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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01

lives. McGra&'s old championship team of 1904 and 1905 seldom got in or out of Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh or Philadelphia without a fight.
 After we won the worlds cham pionship from the Athletics in 1905, John T. Brush made US a circus at traction.
 Visiting teams always put on their uniforms at their hotel and usually rode out to the ball orchard in buses. Brush made us put on a lot of dog, but thereby subjected us to some aw- full risks. He had a couple of huge yellow horse blankets made with the words Worlds Champions in black appearing on this bright background. You could see us coming for blocks, and you could also hear us when the angry nlobs chased us.
 ''In each city, instead of riding in buses, we paraded in open carriages, four men in uniform to a carriage. We often rode through rough neigh borhoods thus attired, confetti tossers. I got so I could feel a brick coming when I couldn't see it. --
 They hated us in Chicago. The newspapers pointed out that We were as yellow as our horse blankets. The Cubs were our deadly rivals, and when we got into our carriages after beating them on their own grounds we always looked for trouble. Once I changed my clothes at the Cub park and made my exit in street clothes, but there was a guy waiting for me and we had a battle. He checked off our crowd going away in carriages and found me missing, so he laid for me at the club house entrance.
 'Pittsburg was another tough town for us. There was a deaf and dumb fan there who used to some around and see Dummy Taylor. He was an awful pest. One night he was riding on the back step of our bus and was knocked off by Frank Bowerman. He had Bowerman pinched and the Pitts burgh papers demanded that we all be run out of town.
 s Another time we won a ding-dong game in Philadelphia and were re- turning to our hotel in those open carriages. Going down Broad street a big ripe tomato caught Roger Bres- nahan square on the mouth. You should have heard Rog.
 "Bowerman was riding with me in the back seat of a carriage. We were stopped by the traffic cop and bird sneaked upon us from behind. He reached over, removed Franks cap with one hand, and with the other crowned him with a bottle. Frank was stunned for a moment, during which the guy gently placed the cap back on his dome. When Bowerman snatched it off there was a lump on his onion as big as an egg Frank hung his cap on it, shifted his chew and apparently let it go at that.
 "Our exit in St. Louis was through a narrow passage between the left and center field bleachers. There were times when we took it on the run the minute the game was over, leaped into our hacks and hit the floor while the drivers made quick getaway. Those Patch boys were handy with bricks, too.
 But now" sighed Mike, tits too tough a. life, what with a guy being compelled to sleep in upper berths, stop at European hotels, carry his own bats and sometimes not getting a taxi. I'm glad I wore my halo in the good old days when we risked ht- tie besides our heads"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01
SCHAEFER MAY
 PLAY COCHRAN

New York, March 1.-Prospects L for tournaments and matches this spring at lS-2 bs.lkline billiards are brighten ing.
 Young Jake" schaefer and Koji Yamada have decided to come East and not remain in San Francisco to play in Graney's Academy. They left the Golden Gate city Feb. 21 and en route will play in Portland, Seattle, Spokane and Denver under the man. asement of David Palm, a prominent Pacific Coast billiard expert. Palm expects to be in Chicago about March 7th.
 Schaefer and Yamada will reach Chicago about March IA, by which time they expect Palm viii have ar ranged with the Brunswick-Balke Cchender- company for series of events in which they will meet Welker Cochran in individual matches or in tournaments to be played in Chicago, Detroit and New York.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01
Conclude
 NlCInniS'S s
 Transfer

