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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
Local Soccer Clubs
Capture Three Out of
Four Sunday Contests

Local soccer teams were very sue
cessfu1 yesterday. The Bridgeport
Citys went to Ansonia and swamped
the Ansonia crowd by to in the
seminal of the spring cup competf-i
ton. Dowda1 and Hall starred for,
the City team.
The Bridgeport Rangers went to
Waterbury and beat the British
Americans by to o. Only one goal
was scored in the first half but the
Rspcers got two in the second. CsztS-
fin and York did we'll for the Rangers.
At the Meadows the Remington
City team and the New Haven club
played a tie, each scoring twice. The
visitors were ahead. until the last four
minutes when Eadon scored for the
Remingtons.
y The Bridgeport Rovers went to New,
Haven and won from the Waverlys of
that place by l to O. Wiggleswortn
scored the winning goal in the final
two minutes of play.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
THREE TEAMS PUNCHED in
AMERICAN LEAGUE FLAG RACE
Giants Pitchers Faltered Last Week and Cubs
Retain Lead in National League.

standing. The Cubs won ten games
straight before they were. halted by
the Phillies, and at that they went
through the week with four victories
and two defeats. Philadelphia is
expected is gradually creeping up on
the leaders and had good week,
with five victories and one defeat.
The Brooklyn club at last has hit
a normal stride, and last week play
ed the kind of ball which is expect
ed of championship team. Brook
Ign won four games and lost one, the
best week the nine has had this sea-
son.
The Boston Braves are still in the
depths of despair, and last week won
only on game and dropped five. The
Braves seem to have lost their old
fighting spirit, and their collapse is
one Of the surprises of the early sea-
son. -
The Giants retain the honors as the
hardest hitting club in the league and
no less than six members of the club
are hitting in the 800 class-George
Burns, Zimmerman, Kauff, Herzog
Holke and McCarty. There is ev.
cry reason to believe that last weeks
slump Of the Giants is only temper
airy -
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
Y. M. G. A. Fencers Star
At Travers Island

Y. M. C. A athletes took part in
the duelling sword contest held yes
terday at the New York A. G..
grounds at Travers Island. The
best fencers of the country were
present. They fenced in two strips
four men were held for the finals.
First Strip-Kochis five victories;
no defeats; Lyon. three victories; two
defeats.
Second Strip-Nunez, five victor
les; no defeat; Heursch, four victor
les, one defeat.
Finals---Louis Kochiss, one vic
tory; Nunez, one victory; Lyon, one
victory, Heursch, no victory.
Fence-off for the First Place =
First, Lyon, two victories; second.
Nunez and Kochiss, fence-on three
times The victory goes to Nunex;
third, Kochiss; fourth, Heursch.
The other local Y. M. G. A. fenc-
ers were: Thomas Wi1lmore and
Donald Wa1dhaus. Both did good
work. They came very close to the
finals.
The pistol contest was held be-
tween the fencers and Donald VALID
hause of Bridgeport. First place
was lost by Waldhaus by one point.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
EBBETS IDEA OF LATE
START OF SEASON is
GAINING SOME FAVOR

It was a very sensible proposal
that Col. Charles H Ebbets Of the
Brooklyn team made during the re-
cent meeting in New York Of the
club owners in the National league,
He is said to have suggested that the
season open two weeks later than
usual next year. In view of the
almost freezing weather that prevail
ed during the first month of this
season, the fans will heartily sup
port such a move.
It's no fun sitting in the open all
with your head inside your collar
trying to initiate turtle, your hands
in your overcoat pockets and your
feet feeling like two large chunks OF
ice. Ebbets' plan calls for a sea.
son to start on April "a and to close
on Oct. IL. He backed up his ar
guments for this plan by appearing
at the meeting with reports from
the United States weather bureau
While nothing definite has been said
as to the reception of the proposal
it is believed that many Of the owners
are inclined to favor it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21

