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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
COL UMBlA WON'T
PLAY WEST POINT
OR BRO WIN In 1916

New York. Dec Gust what games
Co1umbia.'s football schedule will COM
prise next fall Is known only to the
university committee On athletics, and
for the time being tho members won't
tell although unofficial statements
negadVed the proposals that Columbia
would clash next fail with either West
Point or Brown or both
is understood that the comm ttee
is placing great reliance on the opin-
ian OF Nelson MetcaH, head coach {
the eleven. and ii seems to be a fore
gone conc1naion that much of the
schedule VIII be Of his choosing Net
calf realizes better han any one else
ON Mnrntngzide Heights the strength
and fa1Hngs of the material that he
WIN have to work with next fan, and
ne favus having light schedule for
anottHr season or two
Joe Brown, centre ON this year.
team, it has been pointed out, never
had a football IN h hands until Sep
tember % while Miller, the star quar-
terback, was a mere tyro when hs
first donned mo1ezktns on the heights.
This is the situation right through the
Squad
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
RIDERS BEGIN
ON LONG SIX
DAY JOURNEY

New York. Dec. "a big and ex-
trernely orderly crowd saw II teams
of the best bicycle riders in the world
start on their long journey this morn
ing in the annual six-day race at Mad
ison Square Garden.
In an effort to bring the event back
to what 1t was planned to be-a clean
publ1c-the management last night
engaged 40 private detectives to keep
out and eject not only all the motor
ious gunner, but all rough looking
and intoxicated persons as we'll.
A few minutes after II O'Clock the
men were selected to start for their
teams in the race.
They were Fred Hill of the Ameri-
can Australian team, Reggie Mona
mara of the Swiss-French team, Percy
Lawrence of the Interstate team,
Worthington NTitten of the Danish
Iowa team, Noman Anderson Of the
Irish-Danish team, Gus Wohirab OF
the Metropolitan team, Bobby Wal
/ thour of the Vets team, Charles Pier
cey of the Australian team, Peter Dro-
bach of the Boston-Australian team,
Eddie Madden of the Newark team,
Vincenzo Madonna of the Swiss
italian team. Joe Fogler of the Brook
1yn-Long Island team, Rudolph Ruddj-
Russo of the War team. Alfred
Halstead of the California team and
! Victor Linart Of the French team
Half an hour before starting time
the riders began to appear on the
track for Hrnbering exercises. Victor
Linart of Belgium and his partner,
Georges Sores of France, were the
first to eappear. They received ap-
p1ause, as did Percy Lawrence. who
was the next man to come on the
track. Then the others followed and
every one of them had many admirers.
At midnight the riders were called
off the track and given final instruc-
tons, emphasis being laid on the ne
cessity of clean pick-ups. r. r. KEEL
sey, the referee, impressed on each
that @bad picks and foul riding
would not be tolerated, and that
severe penalties would be meted out
to any one who violated the rules.
A few minutes later Sherim-e1ect
Alfred Smith fired the gun that
started the riders on their long trip.
After kone round of the track the
II meh began to tear along at a pace
that promised new records.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
Harvard Has Several
Backfeld Stars For
Next Football Season

sGrantland Rice in the New York
Tribune doesn't offer much hope for
Yale. He says: =.
Harvard lost her football team, .
says an exchange, when the Crimson
lost Mahan.'
Princeton should be foolish enough to
follow. Harvard returns most of her
line. And for her backf1eld to sup
plant those who leave Harvard has
Casey, a back star from Exeter
Flower, reported to be even better
than Casey; Enwright, who has
learned a few things and who will be
as valuable as Mahan. In place OF
losing, Harvard has better backheld
material for 1916 than she had this
last year, even with Mahan out of
harness.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
POWERS Will
TAKE NEWARK
FED FRANCHISE

