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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
LARGE CROWD AT
MOTORBOAT SHOW

New York, FEB. 1.-The side shows
attracted most of the visitors at the
Motor Boat Show yesterday, and there
was an endless chain of amateur in
vestigators into the mysteries of wire
less apparatus, volunteers, carbure-
tors, four-cycle and two-cycle en-
gines. and the other necessities and
1uxuries of motor boats.
The number Of separate objects
that are part Of the hydroplane or
the cruiserette was fully appreciated
by those who made the rounds of the
exhibits on the sides of the main floor
and on the mezzanine gallery.
Most of the motor boat enthusiasts
were interested in the various devices
for aVerting trouble or for getting out
of it. and consequently the self-start-
ing equipments, the clog1esS OIL
strainers, the unbreakabIe piston
rings, the wrenches that fitted every
size nut at any angle, and other such
novelties were carefully inspected and
criticised. On the mezzanine floor
there were giant searchIights to help
the navigator find his lost course on
foggy nights, and ampere and volt
meters to tell him that his storage
battery had run down. There was
also a fine exhibit of oars and paddles
to emphasize the fact that motor
boats sometimes forget to run on
schedule
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
Fultz Should Know
Modern Ball Players
Do Not Booze Much

Dave F'u1tz president of the Base
ball Players Fraternity, apparently
lacks appreciation of the morals
broadly speaking, as well as the COM
mon sense of performers in the big
arena, as we'll as in the minor leagues
writes N B. Beas1ey in the Detroit
Journal
<Fultz, according to the latest edict
is calling upon the members of the
Fraternity-and players in general
to refrain from spirituous liquors. In
other words, F'ultz favors complete So
briefly, in season and out, for the dia-
mond performers.
F'ultz ceased being an active player
some years ago; at that time it is ad-
nitted that ball players, as a rule
were not active opponents of the pro-
hibition movement. In recent years.
however, there has been a wave of
understanding. No longer do major
1eaguers stand up to bars and inbibe
freely and Fundamentally of the
bowl that cheers.
In the first place, the game is SO
fast that dissipation is prohibited in
the minds of those who seek success
Ninety-nine per cent. of the major
league ball players of this day realize
that their present living as well as
their future to great extent, depends
upon the quickness of eye, the deft-
ness of hand and the sureness of
foot
They are in the game for what it
holds for them. They want to stay
as long as they can. The only way
they can realize on their hopes is
to maintain a, strict code of living
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
School For Umpires
Starts In Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Feb. 2-John Heydler,
secretary of the National league, is
gath ering facts about the school for
umpires which is a part of the public
school course of Cincinnati, to ad-
vance the idea of having similar
classes made a part of school courses
in every city in the country.
The purpose is to make unpiring a
profession, provide graduates with di-
p1omas, just like lawyers and doctors,
and prepare young men to earn the
good salaries paid competent UNI
pires.
The teachers are Billy Hart, former
National league umpire, and Billy
Carpenter, international league UNI
pire. Glasses are held one night each
week and the course runs 20 weeks.
The teachers are each paid SIS a night,
SO by the board of education and 81
by the Greater Cincinnati Amateur
Baseball Association.
Persons desiring to enter the sch DOL
must furnish a certificate from an
oculist showing the results of an eye
test, must be free. from deformity or
physical weakness, must have a, voice
adapted to the work, and must state,
in case he has played ball, the posi-
ton he has filled, so it can be deter
mined if pitchers and catchers make
the best umpires-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
CURLEY REFUSES
TO LET RICHARD
STAGE BIG FIGHT

New York, Feb. 2.-Tex Rickard
and his partner, Sam McCracken, the
promoters, who have offered $4,000
igor a Willard-Moran ten-round bout
here, held another conference yester-
day with Jack Cur1ey, in whose hands
the awarding of the bout rests. Rick
he should be given the right to pro-
mote the bout because his offer to
the champion and Moran was larger
than that of Curley.
The Richard offer was again reject
ted by Curley, who insists he will
manage the bout himself, if it is held.
The Curley interests maintain that
they went to much expense and trou-
BILE in the preliminary work of ar
ranging the match and they do not
propose to let any one else benefit
from the fruits of their 1abors.
ct travelled half way around the
world before I could find a place for
Willard to fight johnson, and I guess
I can do that again, if it is necessary,
before another bout can be made for
Willard. We stand ready to give Mo-
ran $4,000 and a percentage of the
moving pictures and a. short time ago
he stated that this amount would be
satisfactory
Moran was recently at his home in
Pittsburgh and while there he gave
out a, statement in which he said that
he was willing to accept $4,000 for
the bout and that his only object was
to get a chance to box the champion.
CurIey said yesterday that he would
take no more trouble about giving the
match to Moran, but would go ahead
and pick out the most likely candidate
to box the champion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
Scout Kehoe Didn't
Like 1915 Minor Crop

