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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
EDDIE M'GOORTY FINDS AUSTRALIA
 BAD FOR HEALTH

New York, May 4.-Word comes from Australia that Eddie McGoorty is going the pace. It is said that the health of the man from Oshkosh is poor and that his ring career is prac- ticaIly at end. Life in Australia all ways has had a bad effect on Ameri- can boxers. Billy Papke went there a champion and came back a dub. In the land of the kangaroo he grew fat and sluggish. The same thing hap pened to Tommy Burns, who never did anything worth while after he lost the title while in that country. Jeff Smith was better than the average middleweight until he visited the An tipodes, but he too left his form there. Jimmy C1abby is another who lost his pep after a visit to Australia.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
Women and Golf In oIden Days.

Clark, ill his Golf, a Royal and An- cient Game,'' printed a few decades, ago, recounts how strangers at the old St. Andrews course abroad were given a trial on the famous holes, and if they proved to be of the tribe of turf dig gers and sand filters they were igno- miniously thrust into the outer dark ness of the ''womens green" The ac- commodations accorded to women in the old days were in the nature of sop to Cerebus, merely to keep them quiet and satisfied while the men in dulged in the more serious pursuit of a serious business with a better equip ment on finer course. In the annals of one old golf club it is recorded that since a certain green was habitually flooded and generally useless 1t was recommended that a new hole be built in its place and the old green given over to the women.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
The sIeep of Seeda.

Oats, corn, fennel and some flower seeds were exposed during 11S days to a temperature of 40 degrees F. be low zero. 'Afterward, when placed in suitable surroundings, nearly all of the fennel, oat and corn seeds and many of the others germinated. It>is. con cluded that the protoplasm, or the prins c1ple of life, in a resting seed is in a state of inaction not comparable to that of a smoldering fire, but rather lilSo that of a chemical mixture which is capable of forming a combination whenever the required conditions of temperature and illumination are pres emt
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
AROUND THE ~~ SPORT LOOP ~sz

fifth. There were two out and O'COn- nell was at bat but Smith handled the ball cleanly and got Howard on a close play.
 New Haven and Hartford are strengthening their clubs. New Ha- ven has signed the Shannon brothers, who made big regulations at Seton Hall college. One plays shortstop and the other in an outfielder. Hartford is much stronger with the addition of Pitchers Bugs Smith and Lyons from Toronto and Outfie1der Reed from the same club.
 Benny Kauff is beginning to cut loose with some of that wild base running which distinguished him in his Eastern association days. He helped lose a game for the Giants yes terday by dashing for third when he nothing did they call Benny ther una way colt.
 Frank O'Rourke, the short who played with Bridgeport in 1912, until he was sold to the Boston Braves, has been returned to WiIkes-Barre of the New York State league by Birming- ham of the Southern league. Poor hitting has prevented O'Rourke from advancinga
 Lefty Russell, who was $12,OOO failure when bought by the Athletics as a, pitcher, has become such a good first baseman that Baltimore has pur- chased him from Syracuse of the New York State league.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
RELEASES
STEWART AND GEARL1NGER.

STEW kAEGL AN U
 Inffe1der Red Stewart, whose mis- plays at shortstop cost Bridgeport at least two defeats, was released today by Manager Ball of the local club. Pitcher Gear1inger, a big fellow from Philadelphia. was also released. Tony Pastor, the former Colonial 1eaguer will be tried at shortstop until a more experienced man is secured.
 The local club is still carrying a big staff of pitchers, Walsh, Gearin, Martin, Burroughs, Kingston and Rei- ger are on the list and one of these will probably be dropped in a, few days. Manager Ball says the club needs more hitting strength and he is trying to land a hard hitting out fielder.
 Tomorrow Worcester will be here for a two game series. Worcester is managed by Billy Hamilton, the for mer major Ieaguer. He has a num- Der of good players including Gloomy Gus GardelIa, who formerly took care of third for Hartford.
 Umpire Mike Doherty had a funny decision to make in the seventh in ming of yesterdays game Reiger had two strikes on O'Connel1 of Law renee when the batter fouled one that lodged inside Catcher Smiths protector. Manager Burkett howled when the umpire called the batter out. Burkett said the decision was contrary to the rules.
 Del Howard, the fleet Lawrence out fielder, tried to steal home in the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
Snow Postponement Makes Owners Think
 of Later Openings

