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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
FANS MUST PAY TAX ON
BASEBALL IN MAJOR LEAGUES
National and American Magnates Explain Only
Method to Save Game in War Time.

and collected and paid tax equiva-
lent to 1 cent for each 10 cents or
fraction thereof of the amount paid
for admission to any place, to be paid
by the person admitted and tax of 5
cents for each admission of each per-
SON Except in the case of. bona fide
employe) admitted free to any place
for admission to which a charge is
made, to be paid by the person SO adj
mitted.''
The National league has called a
meeting here Of its club owners for
Saturday morning at II O'Clock. AT
this meeting the club owners will dis
cuss the probable effect the war tax
will have upon the game and the
probable effect Of CONSUMPTION on the
younger players. If the draft does
affect the baseball players it will hit
some of the clubs hard, and their
ranks will have to be filled with old
er players, because the two major
leagues have decided to play out this
seasons schedule. However, the
baseball people realize that baseball
the present crisis.
The new owners of the st. Louis
Cardinals will be welcomed into the
league on Saturday. J. C. Jones, a St
Louis attorney and one of the princi-
pal stockh olders, and Branch Hickey
the new club president, will meet the
other club owners for the first time
Hickey is well known among base
ball men because of his connection
with the St. Louis Browns.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
Yankees Win From j
Toronto In Exhibition
Before Canadian Fans

Yankees handed Larry Lajoie's Tor
onto team a 6-3 defeat here yester
day in a game played in a drizzle.
Donovan was easy on his pitchers US
ing Schocker, Love, Monroe and Pier
cey. The manager played the last two
innings, filling in at second base. La
joie sent in a youngster fresh from
the bushes, who held the Yankees
most of the way and would have es-
caped with a 3-3 tie but a wild
throw by Shortstop Smith in the
fourth with two out. A home run by
sSchocker Immediately after account
ed for three runs Three home runs
were collected, all told.
Ban johnson could not keep his
appointment to be Here Lajoie Day,
and Captain Huston represented the
American League. Both teams gave
a military drill, and the Stars and
Stripes were raised with appropriate
cerem onies, with music by the Forty
eighth Highlanders band.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
Three Old Timers
Gould Not Agree On
Stealing Home Policy
(Sporting News.),

1t has been said that major league
ball players are the best authority for
the statement that even umpires often
disagree as to the correctness of de-
cision on The diamond That noted
managers have achieved success by
methods which were sharply different
in detail, is true also.
An example of the after case came
to light in Detroit. Three famous
stars of two decades ago-Pop Arson,
manager of the old Chicago Colts;
Charley Bennett, the Detroit catcher,
and Sam Thompson, the famous De-
troit slugger-were watching a game
with Cleveland from a box near the
catcher.
/ Bobby Roth, Of the Cleveland team,
was on third He took a big lead,
danced a moment on the line and
then-like a streak-raced for the
plate. His effort to steal home was
not successful, for Stanage had the
bal in plenty of time.
Fine play-good try" shouted
Thompson ."-s
''Bonehead," roared Arson. Eff I
was manager of a ball club I would
fine any man who was foolish enough
to try to steal home The odds are
against him.
Both men looked at Bennett for his
decision, but Charley smiled and was
neutral.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10

New York, May 10-The baseball
fan will have to pay 10 per cent.
more for his fun after June 1 than
he ever did before. President John
K Tener of the National league stat
ed yesterday that the war tax as lev
led is satisfactory to the club own
ers, for instead of leyying tax of 10
per cent. on the gross receipts, as was
at first sugg ested, the fans will now
havs to pay the tax when they pur-
chase their tickets OF admission at
the parks. Both the National and
American leagues objected to tax
on the receipts on the ground that
the obligation would be so heavy that
1t would be ruinous to the business
After June 1, when the fans buy
their tickets at the ticket windows of
the parks they will also have to pay
the tax of 10 per cent This is the
same system that has been in vogue
at Toronto and Montreal in the In
ternational league. It means that
the purchaser of the 50-cent admis.
sions will pay 55 cents, the 75-cent
admissions 30 cents, the 81 tickets will
be $1.1O and the $3.50 box seats will
be $1.s5.
All holders Of complimentary tick
cts to the baseball games will have
to pay tax of cents and the tax on
children under IL years of age will
be 1 cent. The provision for the
tax on baseball tickets is as fol-
lows:
There shall be levied, assessed,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
M'AlElSTERsvllNS
FROM. LEvINSKY IN.
THRILLING BATTLE

