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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01
BOXING HANGING IN THE BALANCE IN METROPOLIS

New York, Dec. 1-Boxing under the membership plan still hangs Ill the balance. John Kirk, Joe Kirk Peter Kirk and Billy Moore, oftlclals of the New Polo A. A.. and Benny Brooks. Tom Smith and Bob Smith, nuei1ists. appeared before Magistrata Ten Fyck in the Harlem police court yesterday morning, charged with alo- ing and abetting in prize fight under Penal Code 1,710, as the result or the boxing bouts held at the above. mentioned club a week ago last nlght.
 After the case was called Sol Hey' man. representing the officials Of the New Polo A. O., requested an ad- iournment because of similar case in Brooklyn. Magistrate Ten Eyck granted the request and set the near ing for next Thursday afternoon.
 Over in Brooklyn Johnny Weis- mantel. owner of the Broadway sport ing club; John Lecturer Dunn. sev- eraI other officials of the club and three fighters appeared before Masis- trate Esterbrook in the Gates Avenue court charged with the same crime as the New Polo men.
 After reviewing the facts Mag1s~ trats Esterbrook ordered counsel for the defendants to submit briefs to him by tonight.
 The magistrate announced that he would give his decision next Friday and instructed the officials and fight CTS to appear before him on that day in the Butler Street court.
 In the meantime, however, the Broadway Sporting club is going to hold a set of membership wrestling and boxing bouts at its club tonight. Weismantel and his counsel went be- fore Judge Benedict on Wednesday afternoon, and after explaining that the Broadway Sporting club was legitimate boxing club in every sense of the word, asked for an injunction to restrain the police authorities from interfering with his bouts tonight. The injunction was granted. The Hunts Point Sporting club, in membership bouts on Monday night.
 This club can truly be called an ath- letic club, as it has a basketball team, a track and field team and swimming team. It also has nearly a thousand bona fide members. Freddy Welsh, former worlds l lightweight champion, is ready to perform his ''cone back" He will box in New Haven next Friday night for a worthy cause. The occasion is
 the first of series of boxing shows
 Dick Curley is conducting for the
 Italian war fund. and by means of
 which Ricearde hopes to raise $so,' 900. Already $60,00o' of the $150,00o
 has been raised by society women o1
 that vicinity. -,.--s
 | Patsy Cline will also help the
 cause, as will Battling Levinsky. Jack
 Britton, Bartlsy Madden and Willie
 Jackson. K. O. Circus, w1ae promised to develop into the seasons boxing
 sensation when the boxing repeal law
 went into effect here, has volunteered
 to box any boy of his weight over tha 1$-round route.
 | Benny Kauff, the demon eutfeldel
 of the Giants, has consented to act aa referee in one of the bouts. The
 New Haven boxing emporium seats approximately 7,066. Curley expects | to conduct bouts regularly in this
 arena, and is at present busy booking
 several championship matches to be
 staged after he gets that Ss0,006 fel
 his eeuntrymen.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01
Grid Title Game Will
 Be Played
Crack arlington Glees of New Haven Will Clash With American Chain Go. Team at Newfeld Park Tomorrow for New Eng land Championship.

Wz9h only one change in his line, Ezager Kearney is prepared to de- xsnd the newly acquired New Eng land professional football champion ship, won by the American Chain Eas team, against the Washington <saees of New Haven, tomorrow af- tsrnocn, at Newfead park The Knxne win be called at 2:45 o'clock
 Malone, who has played in the line dsr the Teatar part of the season, will an ala npsa In Glee xb41n tnanorruM. He put up a atrong game with that team against xhe Annex Turkey Day, and no doubt hzs loss VIII .be keenIy felt by the To- ral gradironers However, Manager Keaxnev promises that his lace will s@ we'll nIled
 Ag3e, Richardson and Brady,
 ssm Manager Kearney feared he would not have, due to arrangements 4hsl9 three have made for entering EncIS Sam's war service, will be right cn ths job as usual.
 KAarney and the Glee club man. aIg1r arranged final details for the
 game at q conference in New Haven 1ast evening According to the lat ter. the Glees will be accompanied hy tho Ges club band and about 700 Elm City rooters.
 Ilzfs game may turn out tD be the asira1 one of the local season. though 1T as possible that the local manage xres& may arrange a third clash with the Annex, to take place the fol- 7owHng Sunday. This will depend
 xeGfiv upon the result of tomorrow
 ane, and the ability of Manager 1Zaarnsy to hold his team together for nngfzaer week
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01

