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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18

Harvard has the finest set of ath1et-
 coaches in the country. Percy Haughton stands head and shoulders above all the other football coaches, sponsible for the success of Harvard in other athletic lines of endeavor, for the excellent reason that he has so systematized football training. madeasuch a science of it and turned out such successful eIevens that the training for other branches of sport has been along the same lines
 Add to the efficiency Of the Harvard coaches, the reliability of the grad uates in seeking out flaws and cor recttng them, never mind who is hit, and you have; a source of obtaining first class teams which cannot be beaten
 Harvard was not satisfied with the way the Crimson crews were taking the wash from the Yale crews and Immediately Coach Wray was busted and Robert F. .Herrick, 3, former liar ward oarsnan of note, was put in charge.
 Herrick had given good evidence of his ability to coach a winning crew by sweeping the Thames over in Eng land with American crews.
 Coach Wrays still draws salary and will be of much value to Herrick and William Hafnes, who has been en- gagged to assist E1errick in the develop ment 6f the Crimson boating.
 Since Herriok has been in charge he has had several crews working on the river almost daily until the weather became cold, and he had the sense to make good sport into it by having races and putting the best can d9hates for the crew varsity in differ eflt shells with other less capable sweep pullers.
 T7le result was that the competition was keen all the fall and the men got their exercise and training without the feeling that they were actually Iaboring for fair Harvard, such as was the case when the men who look cd most promising were tunb1ed into one boat and kept at the daily grind of rowing up and down the river with no competition except at rare inter- vaIs. That's part of the Haughton system, something copied from the book of the greateH of all football coaches
 The way the Harvard baseball team
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
LaBlanche's "Pivot Blow" Was One of Many
 Unfair Wallops

Of all the unfair blows used by modern boxers, perhaps the worst was the tspivot blow which was deve1- oped and used by George LaB1anche. saThe Marine" as he was popu1arly known because he began fighting while with Uncle Sam's Marines, will begin his sixtieth year tomorrow, if he Is still in the land of the living. He was active in the ring from 1883 to 1898, when years and booze gave him the count. A year or two ago it was reported that LaBlanche was a hopeless victim of liquor, and was spending most of his time at a State farm in Massachusetts. He was a French-Canadian,- a, native of Quebec and his real name was B1ais. It was about a quarter of a century ago that LaBIanche won the niddIeweight championship by knocking out Jack Dempsey in the thirty-second round at San Francisco, using the pivot blow, which has since been barred.
 Many boxers besides The Marine have used novel punches which if not unfair, were at least questionable manship. Abe Attel1 had a thumb punch which almost blinded at least one of his opponents. Sullivan some times used a back hand kidney blow and Corbett occasionally used the back of his wrist. McFar1and's hitting with the open gloves has been criticised by many experts as unfair and a viola tion of the rules. Kid McCoy's cork screw punch was a vicious blow The list could be extended indefinitely. for nearly every boxer has tried to pull some punch that, even if entirely fair, is not entirely unobJectionabIe.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
Ban Johnson Agrees
 To Tell Reporters
 Nothing But the Truth

New York. Dec 18--A delegation of newspaper men met Ban Johnson, president Of the American League. upon his arrival in the city yesterday. lows:
 MT Johnson, we come to you ask ing a favor We want to know if you will give us the true facts re- gard1ng the peace meeting If there are matters that you cannot tell us, will you promise us that you won't lie to us? We have been .steered'' wrong by National League represen- tatfves; made to look foolish in some instances All that we ask is that whatever you tell us will be the truth We have been bunked long enough
 Johnson replied: 'Boys, I promise you that if you come to me that I will ten you nothing but the .abso- 1ute truth
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
YALE FIVE LOSES
 TO CRESCENT TEAM

