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Evening star., 1918-02-17

See."
Although Norine had pretended to
wash hs< hands of all responsibility for
Branch's little charge, she was by no
means so inhuman as she appeared
During the day she kept a jealous eve
upon it, and especially upon its diet
Fortunately for all concerned, it was
good-natured child SO long as its
stomach was full it was contented. II
slept good deal. and what time it was
awake it sucked it's fist and suffered
itseif to be variously entertained by
the men. There were. of course. mum.
ber of fellows who could see no bumor
at all in Ell Demonios plight. nor any
reason for adding to his embarrass
ments. These came to his aid in numer-
Gus ways.
1t was an idle day: there was nothing
to do except play with the baby. before
night came the child had established
itself as a general favorite Even
Branch himself had become interested
in it.
Say. I've learned slot about kids
from this one" he confided to O'ReiJly
at dinner time. II always thought
young babies were just damp. sour
smelling little animals. but this one has
character. She knows me already. and
I'm getting SO ] can pick her up with
out feeling that I'm going to puucture
her. She's full Of dimples. too. Got 'em
better name herr'
She probably has a name Do You
expect to keep her PERMANENTLY 'ou
Branch considered. "T wouldn't bav.
thought Of such a thing Yesterday hut
now are we going to get rid Of hers
That's the question. We can't Just leave
nsr with the first family we come ~
Ihese country people have mere lid.
than they know what to do with" NH
Thinking about taking her on the
march with us?" OReiily looke.i un
much amused. up
II don't see why it couldn't he don.
me men wouldn't mind and she'd make
O'ReiIly shook his head. '-This isn't a
mother?' o oooy
Bullets! Fine mother she was n
desert her child. rn bet she's eiad 10
&c. rid o. II People Ike that don't have
Aon't deserve 70 have children. whAfss
more. thAy don't know how to Ga -
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
When Dane Met DenVerite.

Thirteen years ago Battling Nelson knocked out Young Corbett in the ninth round at San Francisco. The Dane and the Denverite had fought three months before, when Nelson put Young Corbett to sleep in the tenth round. The Denver boy was dis satisfied with the result and demand ed a return engagement, and Nelson was willing to oblige. Young Corbett smashed Bat on the jaw repeatedly. putting every ounce of strength he had into the blows, but the durable Dane only smiled and took advantage of every opening to pound Corbett over the kidneys. Young Corbett de- clared that he didn't get over the ef fects of his second bout with Nelson for more than year. Bats old boast that q ain't human" certainly seem- ed true in his contest with Young Corbett, for the latter, who was much the cleverer of the pair, put over dozens of punches that would have felled any ordinary lightweight. AL though Young Corbett continued fighting for several years he never met Nelson again. Twice was quite enough for the Denverite. Soon after his defeat of Young Corbett the Dane knocked out Jimmy Britt.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
SEE BENEFIT FOR
 SOLDIERS

New York, March 9-Thousands of ed out last night to witness the exhi- bitions at the 2d Regiment Armory, held for the purpose of securing funds with which to equip the members of the old regiment now in the Federal service at Spartanburg, s. C., with athletic paraphernalia. Billy Gibson, who directed the show, stated after ward that it exceeded his expecta- tions.
 The bouts of chief interest was that between Benny Leonard, worlds s lightweight champion, and Freddie Reese, his sparring partner. They boxed three interesting rounds, which produced some lively boxing at times Battling Levinsky, light-heavy- weight boxer, now instructor of box ing at Camp Devens, Aver, Mass, re- ceived a great ovation when he step- ped into the ring against Cleve Haw- kins, the Canadian colored boxer They also fought three rounds, as did Lew Tender, the new sensation among lightweights, from Philadel- phia, and Frankie Conifrey, a Har- lem product. Principals in another three-round exhibition were Joe Lynch, a leading contender, for. ban tamweight championship honors, and Dave Astey, former amateur cham | pion. Many other exhibitions were | put on,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
BASEBALL BAT IS 59 YEARS OLD
 TODAY

