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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23
Promoters Rescind
Offer for Big Bout

New Orleans, March 23-Declaring
that Jess Willard is stalIing and ca
mouflaging, Matt JIinkle, the Cleve-
land promoter who combined with
Dominick Tortorich to put up purse
of $105,0OO for 20-round champion
ship match between Willard and Fred
Fulton here, yesterday withdrew the
offer and practically ended the only
bona fide bidding for the bout.
Hinkle is not going to Chicago to
meet Col. Miller, neither is Tortorich.
Hinkle says there is no further use of
trying to do business with the cham
pion. Tortorich practically agrees in
this. Fulton has let the local pro-
moters know that he will fight any
where and at suitable terms at any
time.
when I offered to take half of the
fight from Tortorich and my offer
was acceptable" said Hinkle. 'the
S1O5,OO0 offer was not camoudage.
Had it become necessary I could post
the money upon "a hours notice, but
as there is entirely too much sharp
practice practice I wish to be counted
out. Fas 49,
From the way look at the whole
business it seems as though Willard
is using outside promoters to boost
the purse and will finally wind up at
Milwaukee, Minneapolis or possibly
Atlantic City. If all goes well and
the public shows a disposition to see
20 rounds they may consent to come
to New Orleans next Thanksgiving
Day"
Hinkle seems disguised with the
action of Willard and said SO. Tor
torich also said so. 1t looks now as
if Willard cannot box here if he want
ed to,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23
BODIE WILL Be
BIG HELP TO THE
YANKS THIS YEAR

Macon, Ca, March 23-"I am so
five years of major league baseball in
me yet. If it hadn't been for a dis
agreement with Jimmy Callahan in
1914 1 never would have been out of
the big league. I weigh fifteen pounds
less today than when 1 reported to
Connie Mack at Jacksonville last
spring. and I know positively that I
am in for good season."
Ping Bodie was speaking. He had
engaged in two strenuous workouts at
the Macon ball yard with all the en-
thusiasm of schoolboy who has am
billions to make his school team, and
Bodie did not hesitate to say that he
was ready at that moment to play
more baseball.
81 have always liked to play the
game" continued Ping land for that
reason it never has become difficult
for me to give my best efforts all the
time. Just look at last season, [ was
with a club that was going nowhere
and as easrly as July it was cinch
that we would finish in the cellar. But
couldn't feel that way about. I
came very close to getting in the 800
class and I would almost be willing to
lay a little bet that [ get there this
year. 1 did my best last year, but
somehow or other I imagine that I will
get better breaks with club that has
first division stampson it. If I miss
that 300 class it will not be through
lack of effort"
Bodies first few days in the camp
Of n fine i'm
preston. He reported here many
pounds lighter than he was last spring,
and his winter in the bowling alley in
San Francisco had put him in good
physicsN trim. He has crashed sew
eral long drives to the outfield fence,
and never seems to tire of chasing
flies during the fielding practice and
no other outfielder has yet presumed
to take the liberties with his wing
that Ping takes frequently. He natur-
ally is enthusiastic over the prospect
of playing with the Yankees if for no
other reason than the fact that he is
separated from the Athletics. He
says that the most pleasant day he had
during the off season was the one
on which he received a telegram from
Higgins to report at Macon.
Give my regards to the bleacher
boys, tell 'em I'll drop a few wallops
among 'em next summer" is Pings
greeting to the fans. AS Ping never
has failed to win the favor of the
bleacher boys it is needless to say that
they will be Bodie boosters as soon as
the season gets under way.
Bodies career in baseball is a pc
culiar one. He came up to the Chi
cago White SoX from the San Fran
cisco club in 1911, and until the mid
die of the 1914 season he was a reg
ular, whose standing as a major
Lacquer never was questioned. Then
came a disagreement with Jimmy Cal
lahan and Pings day at Comiskey
Park ended with the 1914 season. He
vowed when he left that he was
through, and during the winter
threatened to jump to the Federal
League unless transferred to coast
league club. He was sold to San
Francisco, and today he readily ad-
mits that he was hasty. If he had
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23
Fans Interested In
New Haven Tilt

