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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
AWKEY OF
 YANKEES HIT
 HARD IBY S0X

New york, July 31.-Bob Shawkey Che former member oftConnie Macks troupe of denoraIizedl Athl cites, es- saved to pitch the Tanks to victory over Clarence Rowland4 and his White Sox at the Polo grounds yesterday, but shawkey's effort was a feeble one, and the hard hitting visitors arnbbed off with the opening clash of the series by 6 runs to 4. Shawkey faced the visitors for. seven innings, and during this time the White Sox nicked him for the six runs. and eight hits, inc1ud- ing a trio of three baggers and a home run c1out by Buck Weaver in the seventh with two on.
 Weaver's cIout steeled Shawkey, for Tn the next inning Cyrus Pieh made himself visible on Harry Fabians s pitching mound. Cy held the White sox safe in the last two rounds, but his stea1n mates failed to merge enough batting strength together to overcome the early lead, although they did manage to drive Eddie Ci- cotte. the knuckle ball wonder, from the game. This brought Death Val ley Jim Scott to the Sox's rescue, and. Scott who is the best performer on the visitors team, held the Tanks in check in the last inning
 Maisel reported sick just before the game and oWaszEeplaced at third by HartzeH= 7e Ts9 4rFt rfea-u tns snTtz4
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
Lee Axworthy Takes
 $1O,OOO Stake And
 Also Breaks Record

Detroit, July S1-Lee Axworthy not only won the Merchants and Manufac- turers Stake in straight heats yester- day afternoon, but he trotted the fast est miles in the history of the classic. reducing the record to .2:04% in the second heat and equalling it in the third. In both of these he just beat Peter Scott.
 Lee Axworthy drew the pole in the first heat. He led to the half in 1:05: Peter Scott gained until the distance. Lee Axworthy rallied and held his position, winning by a neck in 2:06A
 King CIansman. trotted to the front in the next heat on the backstretch, with Bennington second. and Peter Scott third. Andrews did not call on Lee Axworthy until approaching the seven fur1ong posta Quickly, respond ing he, cut the distance with every stride, was Iapped on Pe4er Scott at the distance, even ten yards from the end, and-won by a head.
 Peter Mccormick led at the half in the last heat in 1908 4, two lengths to the good. Lee Axworthy had too much left, however, and won handily by half a length.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
sTANDING OF THE CLIIRs.
ANNIVERSARIES
 OF RING BATTLES

1909-Jimmy Britt was knocked out by Johnny Summers in 9th round at London. This contest marked the finish of the ring career of the fam ous little Californian. long the claim ant of the lightweight title. Jimmy abandoned the trade of a plumber in 1902 to enter the spugi1istic arena, and that year defeated two former light weight champions, Kid Lavigne and Frank Erne. Joe Cans had previous ly whipped Erne, bu Jimmy claimed the title on the ground that the negro would not make the weight. In 1904 the Native Son lost on a foul to Cans but whipped Battling Nelson. The following year he fought Nelson again and was knocked out. In a third bat tie with the Dane, in 1907, Jimmy won the decision, but a few months later he was knocked out by Cans. In 1908, after being knocked out by Packey Mcfarland, Jimmy went to England and fought three contests with Sum mers, winning the first, losing the second, and being knocked out in the third. Since then Britt has made quite a hit as a vaudeville artist
 1882-Buddy Ryan, bantam, feath- CT. light and we1terweigEt boxer, born at Chicago
 19oo-Tommy Sullivan defeated George Dixon in rounds at Coney Island
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
Griffith States His
 Pitching Staff Most
 Valuable in Big Show
CBuffalo Enquirer.l


 Clark Grif1th. the astutes Washing ton manager, says he has a pitching staff worth $50. o0e,s which cost less than any staff in any of the big leagues, tin fact, the total cost of the Senators twirEng aggregation was se- cured at an expenditure of about s, 1000
 Walter Johnson is. rated at $6o, GOO by Griffith Ayres is worth $10.000, Shaw s2o 900, Boehling $15, ,o00, Harper $10.O0o, Engel $S, eco. But Griffith would not sell any one of them for the. figures named.
 What did this staff cost the willy Washington manager? Johnson was acquired for his railroad fare, Shaw was a gift, having been signed while a member of the Pittsburgh CoIe-' ians, %BoehIing was with the Rich- naoIlde Battle Axe team from which or ganization Griffith procured him for little or. nothing.
 Enge1 was student at Mount St Mary's, Harper was picked up off the sand lots of Hackensack, N.=J- Thar mahleu, Clarke, Russell and Stevens are all promising youngsters who were acquired with but little expenditure.
 Galia and Ayers cost real money For GaIia, Griffith traded Vaughn and was bought from Richmond for $1 200. cash about 5000. The man who can make, an investment of that amount and in a couple of years have some thing that is worth fifty times as n;lch is not such bad business man after all
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
WILLIAMS AND WASHBURN WIN
 SEVERE MATCH

