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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12

Sept. 16-Eiectric locomotive.
 Sept. 16--1 swing cutoff saw, eand saw, spare parts.
 Sept. 16-93,O ,O0O dog. eagle buttons Qow brass), 1,15O 900 white metal rings.
 Sept. 2O-4,sOO wire rope thim- bles.
 Sept. 2O-6,OOO lbs. 'borax, 500 lbs. ammonia, 300 lbs. ground emery 1o0 lbs. caustic potash, 500 lbs. cyanide potassium, 400 lbs. brass nowder, 400 lbs. scaling powder. 25 lbG capsicum, 10 lbs. silver chloride 5000 lbs. so- dium f1uoride, 2,9OO lbs. Tripoh.
 Sept. 16-Sole cutting machine.
 Sept. 16-2 furnaces, vertical, open side, oil-fired.
 Sept. 16-Shavings and dust col- lecting system.
 Sept. 16-2 automatic steam tow ing machines.
 Sept. 16-MetaI cutting band saw. Sept 16-2,000 lbs. commercial brass, 29,OOO lbs. rolled naval brass.
 Sept. 16-2 steel tanks for heat treating 5" guns.
 Sept. 16-5OO gross brass cap screws.
 Sept. 1s-sO,OoO cubic 1t. acetylene gas.
 Sept. 17-2,OO collision mats.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
16 PELHAM MEN GOING.

Track Captain Willie F. Gordon of the Pelham Bay Naval Training Sta tion yesterday announced that Is ath- letes from that station will compete in the national track and field cham pionships at the Great Lakes Training Station in Chicago the latter part of this month.
 Capt Gordon, the senior metropoli- tan mile champion, will go in the mile, while George Dernell, the senio- metropolitan 22O and 40 yard cham pion, will go in these events. Charles Pores, the senior five mile champion will be Pelham's selection in the long distance runs.
 | The other tars to go are G. A. An derson, D. Brown, N. Brown, K. Cald- well. Joe Georgio, c. B. Clark, G Desch, Hal Finley, J. J. McAuley, J J. N1cCabe. J. O'Brien, c. W. Walters and C. McDonough.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
THE TRUMP, ADDED
 STARTER, IS FIRST
Takes the Nursery by a Nose From Routledge
 at Belmont Park.

In a hair raising finish in which three horses were practically aligned, The Trump, an added starter, owned by the Beverwyck Stable, won the Nursery Handicap, the feature of the program at the Belmont Park track yesterday afternoon. When he sped past the judges only the tip of his nose was ahead of Walter NJ. Jeff fords's RoUtledge. An inch or two further back finished George w. Lofts Rodgers, in third place.
 | As they crossed the line the Trover- bial blanket could have covered the trio. They were all striding at the same time and were so closely punched that only the judges could separate Ithema
 That The Trump earned the $1,5OO purse was due to a great ride by Georgie Walls. He outrode Ambrose, who had the leg up on Routledge, and Kelsay, who rode Rodgers.
 Reddest, the aged bay ge1ding be- longing to the Triple Springs Farm, has run his last race. After he re- fused to clear the obstacles in the steeplechase the stewards ordered that his entry be refused in the fu- ture. Reddest is a fast horse, and when he wants to can jump like a bird. But he is cratic and runs well only when matched against a big field. Twice his bad behavior has caused Jockey Haynes to be suspend ed. Yesterday he was matched against J. H. Lewiss Max Meadows. He cleared two jumps an1 then refused the third.
 For the fifth time in a week James Fitzsimmons saddled a winner. He sent Lady Dorothy to the post in the Peconic lightweight Handicap ir prime condition and advised hi. friends to wager on her. The Lady was full of running and sped away
 from big field of sprinters, winning | easily by two lengths.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
CRIB-NEAT BATTLE RECALLS
 AMUSING INCIDENT OF RING

