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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-15
RIBBONS TO PLAY
READING TONIGHT

The Blue Ribbon basketball players
are apt ITO get a beating tonight when
they go against the Reading. Pa. five,
champions of the Eastern league. The
boys from Pennsylvania are said to
be the greatest aggregation that ever
appeared at Colonial hall The East
ern league claims to be fastersthan the
Interstate and the local fans will have
a chance tonight to see for them
selves.
Meyers and o'Donnen of Reading,
have big regulations in Pennsylvania.
The Ribbons will watch them closely
tonight for they have never played
here and their style is apt to fool
the locals. Reading played in New
York last night, which gave Manager
Leavy an opportunity to book them
for their first appearance in this city.
There will be preliminary game at
7:45.
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BRIDGEPORT HAS
PLACE IN MERGER
LEAGUES CIRCUIT

New York Feb.l15- Secretary John
H. Farrell of the National Association
announced aofcia1ly yesterday that. a
successful merger into one league of
10 clubs of the New England League
and the Eastern Association has been
accomplished. FarreHSaeted as chair
man Of special committee with Ed
Barrow and Tim Murnane to thresh
out this minor league tang1e. The
decision was made after a lengthy
conference in this city last week.
The resulting 1Olclub league will be
composed of the cities Of Lowell.
Lawrence. Worcester, Portland and
Lynn of the New England League,
and Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford,
New London and Springfield of the
Eastern Association. J. A. Zeller of
Pittsfeld will receive So, 500 as reim-
buresement for the dissolution of his
franchise and J. H. O'Rourke, presi-
dent of the Eastern Association, is to
get 1000 for, expenses! Manchester
was ordered within o days to satisfy
certain salary claims Of players.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-15
BALTIMORE FEDS
ASK RELIEF FROM
NAT COMMISSION

New York Feb. 15.-The National
Baseball Commission will meet at the
Waldorf-As toria, on Thursday with
John H. Farrell. secretary of the Ma
tional associat ton, and Edward G.
league, to make the final adjustment
league in relation to the minor leagues.
The commission will try to make some
compromise in the complicated situa-
ton in Baltimore, where the Interna-
tional league has fatty refused to
come to any agreement with the Fed
eral league in tha%-city.
When peace plans were arranged in
Cincinnati, one of the terms provided
for was a settlement of the baseball
war in Baltimore as we'll as in other
cities where the Federal league
clashed with the International. The
International league has gone ahead
with its plans and has completely ig-
nored the Baltimore and Buffalo Fed
erals.
Baltimore can see nothing ahead but
complete loss unless the International
league at least consents to- lease the
Federal league park in that city. Jack
Dunn, who owns the Baltimore fran
ehise in the International league, has
decided to build a new park. The COM
mission hopes to effect some sort of
compromise between the warning fac
tionS.
The claim of Charles H Ebbets of
the Brooklyn club, as former owner of
Newark of the international league,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-15
FOL WELL TO HAVE
HARD JOB MAKING
WINNER AT PENN

