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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-09
DUNDEE TO MEET
|. CLINE TONIGHT AT
CLUB IN NEW YORK

New York, Oct. - Boxing fans
from out of town who are making the
trip to this city to view the world
series, which opens here this after
noon at the Polo Grounds. and the
local enthusiasts will be able to see a
promising lightweight bout tonight at
the Manhattan A. c., where Irish
Patsy Cline, the clever Harlem boxer.
and Johnny Dundee, the local Italian,
will be opponents for 10 rounds. The
contest brings together two of the
leading local contenders for Benny
Leonard's championship title, and
with the large delegations expected in
the city for the baseball game the
club management expects an overflow
crowd.
The match will contrast Dundee's
aggressive style and sensational
rushes with Cline's cool cleverness,
and should furnish an interesting
contest Billy Roche has been Sc
llected to referee the bout, and it Is
expected that the winner will get a
match with the champion, Benny
| Leonard.
Lightweights will also furnish the
feature 10-round bout this evening al
| the weekly show of the Pioneer
Sporting club, where Joe yelling, the
Chicago lightweight who recently en-
listed in the naval reserve. will boz
Jimmy Duffy. the sturdy West Side
boxer, in the principal 10-round bout
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To Give $4,000
To Red Cross If
His HourIess Wins

Laurel, Md. Oct. august Bel
mont sent word yesterday to Colonel
Matt Winn, manager of the Laurel
race track, that if his great colt
Hourless beats Omar Khayyam in the
special race here on Thursday he
would donate the $4,000 purse to the
American Red Cross fund. Belmont
also, announced that he would be on
hand at Laurel to see his horse run.
Wilfred Viau, owner of Omar Khay-
yam, was not at the track, but one of
his friends stated that he believed
Viau would donate the purse to the
Canadian Red Cross, if the colt
should prove to be the winner.
Omar Khayyam worked a trial OF
mile and a quarter in 2:07, and
Hourless covered the same course in
2:os. Each horse had plenty OF
speed in reserve at the finish.
Many New York turfmen arrived
yesterday afternoon, and they made
business brisk in the mutuels, Johr
Sanford's imported two-year-o1d Va,
lerius, a son of Tracery. for which
August Belmont refused 100000
when the colt was four years old
won the first race after being sheavil,
backed varlerius is the first colt b.
Tracery to win in America.
A telegram from Sheepshead Ba,
from John May berry to Roy Scher
rer announced the sudden death %
John Powers, the noted trainer
Powers trained for William Orr, O
Cleveland Ohio, the owner of Leo
chares. Powers, although a youn.
man has trained many noted rae.
horses, Jack Atlkin among others.
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KUNz AND BROWN IN FAST DRAW
Slashinq Witnessed by Big Crowd - Red Allen Out
pointed Semi Final by Martin

out, as many believed, he opened a
fusilade Of left jabs that took Brown
by storm. Several of his lightning
jabs shook Browns head and the
local boy tried hard to get inside of
'Kunz's guard In the exchange that
ensued there was little to choose be-
tween the two. 1t was Kunz's round.
Again in the ninth Kunz showed
that some of his previous actions
were deceiving as he seemed to haye
taken new lease of life. He opened
this round with left and right
smashes to the body but Brown came
back strong with long sweeping wall
Tops that earned him an even break
for the round.
Brown rushed out of his corner in
the tenth destined to- score a knock
out but Kunz proved capable Of hold
ing his own after Brown had all but
pushed him out of the ring. In this
round the milling ended lin Kunz's
corner after the champion had held
his own with sharp left hooks while
Brown was devoting his attacks to
sweeping 1efts.
In the eleventh Kunz's superior
boxing ability held in good stead. He
met Browns early attack with stiff
left jabs and followed up his adj
vantage by landing several effective
right hand punches, with good effect.
| Kunz's continual jabbing which
Brown could not guard against earn
ed the champion this round by a
| goodly margin.
| There was little to choose between
4 the two boxers from the twelfth to
the finish. The twelfth was slow, and
was marred by the holding of both
! boys. Kunz, however. was chiefly at
/ fault. Brown got over several hefty
/ wallops to Kunz's stomach in the
18th and 18th but the champion
i managed to retaliate with straight
i lefts to the head and body. In the
j 18th both boxers fought at whirl-
| wind pace. Kunz. as was the. case
in the earlier rounds, did his best work
at long range while Brown landed eff
fectively at close quarters.
i Last nights bout marked the third
between the. two boys and was the
/ poorest of the three. Neither boxer
fought up to customary form especi
ally in the laters stages of the bout
Kunz still retains: his title as Brown
Ineeded to win by a knockout to re.
gain his 1aurelst he had the misfor:
tune to lost last November.
i In the Jsemi-final bout Johnny
| Martin of this city decisively outpoir%-
ed Red Allen of Bridgeport. Martin
had a shade theb etter of the argu
ment up to the seventh round wller
he knocked down :Allen for nine
seconds counts The bell rang al
Allen arose at the count of ten. From
q that time until the finish Allen, wa.
on the receiving end, taking every
thing Martin could offer. Both boxers
relied on their left hands to carr.
them to victory but Martin proved tn,
cleverer of the two He p1ade a ia
vorabie impression with the fan
after a lay-off of nine months.
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|ROOTERS WAIT ALL
NIGHT TO SECURE
TICKETS FOR GAME