New York, May 4.-The postpone ment of the Giants Braves game at Boston recently on account of snow adds one more to the list of reasons for calling off games this spring. Some have been called off on account of cold weather, many more on account of rain, and others have been postponed because of wet grounds after the rain had ceased falling. Now snow comes into the list.
 The fans are beginning to believe that this is an unusual spring, as far as the bad weather is concerned, but that is due to the fact that they for get so quickly. Games have been postponed as frequently in other years.
 All of which leads to the conclu- sion that the championship season should be started later, and double headers scheduled. Trying to play in April weather in the North has be- come somewhat of joke.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
How She Was Named.

A little colored girl, a newcomer in Sunday school, gave her name to the teacher as Fertilizer Johnson Later the teacher asked the child's mother if that was right.
 ''Yes, ma am, dat's her name" said the fond parent. ''You see, she was named fer me and her father. Her fla ther's name am Ferdinand, and my name is Liza. So we named her Fer tilizer.'-Boston Transcript
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
COTCH ILL AND STOPS
 CIRCUS JAUN7

Chicago, May 4-Frank Gotch, the heavyweight champion wrestler of the world, cancelled his engagements with a circus yesterday because of stomach trouble which forced him to remain here in care of a specialist.
 Gotch has fallen off in weight to 1855 pounds, and grave doubt is ex- pressed that he will ever take the mat again or defend his title.
 . Gotch was going out to give wrest- ling exhibitions with the same circus to which Jess Willard is under con tract. It was his plan to see if he could get into condition to come back after a retirement of three years and defend his title against Joe Stecher. This now seems out of the question.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
Watch The Farmer To
 See Number of Runs

For the convenience of our read CTS who are interested in the results of games in different leagues The Farmer will publish each night the runs, hits and errors of teams in the various combinations. These figures will be compared with the figures of the New York Press, recognized as official by those who are keeping track of the results.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
copper Came From Cyprus.

The word copper is generally admit ted to be derived from Cyprus, as it was from that island that the ancient Romans first procured their supplies. In those remote days Cyprus and Rhodes were the great copper produc- Ing districts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
Bridgeport.

ScOrG by II1IllnSS.
 Lawrence ..2 Oz0 % 2 o .O-4 Bridgeport .1 0 0 Q OsO 1-2
 Two base hits, Howard, Gaudette. Three base hits, Edwards, Ball. Stol- en base, Ostergren. Sacrifice hit, Stew art, Murphy. Sacrifice fly, Ball. Left on bases, Bridgeport 4, Lawrence 6. First base on errors, Lawrence 1. Bases on balls, off Reiger ?. Hits, off Reiger II in g; off Pennington 2 in 9. Struck out by Reiger 3, by Pennington g. Wild pitch, Pennington. Umpire Doherty. Time 1:50-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
Two Tne4s

The test of a lover is not how many he has loved, but how well; the test of a philanthropist is not how well he has loved, but how many.-AliOa FTalling- hsu~ Nh.AAawsA
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
GAMES TO-DAY.

Boston in New York. Philadelphia in Brooklyn. Cincinnati in St. Louis: Chicago in Pittsburgh.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04

SPRING PIONEERING
 PLANTS. JOHN RECK 6 SON.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
GAMES TO-DAY

GAMES TO-DAY. Lawrence at Bridgeport. Worcester at Hartford. Portland at New Haven. Lynn at New London. Lowell at Springfield.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
Southern Association
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

American Association
 YESTERDAYS RESULTS. No games were scheduled for yes terday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
AMERICAN LEAGUE
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
GAMES TO-DAY.

GAMES TO-DAY. New York in Boston. Washington in Philadelphia. Cleveland in Chicago. St. Louis in Detroit.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04

Rotterdam, Holland, has organized a cotton exchange.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
STANDING OF THE> CLUES.

vers, Wallace and Stephens,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
NATIONAL LEAGUE
YEsTERDAYsS RESULTS.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.

postponed on account of rain.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-11-09
BEGIN MOVEMENT AGAINST THE
U. s. FOR RECOVERY OF
VALUE OF LANDS AND
MONEY ~.
They NEED LEGISLATIVE ACT
Indians Must First Appeal to Con,
gress for Permission to Bring
Claims Court Action.

