnis, Barry and Baker-have been regulars in the in l field for several seasons. and three OIdring, Strunk and Eddie Murphy
 -were regulars in the outfield. With Larry Lajoie in Collins po- 3 sition at second. it doesn't look as l though a team which rode rough rshod over it's opponents last season l and piled up 39 victories out of 4t
 games, would be a human football ir 1915.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
ANNIVERSARY OF ; RING BATTLES

1904-4Ioney MeIl0dy defeated NIatty attheSys in g rounds at Boston. This was the last ring ap-l pearance of Matth evyss who held the welterweight ehampfonship from Oct. 16, 1900. when he defeated Rube Ferns at Detroit, until May 24. 1901. when Ferns knocked him out at Toronto. After his defeat by Mel 1ody. Ma,tty quit the ring and tried to realize his lifelong ambition. of becoming an actor, but the nearest he. came to 1t was 3. job as scene- shifter in a New York theatre. Mat ty was a. New Yo ork East Slider and one of the most eccentric characters of ring history, Tn his youth he gave promise of becoming a great base ball player, but the fighting bug bit him and he abandoned the diamond for the ring. For a. time he held the title as Champion dresser of New ork, and his clothes were of such class that he could be heard several blocks away.
 1820-Tom Oliver defeated Tom shelton in .39 rounds at Lon don, Eng
 1886-Jack McAuIiffe defeated Jack Hooper in 6 rounds at New York.
 189o-Australian Billy Murphy de- feated Ike Weir in 14 rounds at San Francisco.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
New Uniforms For Holy Name Players
 m Coming Contests


 President John Lyddy has isued aa can for special meeting Of the di- recfors Of the Holy Name basbet- bah league to take place in the club rooms of tha Et Josephss 2. & B. asocatzon on Barnum avenue tomOr- row evenng at 8 o'clock Business of importance will be transacted and the matter of changing the Friday game from St Charles. court to St Jehnss court will be brought up. The teams will appear on the floor on Friday nj ght in regulation uni forms, each team having q jersey of diff Gerento olor The league is fast ssaining ground the crowd at St. Cl11araes hall on Monday evening proving this assertion
 Ths game between the St Charles ana Sacred Heart lives will be a hairz-raiser The teams are lied for first place, having won two and lost none T4ne Hearts are a very fast agEregat1on of ball tossers and will dba the favor4tes The ssSainb4' are d game bunch and never quit until the game Is ended The former are great for bling in baskets while the 5 latter shine in keeping tho score down by great defensive p1ayug, tKereHcre. a great game, with a. low score may be looked for
 The St Mary,s and St Johns will play the opening contest and the Hearts and St Charles will play the finale Or the evening. Chrfsty and BrenEsan, two old time stars have joined the ranks of the St. Charles land have greatly strenethened the boys from the East Side.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
FORMER NATIONAL LEAGUE
 UMPIRE WANTS EASTERN JOB
New Haven Club Plans to Get Rid of All Players
 Except Six.

play Georgetown and Holy Cross next season in New York. An effort is be ing made to get the Polo grounds for the contests The Holy Cross game will be October 2s and Georgetown November 2.
 Big Bill Edwards, the old time Princeton star, recently said in speak ing Of the football situation at Prince ton that he believed in the one man coaching system, Football has be come regular business, he said,
 .and one man must stand at the head. ''
 Leach Cross denies he will retire from the ring if Joe Sanugrue beats vest makers hero would retire as long as he could stagger up to the box of fee and collect his percentage.
 The Brooklyn National owners have decided not to sell the Newark club. The bids have been too low Instead the Newark team has been strength and Steel there from Brooklyn Albour a year ago an offer of $100,O00 for the Newark franchise was refused but that was after the team had won the pennant
 Manager Roger Bresnahan of the Cubs is after Pitcher Mayer of the Philldas He is trying to make 2 deal l by which Mayer will be added to the Chicago roster. Mayer is a glutton for work, performing in 4S games last year.
 1 Ray Grant, a University of Pennsyl- i vanfa shortstop. has received an offer
 from the Boston Braves. I 1 The reason the Indianapolis club sold Out fielder Griffith to Gincinnah was
 because he threatened to jump to the l iFederals
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
Richmond Enters International League
 By Paying $1o,0oO