New Y ork. May 10---Bob McAllister
rsgistsred Dahfothst victory over Bat
Ting Levinsky, easily outpointing him
in t<a rounds>a at the Paramount A. G.
last night. Ievinsky weighed $50
pounds, having 16 pounds advantage
over the clever California middle
weight.
Levinsky's best rounds were the
third and fourth. In these sessions he
shook up the battler from the coast
with hard rights. McAliister began
I'd show in front in the hftlfA Re jab-
bed and hooked the Hebrew with his
left, several times driving Levinsky
back to the ropes.
The last four rounds were easy for
McAllister His left jab had his OPP
ponert bewildered- Levinsky. how
ever. was always trying but rarely
reached McAllister with his wild,
swings. McAllister gave a clever ex-
hibition, There was a lot of force
behind his cpunchesraast might
Levinskys weight told on Meal
lister toward the end, but he was still
able to give a splendid account of
himself. His famous left hand had
Levfnsky's nose going. but Levinsky
returned the compliment a little later
by drawing flow from Bob's probos-
els
McAlhster's dazzling footwork had
I.evinsky swinging wildly at times. Lee
whisky fought furiously to even the
score in the last two rounds. but the
I Olympic club boy WIS not to be
: caught. In the last round Levinsky
threw science to the bow vows and
: fought freely for knockout When
the final bell came every one in the
house was on tiptoe. 1t was a clean,
scientific and creditable exhibition.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
(By WaIgner.)

The fan who has been getting his
baseball in the newspapers all WINTER
will put his feet under the table to
morrow. call a waiter and loudly order
a. large portion of the national game,
served in at, least nine innings and
fixed a1p with a dash of pepper. For
tomorrow afternoon the Eastern
league baseball season will open IN
this city and the American Chain co.
Athletic association, owners OF the
franchise, have made big preparations
to have the event success
There will be an automobile parade,
starting from the City hall at 1870 p.
m. "A squad of Is policemen will lead
the way and the Wheeler & Wilson
band will knock out a few Of the lat
est one steps. Then will come the d.
rectors Of the Bridgeport club, includL
ing Walter B. Lashar, Clark p. Lane,
Jr., AL Hall and William Siegler. AT
ter that President Primrose of the
Board of Aldermen and his party Will
be on view and then John T. King and
party. Following them will be the
Bridgeport and New Haven players.
Harry Quinn and a party of Elks, Will
appear next, followed by the Amerf-
can Hardware Co. Spalding depart
ments automobiles.
district the parade will proceed to
Newf1eDd park wher the first ball will
be thrown out by Alderman Primrose
in the absence of Mayor Wilson, who
cannot be present on account of Off
cial business in Hartford. After the
band has played and the singers from
the New York publishing houses have
rendered the latest selections, the
Bridgeport and New Haven clubs will
| clash on the diamond.
Manager Krichen is expectingsto use
Dug Smith on the mound while DON
ovan will probably twirl for New Ha-
ven. The game will start at $3.50 and
Joe whalen is'sto umpire. The prob
BRIDGEPORT
| Martin, SIS; Bracket, II; Prieste, 2b;
linn, CT; Lear, Id; Warner, 3b; Briggs
or Corcoran, IF; Donneliy or Maggie, c;
Smith, p.
| NEW HA-EN.
Nutter, IF; Shannon, CT: Torphy, IS;
Simpson, If; Miller, lib; Ball, '2b;
Whalen, sb; Devine, c; Donovan, p.
Manager Krichell is still on the hunt
for pitchers in order to bolster up the
only weak spot in the Bridgeport club.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
CUBS OPEN THEIR
EASTERN TRIP BY
BEATING BROOKLYN