New York. Dec 1S-The Crescent. Athletic club basketball team defeated the Yale five at the Second Signal Corps Armory, in Brooklyn, last night by a score of 31 to 27. The substitu- ton of an entirely new team in the second half proved a good move for the Crescents, as the refreshed players did the work which brought defeat to the college men,
 At the end of the first period the Blue held the lead by 14 points to 15, largely through the good work of Kin ney, left guard. who shot eight foul goals from a. like number of attempts
 Charles Taft, IT,, son of ex-Presi-- dent Taft, was one of the mainstays on defense for the Blue quintet
 Kinney, who led the Yale onense, made three field goals, and eleven goals from fouls. Baker, the visitors ce1tre, also played a fast game but was later relieved by Clark.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
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SPORT TALK s7HR5R F RzsRgz sgF

vile, the Boston Braves. shortstop, will bring his Springfield team to this city. MaranviIIe has been cleaning up all comers4in Massachusetts. M
 Bobby Walthour, the famous cyc1ist who was in the six day race in New York last week, will be seen at Polls the latter part of next week. He and 8 horse engage in a race at the fin7 ish of the act and they say Bobby tick1es the horse in the rihs in order to get the decision.
 The first intercollegiate basketball game was captured last night by Princeton, which defeated Cornell 19 to IT. The result was not certain until the final minute of play when Capt. McTfgue of Princeton shot a difficult goal.
 For their loyalty in sticking to, or ganfzed baseball Roger Bresnaha11 5 of the Cubs and Miller Huggins of the St. Louis Cardinals will be pro- tected Both have been anxious to own franchises in the American as- sociation and it is said that Bresna- han will be installed as owner in To Iedo and Huggins in St. Paul.
 Although everybody knows them as Ted Lewis and Willie lRitchie,, these are not the real names of the boxers. Gershon Mende1off is Lewis right name but when he made his debut in England the announcer refused to tackle Mende1off and called the boxer Lewis Ritchie's right name is GeaTy Steffens but he took, the name of Ritchie when his patents objected to the family name being dragged into the ring.
 Eddie Plank, the former Athletics pitcher, was the most effective twfrler in the Federal league last season He won 21 and lost II. He was with St. Louis.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
HARVARD HAS FINEST SET
 OF COACHES IN THE COUNTRY
Experts in Charge of Different Teams Account
 For. Success of Crimson.

p1ete approval of the Harvard grads for several years, Louis Pieper is keen on inside baseball and drilled his intelligent college men at it con tinualIy. The result was a very weak hitting team.
 Then pr. Sexton took charge and did some very good work with the Grim son nine, but he would not tolerate interference from some of the grads and got through coach. Now, Fred Mitchell. one of the finest coaches baseball ever saw, is in the placid Charles
 Mitchell it was who primed the big three pitchers of Sta1lings to go through and win the title of the world after thrilling race for the National league pennant a couple of seasons ago M i.s.z -
 Mitchell was a pitcher of much merit in the big league and then when he lost the power to curve the ball to the satisfaction of big league managrs, he turned to the other end of the battery and donned the big mitt and wind pad and became a ceIe- brated catcher
 Always was a good batter, fielder and base runner. He has had mani fest success with the Braves, and as coach and with the Harvard boys he should make a marvellous reputa- tion for it is doubtful if there is an other man in the country better quail flied by actual experience to handle a lot of young. college men.
 Poochx Donovan is veritable fix turef at Harvard- He has trained all the athletic teams and coached the track teams for so many years, and has never shown the least sign of not keeping up to date that he is sure of his position
 Donovan is beloved by more liar ward athletes than any other man who ever coached They all know him and all admire him and love him. He's capable, is Donovan and is al4 waysswe1l abreast of the times, always ready with new ideas and suggestions to ther other coaches And, mean- while, the Harvard track team keeps on winning.
 Alfred H. Wlnsor. the hockey coachl has done for Harvard on the ice what Haughton has on the gridiron. Each year the Harvard hockey sevan8 comes through with flying colors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
Y. M. C. A. NOTES.

