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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
LEWIS BATTLES MORT LINDSEY
today; FACES STONE THURSDAY
(By T. F. Magner.)

by sunset tonight Connie Lewis will
Know whether he is capable of win
ming the state bowling championship
or not. Connie has a big job on his
hands this afternoon as he is down on
the boards to meet Mort Lindsey on
the Palace alleys on Congress street
at o'clock. Lindsey has just re-
turned from the wilds of dear old
Cincinnati where he cleaned up a few
hundred at the big bowling congress.
Lindsey, while a crack with the big
pins lis also a marvel with the ducks
and Lewis will know he is in the bat
tie when he hangs out his shingla in
front of Iindsey's door. Connie" has
q lot of friends in town who are pull
| ing for him to cop the state title and
the purse that goes with it. Lewis
generally splits up a roll with the
boys when he gets hold of one.
Thursday afternoon the Fairfield
avenue gent will line UP against Fred
Teller of Naugatuclk at the Park City
alleys. This will be one of the most
interesting matches of the tourney.
The Newspapermen bowlers are a
hit sore today after their two to one
,defeat at the hands of Grants Spe-
lcials last night. The Scribes figured
1.-THE match an easy one before game
,time but after,-well, as Joe Birming.
lham, the former big league manager
once said after losing sixteen straight
ball games, I'VE can't win 'em all
boys"
Red Allen, the local boxer, has beer
taken under cover by Freddie De
lLorme of New York, manager O.
Young Rector. Allen has been booked
for a crack at some of the Gotham
boys by his new pilot.
Dan O'Neil has called a meeting o
the Eastern league for April % a
Springfield. Dan may have something
up his sleeve to slip to the magnates
All roads will lead to Colonial hal
tonight where the Blue Ribbons NEE
the fast Jersey City quintet. Manage
,Iyeavv has his men primed for battl
and expects to give the Skeeter crow
a tough time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
Winner May Have OPP
pOrtunity of Meeting
Earl NCaddock For
Championship.

Wladek Zbyszko and Ed Stranger
Lewis will come to grips on the
wrestling mat in Madison Square Gar
den, New York, tonight before a
crowd which is likely to pack the old
amphitheatre.
The rivalry between the two men,
growing largely out of the head lock
used by Lewis. is SO keen and so out
spoken that action is promised every
minute.
Each is particularly anxious to
beat the other on account of this
feeling while added incentive is lent
by the promise that Earl Caddock
will meet the winner for the heavy
weight championship of the world.
Just why the winner tonight
should have another opportunity to
/ meet Caddock before Joe Stecher,
who wrestled to a draw with Zby
szko two or three weeks ago, is elm
mated is not quite clear to followers
of the sport, but is an open book to
the promoters, who have their own
: ideas on the question
Anyway Zbyszko and Lewis can be
counted on to provide plenty of sport
. Ln1S 6V6ulIlSs IACy are lWO VI lIlS
strongest and most powerful wrestlers
in training, and both have pet holds
ON which they count to win-Lewis,
his head lock, of which SO much has
been written, and Zbyszko, his toe
hold which is in disfavor with a big
! majority of the wrestling fans and
which long ago should have been
barred.
Lewis has been more or less side
tracked in the last two or three
months because many wrestlers con-
tend that his head lock is nothing
more than camonfiage for the
strangle hold. 1t is true that it can
slip into the strange hold, but not
with competent referee in the ring.
At the tournament last winter
Lewis beat Zbyszko with the use of
this hold, but in a final match, when
the head lock was barred, the Pole
turned the tables This bout, then
is in the nature of a decision between
the two, with neither handicapped by
any restrictions
zbyszko says that he has developed
n defense for the head lock and fears
it no longer Lewis, on the other
hand, insists that he has perfected
a new hold which will beat his rival
even if the head lock fails. All OF
which remains to be seen.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
MILLER ON HAND
TO SEE COLLINS

Chicago, March 19-Col. ]. C.
Miller, who has undertaken to
promote a fight on July 4 between
Jess Willard, the heavyweight
champion, and Fred Fulton of
Rochester, Mimi, is here today
for the purpose of taking up with
Mike Collins, manager of Fulton,
further deails of the arrange
ments for the contest.
Col. Miller could not say when
he expected to meet Fulton's rep
resentative but said he hoped to
settle all details this week, with
the possible exception of the site.
1t was said that an offer of
purse of $105,OO0 had been made
by a New Orleans promoter for
the fight
Willard, who is at his home
here, expressed satisfaction with
the progress of negotiations so far.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
HERMAN IN BARREL
FOR THREE MONTHS