Mike Kahoe. former. scout for the
Washington team, but who now does
gumshoe work for the Boston Braves,
evidently didn't think very much Of
the minor league crop of 1915 says
Billy Evans. One would think that
making all the bush towns in the
United States would strip a man OF
any hunor he might have, but Mike
appears to have retained some of his
droll Irish. wit. Late last summer
bumped into him after he had re-
turned from a scouting expedition that
had covered a number of western mi
nor leagues.
stHave you seen any stars this sum
mer, Nike I asked.
"a lot of them he answered Ny
curiosity was aroused, for Kahoe al
ways successful in digging up young
phenoms, evidently had picked up
some new ones.
(''In what leagues did you see them %
I queried.
I'm the American and National he
answered without even cracking a
smile.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
DILLON PUTS TOM
.C0WLER AWAY IN
THE SECOND ROUND

New York. Feb. Pack Dillon is
undoubtedly one of the greatest men
of his weight in the history of the
none too strong walls of the Broad
way Sporting club to bulge outward
like the sails of a ship in strong
wind. Dillon knocked out Tom Cowler
last night in less than two rounds of
fighting.
AS matter of fact, about two
minutes of the second round had
passed when Dillon swung an over
hand right that was as sudden as an
April shower and possessed, the
crushing power of an avalanche. It
landed squarely on Cow1er's jaw and
Tom landed on his head and should
erss in corner of the ring.
The subsequent proceedings inter-
ested him no more. He did not at
tempt to get to his feet for the reason
that at that moment he was in no
condition to realize that he had any
feet. If some dim sensation perme-
ated his slumbering consciousness. it
could only have been a vague idea
that somebody had suddenly turned
the lights out and it was time for
sleep
His handlers climbed into the ring
and carried him to his corner, where
they applied restoratives: It was a
couple of minutes before Cowler re-
allied where he was and what had
happened.
In the first preliminary bout Cow
boy Bill Shanks defeated Larry Will
liams of Philadelphia in rather easy
fashion. Williams was a happy boxer
when he heard the bell which signal
led the end of the, last round.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
RED MURRAY, OLD
GIANT STAR, GOES
BACK TO MINORS

Chicago, Feb. 1.-Two more Chi
cago players have been added to the
roster of the Kansas City club of the
American Association. They are Jack
(''Red'') Murray, formerly of the New
York Nationals, last year with the
old Cubs, and Charles Hanford, with
the Chicago Federals last season.
Both are out1eIders, and were pur-
chased from President Weeghnan by
Danny Shay, manager of the Kansas
City club, it was announced yester-
day. The purchase price was not
given out.
New York, Feb. 2-The passing of
old Jack Murray from the National
League will be sincerely regretted by
his many friends and admirers in this
city, especially by those living in Har-
lem, where Jack was a great favOrite-
After joining the Cubs last season
Jack was one of the most popular
players ito appear on the Polo
Grounds, and it will be long time
before the Polo Grounds fans forget
that great right arm which shot.
down so many players at the plate.
Though Murray put in 10 years in
the National League. Jack still should
have lot of good baseball left in
month. Jack attracted attention
while playing with the Notre Dame
University team, and was signed by
the st. Louis Cardinals in 1906.
Like Snodgrass and Burns, his fu-
ture mates in the New York outfield,
Murray started as a catcher, but
Manager McCIoskey of the Cardinals
soon shifted him to the outheId- He
became a star in 1908, and during the
winter of 19O8-9 he was traded to the
Giants with Bugs Raymond and Ad-
rniraI SchIei for Roger Bresnahan-
Murray played with the Giants
over six years, and was big factor
on the Giant champion aggregatiOns
of 1911 1912 and 1913. He always
was a clean, earnest player, who gave
no trouble, and always gave his club
the best that was in him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02