F Tickets have been issued for the address. by Benjamin F. Beardsley. M B.,tof Hartford, on Sex Problems at the Y. M. c. A. Sunday Afternoon This is the second annual visit of pr. Beardsley- pr. R. H. w. -Strang. chairman of-the physical department committee of the. local p association speaker. The meeting is open to all men.
 George Stewart, graduate school secretary of the Yale Christian asso- citation, spoke to the members of the business mems club at the '. M. C. A. last evening. MT. Stewart came over for R. B. Culver, the teacher of this Thursday night class, as the latter starts today with the glee club on an extended trip through the West and South,
 The next two Thursdays will be holidays, as they come So close to Christmas and New Years The Sun day class will not close, but under MT. Brooks leadership expects to have lively session every week
 The Land of Paul D illustrated by stereopticon views, is to be taken up by pr. John R. Brown at the South church chapel on Monday evening. This was the lecture scheduled for last Monday night before the Sunday school teachers training class, and postponed. because of the storm.
 The enrolment of the training class exceeds that of last year. This year 90 far ITO have registered, with the largest representation from the First Baptist church, 29. Trinity Methodist comes second with 19 and the First Presbyterian and Summer field Methodist churches have 1O-eachs-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
" LEAST BEATEN
 BY CROSS; MAND0T LOSES TO LEONARD

@ef
 New York Dec. 1S-Leachs Cross, the East Side dentist, checked the comeback stunt of Ad WoIgast, gthe former lightweight champion to ree gain the title by stopping him at the end of the sixth round in scheduled 10-round bout at the Harlem, Sporting club last night
 WoIgast was in a pitiable condi- tion- His left eye was cofnpletely closed and his right had the shutters half up A stream of crimson flowed into both eyes from the wound on his head which he had sustained in a bout early in the week at Atlanta Ga
 wolgast's manager. finding that Wo1gast was half blind when the box CT could not find his corner at the end of the sixth rouhd, was ready to throw up the sponge. After consulting with Referee McPartland the bout was stopped on the advice of the clubs physician, who said Wolgast was physically unable to continue. F
 Benny Leonard of Harlem climb ed into the first brigade of light weights by knocking out Joe Mandot of New Orleans during the middle of the seventh round of the final bout of the night After sending Mandot to the mat for the count of three, Leonard sent Mandot crashing to the mat after he rose with terrific right to the jaw.
 Mandot banged against the ropes. slipped to the mat and fell over backward. Mandot tried to pull himself up by the aid of the ropes, but fell back dead to the count of Ref cree McPartland- Mandot was car. ried to his corner, where he was re- fved- Leonard weighed 133 pounds, and Mandot 134. 1-2 pounds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
Edited by Wagner

to be the survivors of the Federal or ganization lin those cities Carroll Basin, president of the Baltimore Feds, will control the new Baltimore club, and Edward GWinner, head of the Pittsburgh Feds, will be president of the reorganized Pittsburgh club.
 There may be some trouble with Baltimore, despite the agreement to have a Fed-International team there. Carroll Rasin and Baltimore com mittee last night asserted that Balti- more would not accept peace unless g. major league club were assigned there. We have the money to buy a, club and we would l,rerer the Cardi- nals,'' said Rasin. s-..
 The peace pact holds, out the prom ise of some pretty raw treatment for most of the Feders1r league players. The Federal league insisted on the recognition of 72 ironbound contracts. including agreements with a few con- tract jumpers. These the National and American leagues agreed to rec ognize and the Feds will give some financial help in their fu1ff1Iment.
 However, all other Federal players are to get ten daysr notice ana pc made free agents. They will then be in a position to sign with any club offering the best fnducer1ents There will be no blacklist of jumpers. as tn 8 is against the law and the cOnEtitI- ton of Organized Baseball: However, there can be no preventing 3 gentle mems agreement whereby most Of the club owners will refuse to have any thing to do with Federal 1eaguers.
 The American Sieagsle last night agreed not to sign any of the F'ederals while charley Ebbets Jim Carney and other National league maEnates made 8 similar agreement. There may be no sympathy for the Jumper, but it's mighty raw on the other Federal league players.
 It was learned last night that Otto Knabe manager of the Baltimore Feds, who had jumped the Philadelphia. Ma tfora1s had beer signed again by the Phf11ies Knabe is a second -baseman- With the Feds his fleIding and batting had fallen badly.
 It was agreed that Frank Baker. for using the Federal league as a club, was not to be sold by the Athletics He must play for Connie Mack or mo- body. Bakers contract has another year to run
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
EASTERN TO SURELY START