Boston, July 31-The much-vaunt- ed team composed of Richard Norris Williams, 2d, of Philadelphia, nation al champion, and Watson M Wash burn of New York, metropolitan title holder, had a, narrow escape from de- feat in the final round of the Eastern doubles at the Longwood Cricket club here yesterday at the hands of Harold H. Hackett and Theo- dore Roosevelt Pel1 of New York. The
 match went to five hard sets before decision was reached, with the scores at 2-6 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3. The winners have as their opposition in the final round today Irving c. Wright of this city and Wallace F. Johnson of Philadelphia.
 The match between the teams of Williams s-W ashburn and Hackett-PeH was the feature of the day, and it was also a big surprise. Hackett played wonderful tennis in the first two sets, and with Pell going at his best they were practically unbeatable. The scores show this. for they reeled off game after game. until it seemed a cinch that they would win. Jnfor t1nately both went bad together in the early part of the third set, and while they showed occasional flashes of good tennis thereafter Hackett nor Pell could keep the pace up long enough to win.
 The serni-fna1 match was the sec. ond time in the course of the day that the. Williams-Washburn combination came close to elimination. In the fourth round Nathaniel w. Niles and George Peabody Gardner of this city made them go the limit to win. A
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
Eddie McGoorty's Birthday

Eddie McGoorty, who recently left on his annual trip to Australia, will be twenty-six years old. today. The Oshkosh contender for the world s widd1eweight crown is favorite1 in the Antipodes, where he is recognized as champion. Before leaving for Sydney Eddie took. the public into his confidence and in a few we'll chosen words expressed the opinion that box ing is about due for a knockout blow unless something be done to remedy the terrible cornmercialism with which it is afflicted.
 t'The game is losing it's hold" said McGoorty. "I can sense it, and I think I know why. Fight fans are no longer fooled by the windy con versation about knocking an oppo- nent's block off. They know it is a strictly financial proposition with us fellows of the ring. The passing of the twenty-round game in California was a great blow to the sport. In the ten-round no-decision bouts it is sim ply a case of stepping through the ten rounds and then getting another match in another town. The spirit of the contest is absent"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
YANKEES SECURE
 CRACK BACKSTOP

New York, July S1.-Realizing that strengthening more than anything else, the Yankees yesterday closed a deal with the Kansas City club of the American Association for Catcher Walter Alexander for immediate de- livery. Alexander will report to Man ager Donovan on Monday
 Alexander is no newcomer to Amer ican league fans. He caught for the St Louis Browns in 1912 and 1918. With the Missouri team he showed fine catching ability, but was a ter rible weak1ing at bat, hitting only .175 in 37 games in 1912 and drop ping to TAI for 42 games in 1e13- However. Alexander is said to have improved wonderfully and .s regarded at present as the leading catcher of the association. Scout Joe Kelley watched his work for quite stretch before recommending his purchase. The Buffalo Feds recently made Alex ander quite a fat offer to jump, but he declined.
 The. Tanks also cut the strings to a pair of young first basemen yesterday, sending Bob Kelly and Harry King man to the Guelph, Ontario, team of the Canadian league. Kelly is the Bronx boy who was with Lowell last season and who recently was returned to the Tanks by Scranton.
 Kingman came to the Tanks last season from the Washington team. He is a. Springfield Training school boy and Chance took a liking to him last season after watching him work out with the Senators and took him out of Griffith's hands.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
YALE FANS HOPE \ STORY OF YATES
 FLUNKlNG UNTRUE
New work Evenine Post !


 Yale men who have been saying that the prospective line for next years eleven looked too good to be true, will doubtless feel tha their fears were not unwarranted when they hear the dole ful news from New Haven that Arthur Yates is 500 deeply involved in schoI- astic difficulties with the college of fees that he has withdrawn from col lege.
 The only ray of hope for Eli parti- sans is that the report may be un- true, it being recalled that other great athletes of the blue have in the past withdrawn from YaIe-on paper, only to appear behind the sign of the big white 'fY'' the following season Yates played on the freshman eleven last year, and we have testimony of those who faced him that he had greater possibilities in the way of varsity line play than any Yale man since Glass Goebel, Gordon, Brown, Ralph Bloom CT and Jim Hogan.
 He sized up in the class of these ex- traordinary players and was expected single handed to play havoc with the Harvard and Princeton forwards this fall Weighing 236 pounds, built in proportion, fast, powerful, he ap- high grade tackle should have
 He was great freshman player on a freshman eleven of unusual stand ard. Yale will have plenty of 1916 ma terial, but Yates, if he fails to appear will be missed. The only f1shy thing about the New Haven report is that Yates was a Hill school graduate. and a Hill school boy, as a rule, is d trained product who takes his lessons seriously and rarely, falls into scholas- tic troubles.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
Suspend Sentence For
 Touchard, Tennis Star Convicted of Stealing