Philadelphia, Feb. 15=Bob Fo1well
has started work as football coach at
Penn Although rather early to even
think of the gridiron game, the new
tutor decided to get a flying start and
the candidates for the squad are with
him.
F'o1we1. realizes that he has a man $
job on his hands. He was the first
alu1nnus Of Pennsylvania. who had the
nerve to scriticise the coaching meth
DDS used on Franklin Field, and it is
up to him ITO prove that the former
coaches were wrong. He has con-
f1dence in his own ability to turn out
a, winning team and he will have to
make good.
It has been said that F7oIwelI did
considerable boasting before he got
the position as head coach. Critics
have pointed out that the new tutor
uncorked a gorgeous sample of sthot
air. to turn opinion in his favor. But
those who know Folweu intimately
know that this is not the case. Bob
is a game man, is-wiIling to take a
chance, but he never makes rash
statements. This so-ea1led 'fboast-
ing' was a simple statement of fact
and was the same to him as an ordin-
airy man telling another how easy it
is to walk across the street. He
knows what material he has on hand
and he knows the possibilities He
knows that good coaching will put
the Red and Blue back. into the run
ming and he isn't afraid to announce
right now that it is up to him and
he will take the blame if things go
wrong.
Taking it all in all. Bob F'olwen
is gambling with fate. The eyes
of the eastern football world are upon
himl and in less than a year he will
be hailed one of the greatest foot
ball genuises of all time, or bitterly
scored as a failure.
There is no doubt but that FolwelI
is a great coach. The writer has fol-
lowed his work for. years and the
new coach's record bears this out At
Washington and Jefferson last wear.
he took a squad of very green mater
ial and turned out one of the strong
est teams in the east. Before the
season started, he made his famous
rash statement of 'tIn take all of
the blame is this team doesn't beat
Yale" At that time he was laughed
at, as even the most loyal rooters did
not believe that the eleven had a
chance to beat Bethany college. 1t
turned out as Fo1wen predicted, how
ever, and the team went through the
season winning all of the games but
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one.
F'olwen is a modern coach. It was
he who first saw the possibilities of
the short forward pass and worked
it successfully in the Yale game. This
baseball pass revo1utionized the
game last year and was adopted by
all OF the leading coaches before the
season was over Washington and
Jefferson attempted more than 200
forward passes and succeeded in over
half of them. And this came after
his. ttboast.'' II t9s
Now F'olwelk has another JOB ~ Fol
lowers OF the agridiron game expect
big things OF him, and If he succeeds.
they will say, II told you So But
if he faIls-tlle anvil chorus will give
him a terrible pannIng. and George
Brooks, Frank Hfnkey and the others
who have failed, will be Iauded to athe
skies asseoaches who were 'tnnisunder-
stood
But let it be known right here
that FoIweIl is no pikef. He is will
ing to take a chance and also is game
enough to take his medicine without
shifting the blame on the shoulders
of someone else Would that we
had more sboastersss like FolwelL
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-15
SPORTS CONTINUE in EUROPE
DESPITE BIC WAR LOSSES
Vanderbilt Cup Race May Not Be Held This Year
Other Gossip.

New York, Feb. 15-In the midst Of
the great European war the idea of
International sport and competition
win not down The advocates of these
games are constantly advancing plans
for such meetings. to take place dur
ing hostiIities or Immediately follow
ing the declaration of peace It is re-
peated1y pointed out that such friend
~ engagements in the realms of sport
will either help in bringing about
peace or act as balm for the bitter
ness engendered by the conflict.
AN example Of these frequent eff
forts is shown in plans for an inter
natl ona1 sport meeting after the war
to- be held in Holland the land of in
ternati ona1 meetings This interesting
idea is put forward in one of the
leading Dutch newspapers by sport
enthusiast The writer argues that
when peace comes economic necessity
win soon draw the present belhger-
enfs together again and prepare the
way for International sport, which
WIN in its turn react fayorably on the
relations Of those now engaged in so
bttaer a struggle with gun and
h@onet
such International sport meetings,
hoNVever he points OUT call for di-
pfomat1c and careful preparation. One
cannot, for instance, expect to see a
football match Germany versus Brf-
tain in Berlin in the first postwar
season Hence Hollands opportunity
to perform q delicate tasks, with the
sappoff of America and other neu-
trails. by making that country a centre
b cohtaets The aim Of such an inter
ri tfollal neeting would naturally have
~ Be- deiicateiy masked, but once re-
Tnesentatives Of the present belliger-
ents had met on q Dutch playing field
the process would develop of itself
very quickly. leading to a full restora-
ton of the valuable international
sport
no any pessinnist inclined to ask
whether the warning nations viii have
aAlT men TO spare for sport after the
esef1f a1aughter, the writer! points
uS1t that feo4baH is still being played
sek BY week in Britain. that Bel
eLhn eleven quite recently played
leading Hague team that a football
match took place three weeks ago at
Vienna, between Austria and Hungary,
ana that foot ball Isl being regularly
played just behind the fighting front
Further more he states that there are
at present cycle races, cross country
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-15
UMPIRE KLEIN THINKS
STAR PLAYER ENTITLED
TO GET BIG SALARIES