'
 That the Eastern association is con fident of being able to announce an organization by January B. the time limit set by the. National association was announced today by President OsRourke. we have five clubs al ready lined up.'' he said. t.and a, lit enable us to put a, six or eight club circuit in the field
 Jack Teller, the Pittsfie1d mag nate, is the committed on organiza- ton and is rushing around interview ing applicants for franchises. The cit ies mentioned for the new circuit are Bridgeport, New Haven, Waterbury, New London, Hartford. There are three applicants for the New Haven franchise. North Adams, Mass, is also a possibility A wealthy manu- facturer there wants to get a fran c11ise. This city is a natural rival for PittsffeId.
 President O'Rourke regards the de- cision as a triumph for the Eastern directors i'-The National association showed that it regards our right to the territory as supreme when it re- fused to let outsiders come in and grab our cities? ?''s he said. 'tEd Barrow of the committee told us that any out sidArs who wanted a. merger would have to pay the Bridgeport, <Pittsfield and New London owners first.
 The written resolution of the com mittee shows that the Eastern is g1v- en until January IT to outline its or ganization with the name of the own CT in each city. The New England league must pay itsAdebts before Jan uary IT,,
 The baslkbetbalI fans, who have been accustomed to sec teams from New York or New Jersey, will witness a new attraction at Colonial hall next Tuesday night when Rabbit Maran-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
CHAMPION ABERG
 DEFEATS ALVEREZ

Champion Aberg had an easy time keeping up his winning record last night in the wrestling tournament in the Manhattan Opera House. The title holder made short work of the burIy Portuguese, Paul Alvarez pin ming the Iatters shoulders to the mat in less than seven minutes.
 Hevonpaa, the Feroeious Finn, and Gir1ow, the Cruel Cossack, struggled furiously for the comedy. honors, and the Finn won, as his opponent, Ernst, was a better foil han Gardini, who tuss1ed with Linow. The slippery Italian made all sorts of trouble for the Cossaek, and wrestIed him to a draw
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
Andrew L. Riker
 To Attend Meeting
 of Advisory Board

The Naval Advisory Board of which Andrew l.. Riker of the LlocomobiIe Co. of America is a. member, will meet Wednesday evening in New York at the headquarters of the Amer tcan Institute of Mining Engineers 29- West 39th street. MT. Riker will ate tend the meeting
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
HAvRE EXPLOSION ACCIDENTAL.

Paris, Dec. 18-The newspaper La Liberte says the official report on the recent explosion at the Belgian rnuni- tion factories in Havre, which caused a heavy loss of life and much prop erty damage. eliminates the possib1l- ity that 1t was caused by the enemies of France. The paper says that the real reason was spontaneous cornbus- tiOn
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
PEACEsDEIEGATEs MEET.

Berne. Switzerland, Beo. 1s-After many vicissitudes in getting across the frontier enough delegates to the In ternational Congress to study the basis of a durable peace arrived yes terday to permit a meeting of the e1C- ecutive council. A long session vTaH held behind closed doors, GeVCu- na- tions arg said to heTepE sasEead,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
CANADIAN BISHOP DEAD.

Pembroke, Ont, Dec 18-The Right Rev, Narcisse z. Lorraine, "A who for the past B years has been Bishop of the diocese of Pembroke, died today,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
MOUNT ETNA IS ACTIVE.

Catania. Sicily, Dec. 1s-Mount Eztna ls again showing considerable activ- 1fy. Glowing cinders and smoke form an umbrella shaped cloud above the volcano.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
Stratford High Gets
 Beating Fronf T. U. S.

In Stratford last night the r. U. basketball five beat the Stratford High school team by Is to 13 Buck ley starred for Stratford while Paul and tCuneo did well for the winners The line up:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18

Goal Ryan I; Buckley 8; Risburg 3: Cuneo 1; Paul 4. Fouls, Buck1e5 [ Paul 5.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
Meriden Boxer Is
 After Bud Palmer

Stanley Cread of Meriden. formerly of New York state, wishes to chaI- lenge any boxer in the state at 128 pounds, Bud Palmer, of your city, pre- ferred. am desirous to hear from any fight promoter of your city. James J. Gorm1ey, manager, 26 Sher- man avenue, Meriden. Conn.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18

