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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
Motor Vans Used to
 Transfer RacehOrses

New York, July 24-During the present season owners and trainers of racing thoroughbreds have experience ed considerable difficulty in transfer ring their horses from one race track to another on account of the con- Agested condition of the railroads In a measure this transfer has been made more feasible by the use of com employed almost daily in carrying the racers from training quarters and tracks to whatever point the horses have to reach in order to fulfill their engagements. Many of the trainers availed themselves of this motor van service to convey their charges from the Long Island racing track to the Empire City track near Yonkers. where races will be held every day during the remainder of the month. Arrangements have now been com pleted for the operation of a van ser vice between Troy and Saratoga at the conclusion of the Yonkers meet ing. Many of the stake horses and l platers now racing at the Empire track will be shipped by beat from Yonkers to Troy and thence by van | to Saratoga, where racing will be the
 main sporting attraction during the | entire month of August.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
Members of PhilIies
 Ready for War Work

Philadelphia, July 24-Members of the Philadelphia National League team are making arrangements to obeX the work or fight order. Pitcher Elmer Jacobs says he intends to go to his home in Missouri and be- come brakeman on the Iron Noun tain railroad.
 Catcher Jack Adams, Pitchers Hogg, Prendergast and Oeschger and Inf1elders Bancroft, Pearce and Hem ingway are making arrangements o accept jobs with a Delaware river shipbuilding company. This com pany has a ball team in the Delaware River Shipbuilding league.
 Cy Williams will go back to his Wisconsin farm; Justin Fitzgerald will help build ships at Mare Island, Ca; Catcher Eddie Burns says he is likely to go to work in a fish can- nery at Monterey, Cal; Outfelder Meusel has applied for a position in the oil fields of southern California: Milton Stock will look for work in a Mobile, Ala, shipyard, and Dixie Davis has enlisted in the navy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
DOINGS IN SPORTLAND-
GARRY COCHRAN, FOOTBALL STAR,
 DIES ABROAD

New York, July 24-Collector Will liam H.. C"Big BilT') Edwards receiv- ed from W. O. Hickok, famous Yale football player, a telegram yesterday reading as follows:
 Government informs death Garrett Cochran. Body now at Newport News. No further information"
 When seen at his office Collector Edwards stated that Cochran was one of the greatest ends who ever played football. He added:
 "Cochran's power of leadership and personal magnetism placed him in the first ranks of football leaders. He was captain of the Princeton team of 1896 and 1897, and if he had given all his time to football I believe he would have been the greatest coach in the football world"
 In Collector Edwards football days" the following incident of Coch- ran's football career is related:
 Charlie de Saulles and Garry Cochran were schoolmates at Law renceville, and in the 1897 game at New Haven they played against each other. At New Haven that fall Frank Butterworth and other coaches had heard the rumor that when Cochran and de Saulles parted at Lawrence vile they had a strange understand ing. Both had agreed, so the rumor went, should they ever meet in a Yale-Princeton game, one would have l to leave the game.
 "Butterworth told de Saulles what | he had heard and cautioned him, re- minding him that he wanted him to play a game that would escape criti- cism; de Saulles put every ounce of himself into his game. Cochran did the same. Frank Butterworth and the coaches believed th1t when de Saulles was making his great run ur the field he kept his pledge 70 Coch- ran. De Saulles and Cochran laugh ! ed at the suggestion that it was other than an accident, but they have never been able to convince their friends The dramatic element in it was toe strong for a mere chance affair. | "In that run when tackling dc Saulles Cochran broke his right shoul- der.
 "A trainer ran out and took him tc the side lines to fix up his injury Cochran was game to the core. Tc conceal the true location of his in jury, Cochran had his left shoulder bandaged and entered the scrimmagt again."
 Cochran died of pneumonia 1T France. He was a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania National Guard whe1 he left here. His home was in Will Transport, Pa.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
PEARL BUTTONS
 MADE IN LARGEST
 NUMBERS IN U. S