New York, Dec. ct was reported
in baseball circles yesterday that ar
rangements were now under way
whereby the franchise of the Newark
Federal League Club would be trans
ferred from Harry Sinclair to Pat
Powers and syndicate of Newark
business men.
Powers is already a part owner OF
the Newark Club, and the buying out
Of the Sinclair interests is taken to be
part of the plan whereby the West
ship of the New York Federal League
Club. In dispatches from Chicago
SincIaid said that he was the hacker
of the club on Manhattan Island, but
the Federal League, through James A.
Gilmore, says that it is not ready to
announce the ownership, but that at
the present time Sinclair is not the
owner.
About a month ago Gilmore said
that he would not approve OF one man
owning two clubs, and the postpone
ment in the announcement of the
hacker of the New York Federa1s is
by many considered to be due to the
fact that as yet Sinclair has not dis
posed of his Newark franchise.
The plan to have a syndicate own
ership in Newark and relieve Sinclair
of the only obstacle in the path of his
assuming ownership of the New York
Club is held to be a happy solution of
the difficulty.
Sinclair is now in Chicago, and does
not return to this city until tomorrow.
Pat Powers could not be reached last
night, so that there might be a con
1rmation of the rurnor of a probable
change in the Newark ownership.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
ROBERT Lorraine

Captain Robert Lorraine. OF the
British Royal Flying Corps, who was
recently decorated for bravery, has
had a distinguished career as an actor,
on both the English and American
tage. Since the outbreak of the war
the eminent Thespian has been g.
military aviator. He received the
Military Cross for his victory over q
German aIbatross bip1ane, which he
attacked. The battle in the air be-
gan at a height of 5000 feet, and,
although the German pilot attempted
to escape, Capt. Lorraine finally forced
him to descend to earth. The Prus-
sian officer observer and the Saxon
pilot of the captured machine are said
to have INDUCED in a dstic combat
immediately upon reaching terra
firma, each blaming the other for
their capture Lorraine has had prev
fous military experience, as he went
to South Africa as a volunteer I'D the
Boer war and saw much active ser
vice. Ills father, Henry Loraine, was.
a famous tragedian, and Lorraine was
educated for the stage, making his de-
but in the provinces" in 1889 II
was nearly twenty years ago that ne
made his London debut as Tony IN
ssThe Prisoner of Zenda" at the St.
James Theatre. He afterWard played
Important engagements at the Drury
Lane and other London theatres. In
1901 he was honorabiy discharged
from the military service in South
Africa and made his first visit to
America, playing in ITO Have and to
FIold'' at the Knickerbocker Theatre
in New York. In 1908 he again came
to New York and played with Grace
George in pretty Peggy He spent
several years on this side OF the At
lantic and gained a large following.
He played in MAN and Superman"
for two seasons In America with great
success.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
b. H. S. BOYS LOSE
BUT GIRLS FIVE WIN

The B. H. S. bastetbaH team lost
to the Rovers at Colonial hall Satur-
day afternoon by 80 to 80. At the end
of the second period tro score was 20
to 20 so it was agreed to play five min
utes overtime and the covers shot
two from the foul line. Bump starred
for B. H. s. and Thompson for the
Rovers.
The B. H S. girls won from the
Long Hill five by Is to Z. 1t was a
spirited game. The first half ended 4
to but the local girls went ahead in
the second period.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
East and West School
Boy Teams Break Even

Three International scholastic foot
ball games were played Saturday, and
on the face OF returns, East and West
secured an even break. On results
Ehere was nothing to choose; on total
scores the lads from the other side of
the AIIeghanies may claim a slight
superiority.
Hamilton Institute beat the highly
rated East Aurora High school 10 to
H. at Beverly. Mass. the Beverly
High school was vanqufshed by the
DE Paul Academy, of Chicago, by 80
TO Z, and at Detroit the elevens of the
Detroit Central and Everett, Mass,
high schools played a scoreless tie.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
LATEST TIDINGs FROM SHORTHAND DATED
HARRY PIERCE ARRIVES HERE
TO PREPARE For BIC FIGHT

ter, though, and may slip one over on
Pierce at any time.
The ten round bout between Young
McAuliffe of this city and Kid Ghetto
of New York is also causing the fans
to chatter McAuliffe is already go
ing through training stunts as he real
ICES Ghetto is a tough bird. Ghetto is
working out in New York.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06

Harry Pierce, who will meet Gilbert
GAllant in a 15-round bout at Nthe En-
biem A. c. boxing show here Deem
Der 49, arrived here yesterday to look
around for training camp. He may
locate in Stratford or at the Acorn A.
G. 'Fhe Brooklyn slugger says he
won't need much work to prepare him
for the battle. Gallant is a hard hit
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
TAFT SPEAKS HERE

dent Taft, William p. Campbell and
John Vorys, all of Yale University,
spoke at the Y NJ. c. A. A meeting
of the Right Living club, conducted
by Physical Director John D. Brock
was held after the regular afternoon
Session
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
GENE M'CANN TALKS ABOUT
BASEBALL IN THIS SECTION
$500 Paid Admissions a Big Football Game Here
Other Sport Comment.

