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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
COBB GEL LEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY
 MAJORS TODAY

Detroit Aug. 26.-Tyrus R. Cobb, of ten referred to as the greatest baseball player in the world, today celebrated tho tenth anniversary of his debut as a major league player. No special ceremeny was planned by Detroit fans to mark sthe occasion, but 1t was ex- pected that Cobb would receive an un-s usual demonstration-an probably something moro substantial-from his nds this afternoon when he stepped tok-the2p plate in the last game of the amnortant series with. Boston
 Cobbss path of fame which he b1azed for himself, has probably never been eqtzalIed in the history of baseball. For eight consecutive season he has been champion batsrnan of the Ameri- can league His average for the pres etn season is about 1880, and it seems almost a human impossibiIity for any of hls4r1yals to wrest down the crown ss'slE frop hin 11ss5l2 t2is No batter has
 s9m August s26, 1905, taH. nervous appearing yooth of nineteen from the Augusta club, in a Class c league, donned a, Detroit uniform and was sent to centerfieId by Manager Bill Armour to replace Dick Cooley The payer was Cobb; Cooley never got Anis Jo0 back. Cobb became regular that afternoon and has never felt the sting of being benched
 Only once in these ten years has the nightly Tyrus been replaced by a pinch hitter. When Cobb was a young ster, Doc White of the Chicago club WIS his Nemesis. Catcher Freddie Payne was sent to bat for Cobb against White on this single occasion. In 1906, his first fall season, Cobb hit .5z0- That has since ben his low mark. Cobb has always played .1-fe-l,f or f.esr Ter Held- Only one day during his De- troit career did he perform elsewhere. He acted as volunteer second baseman. and Cobb as we'll as Manager Jennings admitted after the game that the infield did ncts1ose anything when the Geor- of him. .A RsIs. -.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
EASTERN GOLFERS PLAY AGAINST WESTERN TEAM
 OVER DETROIT COURSE

A Detroit, Aug. 26-More than a dozen of the greatest amateur golfers in America, playing on teams represent =Eg the east and west expected to give the Detroit Country club course a, T borough try-out today in preparation for the national amateur golf tourna-
 ment, which begins here Saturday. The march was to go 1 8 holes.
 The eastern team of ten men was captained by W. c. Fownes, Jr.. of Pittsburgh. Two of his mates were Francis Ouirnet, national amateur champion and Jerome Travers, nation al open champion. D. E. Sawyer, of Wheaton, H., led the western ten. The -nresence of Charles Evans, Jr., of Chicago. western amateur champion on SaMyer's team, added considerable interest to the event. Travers and C.ui1net are favorites for champion ship honors, while Evans, who also las large following, has been refer :: el to &s the hope of the west. Trav- CTS z-ester day made the course in 75. The record is 72.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26

his title to Al Mccoy.
 1890-George .Contas, (George 'fKnoekout Brown), born at Sparta. Greece.
 18s5-Frank Erne knocked out Jack SkelIy in seventh round at Mas peth, L. I. Gentleman Jack" SkeIIy was then only 25 years old, but a vet eran in ring Knowledge, while Erne was only 20 and a comparative novice at the game About three years be- fore Skel1y had fought George Dixon for the 1featherweight championship and a $17,5oo purse at New Orleans. but had been defeated. Erne proved himself easily the master of Gentle man Jack" in the fight at Maspeth. then a, favoriteS pugilistic center for the New York fans, and in the sev- enth round Jack was stretched out for the count. Ske1ly was of the opinion that his defeat by the Buffalo boy was a. huke, and Erne soon oblig- ed him with another chance. In the second bout Ske1ly managed to hold out nine rounds. when he was again knocked out. His fights with Erne practically ended Skel1y's career as a ring star, but he is still prominent as an authority on the Diff game.
 1S86-Hughie Iehegan, Australian lightweight boxer. born at. Melbourne
 19e4-Jim Jeffries knocked out Jack Monroe in sevond round at San Fran cisco.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
YALE HAS PLENTY
 OF LINE MATERIAL FOR FOOTBALL TEAM

