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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-13
BOBBY WALLACE, VETERAN

WHO is the oldest player in point of
 service on the ball field Now, don't all answer at once and claim Lajoie or Wagner, for it is neither.
 The player who has drawn salary for ball playing the greatest number of consecutive seasons is none other than Bobby Wallace Of the St. Louis Browns. The last season was his twenty-seeend consecutive one on the diamond. two years longer than LaJoie and a season more than Wagner.
 Now many will no doubt say, ssXV 1ly, I did not think Wallace was older than Wagner Well, he isn't, for the big Pirate stortstop was born Feb 24. 1874. while Wallace was born Nov. the same year, and that sterling player, Larry Jajoie. was born Sept 5. 1875, so there you have the correct ages of the three oldest players in point of consecutive playing before the public.
 Both Wallace and Wagner are Pitts burgh boys, as both were born in that city but Bobby began his career just two years ahead of his old pal Wal lace began pitching ball for the Etna Stars of Pittsburgh when he was a kid of fifteen, and he soon developed into the best amateur pitcher in that city, where they have turned out some great players. It soon began to be whisper ed around of the young wonder. who was beating all the other clubs in that
 
 by all the leading clubs.
 After going along as an amateur (there were no sernipros those days1 he was signed to play his first profession al game with the Carlton team in 1893.
 When the following season was start ed Wallace was signed to play with the Franklin team of the Iron and Oil league Wallace played both the in field and outfeld on account of his hard hitting. He took part in eighty games and had a batting average of over 300, while he won twenty three out of tRir- ty-one games he pitched. One of the victories was against the Cleveland team, which had booked a game in that city on it's way east, and to the sur prise of Manager Tebeau and all the other players on the team Wallace not only beat them with a team of fair ball players, but he actually held them to one hit and famed fourteen men, Tebeau purchased Wanace's release from Borland.. From that day to this he has never played ball outside of the major leagues.
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at the disadvantage signifies that he has had enough
 This does not make jiuJitsu contest always pleasant thing to watch. though there is always plenty of ac- tion and at times a skill is shown that is astounding. One of the objects each wrestler tries to gain is to throw his opponent so hard to slam him against the mat with such force that he is jar red or shocked into insensibi1ity or un- til unable to continue the contest.
 Miyake is a heavier and ia stronger man than Bingham. His legs are much larger and his spread of shouI- der greater. But Bingham is always in the pink of condition, his work as instructor at the New York Athletic club requiring him to be in training at all times. He faced NIiyake in perfect physical trim and with a thorough knowledge of what the Japanese would try to do to him He knew most of
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Few Caucasfans have ever become expert in jiujitsu. though the police of many large cities have been given eIe- mentary instruction in this gentle art Of disabling an adversary, and this knowledge, meager as it is, makes a thug helpless once the policeman gets one of the numerous sJiujitsu holds on him. for once the hold is obtained the victim must yield or leg, arm or neck will be broken
 Will Bingham. welterweight cham : pion wrestler of England and an ex- pert at any style of wrestling, has long been a. master of JiuJitsu He has met many opponents of this art of self de- fense and has never been mastered, though he has had many bouts that ef- fered him as much of a task as he chose to assumes A trained athlete he is as hard as nails, and he can disable the ordinary man by a twist of arm or leg, done instantly and with littIe
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BRIEF CAREER DE UMPIRE BUSH