One mistake made at Newfie1d park
yesterday was in starting the game SO
late. The pastirne should have been
under way at 2 o'clock at this time
of year. Even if the crowd had kept
off the field it is probable that dark
ness would have settled upon the
scene before the last period was mn
3shed. Incidentally it was the hrst
time in recent years that crowd at
football game in this city encroached
upon the field.
Bob FolweII, the Washington and
Jefferson coach, has Withdrawn his
offer to coach the Pennsylvania foot
ball squad. He does not feel he would
get the proper support from those IN
charge of athletics. When he was cap
tain in 1907 Folweu had trouble with
DR.. Williams and other coaches. Both
Folwen and Bill Hoenback, two +
the greatest coaches of the present
day, have been ignored by those in
charge at Penn. No wonder the
Quakers failures in football.
The Yale hockey management has
engaged J. Hornfeck to coach the
squad. He had charge of HOBBY
Bakers team which won a champion
ship for Princeton.
Cornell laughs politely behind it's
hand at the request of Yale to let
Coach Al Sharpe go to New Haven as
football instructor. That's like ask
ing a man to smile when somebody
frisks him for his bankroH
A1meida, the former New Britain
infie1der, went AZ games without an
error for Montreal of the international
league last season. The Cuban hit the
ball hard, too.
Everybody is praising Owner Jim
Gaffney of the Boston Braves for his
plan to make rowdy players pay their
own fines. Every but the players.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
)By Wagner.)

Gene Mccain, the former Bridge
port manager who has been visiting
in this city recently, Says the outlook
for baseball in this section next sea-
son is very uncertain. cit will re-
quire a lot of work to get the Eastern
association started again and the time
is Short he declared. After Janu-
airy 1 the fans begin to talk about the
big 1eaguers going south and before
you know it the season is upon you
Mccain says he is not sure whether
a com bination will be formed with
Eastern and New England league cit
les. THE New England seems to be
down and OUT he said, land it might
be possible to arrange a good eight
club circuit by taking some of the
Massachusetts, cities. This all rests
with the owners of the Bridgeport,
New London andl Pittsfield franchises,
though. AS for myself I don't know
where I'll be next season. My con-
tract with New London has expired
and can't say whether I'll return
there or not"
There were $500 paid admissions
at Newf1eld park to see the football
game yesterday. About 500 got in
by jumping the fence. OF the receipts
the G1ees got 40 per cent. and the
Arms so per cent The crowd was
players mixed it up frequently and
spectators also snapped haynaakers
at intervals. Right after the game
some of the players staged another
impromptu battle. The fans cried
for revenge when a special cop swung
a nightcap on a rooter's scalp and
caused the claret to flow freely.
It is a strange freak of human ma
ture that people will pay money to
see a football game and will then
crowd upon the field so thel game has
to be stopped, thereby depriving them
of their moneys worth.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
BRIDGEPORT CITY IN
VICTORY OVER RANGERS

AT Avon park yesterday the Bridge
port City soccer team defeated the
bridgeport Rangers by to L The
Rangers played the first ten minutes
with only nine men on the field. The
stars for the City team were Austin
and FiIdes. At the end of the first
half the City boys were ahead by to
o. but the Rangers scored one in the
second half The lineup.
CITY. RANGERS
Calls Healy
Todd Rintou1
Dr1nkwater York
Hight Halfbaok. - +" : :
ahrop Savage
Bo1e Mayne
Waite Japp
Outside R. Forward
Satterwaite Francis
Inside r. Forward.
Austin A. Butterworth
Center
B1ldes Griffin
Inside L. Forward.
Griffin Taggart
Outside L. Forward
Referee, J. Booth, Bridgeport
Linesmen. A c.. Hegg and H Rob-
1nson.
Goa1s-Austin. F11des. Griffin, Mayne.
Time-Two halves Of As minutes.
XMAS RoPING AND wREATHs OF
LAUREL
JOHN RECK s. son
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06

The 100000 fund sought to bring
the Republican and Democratic ma
tional conventions to Chicago has
been raised.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06

Fires destroyed the Rowland House
at Chester, N. H, at a loss of $4,000.
Twelve guests narrowly escaped death
in the flames
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06
BLUE RIBBONS TO
TACKLE STAMFORD
BUNCH TOMORROW