New Haven, Aug. 26-Yates and fsradcn will be missed from the Yale Va rsi+y 4ine, to be sure, says a Yale man, but if other players appear who are counted on, the Blue will still have fol-rntda ble array of beef and brawn LID forward. Conroy, Walden. Van Holt and Sheldon are all eligible for the SIG team, while Black and Nc Grath, whose prowess as guards on the freshman eleven will be recalled are ready to step into their places on eirher side of the center
 Way, who played guard two or three years asO-chiehy known as a pitcher will be a candidate. it is said, while Vorys, the freshman center; BaIdridge, the powerful tackle, and Kent, a great big fellow from Stevens, are eligible.
 Mose1ey and Allen, who held down the freshman eleven end positions last season, are counted upon heavily. while EIgginbothan, Wiedeman, Pot ter, Church and Nichols are ends with experience; with LeGore, Easton, Sco- vii, Guernsey, Waite, Wilson, Burgess, Malcolm and Bingham Hutchinson and Thompson, from the 1915 fresh man tca1n. as baekfeld candidates
 IeffeIfnger. says Dr. Bull, will not be the regular line coach, after all. he having secured a position which will keep nj1n pretty much occupied this fall However, he will drop into New Haven from time to time Nelson Talbot end Marting will be the regu- lar fine coaches, with occasional visits from Ned Glass and other former Yale stars.
 It was hoped that Henry Ketchazn could do some coaching among the center men this year, but he left for the west this week to enter upon his profession as engineer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
YANKEES TRY
 NEW FIELDER
 AT CLEVELAND

C1eveIandkoH HOhFG gyAug. 26-Bobby Roth wanted to make Cleveland fans forget all about Joe Jackson yester- day. He wanted to be a hero by winning a game apparently lost to the ankees The stage was most ap- propriately set with two on the bases and two out, in the ninth inning But Bobby was a trifIe too eager. He swung his bludgeon on the first ball that Ray Fisher served to him and drove a long fly to centre, and the game was over, New York winning, 8 to 2. Fisher was in good form.
 It was Ed Klepfer's first game for Cleveland, and if the ex-White Sox hurler had not possessed4 a great throwing arm the encounter might have gone beyond the allotted nine innings In the fifth inning Ed was called upon to make a. throw to first base Only for the right field wall the ball might be going yet.
 It was an unfortunate error, for otherwise Hepfer stood a splendid chance of delivering a victory upon his first appears ancein the box as an Indian, as in only two innings was he hit safely. In those two rounds the Yankees managed to push three runs across, just enough to win the game. Ffves hits were all he allowed Not a pass did he issue. ,a
 New York introduced a new centre feldersiTa the person of Shelton, late of the Columbus. American Association team. Donovan grabbed Sh elton be cause of his base running ability, as the fielder heads the A A. in stolen bases He had no chance to run to- day for the simple reason he did not get on base. But he did play a great game in centre field. making seven Uutott
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
ANNIVERSARIES
 OF RING BATTLES
1888-George

1S88-George Chipu1onis, whose name for ring purposes has been ab-
 breviated to George Chip, born at Scranton, Pa. Chip early had one on his shoulder and after licking all the boys of his neighborhood decided to go into the fighting busiiess when he was 20 years old. His debut was very successful and he went along without defeat for some time, but in 1910 he was knocked out by Buck Grouse. the Pittsburgh nSiddleweight. He was defeated by Jack Dillon, the Hoosier fighter, at Dayton, in 1911, but in two subsequent bouts that year made a good showing against Dillon. He was defeated again in 1912 by Jeff Smith After that Chip hit up a good pace and after a 1eug series of victories he was matched in October, 1913, with Frank Klaus, then the middleweight championship claimant He knocked Klaus out in the sixth round, and repeated the trick a cou- pie of months later. but last year los.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26

in the field and a great streak of bat ting strength that gave him an aver age of .341 for twenty-four games.
 In 1914 Frank Chance soured on GilhooIey in short order. Gilhooley got into bad odor with Chance by taking matters easy in the training camp, and it wasn't very long before GiIhooley was sent to the Buffalo Internationals in a trade whereby Frank Truesda1e came to the Tanks and Lester Channel went to the Bi- sons with GiIhooley. Truesdale was last spring released to Jersey City, while Channel, according to a report last night, has been sold to the Pitts burgh Nationals.
 With Buffalo last year Gilhoo1ey hit for .310, while this season he has slammed for an average of $40.
 Gi1hooley some time ago was re- ported to have been sold to the Red Sox, but evidently the Boston club has relinquished whatever claim it had to the, player: under orders from headquarters.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
For First Time in
 History Worcester Has
 Transferred Contests
Worcester Post.)


