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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
CR|FF MAY NOT
SLASH SALARIES

In connection with the Formally of
mailing notices to his players that he
will require their services for next
season, as required in order to make
reservations valid. Manager Griffith
reports that there was no agreement
at the American League meeting or
the joint conclave by which any gen.
eraI OF systematic reduction of play
ers' salaries will be made, and add
ed that there would be no indiscrim-
mate slashing of stipends by the
Washington Club, although some
players would be asked to accept less
pay, as all or most of them have to
in the course of time, whether in
peace or in war.
Clyde Milan is the only Washing
ton player whose long term contract
on a baseball war basis has not ex-
pired. His document has another
year to run. Walter Johnson's
ended with the 1917 season, and, as
Walter is gifted with much e1oquence
when it comes to negotiating a new
contract, there may be an argument,
though some think he will fall into
line with less discussion than usual,
under existing circumstances.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
SYRACUSE WILL
PLAY NDIANANS

Syracuse, Jan. Syracuse Uni
versity's fall football program in
cludes a game with the University of
Indiana, a new rival, it was an
nounced. The game will be played
November % at Indianapolis. Other
Syracuse games scheduled are: Octe-
Der 10, Pittsburgh at Syracuse; octo-
Der rs, Dartmouth at New York; No
vember 2, Brown at Syracuse; No
vember 16, Colgate at Syracuse, and
November 2S, Nebraska, Lincoln.
War necessities will reduce spring
sports at Syracuse University to a
minimum, it was declared last night
by observation-disclosures Walter Smith.
Neighborhood games will be substi-
tuted for long trips.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
WELKER COCHRAN
LEADS GALLAGHER

Welker Cochran, doubtless inspired
by the three cushion achievements of
Willie Hoppe, decided to try his hand
at the angle game, and therefore en-
gagged Thomas Gallagher. who is ex-
pert in all branches of the sport, in a
400 point combat. in blocks Of 49, af-'
ternoon and evening.
In the first encounter yesterday the
contestants broke even on the days
battles, Gallagher winning the opener
by 40 to 80 and Cochran taking the
night struggle by 40 to 16. This gives
Cochran the whip hand By 73 to S.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08

BOtherS
MOguls
Wagnates Gathered at Gin
cinnati Doping Out Prob
able Effect New Govern
ment Levy VIII Have at
Box Offices of Big League
Park.

Cincinnati. Jan. S.-Trades and then
more trades were discussed by the
Esicore of baseball club owners here to
attend the National Commission meet
ing. but the trades resulted from the
Idisc1sSionS in so far as close observa-
ton could tell last night
At an informal meeting the Ma
aona1 league war taxes proved to he
Ehe most interesting topic. Previous
ITO the meeting President Tener had
gRppointed a committee consisting of
0ohn Heydler, John Foster and Wal
ter HapsUod to consult with govern
nnent officials relative to the payment
of war taxes on passes. This COM
SInittee was empowered to widen it's
scope and to include the entire war
stax problem as it will concern base
bail
For the sake of convenience, the
National league originally desired to
.rharge 10 cents for war tax passes.
bInas1nIIch as a pass is rated as a 10
cent seat the government officials re-
fused to agree to accept more than
40 Der cent. of this amount AT the
.lneeting yesterday it was definitely
Iasreed that only 10 per cent. of each
ticket sold as well as each pass given
would be charged for war tax
The old Federal league peace agree
anent came up at the meeting Of the
National league members. A repre-
sentative of the Federal league was
present for the purpose, according tc
the president, "of seeing if the matter
could not be forwarded President
sTeuer stated that inasmuch as the
meeting was entirely informal no &C.
rfon could be taken
IT was stated unoficialiy but reh-
saaoIy that the Federal league VIII be
Maid shortly and ffIFiS written in sc
oar as the National league is con-
cerned-
y Owing to the absence Of president
johnson Of the American league, VINO
wired that he was snowbound in Chi
scago and could not reach here untt
today, the meeting Of the Nationa
yComTnission was postponed. Numer
Gus baseball men however. put n
seariy appearances chief Of whom
rwere Charles Weeghman OF Chicago
Charles II. Nbbets of Brooklyn, Bar
t1ey Dreyfuss of Pfttsburg- Brancf
tRackey Of ST. Louis and Garry Herr
tqnann of Cincinnati Fred Mitchell O
CHICAGO, Hugo Bezdek and Jack Hen
bdricks OF st. Louis were among the
managers.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
PERCENTAGE IS
UNRELIABLE in
FEEDERS CASE