New York, July 24---Penrsylvania held the fourth place in the manufac- ture of buttons in 1914 and as the re- port for that year indicated a steady annual increase for the preceding f1ve-year periods, it may be that when the next report is issued this State will be found to have climbed a little higher in the scale of buttons.
 As 1t is, the industry in Pennsylva- mia in the year mentioned made al- most as many buttons as were im- ported, which, as it happened, was an extraordinary twelve month for but ton importation.
 There is something staggerig in the quantity of buttons of all kinds that are yearly made in this country. One might naturally think that the great est quantity made were shoe buttons; but while this is large. the fresh water pearl button holds the lead, there having been made in 1914, ac- cording to a recent report issued by the Federal Tariff Commission, more 1 than 21,0Oo,00O gross. This product was valued at $4,S79, ,S44.
 Shoe buttons come next in impor- tance in the industry, and there were made more than 15,OO0,oO0 gross, and ] this despite the fact that the ma tority of the shoes worn are laced. l Of the elusive species known as col lar and cuff buttons there were man. ufactured 1,771,00 gross, valued at $56,251
 Agate buttons appear to be the most expensive variety made here, for the 3,660 gross made in 1914 were valued at $5,100.
 New York continues to be the leader | in the manufacture. and from pro- ducts valued at $2,371, 900 in 1899 the industry has grown until In 1914 the product of the button factories had a value of $7,S21 coo In 1909, however, the product rose to $9,S75,0 900; but in that year the country's industry showed a product valued at $2z,70s. GOO or about s2, ,o00o 900 more than in 1914. l There are few things valued less ey the average person than a button, but in the aggregate buttons form an inn portant place in the country's imports and exports Virtually every country i in the world makes buttons. The bone button is largely made in Asi- atic countries and the pearl button Is
 made in large quantities in Japan.
 Since the beginning of the war Ja- pan has increased it's exports of fresh-water pearl to the United States
 by about 2.70o per cent, and to Great Britain by 800 per cent. These figures represent to some degree the loss oi trade by Germany to both the United
 Kingdom and the United States.---
 Philadelphia Ledger.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
CLINE TO BOX
 DONLEY TONIGHT

New York, July 24.---The New Jer- sey Sportsmen's club at Weehawken, N. J., will open it's doors to the boxing public this evening. The program consists of series of nour-round con- tests, one six-round bout, and one of eight rounds. In the principal exhi- bition Patsy Cline of Harlem will op- pose Mickey Douley, the Newark lightweight, who recently held off Johnny Dundee for eight rounds. This will be Cline's first appearance in a bout In New Jersey.
 The clubhouse is the biggest indoor boxing club in New Jersey. Orig inally the promoters had scheduled their initial entertainments for sev- eral weeks ago, but unexpected cir cumtsances twice caused postpone ments. Before boxing was legaEzed in New Jersey the clubhouse was known as Hexamer's Riding Acad- emy.- It is situated on Hudson Boule- ward and is within 25 minutes travel of Times Square.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
TELLS NEGROES
 FEM
Austrian Insurance Agent Is On Trial Charged
 With Disloyalty.

New York July. 24.-The Kaiser loves the negroes, Max Freudenheim is alleged to have assured New York collecting the small sums that week ly became due on their insurance pol icies.
 After the war the Kaiser will form several of the States into an Ameri- can kingdom for blacks, 1t Is charged Freudenheim's assertions continued. He will let them rule themselves and give them absolute protection. Freudenheim, an Austrian, who has been in this country nineteen years, was placed on trial yesterday before Federal Judge Hand, charged with trying to stir up mutiny, insubordin- ation and disloyalty. He is forty-five and has a wife and five children. Beyond promising the negroes their friend the Kaiser would give them a domain all their own, Freudenheim l is charged with asserting that the Ger mans had a gas that would travel miles and smother negroes in the trenches like rats in hole.
 I This is not a negro mans war. It is white mans war, is statement attributed to him.
 The aunt and mother of Charlie Hickson, a colored boy now in France doing things to the Germans, told in court about Freudenheim's activities.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes, the aunt, was the first witness. She said Freu- denheim made this statement to her and Mrs Hickson;
 | The Germans are smart people. They'll win the war sure. The Unit ed States hsA no business sending colored folks to Europe. The Ger mans will cut off their ears and breasts and arms and dig out their eyes, and they'll fare as in the days of King Leopold"
 Mrs Cynthia Hickson, Charlie S mother, who corroborated the aunt, prefaced her testimony with the as- sertion that Charlie was in France showing the Huns the way back to Berlin She became so enthusiastic that Judge Hand had to caution her against leaving her chair.
 1 Then Hannah Worm1ey, clad in a robe of purple such as she might have worn had she become a princess of the new realm Freudenheim promised, re- peated more statec1ents made by the insurance man. Fiait a juror request ed that she take the gum from her mouth. She coyly did so with the re- suit that the next witness had diff culty removing his hand from the arm of the chair where she had deposited the gum.
 Quoting the defendant she said: "He told me that if the Germans came here they'd shoot guns seventy-five miles and they'd destroy us." This statement is alleged to have been made in December last, before the long range guns began to shell Paris
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
NATIONAL LEAGUE. ITO FINISH SEASON
Despite Loss of Many Play CTS League to Continue
 Schedule.