Tulsa, Ok.-Three hundred Chero-
kee Indians, representing all of the
political divisions of the Cherokee
nation, assembled in Tulsa on call of
the last principal chief, William C.
Rogers, and others, for the purpose
of setting in motion a movement to
recover the value of lands and money
apportioned to the slaves of the old
time Cherokees, known as Freedmen,
and their descendants. In all, the
Cherokees figure they should be re-
imbursed to the amount of $50 ,000,000
The treaty of 1866 between the Gov
ernment and the Cherokees provided
that the negroes of the Cherokees
should share equally in their lands
and funds. According to Chief Rogers
and others, who can remember the
making Of this treaty, the Cherokees
protested bitterly, but as their nation
was PROSTATE as the result of ravages
of the Civil War, they acceded to the
demands of the Government. Some
old-timers made the statement in the
convention that the Government took
this manner of Furnishing the Chero-
KEGS for giving assistance to the Con-
federacy. However, it was shown
that the Cherokees were about equal
ly divided in loyalty to the North and
the South during the Civil War.
A comparison was drawn of the ex-
perience of the Cherokees and of the
Chickasaws in the sharing of their
property with their negroes. When
the Government asked the Chicka.
saws to allow their negroes to partici,
pate in the distribution of lands they
would only consent to giving them
each 40-acre homestead, and this
only on condition that they woulo
eventually be reimbursed for thi.
loss of land by the Federal Govern
ment.
Eventually the descendants of those
Chickasaws who allowed their freed
men to have a 40-acre homestead
brought suit againat the Government;
for the recovery OF the value of the
without much difficulty. This money
has since been distributed per capita
among that tribe.
The Cherokees must proceed first
by appealing to Congress for an act
of legislation which will permit them
to bring suit against the Government
in the United States Court of Claims
at Washington for the money they in
sist is due them. II the Court Of
Claims should decide against them
they still would have the right Of ap-
peal to the United States Supreme
Court.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-11-09
BEFORE THE WAR SHOE PRICES

Well. the good folks will flock to
this store for shoes and rubbers. and
no wonder. Think of buying the
fancy dress shoes for ladies, the high
top shoes for men, the sturdy, stylish
shoes for boys, all at prices unheard
of. We understand $19S is the aver
age price for any pair of shoes; and
rubber boots for far less than quoted
in any store in Ohio. This good news
comes from the famous G.. K. Kinney
Shoe Co.. SIG Jefferson Avenue, To-
ledo. Ohio. Just above the Secor
Hotel. opposite side the street. near
the gas office. 1t will surely pay to
buy all the footwear for the whole
family this winter at store that
gives such marvellous values for such
little money 1t will more than pay
the cost of Il trip to Toledo to "fit your
feet at Kinneys.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-11-09
YOUNG AUTO THIEF
DIES HIDING NAME
YOUTH IN TAILORED SUIT AND
SILK UNDERcLoTHINe LAY
WOUNDED IN FREIGHT CAR
TWO OLDER MEN ESCAPE
4 Don't Want Them to Know,
He Says, When Police Ask
Parents Name.

Okmu.Sae, Ok.-There was buried
n the city graveyard here the un.
Identified body OF Il young man who,
ne police think, was probably the
son OF well-to'do and refined par.
ents. Officials are trying TO learn his
lame and whore he came from. The
police have scarcely a doubt that the
youth was shot by the police in q
colniield north o. town.
The youth was found in a box car
IN the Frisco yards and removed to a
oospital. Two bullets had passed
through his body. He was told that
re had only short time to live and
had bettcr let his family know.
~ don't want them to know" he
said. when l die, just bury me any
where and let me be forgotten"
He appeared to be about 90. He was
nearly six feet tall, had dark hair and
brown eyes and wore tailored cloth
ing and silk underwear.
Early on the night of his death q
man, with iron gray hair. when at q
meal in a restaurant. asked that an
automobile be called for him. II want
good car" he said. lone that can
take me to Sapulpa in hurry"
The restaurant owner called Lee
Foley, owner of the largest auto.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-11-09
STATE BRIEFS