i New York, March 1.-The deal by which Stuffy MoInnis, the former star Athelt1c first baseman, was traded to the Boston Red Sox was completed iehre yesterday when at a conference attended by President Harry Frazee and Ed Barrow of the Red Sox and Manager Connie Mack of the Athlet- ics it was announced that Third Base man Larry Gardner, Catcher Forrest l Cady and Outfelder Clarence Walker were released to Philadelphia.
 Walker will tarry only temporarily with the Athletics, as he will be a member of the Yankees by the time I Huggins gets his team ready for the start on Macon As soon as the Bos- ton4Athletic deal was completed Mack went into conference with Miller Hug gins, when the transfer of Walker to the Yankees was taken up. Mack wants an outfielder and pitcher for Clarence. Negotiations will be con 1inued by wire, and will be completed before uext week.
 [ Until Mike MctNally returns from the navy Manager Barrow of Boston plans to use Fred Thomas, an experi- i enced minor league player, at third base. Cleveland released Thomas to < Boston two years ago in the famous Speaker deal. He was farmed out to Providence last season, where he hit
 only .e52.
 Another possibility is that McInnis
 will go to third base and that Hob 1Itzel will continue at first for Bos-
 ton. McInnis was a shortstop when he broke into the American League.
 Gardner and Cady were veteran Boston players. Both of them were members of the Red Sox world S champions of 1912, 1915 and 1916. With the release of these players to Phila- 3tlelphia the Red Sox next season will have only one member of the 1912 team which won the worlds cham Epionship from the Giants on Fred Snodgrass's huff on it's roster The t.player is Harry Hooper who saved fthe series for Boston with a n1iracu- lous catch in the last game. Duffy Lewis, who also played in that series still is the property Of the BostoI
 club, but is now in the Navy.
 Under the terms of the deal BostoT
 must wait until the finish of the wal
 before it can reap the real benefits O.
 the McInnis deal The club is 1ef
 with one star first basenan and an rother good first baseman, but with z [ hcSe at third and another in the out Eheld. ~g9sIrow plans to use an outfelt consisting of Walsh, Strunk ant i1Hooper-
 The players obtained by Mack giv' hhim a chance of putting the sem
 b7ance of big league team in th'
 field. While Gardner slipped quite z
 little during the last year he still il
 As good player and hand hitter, wht plays well at either third or seconC
 base.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01
s MYTHS BITES DIDN'T HALT
 JOE WALCOTT

Mysterious Billy Smith. the first Queensberry welterweight champion, had a repertoire of tricks never equalled by any other boxer before or since. He might well have been call ed Billy the Bite" because of his playful antics, one of which was to take a "chaw' out of his antagonist when the referee wasn't looking. Smith and Joe Walcott, the Black Demon of Barbadoes," used to mix it quite frequently, and the way Smith treated the black man was som't thin scan'lous The first Smith Walcott bout was staged in the Boston Music Hall 23 years ago today, March l, 1895, and it will never be forgotten by those who witnessed it There was a lot of race feling in the Bean City, and Walcott feared the crowd more than his opponent. The referee was an old pugilist named Aaron. and he was blind as bat to all of Billy's foul stuff Once the Mysterious" once actually bit Joe's coco, which showed mighty poor judgment Joe was afraid to protest against Smiths 1OUhHS, pOSduSC llS 11L1ko " "Ci NOA- stant1y yelling "Ki1l the smoke"' and every foul put over by Smith was greeted with applause. Once Billy brought down the house by brazenly asking the referee to disqualify the negro because, explained Smith, 'he 1 is biting mev The whole affair was a disgrace to the sport, and, happily nothing like that could be pulled off now. Despite the handicap, Joe had the best of the affair, and the referee | had to give him a draw.
 1 Not long after the Boston battle, Smith and Walcott fought again this time in New York. for the
 worlds welterweight championship. Charlie White was the third man in the ring, and he made the men fight fair. This bout went 25 rounds, and the decision went to Smith, who had all the better of the latter part of the
 engagement, at one time knocking the "Demon" down for the count of
 eight. In 1898 they fought again.
 going 25 rounds to a draw. In the
 following two battles with the
 "Deman," Smith lost both on fouls.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01