The Blue Ribbons VIII attempt to,
redeem themselves tomorrow night
when they tackle the fast Stamford
basketball 1--WE Of the Inter State
league at Colonial hall. Special at
tention will be paid to Smith and
Dreyfuss Of the visitors. These two
players are regarded as the most dam
gerous in the game today and are
likely to shoot goals at any minute
Leonard will have the task of guard
ing Smith and hopes to hold the
Stamford Giant in check Norman,
the Sheepshead star. whose foul shoot
ing beat the Ribbons last Tuesday, is
also a member of the Stamford team
Walter Swenson. who was unable to
be present last week. will be back in
the local ranks and will try to keep
Norman out of mischief.
The Stamfords are regarded as
about the strongest team in the Inter
State league and the Ribbons will have
to show improved form to beat them
The preliminary game will have the
OHvets and AII-Stars as principals
The main game starts at $40. The
lineup:
Stamford. Blue Ribbons
Norman -.-.... r. f. .- Clinton
Barry -.-~-- l. f. -.-. Beckman
Smith Leonard
Hogan /. r. g. Roach
Dreyfuss F, q. lSwenson
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06

Use LYFORD BROTHERS BUY
e East Side and West End Y
UNION LABEL PANTS b
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-06

XMAS ROPING AND WREATHs or
LAUREL
JOHN RECK & son
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-25

DefaMlt having beeA made In thes
conditions d = certain mortgage, To-
gether With the notes secured there
by, made, executed and delivered by
sLe ~. Stoecket and Christina Stoeckel
his wife, mprtgRgprg, so HenrysA.
|Hanten Of Watertown, South Dakota
mortgage, dated March 18th, 1919
and duly recorded iii the once ofsthss
Register of Deeds iii and for E0dingsS
ton county, South Dakota. on ti1el6th.
day OF March, "A. d. iS13 at ID: 25s
o'clock j. M, III Book 102 of Mort
cages on page 400, conveying and
mortgaging the following d~escribeds
premises situated In GadingteYi
|ty, South Dakota namely Lot Num-
Der SIX (6) In Block Number Three
ssf3} Of the Original Plat Of the Town
OF WATERFOWL, now CITY d Water
town, Codington Comfy, South Dae
kota pc the am is plated and or
record;
And Whereas, the said rnortgagoras
have defaulted III the payment or q
note for Five Hundred and no-1O0
($60t.00) Dollars, OF eve date, which
was due on or before September LIST
1914, and the said mortgages has
elected to and Mas declared the en-
time amount OF said indebtedness du0
Under the conditions o. sAid mort-
gage:
And Whereas, there Is claimed to be-
due as principal ana interest at the
date Of this notice the sum of twenty
Three Hundred SeyentysFfye and 30
100 ($2376.601 Dollars md That no
action has been Instituted to collect
b said debt Or any nrfinusfEernnf
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-25
AUTocRAcY vINDicATEs SELF
IN THE czAR,s DOMAIN

For time out Of mind the Russian
~autocracy has been execrated by lib
4erty-loving men the world over Tor
Its intolerable oppression Of the PEG
pie, and the odium has not yet been
entirely lifted from It's shoulders. But
when in the opening days OF the pres.
emit war, the czar Of all the Russians
:decTeed the abolition OF the vodka
trafic, which had degraded and Inn
poverished his people, the attitude of
mankind toward the Russian govern.
ment underwent a transformation. II
was decided that a polity which could
inaugurate and carry out q reyolu.
ltionary reform like the shattering oi
the government vodka monopoly
could not be wholly bad. This I'M
passion will be greatly strengthened
IL the government undertakes that
other rum0red reform, the establish
ment OF q universal compulsory edu-
I~cationaI system, to be in full effect
within i've years after the close OF
hostilities.
Upon the solid foundations of such
sociOspolitical reforms who can doubt
that Russia will rapidly take her
place beside the greatest states In
thh world, great In civilization aH
well ais III mere numbers? The Rus,
sian people have excellent STUFF in
them, and, freed from the gross tyr.
amy Of drunkenness and accorded
the chance to become educated which
they now lack, they should be cap.
able of rising to immense heights,
IA ". a5&xY--I& - - a, Sx~F az
autocracy itself is bound to be tempt
ed by contact with people marked
by sobriety and an intellectual awak-
ening. Thus may the Russian des-
potism Justify itself, in 80 far as any
despotism can do so.-St. Paul Dis
patch,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-25
Grain Exchanges