gHNE4E mills of baseball grind cut some
 peculiar grist. Among the rest we may mention the nangled uunpiricaI career of Garnet Bush of St Louis Rush climbed to major league job. but failed to hold 1t. He hopped to the Feds. thereby laying the foundation of q lasting and fervent regret
 Disobeyfng positive instructions fn regard to benching players, Bush was between the Feds and the O. B. grind CTS Bush,S future as an umpire was absolutely pulverized
 Letters to the O. B arc unanswered. Appeals to F'ederals to live up to their three year contract with him merely result fl. having the ten day release clause in it pointed out to him
 Ffnfs" is written beside his name in the biz book of umpires.
 q ought never to have jumped" is the philosophical comment of the vfc- tim. But wouldn't buy my way back Into favor of the o. B.. as did one Fed official, by snitchfnG on the outlaws 7
 Bush made grave mistake with the FederaIs. He went there with the idea Of umpiring a game without reference to the Hrnitatfons Of a. Fed league clubs .1faytng roster. He thought he was in a major league. and he treated inhuborddnatf0n very very rudefy with fines and benching.
 Baltimore was ths stumbling block that caused his downfall Bush tells 1t as follows:
 Just before an important Baltfmore series received a telegram from GiI- more. It was f1rst handed to Knabe, manager of the BaIEofeds, to give to me He read it through and then turned it over. This was it's substances:
 important series in your care to- day Don't put any stars out.'
 .snabe got line on that order, and ne and his men rode me even harder than ususaI think it was seven play CTS [ put out of the game. Anyhow, I received an awful banning from Gil- nao~e for it. But that Baltimore gang was the limit.
 T broke the cane1ss back by putting out twenty nine men in three days. I think tt was. After that was told my contract was no good and to beat it.
 ABa< can't. There's no way of beat ing their game. I had a three year contract that wasn,t good for a minute longer than they chose to keep me-
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force. Bingham says he can kin an untrained adversary in few minutes, and the man who permits him to show some Of the awful bone breaking jiu-
 The other night in New York Bling ham met Tarro Miyake. who was in troduced as claimant to the Jiujitsu championship Of the world, There may be some Japanese who will dispute this claim, but there is no white man who will argue about it after seeing the easy manner in which Agiyake dis posed of Bingham
 Under the rules governing a jiujttsu match there is no fall until one of the contestants Is disabled or cries "quits.' 9 No hold is barred. One man can stran- gle another, and this Is legitimate, the victim having to protect. himself by giving up. A twist can be given to arm or leg that will break or 1islocate the member unless the wrestler who is
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 the holds that Niyalke would try to get he knew how to avoid them and he hoped to get one of those holds on his powerful antagonist.
 Jiujitsu Wrestlers wear a sort of Jacket, like a kimono. It is necessary that there should be a garment like a coat, which offers a hold. As the wrestlers faced each other they grab bed the lapels of these garments Sud- denly diyake's foot shot out. he tug fishnnan was thrown to one side so vio-s 1ently that he struck the floor with a resounding clash in spite of the thick mat on which the men were standing. No one but hardened athlete could have withstood such a fall Bingham Jumped up and sprang at Mfyal1e. There was little delay until he was thrown again. and as he was hurled through the air Miyake let loose of him and was not near him as he
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landed. Several times the men fell si- nuItaneousIy and struggled on the floor much as catch-as-c -catch-can wres- tiers struggle except that there was no keep them off the floor. there being no advantage nor disadvantage in having the shoulders on or off the floor. But therel were earnest and sincere efforts to get a strangle hold or to twist an arm or leg out of place.
 There was about fifteen minutes of this wrestling, during which Bingham was thrown perhaps twenty times. Once as they wrestled NIiyake sudden ly fell backward, jerking Bingham to- ward him. Miyake's foot shot up. Bingham was caught on it and tossed The smiling Miyake was not breathing hard. His superior knowledge of the gentle art of jiujitsu had enabled him Ito compel Bingham to do most of the
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RICkEY USES CARDIAC TEST. BRANCH HICKEY, the radical, has just made known one of the many innovations he has applied to the man agement of the St Louis Browns It is the heart test, meaning a test by which he knows whether or not a play CT has good nerve
 Having installed hating cages, slid. ing pits and what not in the Browns training camp, Hickey discovered that one thing was missing. A player might have all the natural ability in tle world but be without nerve. He ulight be able to vale the ball on the nose with no one on base. but strike cut disrnalIy when as base hit or even sacrifice fly was needed.
 Hickey knew it WAS beyond his pow CT to invent a machine to record the will power and nerve Of each athlete but he did the next best thing He evolved a method to keep score where by he had it down in black and white just what athletes stood up best under fire. This system of Scoring he calls the @cardiacs test.
 By his clerical efforts Hickey learned Hast summer just what hitter famed in the pinch. just what soutdelder drop ped fly ball when a .putout was need ed. just what fnfieIder made a wild throw at a critical point and just what base stea-ler stole a base when a theft was of importance.
 Through his system Hickey is per haps better posted on what American league players can do than any other manager in the circuit. Naturally while applying the fscardiac'' test to his own athletes. Hickey kept tab on the opposing team, as it was of value to him to know what players were most dangerous P, pinch
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year, which will insure his attention to his duties.
 As the state gets a percentage of the receipts of boxing matches the public is interested in having them properly handled. At times there have been charges that certain clubs were dispos- ing of punched" ticl1ets-known col Ioquially as Annie Oalkleys-and in this way the managers of the clubs profit at the expense of the taxpayers. as these punched tickets are sup posed to
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be given to representatives of the press and to pugilists and fight managers,
 Eddie GdI1eces a. law student. who has been interested in sporting affairs foE changes in the method of handling box ing matches, and he is mentioned ss likely to be named as the boxing com missioner if the law is changed. Hd believes that there will always be trou- ble with boxing affairs until one man is put in charge and is paid a salary that will insure his devoting his entire time to the business.
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Rx oacAR poYLE