Mike Don1in, now that he's out of baseball and in moving pictures, can look upon developments in the game with the eye of Bernard Shaw and in a recent interview published in a New York newspaper, said interview being much help to him in his new aspirations, the former diamond char acter took a long of f1ings at present day players, some of them hitting home to the mark. He got a good start when he was asked of the pro- posals that ball players should carry their own luggage, sleep in upper berths and be cut down on rations.
 I'm glad" said Mike, as a starter, that I got out before this awful blight fell upon the game. Think think of manly young fellow just in from the minors or from a fresh water college being introduced to a big league manager, whose first words to him may be: My boy, I'm sorry, but I'll have to ask you to sleep in an upper berth tonight!' Think of that poor boy being asked to make a sacrifice like that at the very outset of his career! Can, you wonder if he concludes all the expenses dad has been put to giving him an education has been wasted?
 'FIn the olden days" continued Mike, mo star ball player was too good to take his turn on. the bats No, I don't mean what you mean When the manager said, Mike, your on the bats today he meant that you and one other man similarly instruct ed would take the old bat bag off the Pullman when you got off the train. Then you would carry it right through the train and dump it on the baggage wagon. The next day two other men would get the bat bag assignment. Every time the bat bag was moved it was carried by two athletes. Nobody escaped.
 Can you imagine Benny Kauff and Dave Robertson getting off a train at Grand Central Station and toting a big bat bag through an admiring throng? can't. But we never thought anything of it in our good old days.
 "A guy would pitch one day and LOT CIbo next CWO ne WOuIQ nave to go watch a turnstile. It was part of the job, and nobody ever was able to duck it. But can you imagine any body suggesting that Walter Johnson or Grover Alexander could make themselves useful by acting as watchman for turnstile the day af- ter they pitched a tough game? But Cy Young and lot of good ones did it in those days.
 ''In the early days of the American League the teams stopped at Ameri- can ball parks in big buses. Each man took charge of his own hand baggage. Nowadays the boys ride in taxis They throw down their lug gage at the railroad station and the club trainer sorts it out, taking some to the ball park and sending the rest to the hotel.
 And that reminds me-" Mike inter rupted himself, that Johnny Evens said something the other day when he declared that baseball had lost some of it's grip. on the public, be- cause the players no longer paraded through city streets and appeared in uniform only on the field. I agree with Jchnny.
 Tt required considerable ability to dodge the b1ickbats then, but we al- ways managed to escape with our
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01
DARTMOUTH FIRES BASKETBALL COACH

Hanover, N. H., March 1-The con tract of Fred Walker of the Dart mouth basketball team was termin' ated yesterday by the Athletic Coun' cal after the team had played and lost 20 games.
 The work of Walker from the be- ginning of the season has not beer satisfactory to either the council el the student body, and with but sever games still to be played this drastic action was decided upon.
 Walker pitched for New Haven two years ago.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01
HUCCINS' MEN ARE OFF FOR
 TRAINING

New York. March Miller Hug gins, back from a ten day visit to Cincinnati, said yesterday the only places he had been: outside of Cincin- nati were Cleveland and Syracuse. At Cleveland he visited Roger Peckin- paugh, but was unable to induce Roger to sign a contract. However, he says he will have another meeting with Peck next week, probably in New York, when he expects to get his captains signature to contract.
 Higgins will pay a visit to Eddie Plank in Gettysburg next week and attempt to coax the veteran to come out of retirement. He says he has received a letter from Plank in which Eddie says he does not yet know whether or not he will play ball in 1918. He has a garage and automo- bile business in Gettysburg and is so well situated that he is unwilling to leave Gettysburg for another training grind.
 Higgins announced contracts had been received from Pitchers Ray Caldwell, Allen Russell and Slim Love. These are the first players which the club has announced to be under com tract, with the exception of players with holdover contracts.
 Mobilization plans were issued to the Yankees yesterday by Huggins. when all New York American play CTS received instructions when and where to report. The first squad, consisting mostly of youngsters have 4o of Mo g. Actual training will be started on Monday, March Il. The regulars have orders to get into Macon on March 14.
 The first batch of Yankees will leave New York on March 8. It will consist of Manager Miller Higgins, Pat O'Connor, the coach; Al Woods, the new trainer, and Herbert Thor mahlen, the big left handed pitcher obtained from Baltimore.
 At Baltimore this party will pick up Wilson Fewster. Bill Lamar, the outfielder, will get aboard at Wash ington where his grandfather is a Justice of the Supreme Court. The other young players will go direct from their homes - Catcher J. H. Hannah from Whittier, Cal; Catcher Harold Rue from St. Louis, Mo; {; Pitcher Ed Monroe from Louisville, Ky; Pitcher Rob McGraw from Pueblo, Col Outfelder Howard Camp from Munford, Ala; Outfielder Sam Wick from Eupora, Miss. Pitcher Ed Lowe from Los Angeles, Cal; Shortstop Aaron Ward from Bonneville, Ark; Scout Joe Kelley i from Baltimore and Scout Bob Con- nery from St. Louis
 The second batch will leave here on 1 March 13 and Ray Caldwell and 1 George Mogridge will head the New | York expedition. Pitcher Bob Shaw | key will join his fellow hurlers at Philadelphia. Frank Baker and Allen Russell will join the outfit at Balti- more.
 The other players will report direct i from their homes-Walter Pipp from Grand Rapids, Mich. Hugh High from St. Louis Mo; Armando Mar sans from Havana, Cuba; Derrill Pratt from St. Petersburg, Fla. Frank Gilhooley from Toledo, Ohio; Elmer Miller from New Orleans: Tim HendryX from New Orleans; Roger Peckinpaugh from Cleveland; Al Wal ters from Porterville. Cal, and Finn Beck from Georgetown, S. c. No marching orders were sent to Plank pending Eddie's indecision whether or not to play next season.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01