The final day of the football season was unusual because every eleven which was expected to win realized its ambition As much cannot be said of any other day of the season On the basis of other surprising events during the season, no one would have been na.bbergasted if Penn, Pittsburgh and Georgia Tech had fallen by the way side. Strange as it may seem, how ever, form counted for something, and all of these elevens won
 The experiment of Cornell in play Ing out its regular schedule with an eleven made up of second and third rate material was carried out with rather disastrous results While 1t was commendahls from a patriotic point of view, it was a hard blow to the Ithacans' football prestige, but 1t is to the credit of Cornell that it went through with its purpose regardless of what the result might be.
 Here is what Coach Dr. Sharpe says of Cornelrs football policy: ''H the value of intercollegiate athletics is what the United States government and our council thinks 1t is, Cornell will continue to build men for future service regardless of scores. It is not question of winning as much as be- ing trained to play the game as If you were winning"
 They were an ungain1y lot, this years Cornell team, which went down before Penn on Thanksgiving Day. All aH 7.ak his football material was below par. Compared to the standards of the past" said Dr. Sharpe, Hoffman was the only frst-rate football player of the outfit The other players last year never even won a place on the 'Va1sity squad. Some of them were on the third team, but none of them were good enough to be substitutes last season.
 The material was young and inex- perienced, and even lacking in the type that naturally lends itself to good coaching. -TEe showing made by the Cornell team this season was inevit- able," says Dr Sharpe.
 It was unfortunate that Georgia Tech should have had its greatest football eleven in a. season so badly disrupted by wartime conditions. Competition judges maintain that fl was the best football team ever de- ye1oped in that section of the coun- try. The impressive victory over Auburn, which a week before had held Ohio State, the conference cham pion, to a scoreless tie, stamps the I team as great scoring machine. It I led the country in point scoring with a total of. 4S1 points scored, while ! only 1T points were scored against it. The Navy rolled up 442 points, with IT points scored against it.
 After his great showing with Tecf, during the last three seasons, Coach J. W. Heisman has received many hategfng offers from Eastern and Western colleges. It is stated that ha will not be with Tech next season, as has contract expired after the close of the Auburn game. Georgia is un- decided about its football policy, and heAtaAes about trying to retain the successful coach. Georgia, like many other colleges throughout the coun- ltry, may decide to follow the policy of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01
6 Choices Defeated
 At Bowie
Not a Favorite Crosses Win ming Line In Front Form Players Roughly Handled On Getaway Day of Great Racing Season In the East.

Baltimore. Dec. Form players received the worst financial drubbing handed out to them this fall at the Bowie track yesterday. Not a favor ite crossed the winning line in front.
 As this was the. last day of the meeting the prominence of the out siders was not a matter of great sur prise, as "dark" horses have a pen chant for winning on gateway days. A big crowd was present on the wind up of the racing in Maryland for the year.
 A drizzling rain spoiled the track, making it heavy and slippery. This unquestionably helped to bring about the defeats of Porter and Highland Lad, fastest two and three-year-olds at the track, and frequent winners. The plungers turned loose their bank rolls on these horses and had bad chills, which the dreary weather was not responsible for, when they were beaten.
 Dr. J. s. Tyree's colors flashed home in front in the first two races. He won the opener with Start Right, which just got up in time to nip Sunny Hill on the post by a head Sweep Up II took the measure of the Porter, beating him away from the barrier and easily holding the lead to the end. Both youngsters are sons of the late James R. Keene's fine racer, Sweep.
 Despite the fact that Highland Lad had raced yesterday, he was again
 