In 1919 Tom Cribb, a plump and prosperous public house proprietor with a protruding paunch and af- fiicted with gout, wore the belt sym bolic of the pugilistic championship of England. Cribb had held the title ten years, and for eight of them no man had dared to meet him. It was just 99 years ago today that Cribb announced his willingness to retire and give up the belt to the first man who proved his worth.
 Cribb had a protege, Tom Spring whom he firmly believed to be his successor. On the day of the ban quet at which Cribb hade his an- nouhcement, Spring had been match ed to. fight Bill Neat, but the latter had forfeited at the last minute; claiming injury to his arm. Never | theless Neat laid claim to the tile, and Tom Spring was temporarily af- | fiicted with an illness which pre- l vented him from taking up Meats gauntlet. Old Tom Cribb, with his | paunch and his gout, threw himself | into the arena, and in 1881, after ten years of inactivity, he publicly an l IN |. Perhaps the old Fool will be | whipped" he orated, "but I will give any man a lot of trouble before he can do it. My boy Spring isn't we'll, he's in a consumption, and therefore I will fight Neat instead of him. My boy Spring has not got belly enough for him, but I have. I will f1ght( and, blow my dicky, I will give him pep | per"
 The match was made, but in the end Neat again backed out, and the old fellow was left to enjoy his cham pionship in peace until Spring re- covered enough to take up Meats challenge. Spring and Neat finally fought for Cribb's title in 1923, and out of this match came one of the amusing incidents of the ring. A few days before the battle wealthy Quakeress appeared at Meats train- ing quarters, asking, "Art thou Will liam Neat, who is preparing for one of those cruel and ungodly prize j fghts?" Bill admitted his identity
 and the lady offered him $2,5OO tc abandon the fight. Neat was tempt
 ed, but he held out against the temp
 tation, declaring that his honor was
 involved The Quakeress then made the same offer to Spring, but he also
 refused. The battle for the title was
 a whirlwind affair, but in the eighth round Neat broke his arm and had tc
 quit, and Tom Spring became cham.
 pion of England.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
MANUFACTURERS ARE ASKED FOR
 BIDS FOR NAVY

The Second Reginal office has re- ceived another list of the navy re- quirements and ask for bids from local manufacturers. The list follows with date on which bids close:
 Sept. 24-Machine tools: Machine drills, machine press, multiple ma chine drill, arbor press, grinder ma chine, cutter machine, bending ma chimes, threading machines.
 Sept. 23-Hospital supplies: Three thousand pajama coats 5000 pajama trousers, 1000 chairs, Douglas style, white enameled, oak or elm; 1,OO9 folding beds made of butt weld pipe, l, 900 mattresses, with coverings, 1,500 pillows, 6 900 pillow covers, 7,500 pill low cases, 10000 sheets, 1,50O mat tress covers, 10000 hand towels, A. 500 bed spreads, 1000 yards dish tow cling.
 Sept. 16-Post blaming machine.
 Sept. 16-S,5O0 lbs. iron-chain.
 Sept. 16-9 900 lbs. swivel shots, 5000 lbs shackIes.
 Sept. 16-Grinding machine.
 Sept. 16-Power press.
 Sept. 16-Vertical boring and turn ing mill.
 Sept. 16-Six electric hoists.
 Sept. 16-4,000 lbs. rigging leath- CT.
 Sept. 16-SOO balls of chalk, 5O,OOo lbs. cotton thread.
 Sept 16-5O railroad frogs, 50 sets of switch points.
 Sept 16-2O,OOO feet rubber insul- ated wire.
 Sept 16-Machine screws. Sept 16-Machine screws, nuts and tacks.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
BETTER RECORD FOR TROTTING
 TO WAGON Worlds Mark Reduced to 2:1OA at Syracuse :.
 Meeting.

Syracuse, Sept. 12 - The worlds record for teams trotting to wagon was broken twice at the State Fair yesterday in the feature event of another sensational card for the third day of the Grand Circuit. The record was left at 2:1OA.
 The old mark of 2:15A A, made "A years ago by Roseleaf and Sallie Sim mons, was bettered first when Ernest Jones drove Woodlawn Girl and Hilga Audubon the first heat in 2:12A. In the second heat, A. J.. Furbush of Boston, driving W. P. Me Donald's Roy Miller and Lucy Van, clipped the mark to 2:10A, after a whipping finish, in which he finished a nose ahead of the Jones pair. The third heat, which was fast enough to equal the former mark, was won by Jones after one of the most sensa- tionaI battles of the weeks program. The record heat by quarters was: 0:33, 1:05H, 1:3S, 2:10A.
 Former Gov. Horace White won the 2:20 trot for amateur drivers with the Belle of Lyndon. The summaries: The Ka-Noo-No: 2:2O Class; Trot;
 for Three-year-olds Three
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
ANNIVERSARY OF LAST
 ATTELL-WALSH BATTLE