Richmond, Va. Jan. 1S-The terri- tory rights of the Virginia. League in Richmond will tonight be transferred to the International League and Jack Dunn will bring the Baltimore. fran #chise to this city. Yesterday Presi- dent Boatwright of the Virginia League. advised the committee of Rfchm ond business men that all clubs in the Virginia League excepting Pe- tersburg had agreed to the offer of $1o. 900 from Richmond business men and. $2,500 from Jack Dunn person. ally. Assurance was given that Pe- tersburg would accept the offer.
 Jack Dunn will be elected president and MT. Smith will serve as treasurer. This company will have charge of In- ternational League baseball affairs in this city, and will own everything ex- cept the park, which will be leased from the Broad Street Park Associa- ton.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
Says Jess Willard
 Will Never Make Good

Pittsburgh, Jan. 13.=.'Jessss Will lard will never be a champion of big men because he is too pzg himself, 2 Thus spoke Joe C:hoynski of Pitts burgh, prominent pug of other days, when asked to prophecy the outcome Of the Willard-J ohnson match in March
 Just why a p1entitude Of beef should handicap 8 man who is pro- portionateIy built. speedy and a hard puncher, Choynski did not attempt to explain. But he did point out that Jem Mace, John L. Sullivan and Bob Fitzsfmmons were all under the six-foot level, while Jeffries, Corbett, Johnson and Jackson were but slightly above it. "And that's quite different from being 8 six-foot. seven inch boy, as Willard is,'' remarked Joe.
 ssDo you know the easiest bout- or rather one that wasn't quite so bit ter; they were all hard ones-was my fight with Jeffries in 1897. For fact he didn't hit me more than three times All the newspaper boys agreed that | won handily. Yet the referee, one Billy McDoneIdss called it draw Mcdonald was a ball player. '
 Vessels, which hired for. $5,o0o a month in time of peace now bring as
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
RIBBONS IN
 GREAT GAME BEAT STAMFORD
By Waxner.l

Something ought to be done about Jimmy Clinton. The fleet forward of the Blue Ribbons spoiled g, pleasant evening for George Smith of the Stamford basketball five last night by throwing seven goals Tn the first period. Smith was so pained that he stopped the game and moved himself from center so that he could play against Clinton. And then Clinton went and threw a couple Of long ones right In front of Smiths face. The rest of the Ribbons followed after Clinton and the local boys took the first game Of the series by 57 to 22~
 Considering the high batting aver age of the storm, the crowd at Colo nial hall was good. There was lots of cheering and many rude persons pro claimed loudly from the bleachers that Smith was a hot sketch. The crowd took delight In riding Smith and every time he was spilled there was loud laughter. There was also much cheering when Herman Reich, the clothing king, walked gracefully across the polished floor between the halves and took header just as he got in front of thee rowded bleach CTS
 The game showed that on last nights form the Ribbons completely outc1ass Stamford. The visitors had no brilliant specialists like Beck man or Clinton The guarding of Roxey Roach and Swenson was so good that the Stamford boys seldom got free when near the basket Beck man and Clinton got the jump on their opponents in the first half and the former hurled a goal in the frs two seconds of play. Clinton was right behind him. The former New York state league star made goals from all sorts of angles and the crowd cheered him madly. The Stam- ford boys could do little scoring. ex- cept by foul throws and at the end of the half the score was Ribbons 28s Stamford 10.
 In the second half Eddie Leonard found himself. The minstrel boy shook the curtains for six goals, sew eraI of the shots being difficult. Reicf was brought in to give Clinton a rest and the youngster rang up two goals Roxey Roach won applause by get ting several long losses. He also starred by making seven foul throws
 Although Swenson did no scoring his floor work was remarkably good Smith was the most dangerous mar for Stamford He did little wheI against Leonard in the first half bu was more effective when he changed positions. Kelly was also good fol the visitors The score:-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13

in Australia, and the sports of the California A. c. sent him an InSIta- ton to come to America Thia listened good to Billy, and he work ed his way over on a steamship which reached San Francisco in June 1883 The sailors filled Billy so full of wild yarns about the Pa cific pirates that he toted a gun all the way over. and slept with the weapon by his side Shortly after his arrival Billy knocked out Johnny Griffin, of Braintree, Mass, and few months later became featherEetgilt champion by whipping Weir He did not long retain his honorss and late in 1890 he returned to Aus tralia and was defeated by Young Griffo. Billy. continued fighting uH- til 1906, when he retired
 Ike Weir was a bright lad and irnmensely fond of practical jokes. He would often stop in the middle Qf a street and dance Irish uss and reels until the reserves had to bd called out to scatter the mob of spec. tators After he quit the ring 1ks became a horse trainer for the Wa-h derbiits., For all his eecentricities he was a thorough gentleman, and his death a few years ago was sin. cerely mourned by the sporttnd world.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
FIVE GETS BEATING IN GAME
 WITH YALE TEAM