Umpire Bi4K KLEIN Of the National
league staff comes out with a state
ment regarding the value of a star
player to team. He says:
1sTbe ball players to my way OF
thinking are worth every nickel they
can get. just the same as the UNI
pires. They are the men who play the
game, they are the idols Of the fans,
and they deserve a fair share of the
money they bring to the parks. I
have heard a, great deal Of talk con-
denIfing the prices paid by club own
ers for ball players.
t'These men are mostly in the bust
ness world, where conditions are so
totally different from baseball that
condemn the players for demanding
high salaries, forgetting that the life
Iof the average baseball player is
short. It covers "a span of a dozen
years. The business man has a whole
lifetime to esta blish himself
zone man may make the difference
between a first and second division
club, and that difference may mean
100000 to the club owner. Surely
such a man is deserving of a salary
OF $1o, 600 a year. That would pay him
at the rate of 10 per cent. of the bus
mess he got. for his employer. If a.
club. owner We're able to secure a
player who would put the team up in
he race. he would be justified in pay
ing SIS 600 for him.
''The life OF ball players looks easy
All they do is go up to the bat and
hit the ball and run. All the delders
do is run after the ball. catch it and
throw it. For that they draw down
fabulous sums; it is thought. But
those fabulous sums are drawn down
only while the eye is keen enough to
follow the swoop of the darling curve
SIT is drawn down only while the
arm that hurls that curve is strong
and supple; while tn speed is great
and the. blood bounds. But when the
arm weakens, when the vision dims
and the speed that was once in the
legs is burned out, then the ball player
steps down into oblivion, and at an
age when the average man of bust
ness is ready to perform his greatest
works.
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! |! ARD SICK
MAY POSTPONE
BOUT 2 WEEKS

New York. Feb. 15.-Jess Willard
and Frank Moran will not box in
Madison Square Garden on March g.
That was made pra ctfcally certain last
night, when Tom Jones received word
from Willard in Chicago that the
champion had been forced to take 70
his bed with q seveAs attack of the
grip. Jones hunted all over town for
Tex Rdckard and Sam McCracken, the
promoters of the fight, and finally.
landed them to tell the sad ttdings-
II hate to ask Rickard for a post
ponement. but it looks as if we viii
have to delay the fight for a WHILE"
said Jones. willard is il bed and it
Is question when he will be able to
resume training. With q worlds
heavyweight championship at stake,
1Eeg do not like the idea of going into
the ring unless Willard is absolutely
Mt Besides. it world not be fair to
the public. He cannot possibly be in
shape now by March g.
willard had only a slight cold last
days, resumed his ". rk at the Chi
cago A. A. last Saturday. Evidently
that was big mistake, for yesterday
heawas taken i'll with a real attack of
the sgElp1 that 1aid hi4n low L was in
hopes that Z would get word today
that he had started for New York, but
instead got the bad news of his be-
ing put out of business.
1t was reported late last night that
Fickard and McCrackens had notified
March u when interviewed at tba
rWaIdorf-Astoria Rickard asserted he
fboI,el1t If hest RI ! yvait <1evels,nToer
for a day or two.
Willard may be all right and we
may be able to go through with our
original plans We Thought it best, to
go slowly Aabout talk of postponement,
which vial not be made unless abso-
Iutely necessary said Tex.
When asked what date he would fix
IN the event of a postpon ement. Rick
ard declared that Friday, March "a,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-15
BOOM THOS. |. REILLY TO
HEAD new MERGER LEAGUE
O'RourExe Says Eastern Has Not Decided Regard
ing Appeal From Decision.