New York, Oct s-More than 500
fmen were camped out by IL O'Clock
[last night outside the gates of the
eFolo Grounds waiting for the doors to
tbe thrown open at 9 o'clock this
!morning.
The long vigil will be rewarded by
" the choice of seats but no other adj
! vantage will be gained as there will
be no buying OF tickets and then
/. backing away to sell them to late
corners. Those who buy must pass
into the grounds. is
These all-nighters with deterni-
nation ITO see the game at any cost
iwtre sypfovfded with chairs and boxes
it9 say nothing of sandwiches az.
even drinks. It is nothing new It
has ever been so for worlds series
games here. The baseball germ
sf'mplv cannot be controlled once It
gets working.
AZ was chilly. It was more than
chilly Most everybody had an over
coat and some had provided them
selves with blankets Police Capt.
"v&Ard 6fF the Weet s5th street station
and d squad of men were on hand to
Keep the early birds in line and to
maintain order. NAI was quiet al
midnight but still the line grew.
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BETTING FAvORS WHITE SOx
But New York Fans Do Not Lose Hope AS Teams
Prepare For Third Clash.

New York, ct. 9.-Wlnile the betting
odds favored the American league
champions, all the way from to 1 to
|b to 1, supporters of the Giants still
were outwardly optimistic today. The
local rooters, while admitting the su-
periority of the White Sox in the first
two gamess, insisted that McGraw's
men have not yet displayed their real
baseball ability.
Outside of the main question wheth-
| er the Giants would stage a spectac-
ular comeback, the followers of the
national pastime devoted the rest of
their speculations as to the rival
| pitchers, in the absence of official an
| nouncements. The opinion seemed to
be general that either Cicotte or Rus
sell would start for Chicago, while
| McGraw would pin his faith on Sallee
or Benton.
New York rooters admitted today
THAT the Giants must win the third
game to have a look in for the cham
pionship. To lose this game, they adj
limit, would mean that the world Sc
ries title would probably go west for
| the first time since 1909, when Pitts
burgh captured the series from De-
troit.
De1ving into the records of past
games does not hold out any encour-
lagement to the followers of the Ma
tional leaguers. These records show
that since world series have been
played under the rules laid down by
the national commission no team thai
lost the first two games ever came
Through the series a. winner.
Again, should New York win the
third game. the records would still be
against them, for in the last IL years
no team that captured only one of the
first three games decided ever won the
championship. The New York fans
however, pin their faith to the uncer
ta1nty of the game, and feel this il
Just as good year to upset the Law
OF averages, as any other.
Chicago's attack against New Yorl
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today is above the average so far as
records go. It is pointed out that
prior to Sundays contest. when Chi
cago won, to 2, seven or more runs
had been made in only seven of the
81 games played under National
Commission regulations. In five of
the last IL world series the winner of
the blue ribbon event captured the
first two games.
Aside from the games won, Chicago
has decided advantage in the pitch
ing. Manager Rowland's men have
now batted against McGraw's best
bets, pitchers who the New York
manager expected would at the very
least break even with the American
leaguers on their own grounds The
White Sox tapped Sallee sufficiently
to win, and hammered Schupp, the
New York star, out of the box. Both
are left handlers. McGraw still has.
RUDE Benton, another southpaw, but
he may decide to try Pol Perritt, his
best right handler finger, to stop. Cos
miskey's men.
Chicago's pitching has been up to
Manager Rowland's expectations. Ci-
| cote and Faber, the White Sox only
| two offerings so far, came through
with victories. Neither was hit very
| hard and both now have the conf
dence born of victory. Rowland may
| decide to pitch these two men again
before taking chance on Russell or
one of his other pitchers. 5sJi7
New York fans however, do not
believe that Cicotte and Faber cam
| duplicate their performance before
larger crowd at the Polo Grounds.
Heinie Zimmerman and Benny Kauff,
| always dangerous at the bat, have not
yet broken into the hit column and
the ardent supporters of the Giants
expect these two burly batsmen to
come through in fine style before the
series is over. Fletcher is another
good hitter who has not shown his
real form.
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Ticket Scalpers
Get Small Chance
At The Polo Grounds


