The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-20

AAJ att, IIl6 OAN ! AAe~SS PA1SAA hitter, has been signed by Higgins to pinch hit and play first in case Wally Pipp is called to the colors. Pipp mas passed his examinations for the Avlauon Corps and may leave in a snort time. Hyatt was with the Pirates from 1909 to 1915, except for one year, 1911, when he was farmed to Kansas City. He went to St. Louis in 1915. He has been play ing at Little Rock. Last year he hit .S34 for Chattanooga
 New York fans have just celebrated Joe Hornung day at the Polo Grounds. Hornung, once the best of National League outfielders, has just completed 50 years of service in base ball parks. He started out as a bat boy, then became famous as a play CT, was member of the champion Bostons of 1883 and the Giants of lS9O. After that he was appointed to the umpiring staff and subsequent ly became a special officer at the Polo Grounds, where he is still on duty. Hornung is just 61 years old. ,
 If baseball museum should ever be opened-and it would be a mighty interesting exhibit for the millions of fans throughout the country-the nucleus of the collection would doubtless be baseball now in posses sion of the East End Church league of Pittsburgh.
 This. sphere is declared to be the oldest in existence, as it was used in a game between the Newburgh, N. Y. Hudsons and the Kingston, N. Y, Eclipse club, played 56 years ago to- day, June 20, 1862.
 The pellet came in for a lot of rap ping, as Kingston won the game by score of 48 to IS. The sphere was long the property of John Miller of Cornwall-on-Hudson, first baseman of the Kingston nine, who lived past the century mark, but Miller turned it over to the Smoky City organiza- tion to be preserved as a relic of baseball antiquity. The ball, made of a single piece of horsehide, is carefully guarded and is protected by both burglary and fire insurance poli- cies aggregating a thousand dol lars.
 r Old Hugh Duffy, once one of the greatest outfielders in the game, will pass his 18th milestone today Duffy was in his batting prime in the '90s and for II years he was in the ranks of the 300 batters. In 1894, when he was with the Boston Nationals, Hugh led the league with the phe- nominal batting average of .43S. He was with Chicago in 1888 and 1889, but his best work was with Boston, where he remained from 1892 to 1891, and in 1901 he again deserted the old league and went over to Ban Johnson's circuit, playing with Mil waukee. In 1910 he was engaged as pilot of the White SoN~ and remained at their head for two years finishing sixth in 1910 and fourth in 1911. Af- ter that he became owner and man. ager of the Portland club of the East ern League. As manager of the club of the Maine metropolis in 1915 he won the New England League pennant, although his team was q trailer for two=thirds of the sea- son.
 Here is little story of the patriot ism of a western scrapper as told by Louie Arms in the New York Fri bune:
 Kid" Began, a 114-pound ban | tamweight, used to box at the Pioneer A. c. out in St. Louis Then the war came along and the Kid" lost inter- est in boxing and wanted to fight. He was rejected three times because of shortage of weight. But the Kid kept trying.
 The other day he gulped down 50 cents worth of ice cream, sodas, drank a half dozen glasses of water and passed the weight requirements with a handsome eighth of a pound to spare. The Kid" is now a second class seaman at the Great Lakes Training Station.
 Two new matches have been ar ranged by Charlie Doesserick, of the Armory A. A., the big open air box ing arena in Jersey City. Next Mon day night Johnny Dundee will box | Mickey Donley One week from next Monday night Bartley Madden will meet Jim Coffey in a return engage ment.
 Jake Daubert was out of the game again. He injured his leg sliding into second base on hit in Monday struggle.
 | The benefit which was rendered to Eddie Moha, the Milwaukee light weigf1ht, who was so severely injured in bout with Jock Malone at St. Paul several months ago that he has been forced to retire from the ring netted him close to $400. In the star bout Gus Christie defeated Bob Moha l brother of Eddie. The receipts amounted to $1,295 and Eddie re- ceived what was left after all ex- penses were paid.
 Willie Jackson is under the doctors | care again. This time his ailment is cut over his left eye, which he re- | ceived while boxing a friendly bout i yesterday. Johnson has been forced to call off several matches on account l of his eye, which has been reopened l several times while he has been work