league formed by a merger Of five
clubs each from the New England
league and the Eastern association.
will be determined at a meeting to be
held in Boston on Feb. II, according
to announcement made today. A con
stitution will be adopted at the same
time. The final meeting OF the New
England league to wind up it's affairs
will be held earlier in the day.
one of the objections to the prob
able postponement of the willard
Moran bout is the fact that the fans
will have to listen so much longer
to the artless prattIe of the promot-
ors. And gosh, how they dread it.
It makes your teeth chatter to
think of it, but the Harvard Oarsmen
started their season yesterday The
new coach, Bill Haines, was greeted
by one of the biggest squads that ever
reported. There are five members
of the last years crew on hand again
so only a few vacancies. exist In view
of what Yale did to the Crimson boat
last year perhaps it would be just
as well to throw the five survivors
overheard and start a new deal.
They are still selling the St. Louis
Nationals in the newspapers A syn
dictate of natives offered $375,0OO for
the franchise. but the owners are
holding out for 100000. A mere
matter of $25, 900 ought not to come
between friends,
New Orleans boxing promoters have
agreed to give 4 Champion Freddy
Welsh $13.0 to meet the winner Of
the Mandot-Dundee bout to be held in
the Crescent City, Feb. 81. Welsh
will agree to a 20 round bout for the
title.
Joe McGfnnity the former Iron
Man. of the Giants. has found that
baseball isn't always a, paying. PROPOSE
ton. He invested his pile in the Ia
coma, Wash, franchise several years
ago and has dropped a bunch of
money there. Now he is trying to
transfer his club, which is in the
Northwestern league, to Butte, Mont
They say the miners in Butte are rip
roaring fans. The umpire must lead
a merry life there.
The Pacific Coast league has evil
IDENTIFY decided not to blacklist play
ers who jumped to the Feds. Manager
NeCredie of Portland, Ore, said he
would. take back OutfeIder Chad
bourne or Catcher Berry, but the
Pittsburgh Feds have already sold
Berry to Kansas City OF the Rmerican
association.
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will have on the proposed bout. Re-
ports from Chicago ARCTIC the enect
that 1t may be necessary to postpone
the fight for two weeks. willard. as
understand it, is opposed to a, post
ponenent if it can possibly be avoid
ed.
Madison Square Garden is engaged
for the night of March and it might
be difficult to secure another date un-
til later in that month. am going
to see the management today and ind
out what dates are open during the
final week of March but there will be
no postponernent unless it is absolutely.
necessary
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-15
DAN MORGAN CLAIMS
LEVINSKY BEAT DILLON

Here is Dumb Dan Morgan's version
of the DiI1on-Levinsky bout last week:
''In a great ten round bout, Battling
Levinsky whipped Jack Dillon, the
Man-Kil1er, at the Broadway A G.
last Tuesday night. Levinsky had
Dillon hanging on the ropes in the last
round The Battler made a punching
bag out of the supposed terror and
had him all in at the finish.
f'It was a lucky thing for Dillon that
the bout was not sceduled for fifteen
rounds, as Levinsky would have
knocked him out. The Battler is now
open to fight Jess Willard for the
heavyweight championship of the
world
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By w agner.)