IT IUJTTEU comes from Japan. and
 like many other things that
 come from there, it is some what weird ana mysterious. It is also hard to pronounce, most persons making three syIlables of 1t. The edu- cated Japanese, however, says that there are only two syllahles. the final tuss being silent. As nearly as 1t can be represented with English letters, the pronunciation Is jew-jeetss with the accent on the second syllable and the tz1 given proninence- But, how ever you pronounce 1t. 1t Is a mean proposition,
 The dictionaries define jfuJftsu as a means of defense which connpe1s man tO use his own strength against him self and makes it possible to disable an adversary by knowledge Of the anato- my Of the human frame and exerting foYcs through leverage This defini 2 ton is rather weak. Jiujftsu might be described as a. system of mans Laughter based on knowledge of weak points in the human body.
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, work. He had permitted Bingham t6 get various holds on him and had broken them with apparent. ease.
 Then he threw Bingham with such force that the Engiishman had difhz cuIty in arising. But he pluclriIy got to his feet and within i've seconds was thrown again. This time he was un- able to rise. After watching him q
 moment Miyalxe helped him up and his second helped him from the ring. The announcement was made that there would be rest of fifteen minutes, the match calling for two falls out of three. At the5end of fifteen minutes It
 was said that Bingham had been so severely handled that he was not in shape to continue the contest.
 Miyake says that there are at least 100 holds in JiuJitsu and there are also means for breaking many of the holds. When asked what would happen if hs encountered an opponent who knew as much about the game as he does Mi yake replied: "The quicker man would win. He would get the first hold Strength would not have much to do with it and weight would count for ht tie. The man who has the most knoWl- edge wins. If their knowledge is equal the quick man wins.s'
 This makes JiuJitsu especially valu- able to the small man. The large man can master it, but he is rarely as Qnicl5
 as the small man, and as it is gcience against strength comparative muscular
 weakness issgof no importance. The
 man with knowlege Of jiujftsu can
 quickly disable any other man who does not possess that knowledge and
 who will come within reach.
 There is perhaps one exception The trained boxer has a means oe ofEense and defense that will enable him to stop the 5iusitsu expert If he knows
 what is coming and can deliver a tell ing blow before his opponent grabs hia arm or Ieg But once blow 3s struck
 that fails to land and the jiujitsuist
 gets inside the pugiIIst's guard there is no doubt of the result of the contest
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PROPOSED CHANCE IN
 NEW YORK BOXING LAW

NEW YORK legislators are consider
 ing making a change in the boxing law under which bouts are held by or ganfzed clubs At present the control of matches is in the hands of a com mission of three members. who serve without pay The proposition is to have one commissioner in charge and give him a salary of S5sooo or s6.00o a
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EoR the first lime in history the Van
 derbiIt Cup race will be run this year on a track of which a portion passes through the site of an exposi- ton. The automobile track itself meas ures nearly four miles and one end of it is over the regular mile oval which will be used for harness races. The other end of the course passes through
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position. The vanderbilt Cup race, for which four cash prizes aggregating
 $7,5OO will be given, will be run Feb 22. The Grand Prfx. for which there will be five cash prizes aggregating $S.00O, will be run Feb. 27. The track is declared to be one of the fastest in the country, though it has several sharp
 curves which will offer excitement to spectators The track where pacing
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ss-knee trip from standing poaItion, the victim to be jsrsssd ever the knee to land in the position shown in 5. z.-NNiiI BingF1asn, greatest Caucasian master of JiuiItsu. 3.Seoond posi- kiess in ankle throw. The asgressor, vsiso Is on the Moor, hoIda one of thog victins'a feet down and raises the other until in the poaikion shown by 6. Then the shoulders are jerSed down and the victim 10 tossed fcrward to turn scnersauif and land on his back with his head toward his cp- ponent. 4.-knoe Grip in which the asgresscr goes down fIrst. From his position on one knee he tosses F7ie man in fall eInpiIar to that shown by s. All these pictures were posed by Will Bingham and hls wrestling partner.
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and trotting races will be held during the summer will have a grand stand seating 18,0Oo and stable room for 1000 horses. The total purses to be offered for the horse racing will amount to $227,000. Inside the mile oval there will be a third of a mile oval course and quarter of a mile straightaway, on which foot races will be run There will also be a polo field.
The Detroit times., 1915-11-04