New York, July 24-The Giants will commence another home stay at the Polo Grounds this afternoon, enter taining the St. Louis Cardinals. Brooklyn will play Pittsburgh at Eb- bets Field: The National League in tends 60 go through with the base ball season, if possible, even if the decision expected today from Wash ington should be contrary to the base ball peoples expectations. President Harry Hempstead of the Giants sent telegram to this city from Pitts hurgh yesterday which was as fol- lows:
 T am authorized to say that ball players may continue to play until ordered by their local draft boards to seek other employment"
 The baseball players are pretty well upset and 1t is certain that many of them will jump immediately to posi- tions in shipyards. The Yankees left last night to open their next Western invasion with Cleveland tomorrow. Il is known, however, that Gilhooley Mogridge and Elmer Miller have made arrangements to go to the Nationa Shipbuilding plant on Staten Island ! A crowd of 1000 saw this team play i last Sunday on Staten Island. It is also stated that George Sisler, the star first baseman of the Browns, is considering taking up shipbMilding a! ] an occupation at this same plant. l It was stated last night that the 1 Giants will soon lose George Burns who is said to be considering an offel l to go to the Bethlehem Steel Works where Jeff Tesreau Is working ant playing. ball. Other members of tht Giants may also go with Burns. Manager. McGraw had made a bit |, offer for Larry Lajoie, who managed the Indianapolis Club of the Ameri can Association, which has just closed up shop and it is very likely that thu big French-Canadian will join tn, | Giants soon.
 | Fred iToney, who has been pur chased from the Cincinnati Reds b, the Giants. says that he will not joil the New York club. Toney says tha he is no prize poodle to be peddlet around to anybody who wants to bu
 him. Toney thinks that he shoul' have been consulted If the Reds want ed to sell him.
 The baseball officials are fgurin
 on at least an extension of time fo their players which will give then an opportunity to fill in the rank
 gradually, after each player ha
 been called by his local draft board
 It is a question, however, whether tn
 players will stay in the game unti
 they are called. In the event of tn
 Provost Marshal granting the majo
 leagues until the end of the seasor
 thee Tub owners believe that all thei
 players would return and play out tn
 season.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
FULTON PREDICTS
 A KNOCKOUT
Minnesota Plasterer iG Ready For Fight With
 Dempsey Saturday.