Men who took leading parts in the
recent movement which resulted in
the merger of the New England and
Eastern leagues are booming former
Congressman Thomas L. Reilly OF
Meriden for president of the new
league. They think a man of Mr..
Rei1ly's standing and who has the
confidence of the fans would be
great asset to the league.
Mr.. Reilly has already been APP
preached by those who desire to have
him accept the place. He is not eager
to enter the baseball arena again.
however. He declared he would not
go into contest for the position but
if the directors of the league desired
to have him head the organization he
would take the matter under consider
alton. Mr.. Reilly in former years was
interested in the Hartford club in the
old Connecticut league and in the Jer-
sey City club when it was IN tbs old
Eastern league. tN
President O'Rourge of tho Eastern
association said today that it had not
been decided by the directors whether
an appeal would be taken from the
decision of the committee which re-
ported fAvorably on the merger. Sec
Rotary Reddy of the Bridgeport club
said he was in favor of taking an APP
peal to the National board and ask
the board to turn down the commit
tees report. President O'Rourke will
wait to hear from owner teller of the
Pittsfe1d franchise before making any
announcement.
f'The decision is absolutely contrary
to all baseball law declared Mr..
ORourlke 1.-THE committee simply
proceeded on the general statement
for the best interests of BASEBALL
They are establishing a bad precedent
for hereafter no league will be safe.
If another league coyets some terri
tory all it will have to do is start an
agitation and fix IN some kind of a
deal like the present affair.
"The decision was no surprise to me.
Wien we appeared before the commit
tee the second time in New York
knew they didn't intend to give US a
square deal They told us at a pre-
vious meeting to go ahead and organ
ize, expecting we wouldn't be able to
do so. When we fooled them by com
p1eting a circuit they delayed matters
until they found an excuse to turn us
down. They weren't on the level when
they told US to organize
Bridgeport is not affected by the
decision for there will be a club in this
city at any event. JOIN H. Freeman,
the present owner, is given the right
to conduct the club here under the
merger decision.
It's name of the new Baseball
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for $4,000 for money alleged to have
been loaned that club. viii also re-
ceive the attention of the commission
If the commission acts favorably upon
the Ebbets claim, it Is stated that fcr-
ner owners Of International league
clubs will put in claims for money
lost when franchises in that league
were declared forfeited The interna-
tfona1 league believes that stockhoId-
ers in franchises which have been for
feited have no claim - those clubs.
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and athletic contests being held in
war-ridden Belgium; cycling and run
ming races in Berlin, and that Ger
man soldiers obtain leave from the
front to go and participate in the lat
ter contests.
Reports from those close TO auto
racing authorities are to the effect
that the Vanderbilt Cup and Grand
Prize trophy races will not be aIIot-
ted for speedway competition during
1916. 1t is said that the members of
the Motor Cups Holding Corporation
are strongly opposed to shifting these
autom obi1e race classes from roads
to track courses. Unless there is a
change in the deeds of gifts it appears
as though these two best known of
Ia merican auto racing trophies will go
uncompeted for during the present
year.
Several eastern polo teams are ex-
pected to enter the Coronado Country
club tournament at Coronado. Cal,
next month The tournament, which
runs from March 1 to 20, will include
several valuable trophies such as the
California. Challenge, Pacific Coast
Al1-Amer1can and other valuable
prizes some of which have been in
competition almost a decade. Among
the eastern experts who have sent
strings of ponies to the far coast for
early polo play are Malcolm Steven
son, G. Perry BeadIeston, G.. M. Heck
sher and Thomas LIE Boutel1ier.
Alma Richards, winner of the high
jump at the Olympic gaines in Stock
holm four years ago and American
Decath1on champion has taken up
pole vau1tings Richards who has won
many points for Cornell in the high
and broad jumps as well the shot
put believes that he can clear better
than twelve feet in the vault. Trainer
Jack Moakley is not part cular1y keen
for the Cornell star to compete in this
event for fear that he viii injure him
self and deprive the Ithaca university
of several points in the intercollegiate
next May. Moakley
has had a specially heavy and strong
vaulting pole made for RICHARDS and
has limited his vaults to- date to II
feet 6 inches. Richards. has had lit
tie difficulty in clearing the bar at.
this height and is ready to try the
twelve foot leap as soon as Moak1ey
gives his consent
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Swiss soldiers were ordered on duty
to guard government ammunition fac
tories when rumors of heir impending
destruction by pIotters were circulated
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Carrying 596 passengers, and under
orders not to heed any s. Q. S. calls
received by her, the White Sea Liner
Baltic left New York for Liverpool
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RELEASE
BEALS BECKER, OLD
TIME 0UTFIELD DER

Philadelphia. Feb, 15-Fresldent
Baker of the Philadelphia National
League baseball club yesterday an
nounced that Bea1s Becker, utility
outfelder, had been given his uncon-
ditiinal release. II.
Becker has had a. rowing career
since he entered the National League
in 1908, and has hung his hat in
nearly every city on the Tener trail
Becker started with the Pirates i'll
1908, and was soon shifted to the
Braves He remained with the Bos-
tons until just before the stare of the
1910 season. when McGraw landed
him in trade for Herzog.
Beals remained with tn g Giants
three years, and in the winter of
1928 he was sold to Cincinnati In,
the middle of that season Cincinnati
traded him to the Phillies for Dodge,
third baseman. and he he,d been
there ever since. Becker shared in
the 1911 and 1912 Worlds Series with
the Giants, and the 1915 series with
the Phils.
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