New York. July 31-Gustave F'Itz- hugh Touchard,- Jr.. former indoor tennis champion, having pleaded guilty to larceny, was given suspended sen tence yesterday by Judge Rosalsky in general sessions. He is to report to the court once a month for five years.
 Aaz Touchard admitted taking 48 dozen golf balls, worth $40, from Aber- crombie & Fitch, sporting goods deal CTS, by whom he was employed.
 Judge RosaIsky received many let ters in behalf of Touchard. Among them was one from A. G. SpaIding 6 Brothers, his former employers; one from Robert D. Wrenn, president of the United States Lawn Tennis Asso- citation, and another from Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
Lively Assignment For Youthful Reporter To
 Criticise Pat Tebeau

BasebaI1,' says a veteran writer. s1sn't as strenuous. in many ways, as 1t was years ago. I'll never forget one assignment drew in those lively days that alone would suffice to show how times have changed
 One afternoon Pat Tebeau was specially warlike-attacked tl7e urn- pire after about every second decision and spiced the argument with highly Earfegated pIraseo1ogy. My naanag- .1ng editor was in the audience, and was much frustrated by Tebeau,s style Of talk That night my chief sent for me.
 z Young man., said he, you heard the language that Tebeau person used this afternoon?a
 Yes. sir responded.
 We'll thundered the managing editor, that sort Of thing must stop. Now, then. I want you to go up to TebeaUs hotel. and tell him., firmly. emphatical1y, that he can't use that sort of talk in this city. and that you have my orders, if he refuses to cut it. 4esroast him in the columns of this paperi I'll show this Tebeau that he can't bIuff ME?
 Now, wasn't that lovely little assignment to send a young reporter Ez1 2,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
GEORGE CAMERON, F0RMER NEW HAVEN
 CLUB OWNER, DIES

 New Haven, July s1-Geofge M. Cameron, Jr-, owner of the New Ha- ven baseball grounds and, since 1888. kowner Of the New Haven nine, died vestsrday afternoon about o'clock at his home at Savin Rock He had been i'll with intestinal inha1nrna11on for four years and had undergone three operations, two in Chicago by Dr. James Murphy, and one at the INew Haven hospital MT Cameron Ispent last winter in Chicago at Dr. Murphyss hospital but no operation was performed. Although MT. Cam erons death at this time was com { paratfve1y unexpected, his recovery has ,besn known to be impossible for sev- eraI months
 With George Bone he bought the New Haven nine in 1898 and acquired Bones interest five years ago. This year he, with owners Czarkin of the Hartford and Carey of the Spring6e1d team, quit the Eastern association and leased their grounds to the Colonial league the only Federal league farm.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
Wheeler & Wilson Band Will Play At
 Seaside Tomorrow

The following program will be played by the Wheeler 6 Wilson band August l, at Seaside park, starting at 8: 30 o'clock
 March, Aida G. Verdi.
 Waltz de Concert, Tales from Vienna woods J. Strauss.
 Overture, .SwiIliam Tell" G. Ros- a, Baritone Solo. stCavatina. Ma bucco," G. Verdi; J. Hepp- b Ccrnet and Baritone Obligato, 'A Perfect Dav." Arr, L. F. Chermack.
 Selection, s'The Spring Maid IF, Reinhardt.
 FaIIentanz in B fiat. G. Neyerbeer. Descriptive American and Indian Fantasia, Lee Johnson Death of General Custer, or3sthe Battle Of the Little Big Horn.
 Star Spangled Banner.
 Louis F. Chernack, Conductor
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
DAUBERT AND
 COBB LEADING
 CLOUTERS NOW