New York, July 24.---Fred Fulton has not been apprehended by local draft board under the work or fight law. Officials of the board and Fulton himself denied the report circulated yesterday that he had been haled be- fore the board. Fulton, who Is to box Jack Dempsey at Harrison, N. J., next Saturday evening, issued the follow ing statement last night:
 T have not been haled before any draft board under the work or fight law. I am under the Jurisdiction of a draft board in Minnesota, and have been placed in Class 4 A because have wife and two children depend ent upon me.
 While it Is true that I did not reg ister in New York City because I was there at the time I was required to register, 1t Is equally true that the New York Draft Board has no juris- diction over me- The Minnesota Draft Board has granted me permis- sion to come East to engage in a box ing bout with Jack Dempsey, and, so far as I know, there will be nothing to interfere with that bout.
 One other thing. Although I am in Glass A in the draft, am ready and willing to answer the call to serve my country whenever it wants me-"
 John S. Smith, chairman of the New Jersey Boxing Commission, accompa- nied by a party of newspaper men from New York and New Jersey, vis- ited Fulton in his training quarters at Rye Beach yesterday and saw the big ex-plasterer go four rounds with Jack Espen and four more with the Jamaica Kid. MT. Smith declared he thought Fulton in excellent condition for the coming bout. Fred tipped the beam at POS pounds after his workout After I knock out Jack Dempsey at Harrison Saturday evening"" Fred Fulton said yesterday at his training camp at Rye Beach, I'm going tc retire from the ring until the Allies lmarch right into Berlin"
 And the Minnesota plasterer means lit, too. He and his manager, the genial Mike Collins, both have made Iplans to apply themselves to essentia work.
 The chairman of New Jerseys Box ling Commission will visit Jack Demp Isey's camp at Long Branch today Jack will box with Joe Jeannette ant Battling Jim Johnson. Clay Turner was forced to quit as sparring part
 ner to Dempsey, the going beini slightly too rough for the Indian.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
TROLLEY CAR HITS AUTOMOBILE

An automobile owned by Harry Bernstein of IS Charron street was struck by trolley car yesterday af- ternoon in Fairfield avenue near the G. M. c. garage and dragged about 60 feet. The first machine was pushed against a second owned by the G. M. c. garafge and both cars were dragged another 40 feet before the street car could be brought to a standstill. Both machines were dam aged.
 At S:15 the machine owned and driven by Vasel Ovar of $50 Arctic street was struck by a North and South Main street line car at Main and Bank street. Little damage was done by the mix-up.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
Swatting Records
 In Baseball Annals

In the early days of baseball no club was considered to have safe lead over the opposing team with anything less than a margin of 20 runs to the good. With the beginning of the National League, these condi- tions changed, and big scores became the exception and not the rule. To- day marks the 56th anniversary of the league game in which the record number of runs were made. Chicago and Cleveland were the opposing teams on that historic July 24,in 1882, and the former triumphed by a score of 35 to 4.
 Many other league swatting records have stood almost as long. The great est number of home runs in a major league game were scored in a contest between Detroit and St. Louis in 1886, when seven hits good for com plete circuits of the bases were made. This record has been several times exceeded in minor circuits, and at Corsicana, Tex, in 1902, no less than 1s home runs were smashed out. The worlds record for the greatest num- Der of runs in one inning of a league AAdS SLOOu SIIlCo l oOO NhCl1 Sul- cago scored IS runs-two for each man-in the Lucky seventh" of game against Detroit, Burns. and Weidman being the twirlers whose delivery fared so badly. As late as 1908, at Cleveland, 10 runs were scored in one inning, nine hits were made, and each batter who made a hit got run. .-
 The individual batting records for a single game are headed by the wonderful performance of Beaumont, of the Pirates who in 1899 rot six hits in as many times at the bat. Even more sensational was the feat of Delehanty, of Philadelphia, in 1898, when in a game against Chicago he went to bat five times and got four home runs and single.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
Evans-Gardner Lose

South Bend, Ind, July 24-Jock Hutchinson and Jack Croke yester- day defeated Charles (Chick) Evans and Stewart Gardner in a Red Cross golf match. The scores were: Hutch inson, II; Croke 75; Evans 76 and Gardner 7S.
 Several thousand dollars were add ed to the Red Cross Fund as a re- suit of the match, but the total was not available last night. Before the match started A. R. Erskine, presi- dent of the Studebaker Corporation, paid s210 to act as Evans's caddy. A fifty piece band from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station aided the golfers in entertaining the specta- tors.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
ARMSTRONG
 LEADS GOLFERS

New London, July 24-The annual July tournament for the benefit of the Y. NJ. c. A. fund began on the Links here yesterday with qualifying round of Is holes. About 30 golfers teed up for this event and the low medal honors went to J. D. Armstrong. who returned an S6. He completed the first part of the Journey in 42. but required more coming home.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
Golf President Resigns