TIFFIN.-Considerab oil excite
ment has broken out north of the city,
near Fort Seneca, by the discovery
that well, drilled II years ago, is
wards farm and has been used. for
many years. to furnish gas. The well
pcnetrates the oil producing rock only
a few feet.
CINCINNATI.-Foll reports
that leopard had escaped from Il
circus train while passing through
Elizabethtown. farmers in West Ham
ilton county are keeping their stock
locked up and are themselves staying
close to home at nights.
lie was too hand
some ana refined Il youth u be riding
the brake beams. Pol u Of E!EhArl
Ind, thought he wou.'i hc safer il
their custody than ah"ara II freight
SO they arrested him"
Then 'he" confessed that she was
Miss Ruth Adair. 23-year-old Cleve-
land sten0grapher, who had donned
male attire in order to beat her way"
to Los Angeles to visit a sick brother.
PORT CLINTON.-The Matthews
Engineering Company, manufacturer
of farm lighting systems, will be NOV
ed to Sandusky. it was announced
here. Several cities endeavored to
obtain the plant which was estab-
lishcd by the Matthews Boat Com
pany here two years ago.
TOLEDO.-The movement of iron
ore to Lake Erie ports this season
will total Ga 100000 tons, of which
5.000,00O tons remains to be brought
down.
ELYRIA. O.-John Doyle. G1. of
Kansas City, was found in stack of
corn shocks near Amherst. He had
not had anything to eat or drink for
three days and was nearly dead.
Doyle says he ran out of funds and
was too proud to beg. preferrimg to
starve to death,
UPPER SANDuSKY.-n 1861
Charlotte Ann Heistand, of Eden
township, gave her husband Il COW
and horse She recently sued to
collect their value and interest for 30
years, ana settled the case in common
pleas court, receiving $1,O50.
PORT CLINTON.-Henry Whisner
and John Rider, working on the beach
near Jerome's Point, of the Portage
river, found two skeletons buried in
the sand. The skeletons We're of In
dians. Indian trlnkets have been un-
earthed ut this point.
NORWALK.-A railroad man, inti-
mately associated with the sale of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad, an
nounces that the Wheeling shops will
again be established in NOrwalk.
When the plant burned here, eight
years ago, 1t was reopened at Brews-
ter. Its establishment here will
mean the return of many Norwalk
families.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-11-09

mobile in livery service in Okmulgee.
The man paid his restaurant bill and,
getting into the car, said: Drive out
to Bald Hill first"
Foley drove east on Sixth street
for time, then turned north. Around
the corner the passenger threw UP his
hand and knocked his hat off. Foley
stopped and the passenger went back
after his hat. Just as he returned
TO the car two men came through a
hedge and held Foley up. They also
held the passenger up and made him
set into the front seat with Foley.
They sat in the back seat and one OF
them pressed revolver against
Foley's neck and told him to drive on.
A mile farther Foley was ordered
to get out and was tied to a fence
pest. He was tied hurriedly and not
very securely, and the car was hardly
out of sight before he had worked
himself loose. He ran across fields to
the Frisco depot and told Policemen
Lung and Wright how his car had
been taken from him. They jumped
into the police car, taking Foley with
them, and by cutting through field
soon came within sight of the men in
the big car.
After an exciting race they drew
near the big car mile north of Ok
mulgee Creek. The fugitives jumped
out of the stolen car while it was
running, climbed fence and ran into
cornfeld.
Lung and Wright followed them,
shooting as they ran. One of the men
fell and was helped up by his COM,
panions, and the three escaped in the
darkness.
A few hours later, when the pur-
suers had returned to Okmulgee, the
police were notified that man badly
wounded had been found in the upper
Frisco yards, three miles from the
cornheld. After he had been taken
to a hospital Foley identified him as
vpe of the men who had come out of
t.e hedge and held him up.
The young man said he had shot
himself but as he was shot in the
back the officers did not credit his
story. He would not admit that he
had been with the men in the corn
1eld, or that he had ever seen Foley,
ana refused to give his name.
Policemen Lung and Wright and
Chief of Police Bowman advanced
the theory that the men wanted a
big automobile to undertake LOB"
that would nccessitate swift flight.
Foley said the first man asked him II
he had enough gasoline to take the
;ar TO Sapulpa.
The police found no trace Of the
other men. The youth had not been
seen In Okmulgee before he was
found wounded in the box car, so far
as the police have been able to learn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-11-09
sH-Hl DYE WANTA
SEE THEM PIcTUREsi