Harry G. Pul1iam of New York be-
came president as we'll as secretary in
1908 After his death in 1909 Secre-
tary John A. Heydler was the execu-
tive for a brief period, pending the
election to the presidency of Thomas
J Lynch of New Britain, Conn. Lynch
was dethroned in 1913, when the Hon.
John K. Tener, Governor of Pennsy1-
'vania and former bail player, assumed
the job.
William A. Hubert, the Chicago
magnate, was the author of the Ma
tional League project The old Ma
t1ona1 Asso citation, the pioneer profess
siona1 league, was in a bad way, due
to the gambling and other evils which
had attached themselves t othe game
The men who favored clean sport took
eagerly to the idea, and at the Louis
vile meeting Hubert and Charles A.
Fowle of st. Louis were given power
of attorney to represent the Louisville
and G cinnati clubs, as well as those
OF. Chicago and st. Louis, at the New
York gathering. The late A. G.
Spalding also took a prominent part
in the organization. President Thomp-
son of the Philadelphia Athletics, APP
po1onioN of Boston, Cammeyer of the
New York Mutua1s, and Buckley of
Hartford, joined with the western
magnates in launching the league.
In the four decades of it's existence
the National League has had clubs in
twenty-five different cities. including,
besides the present lineup, Cleveland
Baltimore, Washington, Louisville, De-
troit, Worcester, Troy, Buffalo, In
dianapolis, Providence, Milwaukee,
Syracuse, Kansas City and Hartford.
Only Chicago and Boston have been
continuously represented from the
first season of the league
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
TO NAME JONES
FOOTBALL COACH
AT YALE TONIGHT

New Haven. Feb. 2-Tad Jones
will be formally confirmed as Yale's
new head football coach tonight A
special meeting. of the general athletic
committee of the university has been
called to ratify the report of the
special football committee, consisting
of Vance Mccormick. Brink Thorne
and John Fitzpatrick
The report was filed last Friday
with Prof. Robert Corwin, chairman
of the general athletic committee.
The report. will also contain a
RECOMMENDATION that Michael F.
sweeney, formerly worlds champion
high Jumper, and later track and
FOOTBALL coach at Hill School, be en-
gagged as athletic squad councllor.
The report is known to contain
other recommendations for the estab-
fishing of a new system of football
coaching at Yale. The special com
uaittee will probably be asked to con-
time its existence till football is put
on a new basis at Yale No DOUBT Is
felt at Yale over the prompt ratlnca-
ton offJones' appointment
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
B. H. S. BOYS IN
N. Y. TRACK MEET

The five members of the B. H. ST.
track team who will be sent to re-
resent the. local high school at the
@nterschoIasttc track meet at New
York on February 5, are rapidly get
ting into condition under the leader
ship of coach Louis Kochiss.- The
squad has been crippled by the loss
of MARBLE, who has had to undergo
an operation and will be unable to
make the trip. The five men who will
go are: Blanchard, Dohd, Eastwood,
Me1keus and Thayer.
Warriors members may be seen run
ming about the streets in their gym
sYf1s under the direction OF Mr.. Koch
So. For several days now they have
entertained the crowd which passes
through Gilbert street. Men and wo-
men pass by with their collars turned
up and their hands in their pockets
and SILVER at the sight of the scanti1y
clad athletes. But the boys don't
mind either the cold or the pedes-
TRANS remarks, so intent are they
upon getting into shape for the big
meet.
This is the first of a series of meets
In which the local boys will compete,
the later ones being in Hartford
Stamford and New Haven Although
the fellows are all novices and will be
handicapped. they viii try hard to car
ry off a number Of events.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
Camel and Brewer
May Buy Worcester
Baseball Franchise