school. which will graduate in JAN
uary, il composed OF the following
students, who have enough credits
TO graduate: Charles Aidrich, Ed
mond Andres. Peter Ashiskin. Lou
line Buickroot. Charles Baxter Clar-
ence Betting. Madeline Bissell, Max
Bittker. Hilda D-aDdall Marie
Braun, Jean Brieg, Benjamin Bris-
coe, Beatrice Burkholled. Ethel
Golfer, Edward Cook. Elizabeth
Cooper. George Curtis. Esther Drse-
vel. Walter Earl. Edna Eberle, Elsie
Erley, George Fitch, Mildred Flem-
ing. Edna Frey, Grace Gates, Johan-
ma Grimm. Adeline Giessler, Milton
Gieche. Mildred HALEY, Norma Ha-
genjos. Charles Harling, Robert Har-
ris, Albert Hartz. Frias Hicks, Irene
Hintz. Mildred Holman. Arthur Hos
heck, Lester Jakel, Beulah Jarvis,
Dorothy Judson, Millicent Klott, Ar
thur Klein, Herbert Knack. Harold
Kophal, Edmond Land, Gretchen
Leesemann, Stanley Leszynski, Lii
liam Lobenstein, William Ludwig.
Russell Lynch, Genevieve McRae,
William Mackensen, Eugene Mahon.
Henry Meyer. Gladys Miller. Zeiab
Mitchell, Arthur Neef, Lawrence
O'Brien, Clara Olmstead, Florence
Orndorrf. Dorothy Pennegar, Ken
meth Pennegar. Elmer Pieger. Irwin
Prabel. Robert Rech. Irene Render.
Erma Rose, Title Roth, Oscar
Ruschmann, Lawrence Rutz, Hazel
Scott. Sidney Scott. Otto SielaN,
eadie Solomon, Ralph Sommer,
Gladys Stahl. Dorca Stanbury, Rich
ard Straw, Eleanor Streng, Marion
Tate. George Taylor, Hilda Thiel.
Henrietta Thomas. Harry Thomp-
son. Rhea Trinkaus. Edward Trot-
man, Eleanor Turner, Margaret Van
yleet, Gladys Wade. Charles Wal
lace, Mabel Ward, Charles weyrick.
Charlotte Wilkinson, Harold Wilkin.
son. Edna Williams, Fred Williams
and Margaret VIM. The class off,
GERS have not as yet been selected
by the students but will be al the
next meeting Of the entire body.
Eastern's heavy and popular foot
ball team struck a snag. Friday,
when 1t met Northwestern. The
game ended 20 TO in favor of the
Northwestern Colts. The Northwest
crn team outweiehed the Eastern by
nearly Is pounds h the man. Riley
made the touchdown for Eastern In
the third quarter when he ran so
yards tc touchdown. Eastern
played better ball In the last two
quarters than in the first two. North
western had the edge In experience.
The following students are on
the honor roll In the Capron school:
Rose Addison. Bertha Kaplan. Rose
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CHAPTER xxxiii.
Anona the MISSING.