In some communities in the early days of the pastime baseball was call ed ''batbaIl.'' The modern baseball bat had it's origin just 50 years ago today, so this may be called the birth day of the sacred ash. On March g., 1859, at a meeting of the fathers of baseball held in New York, it was de- clared that the bat should be made of wood, and have a diameter not to ex- ceed two inches and a half and a length not greater than 42 inches. In the years that have followed fewer changes have been made in the bat than in any other thing connected with the game. The provision as to length still stands, but since 1895 the swat ter has been permitted to use a slightly thicker bat. The early rule that the bat be made "of wood" wasn't binding enough in the early days of professionalism. for some of the players sneaked in bats into which holes had been made and filled with lead.
 The rule of 1859 prescribed that the bat should be round. and this provision is in effect today, although in the intervening years there have been some variations. In the early '80s a "four-sided' bat was intro duced, and was indorsed by the gov erning body of amateur players, but it didn't last long and was never used by professionals. Later in the same decade bats made of soft wood, and fiat on one side were introduced, to be used in bunting. This variety of bat gained the recognition of the National League, and was used in nearly all professional circuits up to 1893, when it was discarded and out lawed.
 Prior to the adoption of the rule of 1895 any old kind of a stick was per missible in baseball. Even fiat bats were not barred, and many star swatters used implements of prodi- giouS size.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
ORDER DODGERS
 TO HOT SPRINGS

New York, March 9-PIans for the spring training trip of the Brook lyn Robins were announced yesterday by Charles H. Ebbets, Jr.
 The players have been ordered to report at Hot Springs, Ark, on March 16, and most of the men will leave their homes by Tuesday O. Wednesday of next week.
 Most of the pitchers and catchers. however, are already headed for the camp to take three or four baths in the natural hot springs to Timber up before beginning the strenuous drive.
 Among those who are on the way or who will leave today or tomorrow are Cheney, Mamaux, Grimes, Mar quard, Mitchell, Griner and Heitman, pitchers, and Kreuger, Miller, Snyder and Mack Wheat, catchers.
 The players will train at Hot Springs for two weeks and on April 1 will start east on an exhibition tour with the Boston Red Sox. They will travel by way of Little Rock, Dallas, Waco and Austin, Tex, and WILL meet III two SdluGS dL NeW VI = leans on April and '. From there they will play at Mobile on April 8, Birmingham on April g and Chatta- nooga, Tenn, on April 10.
 The team will then jump to Brook lyn for two games with the Yankees cn April 12 and 13. The following day will be devoted to practice, and the final exhibition game will be played on April 15 with the Second Naval Reserve team of Newport fot tho benefit of the Navy Relief So- ciety.
 This will lead up to the opening of the National League pennant rac5 on April 16, when the Robbins will face the Giants at the Polo Grounds.
 Ivy Olsen advised the Brooklyn Club by wire yesterday that his sign ed contract is in the mail and that he will report at Hot Springs on April 15 Most of the Robins are now ill line.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
LESLIE MANN TO
 RETURN TO CUBS

Leslie Mann, who has been engag- ed all winter at an army camp near Houston, Tex, as a physical instruc- tor for the troops. has been relieved of his duties and will rejoin the Cubs at their training camp in Pasadena, Cal. Mann was quoted recently as having said that he did not care to play ball this year, but preferred to stay with the soldiers and to go to France with them if possible. and news of his decision to return to the Cubs was a surprise to Chicago fans.
 Manager Fred Mitchell, naturally, is much pleased by the return of the players, for his loss would have been a heavy blow to the Cubs. Mann hit .273 last season and was particularly dangerous at the plate with runners on the sacks. Furthermore, he is a good fielder and is remarkably fast on the base paths.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
JIM VAUGHN AND GEORGE TYLER
 SIGNED

ChicagD March 9-Jim Vaughn and George Tyler, the Cubs two crack left handlers, both signed with the team yesterday for the coming season. Both pitchers had been holdouts Ty- Ter for almost five weeks insisted he would not sign until given a part of the $5,000 paid the Boston club in the trade which brought him to Chi cago.
 Leslie Mann, leading outfelder of last seasons Cubs, also delighted Manager Mitchell with a declaration that he can get a furlough from his Y. M. c. A. work during the baseball season. Mann has been employed all winter as an athletic director at a camp near Houston, Tex. He left the Cubs during the latter part of his career last year. He hit .273 and f1elded in great style. He will report at the Cub training camp at Pasadena, Cal, with the other Chi Cago players.
 Killifer, who was purchased from Philadelphia with Grover Alexan- der and Claude Hendri, also signed yesterday. Alexander and one or two others now are the only unsigned players on the team.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
PalZer-Moran Bout.