New York, May 21-The exciting
scramble for first place in the Amer
lean League in which the Yankees,
the White Sox and Red Sox figure
furnished the feature of the major
league pennant races last week. Bos-
ton was leading on Thursday, and
on Friday the Yankees tied thu Red
Sox, while on Saturday morning Bill
Donovan's men were tied with the
worlds champions for first place,
with Chicago a short distance be-
hind.
The sojourn of the Yanks at the
top was short, for the defeat by De-
troit yesterday, together with the
Boston triumph over the White Sox,
showed Boston back into the lead.
The Yanks sill cling to second place
by a single decimal point, and at the
pace they are travelling it is reason
able to expect that they will hold
their own in the close struggle which
is now going ON in the West.
The victories of Donovan's men
over Chicago and the st. Louis
Browns bore out all the predictions
which have been made for the club.
There Is no question about their
pitching strength, and when the
batters hit as they are capable OF
hitting, the Yankees appear as for
midable as any club on Ban John
sons circuit The Yanks have had
five victories, one tie game, and two
defeats, in the last eight days. The
record of the White Sox was ever
better. The, defeat yesterday stop
ped Chicago's winning streak after 9
run. of eight straight Many good
judges of baseball have insisted thai
Chicago. has the best club in the
American League this season, ani
the teams playing thus far indicates
possibility that this Judgment is no
far awry.
The Boston worlds champions hat
a difficult time of 1t last week AND
| dropped four games, but came bach
strong yesterday. Cleveland broke
even on the week and Washington
staged a big surprise by winning fv,
| Of the last seven. The Browns hat
run of defeats, while the lowly Ath
| letics are anchored just where the,
were last year and show no signs o
| being able to climb out of las
| place.
The Giants had their worst weel
of the season, dropping two games t,
| st. Louis and one to Pittsburgh
while they won one game from eacl
| of these clubs. This reversal o
| form by McGraws men cost then
/ the lead, the Cubs now holding tn
eminence at the top Of the leagu
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
KAUFF MAKES THREE
HITS AS GIANTS WIN
FROM PATERSON TEAM

New York. May 21-Jawn Nc
Graw's Giants, with all the regulars
in the lineup, trounced the Doherty
Silk Sox at Paterson, yesterday, be-
fore home crowd of 10000. The
score was to 8. Last year the Do
herty team defeated the big leaguers
by 2 to O..
Otto Rettig, who twirls for the
Springfield team of the Eastern
League, and who shut out the Giants
last year, was hit hard by the New
Workers, who secured a total of Ii
drives Benny Kauf was the star
swatter, getting three bingles. -
In the first inning the Giants scoT
ed four runs over before any one
was put out. Smith and Middleton
divided the pitching for the Giants,
and 10Th kept the home team well in
check. Estes lined out a home run
to, deep centre in the seventh, scor-
ing Raymond ahead.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
LOCALS NOT ABLE.
TO OVERCOME Big
SPRINGFIELD LEAD
(By Wagner.)

t(By WaSnGT.J
Some day the Bridgeport players
won't have to spot the enemy to
three or four runs and the shock
will be fatal. Ever since the season
started it has been the habit for the
diamond slaves to come in after the
first inning, look at the scoreboard
and see a flock of runs chalked up
for the opposition
This thing of trying to catch your
rival after he has been given a flying
start is no jest.
1t was the same old pitching nuis-
| ance that put the rollers under
| Bridgeport yesterday. Banks, the
rosy checked Newark recruit, had
| filed the bases with nobody out. in
the first inning before Manager Kri-
che1 had Dessau warmed up. Spring
| field managed to clear the bases and
| those three runs presented handi-
| cap which Bridgeport was unable tic
| overcome. So Springfield took an
exciting battle by Z to 8.
| Dessau, an old International and
| New York State Lacquer. did well
| except in the third when Springfield
| punched two singles and a triple fol
| three runs. They would have scor-
| ed only two In that inning if Otto
| Deininger hadn't stood there with the
ball in his hand and watched Mitch
| ell run home from third. Dessar
can get the ball over, anyway, which
is a relief after some of the wildness
exhibited by the local moundmen.
With score Of to 0 against then
the outlook was chilly for our boy
but they made a contest out of it b!
tt-kr< f,,r~ ~ IND nv1S
fourth which yielded five runs. Il
the fourth, singles by Corcoran
Donnelly and Martin, a pass t.
j Bracket and Deininger's two bag
ger produced four TALES.
The visitors got a cheap run il
the sixth when Lynch struck out blu
was safe when Donnelly dropped tn
third strike. BarEon's sacrifice am
a Texas Lacquer by Hickey .brough
over what proved to be the winnin
marker.
Johnny Barron made his appear
ance before the home folks as tn
Springfield twirler and the lank
youth had a rough trip. Bridgepor
laced him for IL blows but he man
aged to. keep them well scattered ex
cept in the fourth Deininger le
3 Bridgeport, at bat with two double
and Bill Martins two hits, one o
them scoring two runs, were time
ly.
The best play of the day was fur
nished by Hank Bracket who race
in toward the diamond in the ninth
: picked Barrons short fly off the gras
and then spun on his ear Their
) were three on bases at the time an
Hank had to respond to an encore
The score: 500
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
EDITED by WAGNER
YANKEES DRIVEN.
FROM FIRST PLACE
BY CLOSE DEFEAT