Annette sank back. gasptng with
the smoke. The situation TO her'
seemed hopeless. Inside. the am
munition was slowly giving out
Without. the house was surrounded
on all sides by insurrectos. she
crept 10 the planters side.
I'VE fred my last shot" she SAID.
"Can | have more?" she got IT,
but still fingered. do you think
Won can hold the placer she
queried. =,
The planter smiled and shrugged
his shoulders. The insurrectos-
what are they?" he exclaimed
He peered through his loophoie'
"Eye-yah,' cried the planter, VINO
Is the stranger there?
Annette followed the direction OF
his finger. She shrank back
"Scar-face." she cried. in despair.
"He knows how TO load" said the
planter. shaking his head sooerly,
.hut at any rate We can hold out
until the Americanos come.
IF our messenger got through"
saltered Annette.
Their messenger did get through.
4 quarter Of an hour before black
had penetrated to the camp OF the
marines and had given the alarm
and the whole camp had started on
on the double quick.
Boys" shouted Neal. pressing 10
The fore. American women-dont
fcrget-come on"
In an upper room in the planters
house Mrs. Hardin shrank back In
corner With fear. Bullets we're nd
ding the walls. Joe Welcher lay
face down. Inez, with presence OF
mind. had placed a mattress against
the wall and with Joe's AID had
placed an upturned bed against the
other. They were fairly safe. Be-
sides that, just once, Inez had FOUND
n chance 10 wave to Hernandez. and
Hernandez had kept the insurrectos
from firing on that corner OF the
house. Inez crept downstairs
looked about her--saw Annette and
the planter in close conversation
then crept back again.
She plucked Joey Welcher by the
sleeve. Joe" she whispered. "go
down pass through the corridor by
the kitchen--open the rear door"
Not on your life" said Joe. DO
YOU think I want to die?"
You'll die II you don't" she said.
Come, follow met
Once below, Inez cooked her re-
volver. do as I say" she COM
manded. Joe obeyed. With terror
in his eyes he tore and wrenched
at the fastenings OF the rearmost
passageway. Finally he stepped
back. she's unlocked" he exs
claimed. Inez, unafraid, stepped
forward, opened wide the door and
beckoned. II was signal. Herman
dez saw It ard bounded forward.
Follow me, insurrectos," he com
manded.
A hundred men obeyed. With a
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School Happenings

The Doty newcomb team played q
same with the Crossman school
team. defeating the latter 32-16.
Doty beat the Palmer school in q
game Of soccer by score Of ~.
The new building being built for
the Fairbanks school will probably
be completed by the end Of this
week. aud viii be occupied by the
students next Monday morning.
Mr.. Brennan's second hour Eng
linh 90 class. in Northwestern high
school, which chose the name
I"Northwestern Seniorite club" has
changed its name to Northwestern
Pioneer club" The reason for the
change was that the terms. Fresh
man." Sophomore" Junior" and
Senior" have no relation to high
school life. out are used only In
connection with universities. This
point was made clear by Mr.. Miller
In q talk to the class.
Miss Nicholscn's English (2) class,
section s. In the Northwestern high
school. has organized under the
name of IL Can and Will" Officers
are: President, Miss A. Campbell:
vice-president, Miss @. Smith; Sec
Rotary, Mr. March; sergeant-at-
arms. Mr.. Taylor.
Miss Oathes' history t2). seventh
class, In the Northwestern high
school, has organized and chosen
the following ofncers: President,
jackson Mark; vicepresident, Miss
Kryic1e: secretary. Miss L. Bettens.
Miss Carey's second-hour English
class. In the Northwestern high, has
organised under the name Of the
"Kiplfng club" and has arranged
for several entertainments for the
near future.
The McGraw soccer team played
the Logan team a tie Friday, the
score resulting 90.
The 12-A class OF the Eastern high
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lNN3gz4l ~ 80 9

shout they dashed into the huge
living room on the ground floor--
with another shout they hreA . VOL
ley into the back of the deeenders.
The planter. drawing q bead on IN
insurrecto without. was seized sud-
denly from behind. gagged and
bound. A strong pair ot arms
seized Annette and lifted her from
the floor and bore her. screaming.
from the room.
Three minutes later she was
thrown into q far room In q -
cluded corner OF tho house. Into
the same room were thrown Ines
and Mrs. Hardin and Joe Welchor.
With a sudden wrench Annette
tore loose q board that barricaded
the window. Then her Dyes bright
ened. Look" she cried. "The
marines--they come. Neal! Neal!"
Her shout was not heard. Of
course. but It was accompanied
with the wave Of q white handker.
chief. Neal. at tho head Of the
squad. saw it-Snd the squad
pressed forward at double speed.
Below. among the insurrectos,
Annette could hear the panic. =
The Americanos--the Ameri-
canos-fiee,"
Neal reached the house-saw who
waved the kerchief. With . sud
den bound he leaped upon an arbor.
scrambled and crawled somehow
with some naval trick--up the face
OF the house. manned in the barri-
cade and leaped into the room.
Annette" he cried.
But ut that instant the door Of
the room was burst open and Her
nandez, with Pcnto. and the Brute
and dozen insurrectos. darted In.
TAKE everybody here-including
him." commanded Hernandez. Take
them---you know where. But re-