 the Au Revoir Handicap at a mile He carried 127 pounds and, though this weight exceeds by many pounds the weight assigned any three-year- old that has raced at Bowie, he was considered so much better than his opponents by the handicappsrs that he was made & big first choice. Bur the mud and the weight proved too much for him.
 Woodstone, a good mudder, that has been in hiding for two weeks, took the track once the barrier was released and won by himself. High land Lad was tired seoond. The meeting at Bowie has been record breaking one in the matter of attendance. The weather was bad, WILL 6IAOWs Id1u SsI1Q COk1 HL[1VluE TOT the upper hand, but the crowd would not stay away. Next spring many new improvements will be made, to the. course. Sun Br4ar, the champion two- year-old of 1917, wfILbe a certain | starter In the Kentucky Derby next May if nothing happens to him in the meanwhile. Trainer Henry Daniels, in a letter to his friend, Billy Porter, states that Sun Briar has wintered fine since he was turned out at Bing- hamton, N. T., and that the colt will he shipped to Churchill Downs early in February,
 c. Foote, presumably acting for James CoFrigan, claimed Msleria out of the third race for S3,20o, Corri- gan formerly owned the Ally. W. F. Martin, has purchased Bat ting Abbey, Grayson. Frank Keogh, Elizabeth H. and Knight of the Scar let from the Kentucky Stable, and will race them in Havana,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01
WINTER BASEBALL SEASON IS NOW WELL UNDER WAY

certain Marquis of Queensberry rules Biting in the clinehes is frowned upon, and no gentleman is entitled to take another gentleman's watch un- less he is Joking. It is every man for himself and the devil take the hind most. That is the sort of a trust baseball is. Neither is this such a bad thing for the game. If there was no business rivalry among the owners there might be nc playing rivalry among the men.
 The time now has come, however, when if major league baseball is to exist everybody concerned in it must get together. Every one must lend his aid and pull in the same direc- tion. Internal chickering's must cease. Personal grtbdges must be planted to Spreut anew at some mere Bfopitious time. The individual cannot sail his end of the ship as he pleases without reference te the other end. The can vas must be trimmed for the coming bad weather and the course agreed upon.
 Weak spots must be strengthened even at the cost of individual saeri- flee, and each league must stand by the other in case of disaster. For this reason it is probable that the two major leagues will in the near future hold a joint session and agree as te 8, certain line of procedure for both.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01
DODGERS, PURCHASE
 ST. LOUIS PITCHER

New York. Dee. 1.Iresident Eb- bets announced yesterday that the Brooklyn club had obtained Dan Gri-. ner, the big "right-handsd pitcher, from the St Louis Cardinals by the waiver route, Miller Huggias, now manager of tine Yankees last season farmed out Griner to theh St. Paul club, of the American association, weheF he made good showing.
 GFiner will help strengthen the Dodgers pitching staff, which was crippled iby the loss of Leon Cadore and Sherrod Smith, who are now in the army. At the National league meeting here next week Robbie will try to land g. seuthpaw to take Smiths place.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01
ARE TRUE
 TO FORM AT CLOSE
Thanksgiving Day Results Lack of Upses Such As Have Marked Season-Un Unfortunate Georgia Techs Great est Team Should Come In Of Year-Work Cut Out for Rules Committee Notes of Football Game.

regard to intercollegiate competition if the war continues through next year
 Georgia will not only lose its coach, but will also lose many of it's best players Most of the players will drop out through enlistments and line will have to be developed, as F1ncher will be the only veteran left. The backdeld stars-Guin, Hill, liar land STupper, and Guyon-w1n be available, but & crack backdeld is of Httsl use if the line is weak, a. state of affairs which was plainly demon strated by the Colgate eleven this year. The backde4d was as strong as in 1918, but it was of little use behind a weak line.
 Georgia Tech has been swamped with offers for games from many prominent elevens. All these offers with the exception of Pennsylvania were rejected during the last season. but it is likely that if football is con- tinued next season Tech will play. some of the most prominent Eastern teams. The Navy has asked for a I66444o WILL O1E4db 4O4 ANOfs AoS AOAcs and the Southerners are anxious to arrange the game.
 That football at Annapolis is doubt full next season is shown by the tone of the letter from the midshipmen. The request for the game is made under the condition that football is played by Annapolis next season. It is only a tentative agreement, and 1t Is likely that If the Navy does not have an eleven next year, many Of the other colleges, including Georgia, will be in the same boat
 l Several knotty questions arose in the football season which will neces- sitate some action by the Football Rules committee when it holds its next meeting. One play which will have to be clearly defined came up in two different games this season. The play in question is: If a player eligible to receive a forward pass steps out of bounds and then steps back on to the gridiron to complete the play, is this a. legal forward pass? Officials have ruled both ways on the question, and it will come up be- fore the Rules committee for adjust ment. Most officials, however, would refuse to permit such pass, while others say they would permit it, be- cause the point is not specifically cov- cred in the rules. It would seem, however, that the first rule of the game, defining the limits Of the grid iron, would prohibit such a play. Ii such play were declared legal coaches could devise 1nnumerable Iplays, part of which could be executed while player was out of bounds.
 From the earliest days of the Amer Iican game of football the, ball has popularly been referred to as the pig skin. As a matter of fact, a football is not made of pigskin. The yellow oval covers generally used by the colleges are made of cowhide, while the cheaper footballs are made o1 sheepsk1n. The cowlaide used in foot balls is imported from England, where 1t is tanned especially for this pur- lpose. The inner bladders are made lof rubber. The expression pfgskir probably dates back to the early days
 of football in England, when a pigs
 bladder was used.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01
BIG CROWD TO SEE
 SERVICE ELEVENS