That the games he may have won
and lost is no real test of a pitchers
ability has become so generally &C.
cepted that in practically all leagues
nowadays pitchers are ranked on tbs
runs responsible for bases, regardless
of how they Jared as to victories and
defeats. And there is growing agita-
ton for a change in batting records
that will show the offensive value Of
player more clearly than the mere
percentage of hits per times at bat.
Likewise there is merit in the con-
tention that ranking players in field
ing according to the percentage of
chances accepted is no criterion of
their defensive value, and in review
ing the major league averages of the
past sason a number of baseball ex-
perts have called attention to illus
trations of the injustice of such
rating.
Certainly the player who goes after
everything and who is everywhere in
the field seeking to aid his team by
cutting down base hits has done
trying, though he bobb1e a hard
CIldnCSs L1leiI4 I1IO pAedy S1 WIZ ASOA
lively draws lines beyond which he
will not attempt to move.
One baseball writer has called at
tention to the low fielding average of
First. Baseman George Sisler of the
Browns as a striking illustration of
the unfairness as judging a players
defensive work by his rank in the
fielding records, Sisler was last
among the regular first basemen in
! the American League in fielding His
percentage of chances accepted was
| 1856, or an even 10 points below
| Chick Gandil1, who is hailed as the
leading fielding first baseman of the
| league. And yet what does the re-
| cord show?
| Sisler in 1873 games tackled 1857
| chances, or an average of 11.S to the
game. Gandil in 149 games tackled
| / ,490 or an even 10 to the game.
| Sisler, therefore, was better than 10
| per cent more valuable to his team.
Sisler in 1873 games had 101 assists,
showing how he ranged above the
infield helping cut down runs. Gandil
in 149 games had but II assists.
| Going over to the National League
| one might TAKE LIE cases OIL bO
Honey. who led the National in field
ing percentage as a first baseman,
and Walter Ho1ke. who ranked fifth
among the regulars. Honey went
after a total of 1,429 chances in 129
games. Holke tackled 1,z24 in 15s
games. Koney's average of chances
to the game was ITO. while HoIke's
was 11.3.
Going into the fielding work at
other positions the same conclusions
might be drawn. For instance, Max
Carey and Oscar Felseh. who made
new records for chances handled IN
the outfeld, ranked fifth and sixth
respectively in the records of outfeld-
ers in their leagues, based on per-
| centage of errors to chances accepted.
! OF course, a fielder must have ac-
curacy as well as activity and eager
ness to get under the ball, but the
point is that the fielder who tries for
everything is the real goods, without
great regard to the record he makes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
CORNELL ROWING
PLANS W'ARBOUND

The condition of college athletics at
eastern institutions is well illustrated
by the situation at Cornell, one of the
leading universities of the section in
the support of the sport. There is
hardly one department of athletics in
which, at the beginning of the year,
complete program or schedule is
planned. Efforts are being made to
support as far as compatible with
other more important activities, each
and every branch of sport INDUCED in
during the spring months. The situa-
ton in rowing is perhaps typical and
as outlined in a recent issue of a uni
versfty publication gives an insight to
conditions prevailing at Cornell at
this time The article, in part, is as
follows:
Rowing plans have not yet crystal
lied. Practice. on the rowing ma
chimes in the gymnasium will go for
ward, and when the inlet is clear of
ice in the spring, crews will be boat
ed as usual. On account Of the early
closing of the University, however, it
will be difficult for the management
to schedule dual races, either on Lake
Cayuga or elsewhere. It is taken for
granted that no attempt will be made
this year to revive the Poughkeepsie
regatta. Obviously Cornell could not
participate in such a regatta next
spring. John Collyer, active rowing
coach, was in Ithaca recently and
while here he conferred with Mr..
Courtney and others on the rowing
situation, but no definite conclusion
was reached. Final decision will not
be made until later in the winter.
In general, athletic activities except
in basketball and wrestling have been
unusually quiet since Thanksgiving,
the attention of the undergraduates
being turned toward existing and the
draft regulations. After the holidays,
training will be resumed and more in
terest is looked for, and a fairly large
number of participants.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
Penn STATE HAS
MANY AT. FRONT