Chicago July 31-Two- members oI the New York Nationals have attained rank among the first five batters o1 the National league, according to aV- erages here today, and have helped to bring the Giants into a tie for batting leadership again with St. Louis. The i've leaders, including those who have played in half or more of the games up to Wednesday, are:
 Daubert; Brooklyn, -327; A1erkle, New York, 1925; Doyle, New York, .322; Shy der, St. Louis, 1923; Groh, Cincinnati, .315. Cravath, Philadelphia leads the scored with 55. He also holds the home run record with IS circuit drives. Ca rey, Pittsburgh. is the leading base stealer, with 25, while Safer, Chicago, leads in total bases with 164. New York and St. Louis are tied for club batting with .255 each and Chicago Es next with .253.
 The five leading batters in the Amer Fican league who have played in half or more games for the season are: Cobb, Detroit, -4o5; E. Collins, Chicago, -342; Jackson, Cleveland. .332; veach. Detroit, .326; Speaker, Boston, 1922.
 Cobb is far ahead in base stealing, having pilfered 62 Ruth, Boston: trott: Caldwell. New York; Peckin- .paugh, New York. and Boone, New York, are all tied for home run honors with four apiece, Speaker. of Boston. leads in total bases with +1z6. Cobb holds the record for runs scored with 95. Detroit, with 270, leads in club bat ting and Boston with 252 is next.
 International leagues leading bat ar is -Gilhooley, Buffalo with $50.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
Bridgeporters To Attend Funeral Of
 John F. Donahoe

Many Bridgeport persons will go to Woonsocket, R. l., Monday to attend the funeral of John F. Donahoe, who in that city. MT. Donahoe is well known in this city where he has rela- tives. He was a prominent member of the Elks.
 MT. Donahoe was 55 years old Sur viving him are four daughters, Cath wife, who died about eight years ago. was Miss Belle Masterson, daughter of MT. and Mrs Hugh Masterson of La fayette street, this city MT Donahoe was brother-in-1aw of Captain F. H Masterson of 1,oo1 North avenue, and a cousin of John H. Shannon, deputy collector of the port.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
HUGGlNS CLAIMS
 hERZ0G GREATEST AMONG SHORTSTOPS

Fans who have picked Bush of De troit, Weaver of Chicago. Fletcher of the Giants or MaranviI1e of the Braves as the greatest of shortstops, will be surprised to learn that Man ager Higgins of the Cardinals con- siders Charley Herzcg the greatest shortstop in baseball today
 His think tank and his aggressive ness, as well as the fact that he is better balanced ball player than any of the four men mentioned, make Herzog to me the grandest shortstop in baseball. 7 says Huggins-
 tHerzog will block 8 man off the bag in a pinch, if necessary; he will bI1nt with infie1d playing on it's heels or he'll deliver d long hit when necessary he'll steal a base when it may mean the ball game, and he plays against all kinds of teams and Hits against all kinds of pitching the same T think Herzog is beyond doubt entitled to a11-American honors as a shor ortztop, though peculiarly few, if any, critics have given him this honor-ss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
Down the Line With Wagner

The Boston Red Sox are not having such a cinch to hold first place they expected when they returned to the home park They succeeded on ly in getting an. even break with the White Sox and yesterday Detroit took a close contest from the Bostonians, bringing the Red Sox lead in the American league race down to a scant three points The Detroit Iii gers have been. hitting a merry pace since they came east and are in third place only 1 3 points behind the lead CTS o-day.
 It remained for the Cincinnati, Reds to stop the mad career of the Braves who have been tearing the National league open The worlds cham pions lost, a little ground but still retain third position. Brooklyn gain ed on the Phillies by beating the Pi- rates while the Phillies were forced by rainy weather to stay idle.
 The BrookIawn club keeps a prom inent place on the sporting pages. With Watson, Washburn doing spec tacu1ar work at the rLongwood tennis tournament and Parker Seeley beat ing the renowned Travis in the Ekwa- nok golf tournament the local club members have an excuse for a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear
 The New York Americans are badly crippled just at present. Shortstop Peckin paugh has a wrenched back and may not be able to play for a. month. Third Basenan Maisel was laid low by an attack of fever yesterday. Out side 6fL the fact that. the pitchers gre going poorly; the Yankees are, in good shape.
 Baseball interest in still pretty strong in Chicago when the Cubs and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
shriners Present
 George S. Hill
 With Several Gifts