Chicago, Dec. 1-Feetbali e1eveas from Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich, and Camp Grant, Rockford, ul., met at Stagg field today in a game for the benefit of the athletic nauipnaeat and recreation fund at the two cantonnents Thousands of sel- Asers from the two camps came to Witnass tho game and it was expected Shat one of the largest crowds ever assembled on Q football field here would be present. The sale of seats &otalIed $30 900.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01
20 TO 1 SHOT WINS
 FEATURE IN SOUTH

New Orleans, Dec. 1.-Sir Oliver won the feature at the Shrewsbury track yesterday and paid his packers 20 to 1. Reybourn, with 15 to against his chances, accounted TOT the fifth race. He was forgotten in the betting.
 Mariana, because of his form in the East, was heavily backed and wen the sixth race easily. Tom Carr and Mountain Rose II were the other two favorites to cash.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01
FIFTY GRAPPLERS IN
 TITLE TOURNAMENT

New York, Dee. 1-Mere than 50 entries have been received for the worlds championship catch catch can wrestling tournament which will begin next Monday night at the Lex ingtea theatre. The management will separate the good from the mediocre grapplers and have the list of contestants ready for announce ment tomorrow.
 To decide the champion during the coming three weeks, it will be neces- sary for two finish matches to be staged nightly
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01

It will be interesting to see what Miller H1ggins does with Finn Book. When he was manager of the Car dinals, Higgins tried Beck out at third base, and sent him back to the minors Recently the Yankees got Book in the draft and shortly after ward Higgins was named manager of the team. Now the two are together again. Wonder what win happeni
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01
TODAY IN PUG1IdsrIo ANNALS

1Ss6-Tem sharkey won en a foul from Bob BItzimmons in the Sth round at San Francisco.
 1S06-Bob Fitzimmons defeated Tom Sharizey in San Francisco.
 1910-Hrank ManteH defeated Sail or Burke in ten rounds at New York.
 1911-Knockout Brown and George Chip fought six-round draw at Pitts burgh.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01

FRENCH AND DUTCH BULBS JUST ARRIVED
 JOHN RECK & SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01

One of the ways in which club own CTS are most willing to eeenomize next season is by paying lower salaries and charging higher admissions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent Word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-01

Farmer Want Ads. ee csat .
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-13
Jim Duncan, World = Champion;
Discus Thrower, Called Model
Speciamen of Manhood by En-.
gineer Regiment Surgeons,
BY F. M. KERRY