Officials of the Riverside Athletic
club predict that a record number of
out-of-town boxing fans will invade
New Haven on Monday for the Is
round battle at the Arena between
Johnny Dundee and Willie Jackson
No bout ever billed for New Haven
has created more talk outside the
boundaries of New Haven county and
! this is one of the various reasons ad-
vanced for the promoters willingness
to gamble that the crowd will set a
new highwater mark for the city.
New Haven fans, as is to be ex-
pected, will be on hand in goodly
numbers. Every one realizes the
i'm portance of the event and are
looking forward to it with unlimit-
ed interest. It's cinch that every
, boxing bug, no matter how hard he
! may be pressed, financially, will bor-
row, beg and perhaps steal to get in
line for the most attractive bout ever
offered in this city. Boxing lovers
are well aware of the fact that Dun
dee and Jackson are really in the
class with the Incompatible Benny
! Leonard. And the last appearance
the minds of local ring-siders. So
the fans are in a position to look for
something real good when two even
ly matched stars get together.
The classic is expected to draw
heavily from New York. Dundee and
Jackson have thousands of admirers
il their home town and hundreds OF
them will come to New Haven to root
; for their respective favorites. Phila-
delphia, Boston, Springfield, Hartford
Bridgeport will also be well repre-
scented at the ringside.
Matchmaker Reina predicted las
night that the bout will attract more
people than any sporting event seer
in this city since the Yale-HarvarC
football game two years ago. HI
stated that the advance sale has al
ready hit the $4,000 mark.
Dundee is expected to arrive il
New Haven either late tonight or to
morrow morning. Jackson has mott
fed the club officials that he will
. make a determined effort to be her
before Sunday and work out in pub
lie.
In addition to the star bout, tn
fans are showing much interest il
the other bouts on the program
Charley Pitts of Bridgeport, wi
clash with Paul Doyle of New YorI
Joe Dillon. of Stamford will oppos
Frank Brindisi of New Haven an
Flying Maher will take on Johnn
Lisse, former 1875 pound amateu
champion of New York.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

There has been more agitation and
argument over college athletics since
Uncle Sam entered the. war than ever
before in their history. And the
main evidences of-this turmoil is
brought to light in the questions of
whether or not college sport should
be continued? of whether it should be
formal or informal? of whether
coaches and trainers should be can
ned or. continued in office? and of
just what to do about gate receipts?
Now none of this turmoil over COL
lege sport is caused by war; the war
but provided the opportunity to bring
to a head a long-planned reform in
intercollegiate sport. 1t but hurried
long-delayed collision between two
forces in college athletics, if not in
American athletics, which for want
Of better names we called the prac-
teal and the ideal. The practical is
that force which represents athletics
as they have existed; the ideal is the
force which represents the view of
those seeking a new field for our
athletics.
To arrive at an understanding of the
athletic situation in our colleges we
/ but have to study American insti-
tutions and character in general.
! What is true of US as a nation in a
general way must true of the nation
in a physical way. The good and the
bad of our scheme of existence is
/ bound to be reflected in our scheme
! of play; in other words in our ath-
iletics. Our whole tendency is to
heroize the man who is outstanding
and who outranks other men in any
field of activity. Therefore, it is not
strange that we seek out and praise
beyond others the winning athlete. He
is but the product of our code of life
applied to athletics. The average
American likes the extraordinary
man. Our big league pitchers and
big four fullbacks are but eXtraor-
binary men in an athletic sense. And
as we are always boys at heart we
tend to popularize the supreme in
physical above all else.
There are many among us who
do not care for our scheme of life
Indeed, they do not hesitate to at
tack it. AS all the plans of mar
have their faults it is not strange Their
that there is much in our athletic sys'
tenn that as critics may find fault with
For one thing it is a fact that oul
athletics do not benefit all meT
equally. AS our colleges are the las
word in matters of education it is no
surprising that the college athletic
systems, reflecting as they do the
American conception of life. are opeT
to censure. AS it is a known fac
that athletics are beneficial the crit
cism is pertinent that all of our stu
dents do not benefit equally from
from college athletics. The slogan O.
those attacking college sport at thi!
time is "Sport for all!''
The sport for all agitators an(
idealist-for their conception of spor
is ideal-have always been misunder
stood. The athlete and those WHIT
have backed our athletics have look
ed upon those of it's men who wor
wrist watches-up to the time we go
in this war. They were not altogethe
there as men; something was lacking
No one ever did just define what thi
something was. In this case tn
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

