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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19

IF Clark Griffith and his Senators
 should cop the bunting this year which is admittedly a large if Washington fans would have their first opportunity to feast their eyes on a major league gonfalon. The repub- lies capital city has been among those present in all the big leagues organiz- ed, but never yet has a championship flag flown from it's ramparts.
 In the early days of baseball Wash ington had one of the crack amateur clubs of the country in the Nationals, team composed largely of govern ment clerks. It was this organization which made the first extensive tour in baseball history. It was forty-nlne years ago, July II, 1867, that the Ma tionals set out on, the trip which cov- cred 5000 miles and cost about $6,OOO. Their first game was at Columbus, where the Nationals won 90 to 10. They then visited Cincinnati, defeating the Cincinnatis 53 to 10 and the Buckeyes 8S to 13. Louisville was next trimmed to the tune of 82 to 21, and at 1ndfanap- oils the Nationals rolled up a score of 1O6 to 21 The St. Louis Unions were smothered 113 to 26. At Rockford the trippers struck snag and were de- feated 2s to 23. The Chicago Excel siors were beaten 49 to 4.
 The tour of the Nationals started something in Cincinnati. The fans of that city were out for revenge. and the famous Red Stockings were organized and in 1869 and the following season made a tour which extended as far west as San Francisco and south to New Orleans, winning fifty-six games before meeting defeat. On this trip the Reds defeated the Nationals. "A to 8
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
SHOOTING IS POPULAR; SHOWS
 RAPID GROWTH

THE National Rifle association is be- A coming a modern beanstalk. At the end of 1913 there were about 200 civilian rifle clubs affiliated with the association. At the end of 1914 the number had increased to 300.
 Things perked up a bit during 1915. and by the end of the2year the roster of affiliated clubs stood at 639. Then the N. R. A fguratively too koff its coat and rolled up it's sleeves and went to it. By May 31 of this year the af- f1liated civilian rifle clubs numbered 1,OS2, with new clubs rolling in almost hourly.
 The most wonderful part of this growth is that it has taken place with a relatively small amount of publicity to help it along. The reason shooting gets so little notice in most newspapers is that the subject is not familiar one and is not particularly spectacular or sensational and Ordinarily does not contain much of news value.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
Always a Dangerous Hitter
Photo by American Press Association

IN the seventeen years that Crawford
 has played under the big tent he has batted under 300 only six times. But for years he has been the games greatest run getter with his long drives. He was nearly as dangerous a hitter as Cobb and got more distance on the ball.
 The passing of Crawford as a regu- lar breaks up one of the greatest out field combinations in baseball. But, for all of his greatness and value to his club, he was never a star ot the first water. and only because of the pres ence of Ty Cobb on the same club. On any other club Crawford would have been the high light of his team and would probably have shared the lime.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
"Ship Billiards" Landlubbers' Game

should enter a pocket the start shall be conceded to the opponent, together with two points.
 Eighth.zIf in approaching the jack a player Should cause the same, either directly or indirectly, to fall into any of the, pockets the penalty is as in rule q.
 Ninth.-The "balk' or starting line serves to mark the limit to which a player may extend the hand in sliding disk. The player who does not re- spect this rule is subject to the same penalty as in rules and 8.
 Tenth.-The winning disks are those which are nearest the jack" and one point is scored for each except in the case of side having four winning disks, in which case the points are doubled, making the score 8.
 Eleventh.-The player or side having within the circle four winning disks (the jack" also being within the cir cle) shall be declared the winners of the match.
 Some of Concessions.
 Twelfth-The player or side whose disk should fall in the center pocket shall concede :-A points.
 Inlrteentn.-II disk in striking the cushions at the extremity of the table should return to beyond the starting line it shall remain out of play for that game. The player causing this to hap pen to the small disk. or jack" shall concede two points and the start.
 Fourteenth.-Should a player in ap- preaching the jack obtain equal dis stance from it to that of his opponents disk another disk must be played to try to win the point.r But if all the disks have been played neither side shall score.
 Fifteenth-Half the disk must be over the line to be considered within the circle or byond the starting line.
 Sixteenth.-All disks which have not fallen completely into the pocket shall be considered in play.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
THORPE IS ATTRACTING ATTEN. TON BY HIS BASE STEALING.