 It was announced by Secretary Joh1 J. O'Donnen of the Worcester Base ball club that satisfactory arrange snents have been made for the trans fer of the games carded for Boulevard park for the remainder of the season As the ball players have to depend upon the money taken in at the gate for their salaries, such an arrange
 nent was forced upon them. At first it was believed that the games sched-s u1ed for this city would be played here and that the fans would respond but Mondays attendance figures of 100, showed plainly that the fans were through.
 This is the first time in the history of Worcester that games have been Transferred from the city. Close fol- lowers of the game blame the affair upon the poor management of the league. The blame might easily be placed upon the shoulders of the off1- cia1s of the circuit.
 They have allowed everything i'm agina ble, including fights on the hall field, and have made nc attempt to ball and poor discipline resulted when the league was not much better off. but when discipline in general was much better, Worcester was one of the few clubs in the league that managed to come out about even. Poor management has had a tendencv to- drive away fans.
 Six hundred thousand flies have been killed in the village of Peapack. N J., by the young people engaged in a fly-ki1ling contest
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
NICKALLS TO
 COME BACK AS
 COACH AT YALE

Boston, Aug. 26s = Uncertainty whether Guy N1ckaIls, the profession al rowing coach at Yale, would re- turn from England to coach the Blue oarsmen this fall was dispe1Ied by Capt. Seth Low, Jr., of the Yale crew yesterday. In a letter to a friend in this city, Low said:
 MT. Nickalls sent me W~~d that he would be on hand again this fall to coach the Yale crew Rowing will start immediately after the opening of college, and it is planned to have some outside race during the early part of November"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
THE YANKEE SCOUTS.

Perhaps the best scouting staff DOS sessed by any major league club is that of the New York Yankees. Toe Kelley, the hard-hitting outfeIder of the old pennant-winning Baltimore Orioles, is the chief,-and he is ahIv assisted by Duke Farrell. who caught for Ned Hanlon's Superbas when they landed the pennant for Brooklyn, and George Davis, once one Of the. star shortstops of the game. Davis, who passed his forty-tffth milestone this week, was born in Co., hoes, N. Y, and gained his greatest diamond fame while with the Giants He led the shortstops of the National League in fielding in 1899, 1900 and 19OI' Tor nine straight years, from 1893 to 1901 he batted over the 300 mark His highest mark, in 1893. was ,373
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
Wagner's Watch Tower

man But Owner somers of Cleveland says he will build up a new club around Graney, Chapman and Pitcher Morton so he does not intend to part with them.
 Gabby. cravath of the Phillies has made 19 home runs this season. This equals the records h. made in 1913 and 1914. Of course the short fence in Philadelphia helps him greatly in pill ing up circuit smashes but he makes sonic on the road, too.
 A denial of. the story that the Grand circuit races at the Empire City Race issued. It was alleged that the stalls at the track had become infected when horses purchased for European armies had been stabled there. Owners of the track say the harness meeting will take place next week as scheduled. :, Officials of the United States Lawn Tennis association anonunced today that the match between F.. Alexander former national doubles champion and Davis Cup player. and Nathaniel W. Niles of Boston. probably would be given the place of honor at the open ing of the national tournament at. For est Hills next Monday.
 Jimmy Clabby, the niddleweight boxer, left for San Francisco today to sail for Australia on August 31 He has been matched to boxs1es Darcy, an Australian who recently knocked out Eddie McGoorty, of Oshkosh, Wis The contest is for the rniddleweight championship.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
Cobb Has Stolen
 More Bases Than
 Whole Phila. Club

Ty Cobb has swiped more bases this season than all the members of the Philadelphia tenn put together
 Ty, on latest figures has pilfered 65 bags, while the combined efforts of the Phils has netted 63 steals.
 The Phils have been able to hold first place for a long time despite their failure to steal bags. The pitchers have held opponents to a small mum Der of runs and the Phil batsmen have slugged the ball hard enough to get runners around the sacks with out the aid of thievery.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26