George s. Hill, member of Pyramid Temple Mystic Shriners, who had charge of arrangements for the party that recently made a trip to the Pa cic coast was the recipient Of a testf- monial dinner and presentations from both the male and feminine members of the party at Lehraann's shore house last night. He =was presented with a. handsome maIacca riding crop, gold chain and gold han dIed knife.
 During the evening an orchestra rendered music and a number Of the party made speeches and related anec- dotes of the trip that were highly amusing.
 Those present at last nights meet ing were George s. Hill, w R. Bur tis./ Freehold. N. J.; Franklin I. Pick, Andrew Dutton, conductor of the Pyramid Special; A. B. Chanansky N. D. Hosley, Judge William H. Will ton, D. N. Clark, O. S. Platts EdgaE H. Thomas, M M. Downer, Warren L. Hall, John H. Wade, Thaddeus B. Beecher, Elmer A. Hooper, N. c. Greening, William J. Perry, J. F. Richardson, George M. Hadler, ?. P. Brown.
 Mayor Clifford B. Wilson, Fred At water Henry c. Stevenson Frederick A Bartlett Thomas w J oyce, R. IE- win Smith, Fred J. Benton Harry B. Husted,( Julius KohIrnaier, Joseph F. F7risbie, Henry F. PaErott, J. Alex IT. Robinson, A Elliott Frost, Henry s. Burr, Anson@ F. Keeler, J. A Aylor, George S. Raymopd. Steward F. El- Iiott, George F. F'ooses J. G. Kings bury, F. A. Strong Ferris, Frank s. SIosson, Otto@L Leh4Iann. A. M En- geIhard Philip L. zHoIzeT, Angus IF. Mackenzie, Frederick Schussler, Phil ip Wefdenhammer, BenJau1in- Setzer, RyalT Burtis. Franklin Peek, George e. Beers, William E.. Parker, ". G. Stoneman, Anker s. Lyhne, Clarence D. Billings, S. g. Diamond. A. H. Buell. Arthur L. Clark and Louis Kutscher.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
s. E. Beardsley Has
 Police Protection
 While He's Grating

Surrounded by guard of "a dozen policemen, Samuel g. Beardsley Of Shelton, state secretary of the Social ist party. spoke to a crowd of 8, OO0 employees of the Winchester Repeat ing Arms Go. MT. BeardsIev. throughout his activity in the Social ist party. is widely known here He had spoken at the Winchester factory before and it was announced that if he attempted to speak again there would be trouble. No disorder oc- cured. however. MT. Beardstev se- verely arraigned the system of em- pIoyrnent maintained by sub-co1tracts at the Winchester factory.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
SHELBY IN FINAL ROUND AT EKWANO K

W. Parker seelexiof Brook1awn. got into the finals at the Ekwanok club, Manchester, Vt, yesterday by beating the veteran Travis in the morning and disposing of T. M. C1af1in of Brook line, Mass, by one up in the semi finals. See1ey had to keep his nerve in this match for he was down most of the time. but. from the 18th hole he played a par game.
 Today in the finals Seeley met Max Marston of Ba1tusroT, who beat H. K Kerr of Greenwich in the seni-fnals. Kerr was runner up at the recent state. tournament at Brooklawn.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31

Giants can draw 5000 to a double header after the recent disastrous road trip of Bresnahan's men.
 Hugh McKinnon of this city, who recently lost his job as business man. ager of the Hartford Colonial leaguers says the Wards own four clubs in the Federal league. They will find a string of ball clubs more expensive than a. string of bakeries.
 Palmero, the young Cuban south paw, is pitching remarkable ball for the Rochester club. He has won many games this season and yesterday blanked the heavy hitting Providence club. The Giants sent Palm gro to Rochester and will recall him at the end of the International league soon.
 Mordecai Brown. the old Chicago pitcher who has been very i'll in the Windy City, will be able to leave the hospital in a few days.
 Connie Mack continues his policy of going to the tall sticks for. his mater iai.- He has signed Howard Young, a, catcher who has maox,v a. good ,repu- tation with the Ma1tops1 of Rochester, N. Y.
 
 The n1odiaed. marathon at the Pan- anna exposition was won yesterday by Ted Johnson. It was the opening day of the Western track and field cham pfonship@ events.
 The University of. Chicago baseball team will start next week for tour of Japan. China, the Phi1lipires and Hawaii. They will play the leading teams in these places and give the ex- lied American residents a chance to cheer somebody from home.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
STANDING OF THE CLUES.
GAMES TO-DAY.

Brooklyn in Pittsburgh. Newark in Chicago. Baltimore in Kansas City. Buffalo in St. Louis.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
REM-Yosrs vs. SPRINGFIELD,

4 good game tomorrow afternoon will be played at Yost field, when one of New York's best semi pro teams. the Springfield club, will make their appearances Manager Heenan has skEepgthe ned his club eonstdera bIy, the addition of Burns alone will be a big lift for the team. The game will start at s.30 D. m. and Tom Nc -ann will umpire
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
STANDING OF rHE CLUBs.
GAMES TO-DAY.

Jersey City in Montreal.
 Harrisburg in Toronto x Providence in Rochester (two). Richmond in Buffalo (two).