Detroit, May 21-Thaty small corr
around the waistline of "Tub' Spen-
Ger, the renowned Comeback came
in handy for the Detroit Tigers here
yesterday afternoon. 1t contributed
largely to the defeat Of the Yankees
after they had won five straight, and
dropped them out of first place.
Detroit won yesterday by a score of
1 to O, this being the first victory
for the crew of Hughey Jennings in
the last six starts. spencer's rotun-
dity was a contributing factor, be-
cause it enabled him to get a base for
being hit with pitched ball and
thus be in a position to score the only
run of the game when Boland fol-
lowed with a two-base hit. The ball
that hit Spencer grazed his blouse so
lightlye that he was hardly aware of
it himself. 1t would never have
touched the blouse of any other play
er on the club. -
But a more important cause for
the defeat of the Yankees was the
pitching of Bernie ,Boland, a slight
highlander, who had the Yanks fig
uratively eating out of his hand all
afternoon. He and Allan Russell
nelQ d plCcneTS Ouel, edCn DeilS at
his best. W
The Yankees got five hits off Boz
! land, while Russell allowed only four
| to Detfoit. But the inability of the
Yankees to get hits when they had
men in a position to score gave Bo-
land the edge. He pitched the Yam
kee hitters few good balls in these
pinches and they took the chance of
striking at the bad ones.
| After the weird exhibition of Sat-
urday the game was a time affair. j It
took three hours and a half to play
the Saturday tie. The nine innings
were ratified off yesterday in an hour
and a half. The fielding of both
clubs was excellent, despite three re-
rors, and nearly $4,000 fans saw De-
troit get it's first victory in week.
Allan Russell, who lasted less than
two innings Saturday, came RICH!
back at the Tigers with a grand ex.
| hibition. He issued but one base o.
balls, and up to the time Spencer go'
a base by being hit with the ball, moi
a man had reported second base or
him, and only four had reached first
Young singled in the first, but was
caught in a double play, while Veach
was out stealing after getting or
through Peck's error. Veach and
Bush each beat out inffe1d hits, never
to advance. The only clean blows
were the single by Young in the frs
land the two-base hit by Boland in the
eighth, with which he won his owl
game.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
BRIDGEPORT
Springfield
Bridgeport

Two base hits, Deininger 2, Briggs.
Three base hit, Mitchell. Stolen bases,
Prieste 2. Sacrifice hits, Hickey,
Rico, Barron, Mahoney, Mitchell.
Double plays, Martin to Prieste to
Deininger 2. Left on bases, Bridge
port 10, Springfield 10, First base on
errors, Bridgeport 1, Springfield s.
Base on balls, off Branks 1 off Des-
lsau l.; off Barron 8. Hits and earned
runs, off Banks, hits 1. runs 2 in 0
inning; off Dessau. hits 10, runs in
8 innings. Hit by pitcher, by Banks
(Rico); by Brown (Briggs). Struck
out, by Dessau z; by Barron 1. Wild
pitches, Dessau. Passed ball Donnel-
ly Umpires, Kelly and Irwin. TSime
2:10
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21


Chicago, May 19-Francis Ouimet,
former national amateur and open
golf champion, rated by the United
States Golf association as a profess
sional, has accepted an invitation
from the Western Golf association to
compete as an amateur in the west
ern amateur championship tourna-
ment at the Midlothian Country club,
Chicago, on July 9 to IA. The in
vitation to Ouinet was extended by
unanimous vote of the board Of direc-
tors after the association had adopted
new definition of an amateur, ignor-
ing the ruling Of the United States
Golf association.
This action has the appearance of
an open challenge to the national gov
erntng body on the stand it took in
declaring Ouimet ineligible to COM
pete as an amateur.
The western body also Is out OF
sympathy with the national associa-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21

The baseball bee is firmly i'm
planted in the bonnet of Robert Lee
Hedges who sold the St. Louis
Browns to Philip Ball and who was
so affected by the deal that he i'm
mediately took a trip to Hawaii. He
has just returned and the rumor is
gaining strength that he is anxious
to get into the game again. Talk
connects his name and the Cardin-
ais. It is said he wants to get his
hand in on that club and will go to
great lengths to acquire it. Hedges
got the tidy sum of 100000 in cash
for the Browns and he still has part
of it left to make his dicker for the
Cardinals.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
THAT BRIDGEPORT J1Nx.