Stockholders, Pa, jan S-While
Penn State athletes on this side of
the water, who have not yet been
called upon to take an active hand
in the world struggle, are in the front
franks of college men with the colOrs.
Attic is heard about those who are
~now in the amphitheater of war.
There are a dozen or more wearers
sof the varsity So Somewhere in
Trance" A few are with the fleet,
Others are in ambulance service, some
ARE with the expedftionary forces, but
1.-THE majority are flying in the avia-
Estion service
One of the best known of state col
hlege athletes making ready overseas
Els Levi Lamb. rs, who wore the Blue
land White for four years in football,
track and wrestling. He is a heuten-
sant in infantry, detailed to Pershing's
EfOrce.
Another widely known athlete
rover there is B. c. C"Casey''1 Jones,
khalfback and end on States elevens
I'm 1918 and 1916. With him is W. C.
l'%whttey") Thomas "a varsity end
bfor Penn State in 1914 and 1915.
hBoth are in the q. S. aviation train
ing camps near the French froFt-
tThey sailed early in the fail after COM
ypIetfng their preliminary training at
= 1.-The Ithaca ground school
=. Hsister Painter, II, who made his
saetter as center on Bill Woods eleven
in 1875, and G. R. Sutton, rs, a for
ayner Hnenan. are other football men
preparing for the harder game on
ic
base hospital unit which went over
aSutton Is a sergeant with the railway
leng1neerS doing pioneer work with
fhe a111ed armies.
R. S. (''Effie'') Davis, '1s, manager
of the varsity eleven in his senior
year, recently won his commission as
: an aviator and is now flying over the
trenches on the Western front. He
first entered army Y NJ. c. A work,
but transferred to aviation shortly af-
ter reaching France.
Two football men, who originally
enlisted in one of Penn States ambu-
lance units, chartered at the Allen
town camp and who later Joined 9TH
,er ambulance sections in order to see
immediate service, are Edward Smo-
,zinslSy, 20, and L. H. Harris, 20. Both
are now on duty in the war zone.
OF the track men, NJ. P. (@Porky'')
Lewis, middle-distance man, is now
"a lieutenant in field artillery John
N. Devoe a former track manager, IL
also preparing for the Hun on for-
eign soil. Lacrosse players OF note
in foreign service are J. II. Menden-
hall, an aviator, and David Z. Har-
ROVER, 10, a volunteer in FrencL am
bulance service. Shorty Watson, g
former football center, is with the
ienRineers who are demonstrating
EFrench railwayA
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
TAKES
FRONTIER CASH

New Orleans, Jan. S-Basilus, rid
den by Jockey Willis ran off with the
Frontier Purse, the feature event of
the Fair Grounds track, yesterday af-
ternoon. Valais, with Mooney in the
saddle, finished second, and Buford,
guided by Kelsay, took the short end
of the purse.
Manokin displayed a great burst of
speed in the third race, a claiming af-
fair at six furlongs. He took the
lead at the start and was never head
ed. He travelled the distance in the
fast time of lib As. Langdon was
second and Bond third.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
OWNERS APPROVE
ALEXANDER SALE

Philadelphia, Jan. S.-WEliam G..
Baker of New York was yesterday re-
elected president of the Philadelphia
National league baseball club for five
years. Fred T. Chandler, ST., was re-
elected vice president and Samuel M
Clement secretary. The stockholders
of the club unanimously approved the
action of President Baker in selling
Alexander and KiT1ifer to the Chicago
National league club.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
AMHERST'S FALL
SCHEDULE READY

Amherst, Mass, Jan. S-The foot
ball schedule for Amherst college was
approved by the student council yes
terday. Trinity and Bowdoin, two of
Anherst's old rivals, and Columbia
appears on the schedule, which is as
follows:
September 2S, Mfddlebury at Am
herst; October 5, Bowdoin at Am
herst; October IL, Union at Science
tady, N. Y; October 10, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute at Middletown;
November 2, Columbia at New York;
November 9, Trinity at Amherst; No
vember 16, Williams at Amherst.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
HARVARD YOUTHS
MAKE PLANS FOR
A BAYONET TEAM

Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 8 -
Harvard University viii be repre-
scented by a bayonet team, it was
announced yesterday.
Unlike the other Harvard ath-
Ictac teams during the war, the
bayonet team will not he classed
as EInforInal.' 1t will be coached
by Jules LeIaEay, instructor of
fencing and efforts will be made
to arrange contests with teams
from other colleges.
If war sports, such as grenade
throwing and wall scaling, are pro-
vided for at the annual intercol-
Iegiate track meet this year, it
is expected Harvard will enter
teams.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
MONEY CAN'T BUY
MIR. HORNSBY, OF
ST. LOUIS CARDS