New York, May 10-The sun poked'
his nose out long enough yesterday
for the Chicago Cubs = to hurl the
Dodgers into Z to defeat. 1t was
a short visit of Old Sol and lots of
folk barely recognized him. But the
left wing of a shower almost flushed
the game away. Having no umbrel-
la to work under, William Byron, the
boss umpire, invited the players into
the grand stand when a torrent of a
moments duration fell upon the field
in the second inning. Thereafter
the weather was well behaved, and
sometimes Casey STENCIL had to wear
his sun field glasses.
1t was Ike "old home week" with so
many old Giants and Yankees tofling
for the Cubs. There was Larry Doyle
and Fred Merkle holding down the
right wing of the infield, and they
held it down well, although Larry's
bat could not find a safe spot. There
was also that old Giant battery, AL De-
maree and Arthur Wilson, on the
bench. Harry, Wolter, who played
left handed in right field for the
Yankees before Billy Sundays taber-
nac1e came to Washington Heights,
was camped in right field, and Ollie
Zeider, the second baseman of the
Yankees some years ago, was the
principal factor in the Cubs victory.
Among other old Yankees and Giants
present were Jim Vaughn, Fred Nit
chel, Rube Vanguard and Chief Mey-
ers.
The Dodgers rolled along snugly for
five innings with a three run lead, and
then they. started to retreat. Jack
Coombs cunning had left him. and
groups of hits in the sixth and sew
enth rounds sent him off the mound.
Sherrod Smith attempted to stop the
Cubs, but loose work in the infield and
a pair of hits gave Chicago two more
runs in the eighth.
A rush on Reuther, the Cub pitch
er, gave Brooklyn two runs in the
first inning, the contributing factors
being a pass, an error and hits by
Stenge1 and Cutshaw.
The Brook1yns faced Prendergast
in the next three innings, and the raj
ly they started in the sixth crumbled
after Daubert and Johnston had hit
safely with no one out. It took the
heart out of. the Dodgers and with AL
bridge pitching the next three inn
ings no Dodger could find his way to
first base.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
GIANTS PITCHERS
SHOWING UP WELL
J SO FAR THIS YEAR

New York. May 10-The terrific
batting Of McGraws regular cast fire.
quently has been commented upon,
but perhaps the most forcible part Of
the Giant play this spring is the SPLEEN
did manner in which the Giant pitch
ing staff has stood up. In victory
or defs-t. the Giant pitchers have con-
Quoted themselves noS1y. There nave
been very few New York pitching
shifts, especially in the last Few
weeks The pitcher who started the
game invariably competed Ct.
The Giants weakness was said to
be pitching, but to date the Manhat-
tan finging corps has been the most
consistent in the league. The hard
est the Giant pitchers have been hit
in any game was on April 25, when
the Phillies scored eight runs, but
New York won the game to g. Per-
rift. Middleton and Sallee pitched that
contest.
Even in their little losing streak of
the last ten days, when the Giants lost
three games and tied one, McGraw
obtained good pitching. Tesreau lost
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
DARCY CAN BOOK
BOUTS NOW THAT
HE HAS ENLISTED

AS soon as the pugilistic world
heard the news about Les Darcy's
senlisting in the Reserve Aviation
Corps of the United States Army ev-
erybody sat UP and took notice. It's
been two weeks now since the wires
brought the news from Memphis and
sfnce that time the fight managers
have been very busy. And now that
Les has enlisted no charges of slack
,er can prevent him from taking on
several of the ambitious gentlemen
Who have sought engagements with
the Australian ever since he landed
ii this country Several bouts in
which Darcy will be the star per-
former. maybe, have been scheduled
for June and July.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
BAD WEATHER IS
WORRYING MAJOR
LEAGUE MAGNATES

New York, May 10-For the third
time in as many years the major
league baseball clubs have encounter
ed inclement weather conditions DUR
ing the early days of the pennant
races. Postponed games due to rain,
cold, wet grounds and even snow
have been piling up in an alarming
manner this spring, with the. result
that a number of double headers must
be played before the various clubs
will be able to catch up with their
schedules. sssEss.-s
During the 10 days between the
opening of the 1917 season and the
first of May there were but two on
which the complete number of con-
tests were played. The number of
postponed games per day ranged
from one to as high as five out of the
eight, with the result that on the
first day of this month the National
league had Is games to be played.
and the American Is, making a to-
tai of 81 [
Somewhat similar conditions pre-
vailed last April for during the first
13 days of the 1915 season there
were "a games postponed, of which
16 were in the National. league and
eight in the American. Going back
still another year the records show
that the first weeks, of the 1915 sea-
son were satisfactory from the base
ball weather standpoint, but early in
May the major and minor leagues ran
into a long rainy spell with the re-
suit that 45 games We're postponed
during the first three weeks of that
month.
! The growing demand among the
magnates for a later opening of the
yearly pennant races appears to be
based upon the experience with un-
suitable baseball weather during the
past three or four seasons
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
BIG PARADE FOR OPENING
OF SEASON HERE TOMORROW
City Officials Eks and Club Officials to Ride In Process
sion Before Start of Eastern Campaign