Boston, July 24-Henry H. Wilder has resigned as president of the Massachusetts Golf Association and will report to his draft board in Lowell Thursday, it is announced here. Wilder played on Lesley cup teams which represented this section.
 At meeting of the executive com. mittee A. D. Locke of Brae Burn was chosen president of the association.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
BE FRANK TIES
 TRACK RECORD

New York, July 24-Be Frank, a little bay gelding owned by the Calu- met Stable, made his first appearance under silks at the Empire City track yesterday was crowned his initial start with a sensational victory. He de- .feated a big field of high class juve- niles over the five furlong course in the last race and in doing so equalled the track record of 100 established by James Buffers Gnot two years
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
Mogridge on Same
 Team With Kritchell

George Mogridge, the Yankee pitcher who signed with the Standard Shipbuilding Co. of Staten Island yes- terday, will make his debut in a Sisco uniform on Sunday at Dexter Park i'll Brooklyn. The Siscos will play a double header with the Bushwicks, and 1t looks like Girard against Mo- gridge in the feature contest. The Siscos defeated the Morse Dry Dock nine last Sunday by 6 to 0. Dan Griner of the Superbas and Paul Kritchell, who was manager of the Bridgeport club of the Eastern League, also are with the Sisco club.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
Adams Again a Pirate

Pittsburgh, July 24-Babe Adams, who won a worlds championship for the Pirates, will, reioin that club within a day or two. The hero of the series with Detroit in 1909 is made available for Pittsburgh be- cause of the disbanding of the Ameri- can Association. Adams this season was the star pitcher of the associa- tion and played with John Cancels Kansas City club.
 Adams was released by Pittsburgh several years ago and went to the American Association. Thence he drifted into the Western League and from there was called back to Kansas City
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
DODGERS WIN IN
 EXHIBITION GAME

Toronto, Ont, July 24-The Dodg- CTS defeated the Pirates in an exhibi- ton game here yesterday afternoon before about 5000 fans. The score was. Brooklyn 5, Pittsburgh 2. Larry Cheney and Rick Robertson divided the twirling for the Dodgers and the pair held Bezdek's men to six hitA
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
Costly Racing Plant Idle

Juarez, Mexico, July 24.---The half million n-dollar racing plant which was built here nine years ago by Matt J. Vim of Louisville, Ky, and several other influential American turfmen, Is now simply a monument to an at one-time successful sporting enter prise. Although the big plant is kept in repair for Mexican festas and Fhol- iday celebrations, the entire inf1eld is planted to wheat
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
Jaffe Is Leader in Chess

Charles Jaffe, of New York, by winning two games during the second days play in the chessmasters' tour nament, at Rye Beach hotel, yester- day, assumed the lead with a total of 70 to his credit. Jaffe first dis posed of Harry Borochow, c. c. N. Y, champion, and then defeated Henry Ring of Hartford.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
SHOULD NOT KILL
 YOUNG TURKEYS IN WAR

Washington July 24.-Pointing out that the slaughter of broiler turkeys is wasteful, the Food Administration has appealed to hotels, clubs and res taurants to discontinue serving broil- CTS. Farmers also were urged not to sell turkeys until they are matured.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
RED sox LEAVE FOR DETROIT.

Boston, July 24-Ed Barrow man. aser of the Boston American League baseball club, left here yesterday with full staff of players to open a series in Detroit on Thursday.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
American League.
GAMES TODAY.
 National League.

St. Louis at New York. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. Chicago at Phila delphia. Cincinnati at Boston.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24

Two hundred bolts of silk valued at $25.ooo was stolen from A. J. Tamor, of New York.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24
FM STANDINGSW Baseball
 RESULTS MA
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
National LRaRue.

National League. No games scheduled.
 American League. New York 4, St. Louis l
 International Leag1e, Toronto 4, Jersey City c Baltimore 5, Rochester 2.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24

Government operation and control of telegraph and telephone wires will be in effectA July al.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24

Times Want Ads. One Cent Word.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-24

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The Colorado statesman., 1918-12-21
LETTER FROM DIRECTOR GENERAL
OF RAILROADS, VIM. G. McAD0O
December II, 1918.

December II, 1918.
>HE National Association for
Nthe Advancement of Colored
People, through its secretary,
John r. Shillady of New York,
makes public a letter from Di-