XMAS HOPING AND WREATHs OF
 LAUREL JOHN RICK & SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18

Farmer Want Ads. one Cent a Word
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-02

ularly in the Single Comb White Leg horn variety, that will lay many more eggs yearly than fowls that do not carry this heavy laying trait. Pure bred chickens of the general purpose or meat type will, during the growing period, make more rapid and eco nomical gain in live weight than mon- grels. At no age are mongrsl chick ems so salable as pure breds.
 As to the land required, fowls will be contented and profitable whether they are confined in house, allowed to range over a small or large enclos- ure or given entire liberty The more closely they are confined, the greater the cost of food and the more atten- ton they require. An ideal range for a flock of twenty-five to forty fowls in a house such as that described in the Clemson poultry bulletins is fifty by one hundred feet Such a range in Bermuda sod and bur or crimson clo- yer will be green all the year; the Bermuda being green in warm weath- CT and the clover in the winter One and one-half acres will provide suffi- cient range for 500 hens An orchard or partially wooded range is prefer able to one that is barren of natural shade.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-02
CONCRETE FLOORS FOR DAIRY
lnsures Steady Motion for Separator Make It Possible to Save Some
 of Liquid Manure.

Prepared by Dairy Division of Clemson
 College)
 The Babcoek test never makes a mistake.
 Real money is lost by having cows calve in spring instead of fall.
 It is a good rule to have every COW in herd tested at least once a year for tuberculosis.
 To insure steady motion. a separa- tor must be fastened to a solid foun- dation. A concrete floor gives this better than anything else.
 Sometimes lack of exercise causes barrenness in dairy cattle. It is never well to allow the dairy COW to take on much fat. Always give her plenty of exercise.
 The average COW in full milk flow will consume from thirty to forty pounds of silage to advantage. Add to this some ten pounds of dry fod- der, and the roughage feed is com. plete.
 Only concrete floors should be per mitted in a dairy barn. They cost more perhaps. originally. but they are the cheapest in the long run For one thing, they make it possible to save some of the liquid manure, a very val uable item
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-02
Sussex seate-Hard for Cattle to Operate
CBv NJ. COVEPDETTD

CBy NJ COVERDELLD
 This is one of the best seasons of the year for building and repairing fences, as one can go out immediately after a soaking rain and set twice as many posts as he usually can, because of the softness of the ground.
 Then the strenuous season that tries fences has just passed, and their re pairing and building thus is more nec- essary. Also, if the ground should freeze before the work is done, these needed repairs cannot be done so cas- fly or so efficiently.
 By doing all fencing. gate hanging and repairing this fall, one will avoid having these jobs on hand when the rush season comes on next spring. at which time the work is apt to be neglected or sighted in the hurry to get to the field; so that the crops thus are exposed to the stock more than they should be through the entire summer season.
 Good fences insure the farmer know ing right where he will find any stock he may desire to see. They not only save the time many farmers expend in chasing around over the country searching for their stock, but they pre- vent the neighbors stock from break
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-02
CORRECT START WITH SWINE
investment of About $225 Is Necessary for Breeding Animals. Hog Houses
 and Pastures.

For man to begin in the correct way. with three good brood sows. an investment of about S225 is necessary for breeding animals. fencing. hog houses and the establishment of per manent pastures.
 The total cost of producing a crop of AS pigs, which one should obtain in year from three good soWs. will be about S4S6. The cost per hundred weight, estimating pigs at 200 pounds each. would be about five dollars. or five cents per pound Under ideal conditions, however, it is entirely pos sible to produce hogs as low as three to three and one-half cents per pound.
 The average selling price for hogs on foot in the South is at least eight or nine cents per pound and often il is much higher Calculating the profit on the produce of three sows with a cost of five cents per pound and a selling price of eight cents. the profit per SOW for year would be $93. 50, or total for the three sows Of $2S0 50.
 Ii the size of the filters is small for one of many possible reasons. the profits will be severely cut For in- stance, if the three sows produce only 30 pigs, the profit will be only S34 per SOW, or $102 for the three. To return large profits. sows must produce large filters and pigs must have large quan- titles of good food