Eleven years ago today, Sept. 12, 1907, Abe Attell defeated Jimmy Walsh in ten rounds at Indianapolis. This was the third and last bout be- tween the clever little Hebrew who was so long the leader in his class and the hard hitting Boston boy. Their first meeting was at Chelsea, Mass, in February, 1906, and Walsh stayed the full Is rounds, but lost the decision. Jimmy still believed he could lick Attell, and late in the same year they were matched at Los Angeles. Attell put over a knockout in the eighth round. Still Walsh wasn't satisfied, and clamored for another chance
 Abe was always ready to oblige any body, from Jeffries down. and the Indianapolis session was the result.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12

The championship clinched by the Boston Red Sox is the sixth that has been won by the Boston representa- tives in the American League. Back in 1903 the Hub team, managed by Jimmy Collins, won the title and then defeated the Pirates in the first worlds series played by pennant win ners of the National and American Leagues. In 1904 the Beaneaters again won the American League pennant and defeated the New York Giants in the worlds series. In 1915 and again in 1916 the Red SoX won the American League pennant and in the worlds series, played with the Phillies and the Robins. respectively, they were victorious. Red Sox teams have won four worlds championships and have yet to lose one.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
HOPPE WINS APPEAL.

The appeal of Willie Hoppe. balk line billiard champion, against being placed in Class IA of the draft under the work or fight" rule was upheld by the District Board of New York, it was announced yesterday. Hopes local board had placed him in Class A because of dependents but recently placed him in the tor class, declaring that billiard playing as an ocupathon was non essential The District Board. however, gave
 him his original classification. Hoppe will soon start on an exhibi- tion tour for the benefit of the Rec Cross.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
Lieutenant Ouimet,
 Soldier and Golfer,
 Weeds Miss Sullivan

Boston, Sept. 12-Lieut Francis D. Ouimet, U. s. A, formerly amateur national golf champion, and Miss Stella M. Sullivan daughter of MT. and Mrs. John H. Sullivan, of No. 20 Lake street, Brighton, Mass, were married at that place Wednesday. Lieut.. Ouimet is in the Quartermas- ter's Department and is stationed at Cambridge.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
PHYSICIANS CONDEMN STRIKE

The striking machinists do not have the sympathy of the Bridgeport Medt- cal society, according to protest voiced at a meeting held last night at Barnum Institute. Many of the local physicians are employed as physicians in various industrial plants. Those who have not already sent in their applications to the Medical Ser vice Corps are urged to do so.
 The physicians roundly scored the machinists for their conduct in strik- ing at this time, and drew up articles of protest.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
POLITICAL NOTICES
MONROE.

Notice is hereby given to the Demo- cratic electors of the Town of Monroe that there will be a caucus at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, Sept. IT, at o'clock, for the purpose of nominating candidates for town off, cers for the ensuing year, and to do any other business proper to be done at said meeting.
 FREDERICK W. WHEELER,
 Town Committee.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
JACK DEMPSEY TO
 BOX JACK MORAN.

Reno, New, Sept. 12-Jack Demp- sey. claimant of the worlds heavy weight championship. will box ten rounds with Jack Moran at Moana Springs, Saturday night, the Reno Athletic club announces. Moana Springs was Jeffries' training quar- ters before the Johnson fight.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
SPORTING NOTES

Umpire Byron, who is A years old, has been making a determined effort to get into some branch of the ser vice, preferably as a mechanic in the aviation corps, but so far hps l.v. oe~~ successful
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
AT APAWANIIS,

John M. Otis with score of 169, Judge Howard J. Curtis, with 176 in Class B, and Clark Wilcox with a net score of 174 in Class c, represented the Weatogue Country Club in the first half of the Seniors Golf Tourna- ment on the links of the Apawamis Club in Rye, N. Y, yesterday.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
MARUQARD IN HARLEM.

For the first time this season big leaguers will be seen at Olympic Field in Harlem on Sunday. Rube Mar quard will bring his team to face the Lincoln Giants. The Lincoln Giants have strengthened their team consid- erabIy and are certain they will defeat Marquard. In the opening game the Elmhurst club will play the Lincoln Giants
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
FOOTBALL PLAYERS CALLED.

Morgantown, W. Va, Sept 12-A call was issued yesterday for weeks preliminary football practice for the West Virginia squad. The practice will begin Monday, Sept. 16. Fifty mer are expected and a strong team i' looked for.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
BIG MATCH AT scARsDALE.