Cincinnati, Jan. - Branch
Hickey, president of the st. Louis
club of the National League, join
ed Jack Hendricks, the new man
ager of the Cardinals, in a fiat
statement that Rogers Hornsby,
the star infieIder of his team, was
not on the market and that he
would be seen in a St. Louis uni
form this year. Mr.. Hickey said:
''Once and for all time, and this
is final, HOrnsby will not be sold
or traded to any club in North
America. Neither Charley Weegh-
man of the Cubs nor John j. Nc
Graw of the Giants can get him,
no matter what they offer"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
CUBS MAY QUIT
PASADENA PLANS

Chicago, Jan. S-Following an offer
from business men of Shreveport, La,
Manager Fred Mitchell, of the Cubs,
is expected to announce that he will
take his players there for the train
ing trip, abandoning the plans con-
sidered for Pasadena, Cal.
The Reds have virtually given up
their plans to train at Shreveport
Mathewson has decided to have his
men go to Camp Sheridan, Montgom-
cry Ala.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
ERNIE A GOLFER

The latest convert to golf is Frank
Erne, former lightweight champion,
who says he finds as much pleasure
swinging the mashie as he did boxing
rings around his opponents in his
palmy days. He has been playing the
Scotch game a little less than six
months, and in that time has defeated
but one man. 'I thought golf was a
joke until took it up seriously" de-
clared Erne.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
RUTGERS BEATS
YALE, 80 TO 81

New Brunswick. N. J.. Jan. s.-The
Rutgers basketball team defeate6 the
Yale five last night bv 3s to 81. Field
goals by KeTBv and Wittpenn in the
last minute of Dlav won for Rutgers.
The score at the end of the first Pc
riod stood a tie. 10 to Is. Van Slyck
and Shedd PLAYED a brilliant game for
the Els
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
TIGERS BEAT DARTMOUTH.

Princeton, N. J., Jan. 8-Princeton
defeated Dartmouth at basketball
here yesterday, IS to Z. It was Dart
mouths seventh successive defeat in
IL days.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08

FUNERAL BOUQUET AND
DESIGNS
JOHN RECK = So9
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-08
NORWALK PLAYS
RIBBONS TONIGHT

The speedy Norwalk team will be
at Colonial hall this evening for the
Blue Ribbons to tackle, in the Con-
recticut State Basketball league race.
The game will start at $3.50. A
preliminary will be played at 7:45.
Malone, who is well known to
Bridgeport court fans, will reinforce
the local five. Manager John Leavy
announces the following lineup:
Blue Ribbons, NoF1UaII1
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-26
WHY PEOPLE LIVE IN CITIES
Subject Discussed In a Way That May
Please or Not, According to
Ones Disposition.

In the American Magazine, Bruce
Barton says, In talking about his old
home town:
Rousseau once remarked that he
had never lived in Paris. except for
one definite reason-to get money
enough to live somewhere else. There
are times when I have had similar
feeling toward New York. Times when
the stress and strain and fretting OF
the job grew wearisome; when my
cylinders all are full Of carbon. and
my valves give forth leaky sound
when the white lights are only an i'm.
pertinence, and the noise Of mOtormen
tramping on their bells Is madness In
my ears.
"When that time comes, as every
spring it does. I 60 home. and. speak.
ing with my wife privately, say: My
dear, why linger We longer In world
like this? We are but strangers here at
best; FoxbOro Is our home And we
fill up the cold coffee bottle and place
the ham sandwich in the bag, nesting
it tenderly beside the fishing tackle,
and HE US to land that Is better and
purer and sweeter; where the straight
and narrow way takes the place Of the
way called Broad, and there Is no
white light but the evening STAR"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-26
Bryant'S Pond.

Woodstock subscribed twenty. Eve per
cent above her quota in the War Work
Campaign.
James Libby, veteran Of the 10th
Maine in the Civil war, has gone to
Togus hospital for treatment.
Perry Lapham, who recently sold bis
farm on the Paris road, has moved to
Bethel. Ellsworth Curtis, who purchas-
ed Mr.. Lapham's farm, has sold the same
to Charles Kelley OF North Paris, reserv-
ing the wood lot.
Mrs. Arabells Estes passed away at
the home of her son, John G. Estes, Cd
Nov. 10th. She was Is years of age and
the widow Of Josiah Estes, who was .
soldier In the war of 1851, and died of
wounds in Washington, in 1894. Mrs.
Estes was the last Of . family OF ten
children. Three children survive her,
John G. Estes. Mrs. Hannah Edwards
and Sylvester B. Estes.
The funeral Was held at the Baptist
church Thursday afternoon attended by
Rev. d. q. Hathaway Of West Paris.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-26
maine News Notes.