At the present writing the Boston Red Sox appear to have that Amer ican league pennant. packed away in moth balls. By their IS inning vic tory over Detroit yesterday they in creased their already generous lead and as they encounter only Cleveland and Philadelphia on their journey homeward there doesn't appear to be very much opposition in their path.
 The Phillies frightened their grip on first place in the National league This is quite triumph when you con sider how fast Cincinnati has been going. The Braves reeIed off their sixth straight victory and only the fact that the Brooklyns broke even with St. Louis prevented the Braves from getting second place.
 New. zrk fans will not regret the passing of Rube Marquard to the mi- nors. He was never very popular with the crowds and he queered himself ab- solutely when he jumped to the Fed erals last. winter. As the New York American said today, Its a long alley that has no ash can.''
 The Giants have acquired Catcher Bobby scfang by the waiver route from the- Pirates. He is a brother of Wally Sehang of the Athletics but has never shown as much ability as Wally.
 Seeing that Cleveland was selling players to the White Sox, the New York Americans tried to buy a few yesterday but as usual there was noth- ing stirring They wanted to get Out fielder Graney and Shortstop Chap
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
STANDING OF THE CLUES.
GAMES TO-DAY.

New York in Cleveland. Boston in Detroit.
 Philadelphia in St. Louis. Washington in Chicago.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26

Dr. William F. Muhlenberg,s a prom inent Pennsylvania surgeon died at Reading. He was 62 years old.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
STANDING OF THE CTIJBs-
GAMES TO-DAY.

Buffalo in Newark. Kansas City in Pittsburgh. St. Louis in Chicago.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26

EoqFtaen tI1euaands GathoIic Arrnen- iars were Fepar4ed exeepted by drown Ing in the Black Sea by the Turkish military authorities
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26

The lower house of the Alabama. legislature defeated a, bill providing Tor the. submission of the woman s1lf- frage question to the voters at the next general election
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26

Six hundred thousand flies have been killed in the village of Peapack, N J., by the young people engaged in a fly-kilIing contest
Evening star., 1915-06-06

VINO Is buried at Arlington cemetery,
ana Tor whom Harden Camp is named.
Last Monday the camp marched in a
body with the colors to Lieut.. Hard
en- grave and Conrade Harlow. who
served with Lieut.. Harden in Cuba.
made short address. Chaplain Jen-
kins pronounced the benediction.
All comrades of the Col. James s.
Petit Camp. No. ;. have been urgently
requested to be present at the meet
ing Tuesday evening. as an election of
officers will he held.
Maj. r. l.. Longstreet was one of the
orators on Decoration day at the me
mortal exercises at Arlington. The
camp as whole was well represented.
All who partook of the luncheon
served by the Lineal Society of the
Spanish War and the auxiliaries of the
L. S. w. V. at their tents at Arlington
were loud in their praises Two out
ings will be held in July-the depart
ment excursion to Marshall Hall on the
18th and the camps excursion to Ches
apeake Beach on the 23d.
meeting of the Grand Lair of the
District of Columbia of the Military
Or.ler of the Serpent" will be held this
month for the election of officers and
for the transaction of important busi
ness. Date and place of meeting are
to be announced later
Evening star., 1915-06-06

The Rebekafl degree will be conferred
by the degree team of Martha Wash
ington Lodge. No. 3, tomorrow even
ing, under the direction of Degree Di-
rector Maj. w. J. Rogers. The lodge
recently gave lawn fete at the home
of Mrs. VIII. 645 9Th street northeast,
which was attended by a large num-
of members and their friends. The ta-
bles were decorated in the colors of
the degree-pink and green. Dancing
and games were features in the par
lors. music being furnished BY the or
chestra of the lodge. The fete was
pronounced a success.
Fidelity Rebekah Lodge, No. I. at the
conclusion of its business session
Tuesday evening celebrated it's first
anniversary with a program contribut-
ed by members of the order, as fol-
lows: Duet. Mr.. and Mrs. Nandershaft;
song, Miss Mabel Caldwell; piano solo,
Miss Catherine Morrison; vocal solo,
Harry Andersen. accompanied by Miss
Jarboe. President Annie E. Grigsby de-
livered an address upon the teachings
of the degree. Refreshments were
Fidelity Lodge is the youngest Re
bekah Lodge of this jurisdiction and
has had prosperous year. Its mem
bers are Jealous workers and, it is said,
the lodge bids fair to become one OF the
most active lodges Of the Rebekah AS
Sembly.
Naomi Lodge, No. 1, and Ruth Lodge,
NO. 2, will hold a joint installation Of
officers at their first regular meeting
the last term of the year will be in
stalled The president of the Rebekah
Assembly and her corps of officers have
been invited to perform the ceremonies,
and as this will be the first installa-
ton by the assembly officers the meet
ing will be held in the encampment
room of l. Q. o. F. Hall All members
are invited to be present.
Dorcas Lodge. No. 4, entertained the
members of Martha Washington Lodge.
No. 3: Miriam Lodge. No. 6: Fidelity
Lodge. No. Z, and Forestville Lodge of
Maryland at it's last meeting. The en-
tertainment committee presented an in
teresting program. Games and refresh
inents followed. President Annie E.
Grigsby and ice President Anna Billings
of the Rehekah Assembly We're present
and addressed the meetings. AT the
next meeting the degree team, under
the direction Of Degree Director w j.
Hope. will confer the degree upon sew
eral candidates.
The theater party recently given by
the Rebekah Assembly. with Vice Pres
fdent Anna Billings as chairman, is re-
ported TO have been the largest theater
party ever given by the order. The
committee was heartily congratulated
upon it's success.
The last meeting of Esther Lodge. No
5, was purely social, it being time for
the men on the entertainment commit
tee to furnish the entertainment. Some
unique surprises were presented.
Messrs Johnson and Andersen were
congratulated on their success. The
evening was spent pleasantly and re-
freshments were served in the banquet
hall. All members were requested to
keep in mind the grand all-day excur-
sion to Marshall Hall Wednesday,
June %.
Evening star., 1915-06-06
NTR!g1IT!G; g1IT;g g2E9HER !;R