A Red Cross golf match will be played at the Scarsdale Golf and Country Club on Sunday. Chick" Evans and Warren K. Wood will play Jack Bowling, the club pro-" and Tom MacNamara. Play will start at 2 p. m.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12

After Benny Kauff left the Giants to resume his military duties at Camp Sherman, George Burns was shifted to centre field and finished the season in that position.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
DOC LAvAN AT GREAT LAKES.

Chicago. Sept. 12-Dr. John Lavan, shortstop with the Washington Amer jeans, reported at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station yesterday. He will be commissioned a senior lieu tenant in the Hospital unit.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12
STATE OF CONNECTICUT. FAIRFIELD COUNTY, ss. SUPERIOR COURT,

STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
 FAIRFIELD COUNTY, ss.
 SUPERIOR COURT,
 Bridgeport, Sept. g, A. D. 1918
 Upon the complaint ef the said Jo seph Green or Grin praying, for req sons therein set forth, for divorce and custody of minor children, re- turnable to the Superior Court in and for Fairfield County, oa the first Tuesday of October, 1918. It appear ing to and being found by the sub. scribing authority that Jennie F. Green or Grin, the said defendant, is absent from this state and gone ta parts unknown:
 Therefore, Ordered, that notice of the pendency of said complaint be given by publishing this order in the Bridgeport Times and Farmer,a news paper printed in Bridgeport, three times successively, commencing on or before the 17th day of September, A. D. 1918.
 FRED W. TRACY, | Clerk of the Superior Court for Fair ! field County. III sS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12

Nineteen alleged members of the I. W. W. are named in a federal in- dictment at Sacramento, Cal, in con- spiracy to burn grain, foodstuffs and canneries.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12

The boys begin to see the value of. a garden, now that the tomatoes are ripening up to the soft state when you use them to plug the kid in the next back yard
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12

The congressional method of show ing respect for the death of a mem Der is always to adjourn and delay the things the member was trying to get done when alive.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12

Rumors in Washington had it that an American naval vessel sunk a sub marine off the Atlantic coast. The navy has no knowledge of the sink Ing.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12

The Senate agreed to adjourn to allow members to register. The House will continue it's work.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12

stolen base, FIack. Sacr1f1Ce hits, Hooper, Thomas. Left on bases, Chi cago 2, Boston 4. First base on er- TOTS, Boston ?. Bases on balls. off Tyler 5, off Mays 2. Hits, off Tyler 5 in innings; off Hendrix, 0 in l in- ming. Hit by pitcher, by Mays l (Mann). Struck out, by Tyler 1, by Mays l. Losing pitcher, Tyler. Um- pires, Hildebrand at. plate, Klem at first, Owens at second, and O'Day at third. Time of game, 1 hour 46 min utes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-12

JOSEPH GREEN OR GRIN
 vS. Order of Notice JENNIE F, GREEN OR GRIN
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Totals ........27 ? 5 27 IS
Chicago Nationals.

Batted for Deal in the Sth.
 Batted for Tyler in the Sth.
The sun., 1918-10-06

herself and to have matched Antonio against the
woman who became Mrs. Burden; the complete
contrast between the two would have been dra-
matte enough in all conscience and the struggle in
Jim Burden could have been made wholly plausible.
Then why didn t she do it that wayi
Because to have done it that way would have
branded her narrative as purest fiction in the mind
of every reader; comfortable sense that none of
this ever had happened would have gone with you
all the way through the book absorbing as it would
have been. But now you are positively uneomfort
able from page to page with the conviction that all
Of this happened! By deliberately and at the out
set surrendering the story teller's most valuable
prerogatives Miss Gather has won a complete vic
tory overthe reader SCATTERING his easeful assump-
ton of the unrcaity of it all, routing his ready
made demand for the regulation thrills and taking
prisoner his sense Of what is his rightful due. 1t
is as if General FOch were maneuvring. The STRAIT
egy is unfathomed and the blow falls in most
unexpected quarter. You picked up My Antonio
TO read novel (love story, of course; hope it s
good one) and find yourself enthralled by autobi-
Ography.
People of the Plains.
What vivid autobiography it is we cannot in
dictate adequately. For great part of the book
Antonio (the BOhemians accent the first syllable
of the name strongly and this should be remembered
in pronouneng the title for perhaps half of
the book Antonio stands out not much more dis
tinctly than half dozen other people The reader
is puzzled to understand why she should mean so
The sun., 1918-10-06