The jinx that has been hanging to
the coat tails of the Bridgeport play
ers has been found. 1t Is the old
favorite 10, celebrated in song and
story. In five Of the eight games
play by the local club the score has
been to and the last three battles
staged at Newf1eld park have been
featured by that result. Everybody
knows what happens when you add
and 6 SO you can cross your fingers
and hope for the best.
Incidentally the seasons scores to
date are a tip on the brand Of pitching
the local club has been getting. The
only low score was to 2 while two
others were to 7 and to 5. The
remaining combats were to 6 af-
fairs. So Bridgeport has been able
to make seven runs in each of four
games and five respectively in two
others. The players are making the
runs but what are you going to do
when the twirlers can't hold the other
side? In only one game has a
Bridgeport pitcher who started a
game been able to finish. It gener-
| ally takes two. or three to complete
| the job.
Manager Krichel1 announced today
| he has sent Pitcher Lillipop back to
Toledo of the American association
and has returned Pitcher Hagey to
Baltimore. These youngsters didn't
show enough to fool Eastern batters
The local manager thinks Corcorar
will make good az third when he gets
the stiffness out Of his arm. Mean.
while he is trying to strengthen the
twirling department. Worcester will
=, 49,
Dug Smith may be sent to the mound
! Worcester has a number of goo6
clouters, including Pat Maloney, wht
led the league last season.
i Inhnnu Ma Gle thu oatnI,a,. MI, e, xxr<,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
CLUB MEMBERSHIP IN
NEW YORK FOR FIGHT
FANS AFTER NOVEMBER

Well, Now York Is already pre-
pairing to go back to the old club
membership system of conducting
boxing. bouts in order not to get. mix
ed up with the state authorities. The
wiping from the statute books Of the
Frawley law. which made legal in
that state public boxing exhibitions
to which admission was charged, was
certainly a severe blow to the pa
irons of the manly art Of self de-
fense.1 4,
The new order of things in regard
to boxing Will go into effect Nov. Ii
and between now and then 1t is no,
unlikely that some very interesting
bouts will be staged. Gov Whit.
man himself brought all his influ.
enoe to bear to- wipe the Frawley
law from the books and he won out
after a rather strong show of op.
position on the part of many mem.
bers of the New York State Legis.
lature-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21

ton on the question of conducting
championship tournaments this year
because of the war. No national titles
will change hands this year, but the
west will conduct it's championship
as usual.
The Western Golf association, made
up of 243 clubs with territorial linn
it's west of Pittsburgh and north of
the Ohio river, is said to have more
active members than any other golf
organization in the world.
It limits entries to it's championship
tournaments to men belonging to
clubs of the association, but reserves
the right to extend invitations to some
players outside the district.
AS Francis Ouimet is an amateur
under the rule recently adopted by
the Western Golf association in that
he sells golf supplies as an individual
and not as a former golf champion an
invitation was extended to him to
compete.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
DARCY IMPROVES
BUT WHOLE BODY
STILL PARALYzED

Memphis. Tenn, May Fl - Les
Darcy. the Australian prize fighter,
who attending physicians thought
could not live throughout Saturday
night, was reported yesterday after
noon as showing signs of improve
msnt. He is still in a dangerous con-
dition and may suffer relapse at any
time. His strong vitality is said to be
all that is holding him UP.
Darcy was taken to a local hospital
a month ago suffering from rheu-
matte fever A false tooth which re-
placed one knocked out in a fight be-
came infected, which extended
Throughout his body. Darcy, is unable
to move in bed, hfs entire body being
paralyzed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
Willie Ritchie Fails
to Pass Examination
for u. S. Army Officer

New York, May 21-Willie Ritchie,1
former lightweight champion Of the
world, failed to pass an examination
at San Francisco for a commission as
an officer because he was unable to
answer correctly some mathematical
questions. The problems on which
Willie stubbed his toe was the square
root of Is. Richie called attention to
the fact that he was always good at
'leading'' when he was in the ring,
and he thinks he could do some effect
i've leading on the battlefield. AS the
case stands, he may have to follow in
stead Of lead. 5t.,=.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
BURNS-SHUBERT
MEETING TONIGHT