New Orleans, March 19-Pete Her
man, worlds bantamweight cham
pion, has been barred from fighting
in the prize ring for three months by
the United States naval authorities
AS result Herman's fight with ia
bez White here before the Tulane
Athletic Club on March rs has been
Indefinitely postponed. Also he
cannot fight Johnny Ertle, the claim
ant of the title, or frankie Brown, the
other challenger.
Naval officials ruled that Herman,
having been in the navy but one
month, was not permitted to get
furlough until he had seen three
months active service.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
EASTERN LEAGUE
TO MEET MARCH rs

Springfield, Mass, March 18-The
scheduled meeting of Eastern league
baseball club owners, which was to
have been held here this afternoon
has been postponed until some day
next week. A meeting of the Inter-
national league is set for March rs
in New York and it is fairly certain
that the Eastern men will not be call
ed together until after that time. The
plans of the International owners re-
garding the coming season will be a
factor in determining the fate of the
Providence club in that league, much
desired by the Eastern league.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
MACKMEN ARRIVE
IN SOUTHLAND

Jacksonville, March 19.-Connie
Mack, manager, and II players on the
Philadelphia American League team,
and ten players on the Pittsburgh Ma
tional League team, arrived here last
night for spring training. The ad.
vance guard of the Pirates reached
here last week.
Pitchers Myers and Gregg, Catcher
Cady and Outfielder McCray, of the
Athletics, are expected to arrive to.
day.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
ERASMUS VS.. NEWTON III. S.

Boston, March 19-An intercity
championship hockey game between
Erasmus Hall School of Brooklyn, n.
Y, and Newton High School will be
played here Saturday. Arrange
ments for the contest were complet-
ed last night. The Erasmus Hall
team is the schoolboy champion OF
Brooklyn and the Newton School
seven holds the Greater Boston In
terscholastic Hockey League cham
DionShip
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
BEVIER CAPTAIN OF
LEHIGH MAT TEAM

Bethlehem, Pa, March 19.-Kenneth
M. Bevier of Brooklyn, N. Y, Lehigh.
clever 125 pound wrestler, has beer
elected captain of the team which will
represent the Brown and White in the
Intercollegiate at Columbia on Fri
day and Saturday.
Bowler is a veteran of the war now
in progress, having served in the
French Ambulance Corps and only a
few weeks ago returned from the
front to resume technical studies.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
CRIMSON ON RIVER.

Cambridge, March 19-The fourth
Harvard freshman crew, an eight
of freshmen and upper
class oarsmen, rowed on the Charles
river yesterday afternoon along a
stretch of open water 800 yards long.
The regular varsity and freshman
crews will not go on the river until
Coach Haines is able to follow them
in a lounch
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
STARTING BIC LEAGUE GAMES
O'CLOCK WILL BOOM SPORT
SCRIBES LOSE TO
GRANTS SPECIALS

The Newspapermen's bowling team
ventured on the Park City alleys last
night in an effort to knock off a win
from Grants Specials but from the
scores that follow, the Scribes were
left in the background by two to one.
This was a special match and does
not count in the records, still it looks
pretty sour to the papermen.
Billy Smallwood of the Specials took
the Newspapermen like Grant took
Richmond, closing his evenings play
with high single of 122 and high to-
tai of lis.
cap" Peterson came back in form
for the Newsies and rolled 95 without
a mark. Peterson pinned five straight
boxes without a miss. Following are
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
robson TOPS FIELD.

The fifty-four-hole tournament for
the Tin Whistles championship was
opened at Pinehurst yesterday, a rec
ord field of seventy-one players teeing
off for the first eighteen-hole round.
Irving S. Robson of Rochester, led
the field at 70 and was followed at 80
by H. C. Fownes of Pittsburgh, win
ner of the recent Spring tournament
DIR. George T. Gregg of Pittsburgh
stands third at 81.
Donald Parson of Youngstown and
W. H. Gregg, Jr., of st. Louis each
had 81. M. B. Byrnes of New York,
blessed with a handicap of thirty
strokes, finished six strokes to the
good in the first lap of the net score
contest with a net Ga.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
Engineer Boys Win
Basketball Title