Worcester, Feb. 2-Negotiatiens for
the purchase of the Worcester Base
ball club were reopened with Owner
Paul McHa1e,~ Monday night, by H. T.
Brewer, former secretary Of the dis
banded Federal league. Brewer made
g. hurried trip from New York ITO see
Mr.. McHa1e. The price placed upon
the club was satisfactory to him, the
only hitch being the securing of
grounds. If Frank H. Bige1ow will
give Brewer a lease on the grounds in
Shrewsbury street, it is believed that
McHale will either become associated
with or sell outright to Brewer.
Should satisfactory engagements be
made and Brewer secure the Worces-
ter club it is believed that John Gan
EEL a veteran player and former man
ager of the disbanded Brookfeds, Will
become associated with him in the
local team and manage it from the
bench Camel, it is understood, will
be paid in full for his services by Mr..
Ward which means that he will have
a lump sum to invest in baseball. He
is not wanted in the International
league and, upon the recommendation
of Brewer, will probably interest him
self in baseball in Worcester. He
has a long contracts with the Federal
league when he assumed the manage
ment of the Brookfeds and succeeded
Lee Magee.
Camel is we'll known in baseball
circles. He was at one time manager
and first baseman of the New York
Americans and later was manager of
the Cincinnati team. He piloted the
Rochester International league club
for six years, during which time he
landed two remnants. He has de-
veloped some star players for the ma
jors, and is regarded as one of the
cIeverest managers among the smaller
, organizations in the country.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
BLACK LIKELY TO
RESIGN AS CAPTAIN
OF YALE eleven

New Haven, Feb. PIT is currently
reported that Cupid Black, captain
elect of the Yale football eleven, is
planning upon resigning. Scholastic
difficulties are given as the reason
Y Black experienced difficulties with
his studies when a freshman. 1t is
reported he has engaged special tu-
tors and is in high hopes of raising
his average above the required mark.
Blacks resignation, however, is ex-
pected within the next few days, and
it appears practically certain that
s'Chub'' Sheldon will be elected his
successor. Sheldon was Blacks lead
ing candidate in the football election
at the close of the 1915 season.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02

and recently defeated Willie Ritchie
in a we1terweight bout. Since coming
to America Lewis has made a great
reputation, Jack Britton, Joe MandOt.
Young Say1or, Jimmy Duffy and other
good men being among his victims
The Kid became featherweight cham
pion of England at the age of IT.
After the Til fight he challenged Fred
die Welsh, and posted $4,000, but
Freddie couldn't see it. Lewis then
went to Australia and cleaned up
there, landing in America in the lat
ter part of 1914 Since then he has
been scrapping at weights ranging
from the lightweight to the middle
weight At the moment of rushing to
press the Londoner hooks like a real
find, for he has developed a punch
since crossing the pond.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
449 494 474 1417
National League
Passes Its F'ortieth
Milestone Today

CahlifIowered-ea and battle
SCARED but still very much alive, the
National League will pass it's fortieth
milestone today. Although the ban
ouet IN New York, which will com
memorate the rounding out of two
score years by the oldest of baseball
organizations, will not% be pulled off
until next week, this is the actual an
niversary, as it was on Grounding
Day in 1876, the centenary of Ameri-
can independence, that the magnates
met in the old Broadway Central Hotel
in New York to complete the organ
ization of the circuit. A secret ses-
sion of the baseball moguls had been
held in Louisville about a month be-
FORE when the preliminary plans were
marked the actual launching of the
baseball ship which has since weather.
ed so many gales. -.t
OF the modern stars of the majors,
very few were alive whe nthe Ma
tiona1 League was born. Honus Wag-
ner was nearly two years old at that
time, and Napoleon Lajoie and Eddie
Plank were playing ''bawF' in the
arms of their mothers. Old 'Cy"
Young, who hasn't been out of the
game so long but that he is remem-
bered by even the younger fans, had
then attained the mature age of eight.
OF the original players of the Ma
tionaI League, only a comparative few
are living. These vets of the Grand
Army of Baseball have been invited
to take a prominent part in the big
feed at the National Leagues birth
day party
Since it's organization the National
League has had eight presidents and
three secretaries. The Hon. Morgan
G.. Buckley, who was elected the first
chief of the league at the meeting forty
years ago, served but one year. Will
liam A. Hubert of Chicago, the real
father of the league and the prime
mover in it's organization, died in 1882,
and was succeeded by A. G. Mills, of
New York. The Iatter's adninistra-
ton lasted two years, when Nicholas
E. Young, of Washington, who had
been secretary of the league from the
first, succeeded to the presidency.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
AUTO FASTEST IN
GOING MILE SHOWN
BY NEW RECORDS