Al Palzer outpoirted Frank Moran ia 0 rounds at New York seven years ago today This was the first meeting between them. Palzer had boxed and wrestled a bit in his home town in Iowa and in St. Paul and was still a, novice at the game when he took on the Pittsburger. Tom O'Rourke had taken the husky Iowa man under his wing and had taught him the rudi- ments of boxing. Within a few months Palzer had knocked out Tom Kennedy and Al Kaufman, and in 1912 he put away Bombardier Wells and Sailor White. He was considered the most promising of white hopes" when he met Luther McCarty at Yer non in 1915, and was knocked out. A little later he again met Moran in New York and Frank sent him down for the full count. That ended Pal gers career as a "hope."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

 IN U. s. SERVICE

Maurice E. Mclaughlin, who is en- deared to the hearts of tennis play CTS throughout the country, is now serving on active service in the naval reserve. He was ordered recently to report for duty on board the U. s, S. Oregon. The famous Comet was an- ticipating such a call and had been studying for some time for an En- signs commission.
 This is the same rank held by Will liam Johnston, who until recently was on the Oregon. A short time ago Johnston was transferred to the Gin cinnati, so that there is no possibility of a national singles championship being waged on the battleship.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
THIS PURP WORTH BIG LIBERTY BOND

J. Robinston Beard, formerly a prominent polo player and gentleman rider and now an amateur breeder of blue -blooded poultry and dogs at Lucknow Farms, Norwalk, Conn.,, has bought the Airedale terrier Ridge wood Rocket from Andrew McCrea of | Philadelphia for $1 900. The import ed dog was whelped on June IT, 1915,
 and last year, besides other victories,
 won the trophy for the best of all breeds at the Newark and New Bed
 ford Dog Shows. He has also been
 successful sire.
 Beard judged sporting spaniels at 1 the Westminster Kennel Club Dog | Show, and on Feb. 27 and 2S of the week Following he judged Airedale and Sealyham terriers at the Phila- i delphia Kennel Club show. He | bought Ridgewood Rocket during the visit. The dog was known as the ! ''Airedale of Mystery when first inn i ported.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
FATHER TO PLAY
 SON IN FINALS

Pinehurst, N. C., March 9.-Fffty lsem1-fnal matches in the E divisions of the spring tournament at Pinehurst were played on the championship course yesterday. Henry c. Fownes &of Pittsburgh and his son, Charles B. 4FNownes, won their matches in the first 16 and will oppose each other in sthe final contest for the presidents ktrophy today.
 1 H. c. Fownes played against Leslie EDeane Pierce of Ekwanok, and was 1 Eup at the turn. He forged ahead rap lidly on the inward journey and won tthe match by up and 3 to play when
 The sank a long putt for a on the fiji kteenth. Fownes was playing a decid- edly good game when the match came
 ito an end and had a medal score of l69 for the 15 holes.
 The other semi-final match between tC. B. Fownes and Franklin H. Gates
 sNNent So the 17th hole, where Fownes
 drove the green and sank a. long putt
 kfor a 2, taking the match by up and
 | to play.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
SAGINAW KID'' FOUGHT Y
 ROUNDS

George Lavigne, ''the Saginaw Kid" considered by many fight fans the greatest lightweight in the history of the ring, began his professional pugilistic career 29 years ago, when he fought one of the longest and hardest battles ever witnessed in America. A novice at the game he was pitted against a veteran much taller and heavier than himself, George Siddons, famed in boxing an- nals the Iron Man" Siddons had seldom been beaten, but the best he could do against the 18-year-old Saginaw Kid" was to get draw at the end of TT grilling rounds. Think of it, IT rounds! This battle, La vignes first, was pulled off in his na- tive town of Saginaw, Mich, where he was born in 1871. Siddons was nat urally dissatisfied with the result, and asked Lavigne for a return match, which was fought in Grand Rapids a few weeks later after the first battle Another draw was the result. after 55 rounds of terrific fighting.
 Lavigne was of F'rench-Canadian descent. Squat of physique, he was almost as broad as he was tall. His early muscular development was gain ed in chopping down trees in the northern woods and loading heavy sacks of salt on the barges at Sagi- naw. After the Siddons bouts the | Saginaw Kid defeated Jack Ever hardt Andy Bowen. Johnny Griffin and other good men, Bowen dying from injuries received in the ring Lavigne's most memorable perform ances were his two victories over Joe | Walcott, and his defeat of Dick Burge the great English boxer. Burge had an advantage of some 25 pounds, but the Kid whipped him with ease. The ''Barbadoes Demon" although a welterweight, fought many middle weights and heavyweights during his long ring career, and defeated SC good a heavy as Joe Choynski yet he was unable to hold his own with La vigne, the lightweight. As Lavigne
 defeated Walcott, and the "Blacl 1 Demon" whipped Choynski, and Jot knocked out Jack Johnson, the Sag
 inaw Kid may claim to have been {
 better man than the former heavy
 weight champion. Lavigne held tht lightweight title, which was surren
 dered to him by Jack McAuliffe, fol five years, from 1894 to 1899, losing i
 to Frank Erne.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
OLSON AGREES TO
 EBBETTS' TERMS