He expects to get hurler named
Gngras from F1lmira of the New York
State league. Townsend of the Amer
lean Chain Co. team will also be given
a trial.
Zeke Lehman, the mammoth twirl-
er who was with Lowell of the East
ern league last season, will probably
be recalled by the Giants if he con-
tinues his fine pitching for Rochester.
Lehman BANKED Newark by to 0
yesterday, holding the Bears to six
hits. He. accepted ten fielding
chances, a remarkable record for a
pitcher. Opposed to Lehman was
George Pennington, the former Law
renee youngster, who held Rochester
to two ta1lies in eight innings. He
was withdrawn to let pinch hitter
go in. Pennington was taken by
the st. Louis Browns this season but
was farmed out to Newark.
It is said that in Australia over 100
boxers have enlisted and boxing
matches held in the country have
raised over $250,000 to help the war
fund.
Joe Rodriguez, the Cuban who was
with New London last season, is main
tanning the fast pace he set when the
International league opened. He is
already a popular idol in Rochester,
on which club he is holding down
first base. He got one of Roches-
ter's hits yesterday and brought in a
run.
Although the big league season is
scarcely under way injuries have al
ready laid many players low. The
latest to join the crippled list is Carl
Weilman, khe tall pitcher of the St
Louis Browns. It is said he has been
advised to submit to an operation fol-
the removal of one kidney.
Gene Mccain formally claimed the
pennant yesterday. The New Lon
don manager always does this the day
before the season opens and tbs
trouble is that the old boy generally
gets away with it. He declared hi!
present aggregation is the stronges
he has ever placed in this league
When you recall that Mccain had
some pretty fast aggregations il
Bridgeport and New London thi.
statement about the present New
London club means something.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
OWNER
ROASTED FOR HIS
4 CLUBS BAD WORK

New York. May 10-Owner Barney
Dreyfuss of the Pirates is getting a
roast from every Quarater these days.
There are not many quarters coming
In at the ticket windows but the roasts
go on just the same.
Out ys0na the ball field. the three re-
nlafhing Western league Clubs have
adcked and bufreted them around in a
most shameful manner. Thereby has
accrued to Barney no end of hunilia-
ton; to say nothing of a more punish
ing suffering in the nature Of harsh
criticism ON the part of fans and
scribes alike around the Smoky City.
Trouble really dates back to the
failure of the venerable Hans Wagner
to join the club in the spring. Hans
announced that he was tired of active
service and had decided to give up the
game. But even then the fact would
not down that Dreyfuss had pre-
viously announced that he deemed it
necessary to lop off a couple of thou
sand dollars from the Dutchman's
salary. More than once in recent
years Wagner has proclaimed his re-
tirement in advance of the seasn's
opening. but always came around by
opening time.
The next step by Dreyfuss toward
engaging his following at home was
his failure to land Fred Merk1e Ne
, gotiations had been entered in a
rather listless way toward buying
[ Merkle's contract While Dreyfuss
was fussing along over the purchase
price the Cubs stepped in and paid
what Ebbets asked and landed Fred
erfck. These two movements, both
smacking of parsimony. followed by
1.-THE wretched showing of the club
have combined to turn the baseball
public Of Pittsburgh against Dreyfuss
more strongly than 1t has possibly
ever been before since he moved the
club to that city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
ALL CAPTAINS OF
YALE TEAMS ARE
TRAINING FOR WAR

New Haven, May 1o-AI four Of
Yale's major sport captains have fin
ished their colleC- courses and are in
the national service. Artemus Gates,
captain-elect of the football team, is
at Miami, Fla, with an aviation unit,
to which Cord Meyer, captain of the
crew, also is attached. Johnny Over
ton. captain Of the track team, and
Harry LIE Gore, captain of the base
ball team. are both about to be COM
missioned Heutenants of marines.
They left New Haven yesterday.
1t is estimated that there are not
enough ''Y" men left in the univers-
ity to make up one varsity team. let
alone four major sport teams
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10