After continuous operation for seventy.
four years, the Portland. Boston service
Of the Eastern Steamship lines was dis.
continued on Friday. Exoessive cost OF
operation and maintenance are given
a the reasons. Officials of the company
in Boston say that the disoontinuance ID
for the winter only, and that the service
will probably DO resumed In tho spring.
Finding the body of the four. year-old
son OF Harry belong of Rumford removes
any possible doubt that may have re.
manned Of the fate OF the party Of four.
who undoub tedly lost their lives in Upper
Richardson Lake two or three weeks ago.
Tho four were Rev. Joshua II. Frost, D,
D, of Portland, Mr.. belong, tho guide,
Mrs. Deloug and their son. The boys
body was near whore tho overturned
boat WA found.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-26
Locke's Mills.

Rsynor Little6eld, who 10 stationed al
Camp Devens, was at home over Sunday
on short furlough.
Arthur Chapman and Florence Chap
man of Mechanic Falls were week. lend
guests Of their mother, Mrs. Walter
knight.
Mrs. Lola Foster spent q few days last
week at West Paris, the guest of Mrs.
George Ridlon.
Mrs. Elmer Cummings and sou
Clarence motored to Lewiston last Fri
day. They were accompanied as far q,
Mechanic Falls by Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Knight.
George Stearns has been spending q
weeks vacation at Waterford and Stone
ham.
Mrs. Print Thomas has picked up
10 / 2 bushels OF potatoes for Howard
Maxim this fall. That would be quite q
record for much younger person.
Chester Bean was given post card
shower last Monday.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-26
BroWnfleld.

Mr.. Wheeler from Portland came to
Brownfield with carload of horses fol-
sale. This week Tuesday be had IN
auction.
Miss Minnie Stevens, who has made
her home 10 this village the past sum.
mer, has gone to Portland for the winter.
Monday the Red Cross Sewing circle
met with Mrs. Ida Ham.
Three carpenters from Denmark are
still making extensive repairs on the
buildings at the Seven Films.
The movie picture show being post
poned for q number OF evenings on &C.
count OF sickness ls again open to the
public.
Mrs. Hattie Woods is in very poor
health.
A great deal Of cider 10 being made
here, Of course not to be drunk-mads
only for vinegar, n that article 10 so
cents per gallon. Wonder IL any mis-.
takes will be made.
George Wakefield 10 very III.
Mrs. Sylvia Cousins Ia boarding with
Mrs. Almira Mcdonald.
Miss Louella Bennett, high school
student, 10 boarding ct John Graffam's.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-26
East Sumner.

A letter from Harold B. Keeue at
Camp Ksudrick, N. j., states that he Is
driving q Ford car for some Of the
officers there, and that he fares we'll. 1t
10 much easier than drilling. de judge
from what be hears from the officers
that possibly be may DO at home on
Thanksgiving day.
Mrs Ernest Stetson has been on q
visit to her former home in Mas.
sachusetts.
The g. A. r. Relief Corps met In
Grange Hall on Tuesday, the 10th, and
was inspected by a lady from Gorham by
the name of Day. The Corps 10 in .
hourishing condition and doing good
work.
Mrs, Lois Cobb remains quite feeble
at the home of her 500, James b. Cobb.
Mrs. Hannah B. Robinson Ia up about
the house again.
Aud now the country Ii called to feed
those cultured" vile savages who tried
to sink our vessels carrying food and
supplies to the Red Cross. Aud even
dropped bombs upon hospitals when
they knew their prisoners we're being
kindly fed and cared for, willing that =
dozen Of those prisoners should suffer
death, " q Red Cross nurse could be
be killed.
Such iuhuman atrocities have no
parallel in the cannibal islands. Ger
many may reconstruct, but the savage
scars will ever remain to perpetuats her
'diabolicsl, black record for treachery,
duplicity and savagery without .
parallel.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-26
Bible Saves Life.

During the progress Of most wars
stories gain currency Of how some SOL
dier's life was saved because the bullet
which hit him first went through the
Bible he was carrying on his breast.
There were several such instances re-
ported In the Civil war and perhaps all
of them were true. The first to come
from France is that Of William R. VIII
son, nineteen years of age, from New.
castle, Pa. He was carrying Bible
and trench mirror in his pocket. A
German bullet hit them both. pene-
trating only enough to scratch his skin
and do no damage whatsoever though
It came from sharpsh0oter and was
well aimed. Books. especially Bibles,
are evidently very efficient breast.
plates.