New York. Oct. 9-The new system
of stamping each reserved coupon
with the purchasers name and the
compelling of admission ticket buy
ers to proceed directly to their seats
has reduced ticket scalping to- a
minimum The. ticket specializing
gentry practically has been put hers
de combat.
An idea of what prices the ticket
agencies will charge for any stray
seats that drift into their hands is
evinced from the fact that inquiries
at one Broadway agency last night
produced the information that it had
one box at hand, which could be had
for $500. The regular price of the
COX is SIS. At another agency just
off Broadway there were a few So
tickets on sale at $40. Employees at
all of the agencies said they expected
more tickets by morning.
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PRESIDENT TENER
HAS CLOSE CALL in
RAILROAD WRECK


New York, Oct. Still bit up
set but apparently none the worse
fof then SeEpertence, John K. Tener.
PRESIDENT of ffie National Commits
siou arrtEed here last nightsafter hav-
ing figured in a. railroad wreck. The
ilrstssection Of the Pennsylvania Linn
tied, carrying the commission and
other baseball folk from Chicago to
this city for the worlds series, came
into collision with a freight eight
miles from Beaver Falls, Pa, at 4:15
yeeterda;x. morning. Mae persons
wera Injured. but none Of the Ma
fionp3] coma lsssion WERE III that list.
III .addidoH to President Tener the
co1nmission:s party Included Garry
Hermann, owner of the Cincinnati.
Reds: JohnAHeydler. secretary of ths
'Natdoga1 League; John e. Bruce. sec
rotary OF the commission, and Roy
Reeves, secretary to Tener. Bar
tJohnson, president of the American
League. did not go with the party
but came to this city on the Lake
y shore.
J; Tener and his associates got into
town at ga15. last night, more thar
four hours late .'I believe in sign
and names now" said Heydler. 9Th,
Pullman in which we were located
was called the Lucknow-and, be
zieve me, we had, considerable luck
1T -
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FOOTBALL COACH
CALLED TO COLORS
AS SEASON OPENS

! New York. Oct. s.-Ath1etics at Co
lurnbia University cost s42, sol As last
year, according to the annual f1nan-
cial report of the athletic association
which was made public yesterday by
Harry Fisher, graduate manager. The
athletic year, which was cut short at
the end Of March by the declaration
of war, resulted in deficit of ST.
15777. The deficit for the preceding
year was 81 1881 81, making total
debit balance of 81. 1914, which was
paid by a loan Of 5000 from the uni
versity.
The maintenance of varsity and
freshman teams dpst $36, 1902, and
the upkeep of the office of the asso-
citation and it's administration totalled
SO. 40a2 Football was the most ex-
pensive sport to maintain and incl
dentally it Melted more than one half
OF the total receipts from all sports,
subscription and other forms of in
come. Only three teams-the varsity
football eleven, varsity basketball
five and freshman fencing team
turned in credit balances to the asso-
citation.
1T cost $1s,113 to finance the varsity
eleven and the. total receipts were
$22,643.35 OF this sum, SIS, 1874 came
from gate receipts and the remainde,
from the sale of programs Salaries
and home game expenses. includins
visiting team guarantees, amounted t
SO, 1854, while the equipment of Soitf
| Held, Including the building Of stands
cost $4.295.06 The credit balance fol
the season was 81, $50. 35.
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Opera Express Is
Winner Of $4,000
Race At Lexington