Camp Upton, N. Y, March 10
The Engineers are the basketball
champions of the Metropolitan Di-
vision. Their quintet smothered the
305th Machine Gun Battalion five,
the runners-up in the divisional tour
nament, by AZ to 10 in the finals
played at the Y. NJ. C. A. auditorium
last night.
The machine gunners went to pieces
in the second half and scored but one
field goal. More than $500 witnessed
the game.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
RACES DECIDED BY
3 HEAD FINISHES

Hot Springs, Ark, March 19.-Three
races were decided yesterday by head
finishes including the feature, the st.
Patrick's Day Selling Purse. This
was accounted for by Mary Belle.
She closed a tremendous gap in the
stretch and just did get up in time to
beat Hubbub.
Jockey frankie Robinson, who is
under contract to Harry Payne Whit
ney, of New York, left yesterday for
his home in Cleveland, Ohio, where
he will spend a few days before re-
porting to Trainer Albert Simons at
Bowie. Nd.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
Braves and Tigers
Feel Blow of War

Detroit and the Boston Braves have
been hit hard by the War-and by
other circumstances. The Braves, a
team which, almost without warning,
crumpled and went to pieces, will
present a remade, remodelled and
much-strengthened ball club. De-
troit "a team which has stood with
slight changes for many years, still
presents the framework of a great
club, but it is slowly but surely weak
ening.
Detroit, unless the recruited
strength is much greater than it
seems to be, must, in spite of it's still
great attacking power, be considered
out of the actual contest and no
longer a candidate for pennant hon
ors. 1t has been hit in father vital
spots by the call of the nation Bos-
ton has lost heavily and stands to lose
more. However, the team looks
healthier now than it did any time
last season.
The Braves, with four men in
service, and four others liable to inn
mediate call, present a new problem
ill baseball Last spring the team
figured to run third or fourth, with 4
chance at second place. Led by
Stallings, one of the master leaders
OF the game, it was always danger
Cus-because of Stallings.
George Stallings is an unique fig.
Gre. He is either much loved or
much hated. His men have been de-
voted to him-swore by him. HIS
opponents hate him. Last Spring
there was no indication of a change
in this condition. Then, without
warning, there was rebellion. The
team broke with Stallings, a number
Of players were openly in revolt. He
lost control of the club.
Then Stallings did the right thing.
He cleaned house. Threw away
everyone who wouldn't play ball the
Stallings way, and started a new club.
with the loyal veterans as a basis OF
his team.
Whether he succeeded in removing
all the roots of the cancer that de-
stroyed his old club still remains 8
problem but Stallings is a past mas
ter of the art of discovering the
sources of trouble.
The team has been reconstructed
cleverly With Jack Henry to help
out the rather weak catching staff, it
looks healthier, although Tragressor
may go into the army and weaken it
again.
The pitching staff will centre
around Rudolph and Nehf, two great
pitchers, with Hughes, maybe
great, and that man of steel, Ragan.
There also are Scott, Burmeister and
Murray, but the big problem is
James.
James was one of the greatest
pitchers in the land. He won a
championship, helped win worlds
championship, swelled, and explod-
ed. For two years he was worth
! less and last year was out of the
game. He is repentant. He claims
he is in condition, and wants to come
| back. He is to have a trial. If he
can come even two-thirds of the way
hack the Braves have a formidable
pitching aggregation, backed by a
steady and very fair catching staff.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
BASEBALL DOPE BOOK OUT.

First signs of the arrival of the
baseball season of 1918 were evident
with the departure of the major
league players for the training camps,
but that the new season has surely
arrived is now certain, with the APP
pearance of the first schedule book.
AS usual, it is The Dope Book, pub
lished by c. c. Sphinx & Son, St Louis.
Mo-, publishers of The Sporting
News Besides containing schedules
for 1918, there is to be found in the
little book much information of real
value to the fans.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
LONG ISLAND A. C.
SOON TO DISBAND

New York, March 19.-The Long
Island Athletic club which was prom
inent in amateur athletic circles sever
al years ago, is about to pass out of
existence. 1t was learned yesterday
that the organization will tender its
resignation to the Metropolitan Asso-
citation of the Amateur Athletic Union
The club discontinued all forms of ath-
ietic activity two years ago. but retain
I'd its membership in the Amateur
Athletic Union.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. WIN.