Court Clerks "Blackraii Photo" Joke
Scores a Thousand Victims In
Three Weeks.
Seattle, Wash.-More than 1000
prominent Seattle men have actually
been spanked with a rubber hose by
Ed Murray, clerk in the city-county
building, during the last three weeks
because of their curiosity to look at
pictures.
The list includes Superior Court
judges, city councilmen, heads of city
and county departments, dozens OF
lawyers, and an assorted crowd OF
others, some of them from other
cities.
Because each victim wanted to see
his friend spanked the news has been
kept quiet.
Most of the names are now on
record in the controllers office, and
the list reads like professional di.
rectory, blue book and city directory
all in one.
"Have you seen the Seattle black
mail pictures?" whispered Murray to
a fellow worker one day three weeks
ago.
NO" was the reply.
"Well, they're going to be destroyed
tomorrow" he went on, 'if you want
to see them 1 can fix it up for you"
This was the lever used on all vic
tins.
Conversation limiting that the pic
lures were hot ones" and showed
"some of the big bugs of the town" in
compromising situations, usually fol-
lowed. Then Murray and his victim
went thru dark Railways to one of
the long record vaults on the first
floor Of the county-city building.
"I'll keep watch" was the next
word. they're in the box in the cor
ner. Just pick 'em out.
When the victim leaned low, the
trusty rubber hose came into play.
"Whack!" it sounded as it hit the
victim where dad used to apply the
paddle.
"Wow!" walled the victim.
Murray, who is gray headed and al.
ways serious appearing, discovered he
had uncovered a great indoor sport.
His victim worked with him in de-
coying others, and Murray became a
master in the art of swinging the
hose. ~
Name, please?" he asket>>t them.
after landing the one swift blow. Red
faced and twitching between agony
and laughter, the victims gave their
rames and were recorded in Murray's
book, which now contains more than
1000 names.
One man came all the way from
Everett, walked into the controllers
office, went to Murray, and asked con-
fidentially if it could be fixed up 80
he could see the pictures. Murray
arranged it. And the man went back
to Everett and sent down more vic
tins.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-11-09
SCARLET WATER ScARES
MEN DRILLING FOR OIL
Tools Are Thrown Down When Blood
red Fluid Gushes From Depths
of Artesian Well.

OF ArteSian well.
Ellsworth, Kan. While drilling for
oil at depth of 500 feet near here,
a sudden flow of scarlet water gushed
from the hole. Artesian wells are
nothing unusual in this vicinity, but
bloody water was very much unex'
pected, and nearly created a strike.
The bright, red fluid spurted out
and spattered over the men, and
those who were at all superstitious
quit work Immediately. Many were
their speculations as to the cause OF
the phenomenon. Not until an expert
was called on the scene was their
wonder and horror satiated.
"Altho." said he, this is some
thing. / believe, that has never hap
pened previous to this, it is easily ac-
counted for. Deep under the surface
of the earth rocks, blood red color,
are known to exist 1t is simple; this
vein of water CHANGED to come thru
this rock, and years of constant
churning has worn much of it loose.
1t has dissolved into the water with
the result you see. In few days,
when the loose sediment has come
away, this will be ordinary water and
you'll be glad to have a drink of 1t.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-11-09
CORN CROP RAirGo BY TURTLES

Selma, Ala.-NeGroes who live at
the forks of the Canada and Alabama
Rivers report turtles are eating up
the corn crop on the overfiowed sands
in that section. +.
One negro says the roasting ears
have been picked clean by the turtles,
leaving only the cob in the empty
sheaf. He says he could not under
stand what it was eating the corn un.
I'll the water began to recede. then he
saw big turtle come out of the water
and bite the corn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-11-09
Just the Thind.


A gentleman, having in his cellar
some ale on the verge of spelling, was
one day walking around his es..te
when he came upon party of work.
men.
Hailing the foreman, he ostenta-
tiously presented the beer to the men,
giving them leave to fetch it as they
required it.
Some time afterward he met the
foreman, and proceeded to extract q
suitable acknowledgment OF his
bounty.
"Well, did you and your men have
that ale?"
Yes. sir, and thank you"
How did you like it?"
"Oh it was just the thing for rs,
thank you sir"
That's right. But what do you
mean by just the thing?"
well, sir, il it had been a little
better we shouldn't "a 'ad it, and II It
had beer little worse we couldn't a
drinked it."