If there is anything H. the adage
that a bad start means a good finish
AL Mamaux- of the Pirates should be
a bear in the closing days of the Ma
tional League race.
One Brooklyn report has it that the
Chicago Cubs paid $4,000 cash for
Fred MerkIe. The Chicago club was
up against it hard for first baseman
and had to do business at Brooklyn's
terms.
Tom Rornanach, the Cuban infielder
on whom Cincinnati has had a claim
and who was boosted by some Red
land scribes as one of the games com
ing wonders, has been released to
Montreal.
Although Walter Holke is not hit
ting the ball for the Giants at the clip
he did last fall, his drives have been
most timely in scoring runs, while his
fielding work is referred to by New
York critics as high class.
In exchange for the two Decoration
Day games which have been shifted
from Cincinnati to st. Louis so as not
to interfere with the automobile races
near Cincinnati, the Cardinals will
play August Is and IA in Cincinnati
Pitcher Scott Perry, who refused to
return to the Southern League when
Manager Fred Mitchell of the Cubs
concluded he would not do, has been
sold to Cincinnati If he proves an
other Lavender Mitchell will have a
lot of explaining to do.
Carson Bibbee, the University of
Oregon man now playing with Pitts
burg, is to be married next fall to
Miss Grace Bingham, daughter of late
Senator Bingham of Eugene, Oregon.
Bixbee and the bride-elect attended
college together, and the young lady
is prominent socially in Oregon.
With Merkle gone, the Brooklyn
Dodgers have no ready substitute for
Jake Daubert in case Jake should go
lame again, as ne is likely to DO, So
Manager Robinson is said to be
grooming Ivan Olson as a substitute
first beseman. Jimmy Johnston also
has been permitted to try his hand at
first basing. but not with satisfactory
results if reports can be believed.
It is remarked that John McGraw
has adopted the sacrifice as part OF
his scheme of play. McGraw was SO
wedoed to the idea of having esc5
batter hit his head off few years ago
that he lost a pennant by it. Now
he seems to be getting wise and in
spite of the fact that he has a great
lot of hitters he is using the bunt
when good Judgment and common
sense demands it s
=
Manager Robinson Of the Brooklyn
Dodgers is one major league boss
who doesn't believe in the theory of
switching batters to meet different
pitching. He says his left-handed
batters can swat southpaw pitching
just as well as they can right-handed
stuff and the records of the Brooklyn
| team rather bear this out.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
LEONARD TO BOX
SHANNON TONIGHT

New York. May 10-Benny Leon
srd who is looked upon as the COM
.nx lightweight champion, will try fs--
his fourth straight knockout when he
opposes Eddie Shannon. the Pacific
Coast champion, at the Clermont
Sporting club tonight In his last
tssyee tights Leonard stopped Packey
Hommey In nine rounds, Richie
Mitchell In seven and Charlie Thomas
in six.
Shannon is confident he will last
the hrnit with the Harlem idol, as
Eddie gave Johnny Kilbane a hard
six-round battle in Philadelphia two
weeks ago. Shannon recently knock
ed out Tommy O'Keefe, who went the
limit With Leonard.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10

st. Louis, May 9-After nine years
of service on the mound Bob Groom.
the Browns veteran pitcher, has at
last Joined the ranks Of the no hit
hurlers. Bob took partsin both games
of a double header with the White Sox
and pitched eleven consecutive hitless
innings, two in the first and nine in
the second, this being unique stunt.
In the seventh inning of the first game
Plank. who had relieved Sothoron in
the fifth, was removed to make room
for a pinch hitter, and Fielder Jones
called on Groom to finish the game.
He did SO sby letting the Sox down
without a blow up to the finish of the
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Results of Games Yesterday.
Boston, 4; Washington, 1 (frst.)
Washington, A.; Boston, (second.
Detroit, 4; Cleveland, l. (first.)
Detroit, 9; Cleveland, 1 (second.)
Chicago, 4; st. Louis, 2.
Other teams were not scheduled
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10

contest. Bob appeared to be in such
excellent form that Jones nominated
him to pitch the second game, and the
hurler had no trouble banking his
opponents again without a hit, the
Browns winningi 3 to 8. Only twenty
eight men faced Groom in the second
game, four reaching first base. Three
of these received passes and the, other
was hit by pitched ball. This was
the second no hit game seen in St.
Louis this year, Eddie Cicotte of the
White Sox letting the Browns down
without hit or run Jon, the first
visit of Rowland's team here this
spring.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
B. Fl. S. Team Beats
Stamford In Baseball

The B. H. S. baseball team step.
ped down to Stamford yesterday and
defeated S. H. s. by the score of s to
2. MARBLE pitched a good game for
Bridgeport. In the sixth with the
bases loaded he cracked out a dou-i
Bile. Halves also hit well for the To-
Gals. -