Staffff Special. ''..' -.--'] 1880
New York, June 13.-James Dun.
can, champion discus thrower of the
world, is the hundred per cent perfect
recruit just discovered by Uncle Sam.
Duncan has enlisted in the First
Reserve Engineer regiment, which
has just completed it's enrolment and
gone into camp at Fort Totten, l.. l.,
preparatory. to embarkment for
France as part of the first 100000 Am.
erican troops under Gen. Pershing.
Army physicians who examined
Duncan declare him to be perfect
physical specimen. He is five. feet
ten inchese tall, weighs 1870 pounds.
and has chest expansion Of four and
one-quarter inches. 49,.
. The army; requirements only call
for a chest expansion of three inch,
es," said the examining physician at
the headquarters Of the engineers
regiment, 100 Sixth-av, telling me
about Duncans acceptance. HE is
one of the the finest physical speci-
mems |, have ever examined. He is
evidently in perfect condition, and has
no defects Of any kind He is an ex-
ample OF what any, young man can
make of himself by physical training
and leading a clean life" l>
Duncan is New York boy. having
lived most of his life near Coney Is.
land He is 90 this year, and has
been interested in athletics all his
life. He is a perfect swimmer. hav.
ing been in the water - ever. since /
could remember" as he puts it. " Il
Duncan became Interested in discus
throwing after. meeting Martin ,Sheri-
dan in 1909, At that time Sheridan
threw the discus at the Pastime Ath-'
letic grounds He went back to Con-
ey Island and tried out the discus on
his own account. After two weeks Of
practice he was able to thow the dis
Gus l., feet. A few years later Dun!
can beat Sheridan on the grounds
where he first saw Sheridan. He
threw the discus 1879 feet at that time
or only two feet behind the worlds
record. WY
June 2, 1912, Duncan, throwing from
a seven-foot circle threw the discus
145 feet 1-2 inches at Celtic Park.
This is the worlds record. - .-@ =
Duncan never got to- the Olympic
games in Berlin, postponed when the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-13

hadn't seen the performance. Ths
French '75s" are particularly usefulin
this style of quick advance. but the
British light guns, as now built, are
hardly inferior. %" g..
The handling of the 6, s. 10. II and
even 15-inch howitzers Is, Of course,
most impressive Hitched to their cater
pillar tractors, they Jog along, keeping
pace with the light field pieces that are
drawn by well-trained horses. These
big guns, as, now constructed, are the
last word in mobility. No need to wor-
~ about building emplacements for
them. They can he fred from any sort
Of ground, and IT things get too hot for
them in one place they can be coupled
up and hauled off to another. Along
with the big guns go complete outfits
Of repair material and machinery, 80
that if anything goes wrong it can be
attended to without q minutes delay,
Nothing known to modern war Is SO
pampered, so delicately nursed, as Il
- field howitzer. unless, perhaps. 1t
be a superdreadnaught or a tempera'
mental Missouri mule.
! And when one of these delicate In.
truments gets into range, that is, SO
that 1t isn't necessary to fire more than
half way across a good.sized middle
Western county, 1t can do an amount
Of business that quite justifies all the
trouble it has required. A six-inch
howitzer will drop an explosive shell
every ten seconds, and drop it exactly
where it will do the most harm. Their
accuracy in firing is almost unbeliev.
able and quite indescribable.
The biggest of them are manned by
crews of naval gunners, trained to
shoot from the unstable deck of battle.
ship or cruiser and to hit the mark.
When they get d chance on dry land
which doesn't roll or sway beneath
them it becomes highly undesirable to
attract the diligent attention Of one
Of these crews within ten or a dozen
miles. '' $500 .s'' ,1,''f,.'' - 49,.
All this is mild suggestion Of what
went wrong with the 'Hindenburg line.
It was undoubtedly a mighty good line
once. But the engineers and machine
shops behind the French and British
armies had made their arrangements
for wrecking 1t long before Hindenburs
had even thought Of establishing it.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-13
By PAUL PURNlAN.

Preaching on Sunday, attending
college during the week and pitching
invincible baseball for his college
team is the program followed by A.
c. Mckinney, star pitcher of William
Jewell college at Liberty, Mo.
Whether or not Mckinney ever
breaks into the big leagues, and this
now seems to be a question of his
own desires, the young star has
carved himself niche in baseball's
hall of fame which any veteran might
be proud to occupy.
Pitching for his college team in
four games he struck out u men in
"a innings, pitched two no-hit games
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-13
TAKE NEW "ANTITANk GUNS"
British Discover That German Invent.
ers Have Devised New Form
3. - Of Weapon.

acknowledgements war inventors
nave devised a new form of weapon
known as "antitank guns" These can
non are used against the huge armed
and armored monsters which the Brit
ish have been using with such ex-
cellent results Oh the western front.
The "antitank" gun is a short-barreled
seveI-inch weapon, hurting a shell
with tremendous power. A number Of
them have been captured by the Brit
lsh forces on the Arras front.