Lexington, Ky, Oct. ga splendid
racing programme of five events, in
Guiding the Castleton Stake, which
was won by Mabel Trasl1, And the
Champion F,uturity, won by Opera
Express, were the features of yester-
days Grand Circuit meeting. AS on
previous days, the contests were ex-
citing. and many close finishes were
seen during the afternoon. Despite
a cold day good crowd was present.
Following his old tactics when rae
ing against the stallion, Cox laid Ma
bel Trasks in behind and trailed I'M
til the head of the stretch was reach
ed, when he pulled out and outbrush-
ed st. Frisco in the stretch The
time of the two heats was 2:O5 1-2
and pos, and in neither heat was the
mare fully extended She was a 5000
to $50 favorite over the fielda
The Champion Futurity, worth $5,-
000, was won by the outside, Opera
Express. bred and owned by w. B.
Dickerman- Opera Express and
Bonnie Del, winner of the third heat
pools, totalling over 5000. Lotto
Watts was favored at $50, with $50
for General Yorke as second choice.
The race produced some of the closest
finishes of the meeting. The second
and third heats were particularly
close, many thinking that Opera Ex-
press had won the third and General
Yorke the fourth, so close did the
horses finish together. Measles, a
winner Saturday, repeated in easy
style today, taking the PIT trot in
straight heats. Frances Belmont was
the principal contender.
The 2:0S pace, which was two
horse race, was hard fought through
out the five heats. Princes Margaret
won the first two heats, but could not
overhaul. Hal Conner in the next three
Ira c. favorite in the 2:14 trot, lost
the first heat to David Lock, due to a
break, but won the next two in handy
sstyle
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-09
FORD|HAM TO PLAY
NORWICH SATURDAY

New. York. Oct s-Fordham.s first
home football game will be played
Saturday with Norwich University
Varsity candidates yesterday started
a weeks preparations to enable the
locals to give the vermonters a proper
welcome. A short scrin1mage was
held after a long signal drill
fBilf' Erwing rejoined the team after
a ten-day sojourn with. the hospital
squad. He ran through the plays with
lot of dash, but as his poisoned hand
was, still bandaged. he was unable to
get into the scrimmage. The prep
/ team was invited to oppose the Var
sity in the first of the annual season
clashes, but Coach Sislzind declined
the ISSUE
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-09

New Haven. Oct. "a big. crowd
eawS Battling Kunz of South Norwalk
'ands Chic Brown of this city engage
In .. Smashing battle here last night and
at the finish partisans of each were
.confident that their; man had won the
bout
In tne final analysis a draw verdict
Iseer3s<6n1y fair to both battlers. Kunz
~ tho Tcleverer Of the two and land
u the cleaner punches. while Brown
Hi<ced the milling In most of the
rounds and proved a bear when he
was inside whaling away with both
hands to the body. Kunz scored
most of his points at long range, es-
fpeclal1y when he relied upon his shift
ty left hand and cut loose with stiff
i1eft shots to the head and bread bas-
iket Nor should the impression be
created that he was a novice at close
quarters, Keeping his long arms, he
played Away q EdtoSs bhs TIE local boys
lbel4A JRD Runr4es Packed force,
| however, and none of them seemed to
nfrect the local favorite to any ap-
I probable extent.
Brownss star burned it's brightest
/ IN the fourth round. Kunz came out
4 or HIS corner showing unusual pepper
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yer yer 2 .ase eAelssnse ,e,,,,
- Il, VIZ III y, nonors WIZ. aoou. -,
Doteu, Hu euI was ~. 20 o,as,
@031ssa,e. e, q s az ~ ~ HoorS hi
= ~, faat Hara BROW,
1850 = s,s-;-,,s s+tac,- -, ~ char
<,fc.,sI b~,s,r ard shot Il sbts and left
- @,,r-.y,,5,, rubict, forced the latte
/. y, rovs, m Kunz offered no. de
\ $50 fo,. Frown,z wicked waIlops an,
/! @f;.,- fa7,a yelled. for q. knockout. TIL,
~cnna- ~ the hell prevented possible
4 lravo 49, II was evident that Kunz wa
3. =, ',reat distress. He strolled to hi
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AID GUMBERT, PITCHER
IN OLD TIMES, HAD
GREA TCONTROL OF BALL