New Haven, May 21--Before the
Ryan A G. at the Arena this evening
frankie Burns of Jersey City, boxer
of bantam feather and lightweight
champions, will cross mitts with Al
iShubert of New Bedford, another
crack bantam, who has met worlds
champions and held his own against
them Some time ago Burns shaded
Shubert in a sensational battle. Shu-
bert had deh2ted many of the same
boys Burns beat and several clubs
have tried to get Burns and Shubert
together. They were matched for a
bout in Bridgeport, but it fell through
when: Shubert was taken ill.
While there is no championship at
stake in the ten round bout between
Charities Bergen of this city, and Red
Allen of Bridgeport, there Is perhaps
just as much interest among New Ha-
ven and Bridgeport fans.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
JIMMY CLINTON
HOLD PIRATES TO
THREE SAFE HITS

New York. May 21-Jimny Cal
lahan's Pittsburgh Pirates went down
to defeat before Jersey City's semi
pro team at Jersey City yesterday
afternoon by A to 1. AL Mamaux,
who was the Pirates star hurler last
season, went the full route and was
hit safely nine times. Jersey City
won the game in the eighth inning
by punching four hits, with a. sacri-
fee fly, netting four runs.
Jimmy Clinton held the Pirates to
three hits and had them shut out
until the ninth, when Bigbee led off
with a single, stole second and reach
ed third on Bairds infield out, scoring
on Reilly's sacrifice fly to Harter.
The score by innings:
Jersey City, .......s....'. a 9
Pittsburgh ....s... -. ...1 0
Batteries-Cinton and Soper; Ma
maux and Wagner.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
Z SEEN AND HEARD
FROMTHE INSIDE

released by Bridgeport, has caught on
with Portland. If Nagle's arm ever
comes around he will make good
man for the Maine club. Harry Lord,
the old Boston and Chicago star, will
be tried at third for Portland.
Catcher Donnelly of Bridgeport got
two hits yesterday and both were
slams that infie1ders knocked down
but couldn't handle. The husky back
stop hits ball hard.
The Springfield players tried a trick
in the ninth that started trouble. They
attempted to put an old practice ball
inc play and only vigorous objections
| by Manager Krichel1 Of the local club
caused Umpire Kelly to block the
! scheme.
New Ravens Hawaiian twir1er has
finally been named He signs himself
Renyepp on hotel registers and that
doesn't sound so bad when a Jass
band plays the music.
The Bridgeport players hit Jimmy
Clinton harder than the major league
ibatters have been able to do this sea-
son. The Blue Ribbon basketball star
held Pittsburgh to three blows yes
terday and beat them 4 to l.
Artie Holman, the old time Cub
star, always likes to pick uh some
change playing. a short engagement
in the summer. He has just beer
signed by Cleveland as utility man
Holman drew a large salary with the
Yankees for a time last year when Sc
many of their regulars were crippled
The White Sox were considered az
good as dead a few weeks ago but
they fooled everybody by winning
eight straight until they were tumble6
by the Red Sox, yesterday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Results of Games Yesterday.
Detroit 1; New York O.
st. Louis 4; Washington 2.
Boston @; Chicago 1.
Cleveland 3; Philadelphia 1.
Cleveland 5; Philadelphia 2.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
Standing of the Clubs.

Games To-Day.
New York in Detroit.
Boston in Chicago.
Philadelphia in Cleveland.
Washington in st. Louis.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Results of Games Yesterday.
No games were played, all teams
being in the East
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21

1t looks like a neck and neck race
between the Boston Red Sox and
the Yankees. IF they keep up this
pace they'll have the fans in the hos
p.ta1 with nervous prostra4aca.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
Standing of the Clubs.

Games To-Day.
Pittsburgh in New York,
st. Louis in Brooklyn.
Cincinnati in Boston.
Chicago in Philadelphia.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21

Urban shocker, pitcher of the
Yankees. is living up to his name.
Every time he gets into the box he
gives his opponents a jolt. George
5tallings thinks very highly Of the
youngster and he'll very likely be
put to work as often as he can stand
-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
Standing of the Clubs.

Games Today.
Worcester at. New Haven.
Portland at Hartford.
Lawrence at New London.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
EASTERN LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results.
Springfield Z; Bridgeport 6.
Other clubs not scheduled.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21

Johnny Maggie, the catcher who was
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21

Batteries-Cinton and Soper; Ma
naux and Wagner.