At the meeting of Camp No. 1
Wednesday evening it was decided to
join Camp No. 2 in its annual me-
mortal service to be held Sunday.
June 20, at Gorsuch Church. ~ and
L streets southwest. The committee
has made final arrangements and
urged all members of the order and
visiting camps to be present
The sovereign officers of the order
visited Potomac Council at IIarpers
Ferry last Sunday, accompanied by
large delegation of members of the
various local councils. Representatives
from Frederick City Council and
Monumental Council of Baltimore were
also in attendance in goodly numbers.
The visitation to Potomac Council by
the sovereign body has become semi
annual occurrence. and is anticipated
with interest The reports brought
back from Potomac Council Indicate
it is in a prosperous condition.
pating fund will hold a meeting at
$40 18th street northwest today at IL
am. All members of the board have
been urged to attend this meeting.
The election of officers by the
councils will be held the
evening of the last regular meeting
of June The entire membership has
been requested to be present at the
respective councils on that evening.
The time and place of meeting of the
various District councils are as fol-
lows: Pioneer Council. S23 Louisiana
avenue northwest, Friday: a:So pm:
southwest. Saturday, 1870 pm, and
Empire Council, Sth and l streets
Monday, 1880 pm.
Evening star., 1915-06-06
sz222zzlAMONG BeFRATBRNITIBS IN

at its last meeting. with the regular
officers in. their respective stations.
Commander Louis II. Meyers received
numerous congratulations on the work.
Grand Commander Edwin r. HasSe. a
number of grand commandery officers
and delegations from sister commander
les were present.
King Solomon Lodge. No. 81, Wednes-
day afternoon presented the F. c. de-
gree, at the conclusion of which Rev.
DIR. Abram Simon gave fifteen minute
talk on the lessons taught.
Acting Master Archibald J. Rose an
nouilced there would be several members
from other lodges accompany the King
Solomon delegation to New York city
Tuesday, June 20. to he present at the
fiftieth annil ersary of st. Cecile Lodge.
No sos. and that it was expected that
throughout the country would he rep
resented
Past Master Bert V Wolfe who is
president of the Association Of Worship
tul Masters of 1919. accepted. in behalf
Of the officers of the association, an invi-
tatton to have the 1913 masters present
the NJ NJ. degree in the daylight lodge
at the July communication
The forty-first annual session of the
Ancient Arabic Order Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine. to be held in Seattle
July 1915. will be presided over by
DR.. Frederick r. Smith of Rochester.
n. Y. imperial potentate. DIR. Smith
was inducted into office last summer at
Atlanta, Ga. and has had an unusually
successful reign. The entire program
of gala events at the July gathering
will revolve about him as the leader
of the unmaking order.
Among the cities which have already
entered the lists to entertain the I'm
perial Council of the Mystic Shrine in
1915 is ST I,nIiS Mo which will send
an unusually large delegation from
Moolah Temple, accompanied by bal
loon having a capacity of 10000 cubic
feet. to boost it's claims. st. Louis has
never had the honor of entertaining
the distinguished body. although it met
1901
New York city leads the rest of the
country in entertaining the order, hav-
ing acted as host eight times since its