tina about ~1O0.000,000 bushels. Aus.
tralia will have little IL any for exsl
port, and may have to import. Ar
gentina will have about 120, 000,0 900:
for export. For the whole southern
hemisphere there will be 40,000,000|
less thanth average for !expoets
That As the official report of the do
partment of agriculture. Why these.
many imaginative, or 1cticious daily
reports2 Al lively market is the
gamblers harvest and the pit
bugs Ire easily excited. A weak
STAFF to lean on.
The three principal sources Of
gambling are cards, roulette and
wheat, Of which the latter is chief.
In the 32nd annual report OF the Min
lneapolis Chamber of Commerce, page
11O, we find that the annual fluctuo-
ltion In wheat for a period OF III years
was: Minneapolis May. high and low
from III cents per bushel to SO. In
of 28 cents. For December In Min
of "a cents. In Chicago from IL to
40, an average Ct % cents. The
same it true of other grain subject
" luIul6 OpL1uA lIdulu6, OILY tuSYd
less extent, because less traded In.
ii is claimed, and from my WI In
vestigation l think it d conservative
estimate, that the loss Of the farmer,
because OF this future trading is at
least 10 cents per bushel. No other
Industry in the nation could live un-
der such conditions, and none would
try.
What is the remedy? The organ
lied farmers say abolish all trading
in futures except where an actual
delivery OF the grain is contemplate
ed.
/ have tried thus far to separate
the legitimate from the iilegitimate;;
but Representatives of the grain ex-
changes insist that they cannot han
IDLE our grain without this most i'm
portan link in the chain. They re-
fuse to permit any change, and as
sumo full responsibflity, therefore
In the future / will accept future
trading in wind wheat as the vital
link in ten present system of hand
link in the present system of hand
lchanges.
In the meantime why do they not
answer my question as to who is res
Isponsible for the sale of II wheat
for future delivery, May for s cents
and September IS cents less than
cash wheat (now at this writing,
March 18th, May for s cents and
September for AZ cents lessl. Do
lyou see the toboggan?
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-25
BY q. ouckal

There is no legitimate occasion
Tor sudden and extreme changes in
price OF farm products, and more es-
pecially OF wheat. 1t is a worlds
crop with the annual need well
known, and for no other industry are
the statistics for production so care
fully gathered and given to the pub.
|ic In advance Of marketing. There
should be no great surprises as the
harvest is a daily, continuous one
the northern hemisphere begin.
ming at the equator in March and
marching north for seven or eight
months; and for the southern hemi-
sphere beginning Mn September and
marching south for FIVE months. Our
own country Is a fair example OF
what isabeing done in IS other coun-
tries reporting to the International
Institute OF Agriculture at Rome, It
ally; which in turn gives the infor-
nation to each nation. N
In almost every township there is
a ;nintelligent correspondent whose
duty 1t is to report to the Depart
ment of Agriculture every phase OF
production, condition Of soil. acreage
seeded, progress of growth, pros
ipSSto vi y4C10, tALCoACAo A0pOAl - duu
final reports. III
In other industries IL demand falls
OF, or prices decline below the profit
line, they can curtail or stop produc.
ton. Not SO the farmer, for after
seeding he must go IN to harvest
regardless of prospects or prices,
We have shown up a few of the! many
Exaggerated reports-We cannot call
them reasons-for the sudden
changes in options for future deliv-
cry given by the hysterical repre-.
~sentatiyes of the few who control
our grain exchanges. Watch the
market reports. The bombardment
LOT the Dardanelles has furnished sew
Ieral, and will several more.
Now comes the weeyil, chinch bug
and the Hessian fly, or a blessed
rain somewhere, a prolonged spell OF
sunshine, a scarcity, OF an abundance
of snow, yes and the melting thereof.
All these and many more usual and
unusual weather conditions are used
to stir the pit.
The southern hemisphere is a fer
tile field for pit scares,' and has
figured frequently Of late as the cause
of violent changes in price.
Now for the facts. The whole
southern hemisphere grows less than
5 per cent or the worlds crop of
wheat. Very little is grown for ex-
post, except by Argentina and Aus
tralia. Australia,s annual surplus for
export is about $4,000. 600 and Argen