The new manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, Ned Egan, has been active in baseball for 20 years-four years as a player-fnishing the 1901 season with the St. Paul club. In 1902 he managed the Winnipeg club and won the pennant. In 1903 he again won the pennant in Winnipeg. In 1904 he did not play on account of illness. In 1905 he managed the Keokuk club, finished fifth after selling majority of players in the middle of the season, In 1906 he managed the Burlington club and won the pennant. In 1907 and 1908 he managed the Burlington club and finished second each year. He again managed the Bur lington club in 1909, and again won
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01
Talk Of Sports

Pete Hartley, the new Durable Dane, is scheduled to hook up with Lew Tender for six rounds in Phila- delphia Monday night. Tender is the boy who gave Dundee hard run in their last two bouts. Hartley is working out at Fitzgerald's gym in New Haven
 Ted Lewis, the weIterweight champion, and Jack Britton, are still at it. Articles have been signed for a 10-round bout at Atlanta, Ca The proceeds will go to the Camp Gordon athletic fund.
 Leach Cross and Douglas Fairbanks fought an exhibition bout at Oakland, Cal. recently for the benefit of the Red Cross. About $5,OoO was taken in. Leach said it was the hardest charity he ever worked in, and inti- mated that Doug could hold his own with all of them.
 The Italian-American A. c. is try ing to get Johnny Martin and Pete Hartley together after that lively three-round session in New Haven the other night. This would make a corl1ing scrap as Martin and Hartley want that state lightweight crown.
 And the cat came back seems to fit Pitcher Herman Pillett pretty well Pillett was sold by the Tacoma club to the Reds, who gave him his pass port to the International League. Then the Tacoma team bought him back and next season he will be seen on the mound, operating for the west ern city.
 George SisIer is coming in for a good deal of kidding following his re- cent exhibition during a game of in- door baseball at St. Louis. George simply was a f1ivver. He went to bat 1 four times and famed every time He didn't even touch the ball for a foul. George acknowledges that he's no s5o,o00 prize as an indoor player.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01

the pennant. In 1910 he managed Ottumwa club, finishing second, and in 1911, 1912 and 1913 he managed Ottumwa and each year won the championship of that circuit.
 In 1914 all players on this team were disposed of and the team finished the season last-the only time in MT. Egan's long baseball experience that he handled a taiI-ender. In 1915 he managed the Muscatine club, finish ing second, and again managed that club in 1916 and won the pennant. In 1917 he managed the Waterloo club and the league disbanded before close of season. Eight pennants and four second places in 14 seasons fn- ished, is his record.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01
 TO BOX
 I)EYERE

Chicago, March Fred Fulton of Rochester, Minn., and Bob Devere of Kansas City, were matched yesterday for 8 ten-round boxing contest at St. Louis on March II. --
 Devere was to have fought Jack Dempsey at Joplin. Mo, tonight, but his match was called off in prepara- ton for the bout in St. Louis.
 Devere claims to have broken his hand while training for the Dempsey bout.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01
WESLEYAN FOOTBALL
 CAPTAIN ENLLSTS

Middletown, Conn.,, March Wal ter F. Sutter of Elizabeth, N. J., wht explained the football team at Wes leyan last Fall, has left college to Jo1l the Aviation Corps. Sutter has woI his "W'' two seasons at football. Las Fall, he played right guard with tn, exception of g short time at ha2S back
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01
SKATING RACES OFF.

Pittsburgh, March 1-The cham piohship skating races between Bob by Mclean and Morris Wood were postponed indefinitely last night when it was discovered that Wood has dislocated his hip in the acci- dent that stopped the races last night.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01
CALL OFF GOLF TOURNEY.