when they are first washed up. And there was so
much motion in it; the whole country seemed,
somehow, to be running"
The words are Jim Burdens and the perception
is that of ten-yearold set down for the first time
in the plains of the middle West. But the pie
ture is the picture cinematographed on a woman s
brain and projected on the pages of Villa Gathers
new book My Antonio.
Surrender and Victory.
The most extraordinary thing about My Antonia
is the authors surrender of the usual methods of
fiction in telling her story Time and again as you
read the book it strikes you what exciting novel
Miss Gather could have made of it if she had
wanted to plat the strands of her story into regl
latiOn plot. But she renOunces all that at the be-
ginning in brief introduction.
The introduction acquaints with Jim Burden,
New York lawyer of wealth and reputation, whose
youthful fortunes were much advanced-by his mar
riage with the only daughter of distinguished
man. There appears never to have been love in
that marriage. Only one woman really in
fuenced Jim Burden s life or kinded his magma
tion-Antonia Shimerda, later Antonio Cuzak--a
Bohemian girl who had been his playmate in their
childhood OH the Nebraska prairie Miss Gather
asks us to accept the story Of Antonio set down
by Burden. 1t is a series of memories exclusively;
it has continuity and it has development; but it
has not and could not have any of the plot CT
suspense which could so easily be managed by tell
ing the story in ordinary fashion. 1t would have
been so easy for the author to have told her tale
The sun., 1918-10-06

unfailingly we'll Nor is her accomplishment easy;
murder suicide, debauchery and occurrences that
were not only unvarnished but unvarnishable are
quite as much part Of what she has to handle IS
the happy, domestic scenes natural to childhood.
She is no feminine lola, fortunately; without any
smirch of realism she achieves the happiest reality.
A young writer who wants to deal honestly and yet
nofensively with var; " Of difficult things can
learn big lessons from reading this book
Mothers of Twelve.
Seven weeks ago, in reviewing on this page Gene
Stratton-Porter's Daughter of the Land, we
quoted the aspiration of the heroine of that novel
to become the mother of at least twelve children.
Afterward a writer in Reedy's Mirror poked fun at
this; the mother of twelve would be an impossible
heroine in fiction, he seemed to think. The point
was rather ignorantly taken. It might reasonably
be argued that any mother Of twelve Tin these
days. at any rate) must be exceptional as to de.
serve not merely fictional but biographical emf
hence. But as a matter of fact, Mrs. Porter was
herself one of twelve children; and it is very evil
dent from her account of her mother that Mrs
Stratton would have been striking figure in fc-
ton, perhaps too unusual to be believed in readily
As if further to controvert the jester in Rcedy,s
Mirror we have Antonio Cuzak.
And, by the way, at the Cuzak farm there must
now be red bOrdered flag, and the stars in the
heart of it must form glorious constellation.
MY ANTON1A. BY VILLA SsBERr GATHER Houghton Mif
fin Company. $780,
The sun., 1918-10-06

THERE is a special genius of
l. Memory. Where it exists it
is capable Of accomplishing what no
other genius can reach. The classic
modern example of it is Joseph Con-
RAIDS story YOatk--a thing of ter
rible poignancy, Of wonder and tears.
If writer is so blessed as to be able,
only one or two times, to recapture
the past and rekindle the ancient
fires he will leave a name remembered
and loved from generation to gener-
alton.
Of living American writers there
is particularly one who has this great
gift. Villa Sibert Gather, writing
o Pioneers, made an indelible impress
sion upon the minds of those who
read that novel, an impression which
was merely confirmed with satisfac-
tory completeness by her own confess
sion afterward. And what she con-
fessed to was simply this: Translated
from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie
in the sos, she lived life of quite I'M
usual intensity.
What Villa Gather got out Of
her childhood was a wonderful
awareness of the few people
about her and of the soil they
struggled upon and Of the struggle
itself, as desperate as that of the
lonely swimmer to keep afoat in mid
ocean. This soil was an ocean, an
illimitable ocean of tall red grass,
forever billowing in the wind so that
the visible earth appeared as restless
as h0rizonleSs waters.
AS | looked about me | felt that
the grass was the country, as the
water is the sea. The red of the grass
made all the great prairie the color of
wine stains, or of certain SeaweedS