The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-14
13 YEARS OF AMES

Speaking of your Eddie Planks and Colby Jacks and Mordecai Browns and such veterans of the pitchers slab, had you noticed that old Leon Ames has been hangin' around the big tent for quite some time? While the longevity laurels are being passed around a few of 'em should be placed upon Leons noble brow. Ames is still able to totter out there and win game for the Cardinals once in a while.
 Ames has had enough bitter ex- periences with the jinx to be justified in his fear of that malicious spook and he may not welcome having att tention called to the fact that today marks the thirteenth anniversary of his big league debut, because thirteen Is notoriously an unlucky number Truth is truth, however, and it is the mission of the honest journalist to give the vital facts and let the chips fall where they may.
 Leon had played with Warren. Gainesville and Ilion before he made his big league premiere with the Giants on Sept. IA 1908. At that time the jinx hadn't fixed on Leon as his favorite prey. The Giants were in St. Louis, and Ames was called upon to do the hurling in the second contest of a double-header. The game went only five innings. and Leon shut out the Cards to o. His next appearance, later in the same month was in P,ittsburg, and he de- feated the Pirates to 2. Leon didn't accomplish much in 1904, but 1905 was his best year, when he won twenty-two games and lost only eight F. College football will have its pra-
 niere on Saturday, when the Nniver- sity of California is scheduled to break out with the disease. Public health officials who have been appealed to declare that it is useless to trv to as tablish quarantine against it. as if Is certain to spread eastward with alarming rapidity. The attack this year threatens to assume a most viru- lent form. Preliminary symptoms are now observable at most of the co1- leges and universities. The antitoxir discovered some years ago by Colun,- bia professors, and widely heralded as a cure, has now been demonstratod to be failure, and it has taken ;ts place with the Koch and. Friedr,,, tuberculosis serums and other hu.tod bubbles. The disease will have +o run it's. course. Like many otber scourges, however, the epidemic can not survive very cold weather. and December may be expected'to definite ly put an end to it for this wear
 Adolph Wolgast has claimed the lightweight championship so loud and so long that he has firmly convinced himself that he has it.
 death roll in the war include Tom Mo Cormick, the English welterweight champion, and Jerry Delaney, one of the leaders among British light weights. The number of French Bri. tish and Canadian boxers killed or seriously wounded in the Europea1 fighting is now more than score. and hundreds of other professional ring gladiators are daily risking life and limb in the trenches of France and Flanders. Mccormick was a ma tive of Dunkalk, Ireland, and began his ring career in 1910I He defeated Young Joseph and Jack Goldswain among others, in 1912. and the fol- lowing year went to Paris and whin- ped Badoud, the Swiss boxer. later defeating him in a return match in England. A few months before the outbreak of the war Mccormick went to Australia, where he twice whip ped Johnny Summers, knocking him out in the first round in their second battle.