The executive committee of the Women's Eastern Golf Association yesterday announced that, owing to war conditions, the annual cham pionship will be omitted and dues suspended until further notice.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01

Ninety-nine per cent. of the men at Camp Upton have taken out United States war insurance policies.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01

SWEET PEAS, V9OLETS, TULIPS, DAFFODILS.
 JOHN ,RECK & SON.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-01
DOnlin POkeS Fun Al
 Baseball Hardship

Veteran Shows He Hasn't Gone Back in the Wit League By His Filings at Present Day Athletes Imagine Alexander Watching the Gate or Benny Kauff Hust- ling the luggage .s....
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-04
B|G FRENCH LINER
 ARRIVES HERE WITH ALL LIGHTS Ab[AZE
Wireless Message Picked Up at Sea Reason for Scrap ing Paint From the
 Portholes

An Atlantic Port. November S,-A large French liner arrived here during the night with all her lights ablaze. This unusual procedure in war time was due, according to wireless mes- sage picked up at sea which caused the captain to order paint scraped from the vessels port holes to permit illumina- tion of the decks.
 While the contents of the wireless message were not made known to the passengers many of them landed today with the impression that peace had been concluded With Germany and that free dom of the seas had been restored
 Among the arrivals was Hans Sul- ger, Swiss minister to the United States, who comes to seek an extension of the commercial arrangements with this country which expired September 30 so as to permit shipment to Switzerland of grains as well as other food sup plies. Switzerland is soreiy in need of cereals, he said, to feed not only the Swiss people, but also 90, 900 English, French and German soldiers who are interned there.
 Other arrivals included John Spargo member of a United States mission to Italy; Countess Maria Loschi, an Ital- ian writer, who is to tour the country under the auspices of the committee on public information, studying the war work of American women and William K, Vanderbilt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-04
SAM GOMPERS SAYS
 FOLLOW PRESIDENT
Noted Labor Leader Re- turns From Europe Urg-
 ing Unity of People

New York, November 3.-Samuel Com pers, president of the American Feder- ation of Labor and chairman of the American labor mission, who arrived at an Atlantic port yesterday, after two- months tour of England, France and Italy, tonight issued a statement urging the nation to follow the President :-nd the Presidents advice. at least until after the triumphant conclusion of the war;
 MT. Gompers said that while the labor mission is not politically partisan. fol- lowing neither the republican nor demo- cratic party" members of the mission who returned with him concurred in his appeal, feeling that the failure of the people to support the President would be interpreted by the people of our al- lies as weakening of the people of the United States,' and would put new encouragement and new lease of life into the Germans and Austrians.
 Members of the mission who arrived with Mir Gompers were William Bow sen, Edgar Wallace, Peter Josephine and Secretary oyster. John F. Frey ana c. l.. Baine remained in Paris to attend a conference on October 26 of the com mittee f~the labor movements of the all lied countries. Mr. Gompers left before the conference because of the death of his daughter in Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-04
ALLIES MUST FORM LEAGUE OF NATIONS Asquith Says Victory Must Be Decisive if Peace Is
 to Be Secured

Cupar, Scotland Saturday, November 2.-Unless the allies are content to have made their sacrifices in vain. they must conclude peace better than any of the conventional peaces of his- tory and secured by a league of na- tions able to check any attempt at ag- gressiveness from whatever quarter it may arise. declared former Premier As. quith in an address delivered here to- day.
 Matters have now reached the stage" he said, "at which victory must be de- -isive if peace Is to be decisive. All of our sacrifices will have been thrown away If we acQuiesce to anything less than peace of such a kind that it not only crushes for all time the aggressive ambition of our present enemies but what is indeed more important from the point of view of the permanent interests of civilization and humanity, render impossible recurrence of such a war by striking at the very root of the causes of war.
 We must attain something better than any of the conventional peaces of history. We must attain league of nations.
 we cannot have a league of nations but an accademic sense unless those Who enter it are prepared, first of all, to scoSnize that no country can par ticipate in the partnership If it's gov ernment is based on autocracy. If q league of nations is to be really an ef- fective security for the peace of the world, 1t must be in position, from whatever quarter war may arise, to check and even punish the offender"