Records for mile. compiled by
George Moreland, statistician, show
4be automobile still the fastest of all
The fastest time in which a mile
was ever covered is % 2-5 seconds by.
an auto driven by Bob BurInan IN
DAYTON, in 1911 1t was a straight
a.way dash. The fastest time by an
aeroplane was % So seconds, by N.
Provost, in Rheims, France
Outside of the auto and aeroplane,
the fastest mile was made on a mo-
torcycIe, SO seconds, by L. Hun1dston
IN Los Angeles in 1912 and next. comes
4 mile in 81 seconds by the Empire ex-
press train of the New York Central
lines in 1891.
other mile recordsa
Trotting CGelding)z Uh1an, 1858;
(nnare) Lou Dillon, 1:58 L.; (stallion)
The Harvester POL; to wagon, Lou
Dillon, 200; under saddle, Country
lay. 2:O8 IA; with running mate, Uh-
Ian. 1884 1-2: teams Uhlan and Lewis
Forest, 2:O3 IA.
Bidyclin g-Motor- paced competition,
Bobby Wa1thour, 1859; against time,
Alfred Goullet, 1:51; competition, p
H Hehir, 1:47 3-5; tandem, Grenda,
Rewing-With tide James SLAMS
busy, APPS eight-oared crew, Malta
crew. 4:3o IL.
Running Professional, w G. George,
4:12 81; amateur, Norman Tabor
4:12 s-5; indoor amateur. Abel Kiviat,
Ala Is; relay team, Long, Lyons
Burke. Wefers, 1871 2-5.
Roller skating-Flat track, Rodney
Peters. -2:46< rs; banked track, Clar-
ence Hamilton, 2:27 rs. Ice, straight
away, Norval Baptie, 2:O8; amateur.
indoor competition, Bobby Mclean,
2:35 4-5
Motor boat-Disturber, o:5s
Pacing-CGeIding Frank Bogash,
0r.. 1853 Ia; (mare)- Darrell, 200 IA;
tstaIlion) Dan Patch, 1:55 Ia; to wag-
on. Dan Patch, 1:57 Ia; under saddle,
mate, Flying Jib. 1:58 IA; teams, Mi
nor Heir and, George Gano, POP; in
races. fastest heat. Directum I, 1:58.
Running horses-Caiman. 1:33 1-5;
hurdle race. Governor Boyd. AZ.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
I'D LATEST TIDINGS FROM SHORTHAND
SPORT TALK
HANDED OUT
BY WAGNER

house. He can sell baseballs and such
to the Braves at reduced rates now.
The annual winter campaign to do
away with the short right field fence
in the Philadelphia National league
| park is again. Other clubs in the
league say that because the PhiIlies
play II games on this field they have
a big advantage because their slug
gers can drop the ball over the bar
rier for home runs Other teams only
play II games each at this park. 1t
has been suggested that the fence be
built higher. The fact that the Phil
lies led the league in home runs caused
most of the rumpus.
Erickson, a pitcher who was once
taken south with the Giants, has been
sold to the Detroit Tigers by Harry
Sinclair, the Federal magnate. Erick-
son was sent to Rochester by the Gil
ants last year but at the close of the
season jumped to the Federa1s.
There will be a big time in Cincin-
natl when the New York Americans
play, there April 1. Neil Brady, re-
cruit pitcher, and Outf1eIder Lee Ma
gee of the Yankees are Cincinnati
boys There will be nothing to mar
the festivities unless somebody calls
Magee by his right name, Leopold
IFIornschmeyer. Brady is a, youngster
VINO starred IN the IexaS league last
year. He is six feet tall and weighs
1872.
Ray Fisher, the former Hartford
pitcher now with the New York Amer
leans, thinks the Yankees will do well
the coming season. Last year was
the best I had since I went into the
J big league" Fisher says. ct hope to
repeat this year and may do even
better because with Magee in the line
up we look to have a much stron ger
combination. Then if Baker could be
landed, things would look brighter
! STILL
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
Prizes in Cat show

At the Silver Society cat show in
New York, last week, the Greenwich
Cat Kennels carried off ten or twelve
of the best prizes. The affair was
for the benefit of the New York
Women's League for Animals There
were aristocratic cats from all over,
and they were valued at from $50 to
over $1,000 apiece.