I'M THORPE has passed from the Giants, and it is not likely that John J. McGraw will recall him at the end of the season. That need not im- ply that the career of the mighty Sac and Fox is at an end as big leaguer. The Cincinnati Reds are looking with favor upon his deeds in the American association. He is hitting around the .260 mark with the Milwaukee team, but is leading the league in stolen bases When with the Giants he was held in, the grip of the club red tape and went down only when ordered. With Milwaukee he is allowed to use his own judgment and is running riot
 Thorpe on the bases is the same haz- gard to pitcher and catcher that Ty Cobb Is. He keeps everybody on his toes, and no one can work at his best when hurried all the time. Any pitch CT who will allow Thorpe three step lead is gone.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
Ad Gains Rep For Foul Boxing

blow was as fair as any ever delivered.
 In number of battles Ad has hit low. At Milwaukee against White and Ritchie he did the same thing. He re- peated the trick against Hammer but on all occasions he got away by apol- ogizing to his opponents.
 Recently he lost to Frankie Russell at St. Louis on foul. He was counted against at Shreveport last winter when they handed Bobby Waugh the verdict of a low blow, and his latest foul lost him verdict over Champion Welsh at Denver. s As
 Still Wolgast is. going along we'll. The battles he has won have shown he has regained his old time form, but wherever he appears the referee is on the alert for fouls and watches his style of punching more than that of any other boxer in the ring.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19

and the Washington Olympics 16 to 5. The Rockford club also made trip east in 1870 and again defeated the Nationals, 10 to 4.
 When the National Association of Professional leagues was organized in 1871 the Washington Olympics were admitted. The following year the Ma tionals also entered the professional fold, and the capital had two big league clubs. This condition prevailed in 1873, but in 1875 Washington was without professional baseball. When the National league was launched in 1876 Washington was passed up. and the city did not have league repre-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19

light of baseball with Cobb instead of having to bask in the shadow of the great Georgian.
 If Sam had taken my advice" said Jennings. The would still be a regular. Two years ago I noticed that Sam was slowing up. and I wanted him to take up first base. We needed a man at that time. and later got Burns. Sam had played first for us at times I
 You would not notice that Sam was slow around first base. For that mat ter, he is just as fast now as most first basemen. He can cover the gfouhd and make the short jumps. but when it comes to getting over distance in the outfield the legs are no longer able TO carry him."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19

WHERE has been some criticism from
 time to time of the practice Of passing a heavy hitter purposely when he comes up with men on bases. and 1t has been suggested that a rule should be passed prohibiting such action on the part of the pitcher. There is. how ever, no justice in such criticism. TOT the play is a perfectly correct one.
 The object of pitcher is to win his game by any fair and legitimate means, If he thinks he has a better chance to do so by passing Honus Wagner in a pinch and trying for a weaker hitter 1t would be very unfair to deny him the privilege, He takes a chance of the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19

NEW YORK billiard academies are
 exploiting a new game in which a great deal of interest is being shown It's original title is "Billar de Discos Meluzzi," but as that sounded too much like table d'hote its devotees simply call it ship billiards
 It is intended principally for play on passenger vessels, but is available for Iandlubbers, being a species of shuf- fieboard without the sand. The game and the table were invented by South American. The rules follow:
 Play With Eight Disks.
 F'irst.-The game is played with eight large disks and a snali one, the func- tions of the latter being those of the jack" in bowls.
 second.-A match may be played ei- ther in the form of singles or "dou- bles," each side using four disks mark ed with different colors in order to dis tinguish them.
 Third-The right to start the open- ing game of a match may be decided by tossing or in any other manner that may be agreed upon. In the subse- quent games the siaa which has won the previous game is entitled to begin Fourth.-The pockets at the extrem- ities of the table are for receiving the disks that may fall therein. in which case they are considered out of play during that game.
 Fifth. - The disks must, not be thrown. but made to slide by a natural movement of the hand, which is the manner most conducive to effective play. Shots may also be made by util- izing the cushions.
 Sixth.-In the act of playing no part of the body may project beyond the width of the table.
 Can Have Three Trials. Seventh.-If a player in starting a game is not satisfied with the position of the jack two more attempts are allowed, but if at the third the jack
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
HAS Ad wolgast mania for fouling onnnnorto7 .aa .

HAS Ad Wolgast a mania for fouling
 his opponents?
 It looks that way. or tAdolph is get ting careless lin his desire to infiict punishment. on his adversaries.
 t Wolgast has won most of his great battles. the ones over a distance. be- cause the body punishment he admin istered wore the other fellow out.
 However, up to the time they gave Willie Ritchie the decision and the lightweight championship in the six teenth round Ad had not been disquali- fled for hitting low. Since that time Ad has lost number of battles through fouls and perhaps holds a record in that line.
 WolgAst never got over the fact that the{ gave the championship to Ritchie on foul. He has maintained that the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
Passind Heavy Hitter Correct Thing

next batter hitting the ball hard and scoring more runs on his hit than would have been the case of the pre- ceding hitter had he not been passed.
 It Is simply a question of policy and playing the percentage. You might just as we'll say that a pitcher had no right to pitch a curve ball to a batter who was known to be weak on curves. wagner's only weakness is a base on balls. and the pitcher is Justified in pitching to that weakness in a pinch
 As for a rule to prevent the inten- tional passing of batters. it would sim- ply make life a further burden for the uppires
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
ATHLETES HAVE MANY
 QUEER SUPERSTITIONS