Pinehurst, N. c., March 19-Park-
er W. Whittemore of the Country Club
and Percy Gilbert of Brae Burn had
q, best ball of So, $40 on the
championship course at Pinehurst
yesterday They played against
Charles T. Croker, Jr., of Fftchburs
and Donald Ross and won by to 1.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
Let Times Assist You
on the Diamond

There will be plenty of sandIot
baseball in Bridgeport this season,
and so, as fast as you organize you
by announcing your challenges in
sandlotters, get into the running
the Times.
Get in line. Let everybody know
what you're doing. Seno your
dope to the sporting editor OF the
Times. Write plainly and on one
side of the paper only.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
No Hope For Mike
Donovan, Ex-Champ

New YORK, March 19-Mike Dono-
vans condition took a turn for the
worse last night at St. Francis hos
pital. The former champion is con-
fined with pneumonia, and although
thee risis was passed several days
ago, he has shown no signs of i'm
provement.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
CARDS SIGN OSCAR
.TUERO, CUBAN STAR

st, Louis, March 19-Oscar Tuero
the Cuban hurler, obtained by the
Cardinals, has signed his contract
for 1918. The document came to
hand at Cardinal Field yesterday.
Tuero lives in Havana, Cuba, OF
which Mike Gonzalez is the leading
citizen. Both Tuero and Gonzales
will report direct to San Antonio.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
DENT COVER THERE"

Washington, March 10 = Elliot
Dent, pitcher who was with Wash
ington for a time and who later per-
formed for Atlanta, is with the
American army in France. Dent was
reared in southern Maryland, but gc5
his baseball start while working in
Washington
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
ANDERSON REELECTED.

William H. Anderson has been re-
elected captain of the Lafayette
basketball team. Anderson was cap
tain of the team during the season
just ended. He coached the team,
was its forward and made more
points than any other member.
The season which has just ended was
the most successful one Lafayette
basketball team has ever experienced.
Fifteen games were won and seven
were lost.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
GOLF AT CAMDEN.

Camden, S. c., March 19-In
handicap golf match for a cup pre-
sented by w. c. Belcher of New
York Yesterday on the Camden Coun-
try club course George A Fuller OF
Hudson, Mass, with card Of S9-lO,
70, was the winner.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19
TODAY IN PUGII1sTIC ANNALS.

1S92-Joe Rivers, Mexican light
weight, born at Los Angeles.
1913-Willie Lewis defeated Mar
eel Moreau in 20 rounds at Paris.
1913-Jack Britton defeated Young
Brown in 10 rounds at New York.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19

Totals 4S0 464 40 1414
A return match will be rolled April
at the Park City alleys.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-19

International Harvester Co. en-
ployes will get a 10 per cent wage
increase on April /.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-03
NationaI-..The Riviera Girl

Klaw & Erlanger will bring their
new musical comedy success. THE
Riviera Girl" TO the National next
Monday night, the engagement con-
tinuing for the week, with Wednes-
day and Saturday matinees. The pro-
duction, said to be the most elab-
crate of its kind yet attempted. has
been at the New Amsterdam Theater,
I'm New York. ever since last fall. and
its success in the metropolis has been
most emphatic. THE Riviera Girl
is by Guy. Bolton and p. G. Wode-
house. the score by Kalman. who All
collahorated on Miss Springtime," +"
which Washington has witnessed.
The same company of eighty that has
presented the piece with such favor
in New York will be brought here in
tact, together with Joseph Urban s
magnificent scenic equipment, which
is described as extraordinarily at
tractive. In the cast that will be seel.
are Wilda Bennett, Sam B. Hardy.
Carl Gantvoort, JuIiette Day, Louis
Cassavant. Viola Cain, Arthur Burck-
ley. Marjorie Bentley. Eugene Lock-
hart, James Clarence Harvey. Frank
Harrington and a number OF other
prominent artists. Julian Mitchell
has provided the many dances and
ensembles in the production, which
necessarily requires large number
of yonng women. and these will be
found to possess exceptional good
looks.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-03
BeInseo-.You,re In Love-