Few if any pitchers in the history
of the game have had as good control
as did Addison Gumbert, who was a
star in the SOS with Chicago, Boston.
Pittsburgh, Brooklyn and Philade1-
phia. 1t will be just SO years ago to-
morrow since "Ad" was born in Pitts
burgh, and he broke into the national
game with GAINESVILLE, Ohio, in 1888.
The following year he Joined Gap"
Anson's Chicago White Stockings,
and. under that great leaders careful
coaching, he soon ranked among the
best. Gumbert jumped to the Boston
brotherhood club in 1890, and led
the twir1ers of the Players League
Later he returned to Chicago and
then played with Pittsburgh, Brook
Iyn and Phfladedplnka. H1s coutxc1
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FABER EXPLAINS HOW 8 :
HE STOLE THIRD BASE.

Chicago, Oct. 9-U1 ban Faber,
: Chicago American league pitcher
and a base-running strategist of
sorts left behind with his friends
last night an explanation of his
attempt to steal third base yester-
day, at a moment when Buck"
Weaver was exercising squatter
sovereignty in that precise spot.
when I hit and cached second
on the throw to the plate" Faber
is quoted as explaining, ST saw
Weaver rounding third as I pull
ed up and thought he had scored.
Perritt took slow wind-up, and
/ lit Out for third. That's how it
happened"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-09
CLEVELAND AT LAST
WINS FROM CINCINNATI
IN OHIO TITLE SERIES

Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 9.-Cleveland.
by defeating the Cincinnati Reds here
yesterday, s to o, still has an outside
chance to win the major league cham
pionship of Ohio. The series stands,
Reds 8, Cleveland l. Solid hitting off
Toney, who won from the Indians in
the opening game at Cincinnati last
week, defeated Matty'sl men, Toney
was replaced in the third by Regain.
who was not very effective.
The score by innings:
R.H. e.
Cleveland CAo o22210 o1*-s 16 0
Cincinnati M 100000 5000 9
Batteries: Klepfer and O'Neill; To-
ney, Regan and Wingo and Smith.
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CARDINALS GET ST. LOUIS
HONORS BY CAPTURING $
GAME FROM BROWNS

St. Louis, Mo-, Oct. s.-The St. Louis
Nationals won the city championship
by defeating the st. Louis Americans
yesterday, 6 to 1. OF the seven games
played the Nationals have won four
and tied one.
The score by innings:
R.HE.
Nationals. o o o OIL 2 8 0-6 10 0
Americans, o o 90 o o 1 00-1 4
Batteries: Packard and Snyder, Da-
venport, Groom and Hartley
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was the marvel of rival pitchers,
and he could put the ban over exactly
where he wanted it For q pitcher
he was some swatter, too, and he
batted over 300 three seasons After
quitting the game Gumbert entered
politics in his native Smoky City, and
several lucrative jobs have fallen to
his lot
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-09

There's a great baseball problem to
be solved, and maybe Sherlock Holmes
can help out the puzzled fans. The
question is: Is there. OF is there's not a
shine ball r. Cicotte. the alleged
user. of that brand of ball, denies that
there ever was such a thing and that
he's only helped the story along to
keep rival teams guessing. Others
claim that he does use what they call
the shine ball. Who's the fabrica-
tor? Get busy, Mr.. Holmes.
Jack Dunn of, the Baltimore club
has made a pile of money this year
President Weeghman of the Cubs is
said to have paid him s12. 900 for Out
fielder Barber. Besides this. Dunn
has sold Fewster, Lamar and Thorma-
len to the Yankees for $50, 900.
AS usual, the National Commission
will deduct for itself 10 per cent. from
the receipts of all the games played.
The contesting players share In the
first four games to the extent of SO
per cent. of the remaining 80 per cent
or actual Sc per cent. of the gate OF
this sum the winning team divides so
per cent, and the losers 40 per cent
In all games played the clubs share
equally in the receipts after the Ma
tional Commission has taken out its
allotted 10 per cent. Each of the
champion clubs, however. has to oi-
vide rs per cent. Of its profit equally
| among the seven other clubs of its
league.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-09

Charles E. Treaman of ithaca. was
appointed chairman of the commit
tee in charge of the Food Admins
tration's pledge card family enrolment
campaign in New York State.