A THLETIC leaders are very super stitious, There is not one today who does not have some little super stition or other in which he takes great stock. Back in the old days Alvin Kraenzlein perhaps was one of the most superstitious athletes ever known to the game!
 Kraenzlein never would go into an athletic meet wearing a clean suit. It was his custom to wear the same knickers" that he wore ever since he started competition. Although they were fringed at the bottom and almost ready to fall off him, the big Dutch man would stick to his old suit just the same. He always contended that if he washed them or donned new suit he would wash away his luck The fixed hurdles over in England always worried him..
 Sometimes Lost Nerve. l
 In spite of the fact that he was the greatest hurdler that the world ever produced. still just as soon as any one told hims that the race would be run over fixed sticks he would lose his 4erve completely and rarely would win.
 John Flanagan. the former champion all around weight thrower, was anoth- CT one of the superstitious athletes. Although Big John was a wonder in the weights and easily had the num- Der of all other competitors, he always had ar fnkling that some one was go- ing to beat him. No matter how many records he would put up, he always felt that his day was coming. and he hated the thought of being beaten. John was one of the few champs. too, who man. aged to retire from the game without I real defeat
 <. Shrubb. a Worrier.
 Al Shrubb. the dapper little British long distance champion of a few years ago, was another athlete of the Elan agan type. Shrubb was nothing but a bundle of nerves. He was a great wor- rier, and his athletic career was hard ly source of much pleasure to him. Like Flanagan, he could not take a beating. While the little Englishman was winning no one could get near e him. When he lost he was different individual.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
Hughey Jennings, Golfer

en and iron clubs that the ordinary golfer carries the baseball leader has equipped himself with just three sticks "a midiron, a niblick and a butter.
 He never uses wooden club, and the reason he gives is that he hates to drive so far ahead of the other fellow that the fun is taken out of the game. and the reason why he dispenses with the cleek, the digger. the mashie and all the other styles of iron clubs is be- cause he can make the midiron per-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
ED KING SON OF VETERAN.

FDDIE KING of Amherst college,
 who has joined the Philadelphia Athletics, is son of the former star outfielder who played with Pop Anson many years ago. Connie Mack of the ex-champion Athletics will conduct a school of instruction, assisted by liar ry Davis and Ira Thomas, in his Phila- delphia baseball grounds. His squad includes many prominent college play CTS from whom Mack expects to devel- op a winning combination.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
BIG GRIDIRoN TEAMS ARE MONEY
 MAKERS

THE net profits of the Harvard. Yale.
 Princeton and Pennsylvania elev- ems last season is set at a trifie over $240,000, while the hines showed a prof it of something over $30,000.
 The fact that the football teams. play ing less than third as many games as the baseball hines, were able to pile up about eight times the profits of the diamond combinations shows that the gridiron game still hold first place as a money maker in college sports.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
EvERs GETS $1o,ooo.

This last spring MT. Stallings signed a five year contract with the present owners at s1s,00O per year. Johnny Evers, the crabby captain of the team. as everybody knows, is pulling down $1O,0O0 in addition to all sorts of bo- nuses, while First Baseman Konetchy, ranking next to Evers in salary among the players. is good for 5000. The en- tire payroll for the season is probably very close to $150, 900.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
MAINTAINED FAST PACE.

( CHARLES DURBoRoW, the long S distance swimmer. in his voyage across Chesapeake -bayS maintained a steady stroke of 26 to the minute. As he was hours and AZ minutes in the water he used 13.572 strokes. At the finish of the long swim bloodshot eyes were the only evidence of any physical condition different from the ordinary except that he must have been pretty wet
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19

WHEN Hughey Jennings, the leader
 of the Tiger baseball clan, was in Washington recently with his team he took the opportunity to shoulder his golf sticks and play over the links of the Columbia Country club. It was re- ported by those who witnessed the ex- hibition 'tbat Jennings displayed more enthusiasm than ability and compiled an enormous total of strokes with a surprisingly small number of clubs. In place of the formidable array of wood
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
PITTssuRGH's TWO sTAR~NoUNG-
 STEERS.
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pITTSBURGH has picked up a
 mighty capable performer in Farmer, whoyat times is played in the outfield and then again in the inner works. Wherever placed Farmer has delivered the goods in carload lots, and he bids fair to make name for him. self. Dan Costello is another colt in the Callahan stable who is showing marked ability. His fielding has been of a sensational mature since he got into the game. and he has been hitting the ball right on the nose.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
FoHL ONCE A BIC LEAGUE
 PLAYER,

II FEE FOHL has been tagged often as
 a chap who came from the slow set and never saw the big leagues un- til he was appointed as boss of the In- dians, but he did see a little service in the big leagues-that is, if catching for Cincinnati in 1903 is called big league service.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
BRAVES ARE AN EXPENSIVE LOT.

BRAVES ARE AN EXTENSIVE LOT. THE Boston National league club
 does not exploit the fact in the papers, but it is true, nevertheless, that the Braves payroll is probably the largest of any club in either major league.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
euILoINc MANY YACHTS.

A TOTAL of 183 yachts were launch-
 ed since Jan. l, 1915. or are now under construction in this country.
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