At the Belasco Theater, beginning
Monday, January Z. return en-
gagement. by popular request, is
announced of the presentation of
Arthur Hammerstein's most pleas
ing comedy success, You're In
Love-" with the delightful Friml
music reigning supreme. its dis
tinctive dance hits and its respon-
sive and alhIring song hits.
Marie Flynn, the dainty prima
donna, with her songs, He VIII
Understand; May Thompson in the
sprightly dance, ITO the Rose; Al
Roberts in his lyrical parody on
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep"
entitled "Snatched From the Cradle
While Asleep; Clarence Nordstrom
in his Buck Up" number: Mrs.
Gardner Crane in her monotone lee
ture to an engaged couple telling
them Things You Must Not Do
and Carl McCullough's clever imper-
sonations of how Harry Lauder, AL
Jolson and David Warfeld might
render that alluring motif song
You're In Love-" all form compon-
ent parts of an entertainment that
is marked with novelty. is fetching
in its variety and truly entertain
ing and restful to all the senses.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-03
POULTRY EXHIBIT
PROMISES SUCCESS
Many Entries Being Received for
Show January 1919.

The sixth annual exhibit of the
National Capital Poultry and Pig
con Association. to be held at the
Arcade. Fourteenth street and Coll
umbia road northwest. from Jan
uary Is to 1s. inclusive. is attract
ing a great deal of attention among
poultry and pigeon breeders. and il
seems certain that the exhibition
will be a success.
Although the list of entries clos
ed at IL O'Clock last night, owing
to traffic and postal conditions af-
fecting the entries sent by mail
from outside points, several days
grace will be allowed.
Thus far entries of Rhode Island
Reds seem to have a shade the best
of II from a numerical Standpoint
with barred Plymouth Rocks a close
second. Entries of Partridge Wy
andottes are also coming in at a
good rate, and for the first time, so
far as any authentic record is OBJ
tainable. entry of White Houdans
has been made. while all the other
classes will be well filled.
The officers of the association
are: President, Roy II. Waite. Col-
lege Park, Nd; secretary, r. >. Lii
lie, 227 Maple avenue. 'Takoma Park.
ID. c.; first vice-presideut. Lewis T.
Miller: second vice-president, r.
Norman Jones; treasurer. J. H. Hol-
mead: superintendent of poultry,
w. A. Craig: assistant superinten-
dents. c. V. Allen and r. e. Lee;
superintendent of pigeonE, Elisha
Hanson; superintendent utility de-
partment, William Weber.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-03
Gayety--BurleEque.

Fred Irwin's big show comes to
the Gayety Theater next week. 1t
offers a two-aCt musical comedy in
twelve scenes. entitled BILL" and
IL may be said by way of eXplana-
tion that the gentleman referred to
in its title is no less a parsonage
than William Shakespeare. the bard
of Avon. who returns in these mod
ern times in search Of inspiration.
The cast is headed by Lee Hayes,
who in the character of the play
impersonates The Spirit of Rag
time and serves to keep the audi
ence in a good humor throughout
the performance. In his support
appear such nCtables as Billy VAIN
wright. HilGa BcTtin, Virginia Ir-
win. Harry Burns, Sam Bachen.
Harry Howe, George WonZ, Helen
Andrews and Marie Beauregard.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-03
Moore's Strand-aThe Marx of
Cain.o

The second of Mrs. Vernon Cas-
ties photoplays made for Pathe
will be disclosed upon the screen
of Moore's Strand Theater the last
three days of this week, when the
feature of the second holiday bill
will be THE Mark of Cain" in
which Antonio Moreno is pictured
in the role opposite the star.
The first four days of next week
at the Strand will be devoted to
'"The Little Girl Next Door" Be-
ginning Thursday and continuing
through the ensuing Saturday
"Babbling Tongues" will be screen
ed. In this picture Grace Valentine
and. James Morrison are filmed in
the leading roles. The plot is akin
to that of the former William
Faversham success. The World and
His Wife,
The Washington herald., 1918-01-03
AWAIT PRESIDENT
ON VALUING ROADS
Senate Committee Postpones Action
Until Wilson Has Addressed
Congress.

Unable to make any progress on the
problem Of railroad valuation yester-
day. the Senate Interstate Commerce
committee adjourned to await advice
from President Wilson.
lt will meet again on Monday, after
the President has addressed the joint
session on the railroad question. and
take action then to frame necessary
railroad legislation.
Judge Alfred Thom, general coun-
sci for the railroads war board. told
the committee that he had advised
al the railway heads to return to
their posts. He suggested that the
committee wait until President VIII
son had spoken before tackling the
valuation problem in earnest
The committee questioned Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Aitchison on
railroad valuation, but developed only
the fact that the commission Is not
yet ready to make a recommendation.