Ivan Olson, the shortstop, is the, . latest member of the Robins to agree with the terms offered by President Charley Ebbets. Olson's signed 1918 contract was delivered to the Flat bush squire yesterday. The player spent the winter out on the Pacific r Coast and will not be among the first squad of Robins to arrive at the clubs ,.training camp at Hot Springs. He will, ] however, start for the camp from the coast, and is due to report for practice March IS. IFS
 Last season Olson was the clubs regular shortstop. He took part in about 40 games and compiled bat ting average of .269. He was rated among the leading fielders of that po- sition with an average of .941.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
GEORGE MONROE
 CHOSEN REFEREE

The Italian-Riverside Athletic club last night announced the list of off cials for the Johnny Dundee Willie Jackson bout at the Arena, New Ha- ven, on the night of March 25. George Monroe, former bantam star, will referee; Frank H. Smith, sporting ed itor of the New Haven Register, will hold the stakes. Hugh Rorty of Hart ford will do the announcing and Bob Wilson. sporting editor of the Journal Courier, will hold the watch.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
DAVE ROBERTSON {. QUITS FOR NAVY

Norfolk, Va, March 9-Davey Rob- ertson, the fleet-footed outfielder of the New York Giants is going to play with the Norfolk Naval team this sea- son. Robertson, who the other day announced his retirement from ma 1 jor league baseball for the duration 1 of the war, is now employed by the Department of Justice.
 The Norfolk team is composed of many big league players. Games have already been arranged with clubs of 1 the American and National leagues 1 Plans are also under way for the or | ganization of a league among the na- val training stations.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
GIBBONS BEATS CHIP.

Scranton, Pa., March 9-Tom Gib- bons of St. Paul defeated George Chip of New Castle, Pa, in a 10-rouHd bout here Thursday night. Gibbons won nine of the ten rounds. The other was even.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

The Administration bill for the control of the railroads during the war was prepared for final action by Congress when the Senate and House conferees reached a complete agree ment
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
Sporting Chatter

Roger Bresnahan, once with the Giants and TOW manager of the To- ledo club of the American Association, has cast envious eyes on several play CTS who are going South for a trial with the Yankees. If Higgins de- cides to do any farming out' Roger will have first call.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

Twenty-eight men were fined $10 each for attending cock fights at Sayville, L. I.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
ADVERTISE NEW LOAN.

Washington, March 8 - Nearly every Sunday newspaper in the United States will carry a special supplement insert showing the honor flag of the third Liberty Lean on April ', the day after the opening of the campaign. These inserts, printed in colors. are to bes uppIied by the treasury, and more than four million have been or dered.
 The enlistment of 1000 young men for guarding ships in New York har- bor is expected before Sunday.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

SWEET PEAS. V9OLETS, TULIPS.
 DAFFODHS.
 JOHN RICK & SON,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

Hal Volmer, former Columbia swimming captain, has received 3 commission in the Naval Reserve Force, and has been assigned to the Pelham Bay Training station as an instructor in seamanship. Vollmer is intercollegiate swimming champion and holder of various national cham plonships
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

Germany Schaeffer is the latest big leaguer to become a college baseball coach. He is to lead Lafayette Col lcge this year, having been sent there by Garry Hampstead, who is a mem Der of the Lafayette Alumni Associa- tion, and was asked to help out in the matter of selecting a baseball coach,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

Old Mordecai Brown is some bowler even if he can't hook a base ball over the plate as he did once. He rolled PIP in a match game at Terre Haute Tuesday night, and in the same game a team mate, Charlie Cade, rolled 300, perfect score.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

Jess Willard has purchased an "estate" in Lawrence, Kan. Accord ing to description of the property that the heavyweight champion has acquired, it forms one. of the show places of that section of the country. There are fifty-two acres and the large residence is of Colonial type.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

Clarence Mitchell has accepted the terms of Wilber Robinson and sent in his contract. He was obtained by the Dodgers under the waiver rule from Cincinnati.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

Moose Miller, first baseman of the Murlins. yesterday denied the story printed several days ago stating that he was to retire from baseball. Miller stated that he will be back at Savin Rock on reporting day to make another bid for a job. The story of Miller's intended retirement is cred ited to Frank Lynch, prominent in athletic affairs at the Winchester plant.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

Pitcher Lefty" George of the Tigers, formerly of Columbus, is starting the season very well with the $2,240 he has just been awarded after his suit against the Kansas City club of the American Association. Lefty sued for $4,5OO, but the sum he got will help him buy ham and eggs for week or two, anyway.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09

There's going to be an interesting battle between John Henry and Art Wilson for the position of first catcher for the Braves.
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