outpointed Pennsylvanias 37 tc 27. last night in opening the local Interco11e- giate League basketball season by reg istering the largest total score ever recorded here. The attack of both fives constantly fitted past the defense Kennedy for Yale and McNichol for the Qualxers leading in scoring as we'll as in aI1-round play.
 Although Smith and Evans were re- tired for exceeding the four-foul linn 1t, all the penalties were technical. Yale led throughout the game, finish ing the first half with 9 22-to-13 mar gin. Penn spurted early in the sec ond half. but was weak toward the close of play by the retirement of Evans.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13

lE7lor1z has begun on four sralbnna- 4sis1ea of 10 contrastsd for at the Tore kEzhzer Ship ards DeIveEy win not be made to the aopean Fa1a,ohaser- l1zltA after the war.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13

The Oxford Cambridge boat race, in stituted in 1S1g, will not be held this year for the first time since the Crf- mean War in 1855 as most of the oars men are st the front.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13

1.5oo New ran WooHens SEE LYFORD BROTHERS BuY ID East Side and West End
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13

A total Of III vessels Of sos. sl gross tons have been granted A1nerl can registry under the rernergeney shil registry aok-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13

More than twelve inches of snow fell at Elmira. N.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13

Vessels, which hired for s5.ooo a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13

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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-06-29
RAILROAD WATER !
TANK TAKES FALL
HAMPTON HAS A COMBINATION
EARTHQUAKE AND FLOOD
WITH DAMAGES RESULTING.

Hampton, June 2S.-"Am l dream
ing or do my eyes deceive me?' were
the thoughts of loiterer near tne
Minneapolis & ST. Louis station, when
he actually saw the big railroad TANK
from which water Is drawn for the
locomotives begin to tip over TOWARD
him, the supports give away and the
whole came crashing down. In the
falling a box was was also wrecked.
So far as known no one was hurt, out
had it happened at other hours when
many are in the vicinity, some injuries
would have resulted.
Wreckage was strewn all about the
station and to distance of half a
block to the east. A baggage truck
standing on the platform was forced
against the freight room door and thu
doors broken down, the truck over
turned and one wheel wrecked. Dirty
water was thrown clear across the
waiting room, flooding it, and the
grass plat was also flooded. The IN
take Of the railroad pumping station
is near the waste of the gas works
The greasy water is drawn in and this
was distributed literally over every
thing in the vicinity.
The big tank was about twenty feet
in length and perhaps eighteen feet
across. and contained several thou
sand gallons Of water
The company will be obliged now
to draw from the city water mains.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-06-29
BUSINESS MEN TO
HELP CELEBRATE
AND RETAIL ASSO-
CATIONS TO COOPERATE IN
LABOR DAY OBSERVANCE.

Committees from the Commercial
and Retail Merchants associations Will
attend the next meeting OF the LABOR
Day committee of the Trades ana
Labor assembly which will be held IN
Labor hall Wednesday June 80. me
two business mems organizations are
behind the laboring mems various 10
Gals in making the coming LABOR Day
celebration the biggest ever helc IN
this part of the state. Moral and imam
cial assistance will be given by the
business men who have been invited by
the workers to become part of the big
celebration and have accepted. IL IS eS-
pected that a number of the local con-
Germs will have floats in the big parade
and the arrangements for the program
that is to be given Labor Day Will be
made jointly by the labor and the ousl-
ness mems organizations.
This years celebration promises TO
eclipse all others ever held by the
working mems organizations Tor there
are four cities interested and cooper
ating in the observance Of Labor Day.
Ottumwa is joined by Oskalosa. Abba
and Centerville in this movemet which
each year has a big celebration IN one
of the four cities participating. 1t IS 100
early for the committees to have more
than accomplished little OF the pre-
liminary work and the program ar
rangements will probably not be made
for some time to come. Things that
have to be done in advance are being
given attention by the committees, The
business men are assisting in the
financing Of the celebration and will
soon begin to make the collections from
their members to help make the event
one long to be remembered.