Compared with many second-raters,
neither Jess Willard nor Fred Full
ton, who are to battle for the worlds
heavyweight championship on July A,
have fought much in the ring. Will
lard's first bout occurred Feb. Is,
1911, and he lost on a foul in ten
rounds. Including his exhibition two
round bout with Soldier Kearns, Aug.
s, 1916, Willard has fought 253
rounds. Fulton knocked out his first
opponent, Jack Stone, in two rounds
back in 1913. Counting his last vic
tory over Tom Cowler in five rounds
at st. Louis, March II, 1918, the chal-
lenger has fought 221 rounds. Many
second raters box fully 100 rounds a
year.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23
TODAY IN PUGILISTIC ANNALS

1911-Eddie McGoorty knocked ont
Harry Croxton in the fifth round at
Liverpool.
1912-Gunboat Smith knocked out
Battling Brooks in the third round at
New York.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23
JACK INCOLDSBY
WINS FIRST. Game

Jack Ingoldsby, the Bridgeport
clubs pocket billiard star, romped off
with his first game in the invitation
tournament last night by defeating AL
Brothwe1 of the Sea Side club, 127
to 107. The game was the shortest
of the tourney, being played in one
hour and five minutes.
The standing of the players to date
is as follows:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

An interesting story is being told
paw purchased by the st. Louis Car
dinals from the Milwaukee club last
season. Branch Hickey was in Mil
waukee to arrange for the purchase
of Marvin Goodwin, when he saw
Sherde1 pitch. Indianapolis beat
Sherdell that day, to 1, but his
pitching was high class. When Rio
Key asked about the player he learn
ed that he had lost ten straight
games and was to be sold to Litt1e
Rock. Hickey agreed to give the
amount asked of Little Rock and he
became the property of the Browns
at ridiculously low figure. Sherdell
Immediately seemed to show an i'm
provement, hanging up eleven con-
secutive victories. He finished the
season with nineteen victories against
sixteen defeats. Sherdell is only
twenty years old and Hickey is salts
fled that he picked up a coming star.
The middle west has a new boxing
star to talk about-Jock Malone, the
st. Paul flash, who has been making
name for himself recently. For a
time Joe Eagan and Bryan Downey
held the boards, but they have been
sidetracked since Malone began to
shine, and there is nothing the fans
would rather see just now than a
mitch between Jock and Ted Lewis for
the welterweight championship.
It's funny what a few months over
the winter will make. When the
Worlds Series ended Joe Benz an
nounced his retirement Now he's
the training camp.
stepping up to the old soup plate at
The Cleveland club still is trying to
secure First Baseman Sheely from
the Salt Lake Pacific Coast League
club. Shelly is said to be a powerful
hitter and a fine normal player, but
so far the Salt Lake club has been
unwilling to part with him. Manager
Fohl, however, has just released Ivan
Howard to the Salt Lake club, and as
Howard can play the initian bag
Cleveland fans believe that Sheely
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23
RIBBONS TO PLAY
NORWALK TUESDAY

Basketball fans will be in for
another treat at Colonial hall Tues
day night as the fast NorwaIk five
will be the attraction for this week.
Manager Leavy said this morning that
he has instructed his players to jump
into the fray with a little more pepper
than last weeks game which resulted
in defeat for the local outfit.
The lineup will be as follows:
RIue RibbOnS NOTxUaILc
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

Shreveport fans are getting good
look at the Browns, who have been
down in the Louisiana town since
March 10. Palestine, Tex, misses the
boys very much this year. That's
where the Browns trained last spring.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

Bill Hart, International League
umpire is expected to team with
Hank O'Day for the remaining games
between the Dodgers and Red Sox.
The report that the BolshevIki lead
ers are planning to seek asylum in
this country is all right, PROVIDED the
insane asylum is what was meant
The Kaiser is called 1.-THE Beast of
Berlin" Rather hard on the beasts.
who are innocent creatures doing the
best they know how.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

The White SoX are in big demand
Tor exhibition games this spring as
result of their victory in the worlds
series last October. Two teams of
the White Sox will play exhibition
games on the way North from the
training camp.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23
TRAINING CAMP RESULTS

Marlin, Tex, March 23-John Gan
eel, Kansas City owner and manager,
vowed during the morning workout
yesterday that he could select a
''Yannigan'' team that would beat one
composed more or less of the Giant
regulars.
"Yannigan' is the name imposed
on all busher aggregations, and Gan
eel, depending on his experience in
spotting fine young ball players,
wagered a dinner for twenty-five of
the Giant travellers that his team
would win yesterdays game.
John McGraw accepted the wager,
and will not have to purchase any
hot meat for anybody, for Cancels
gang went down to defeat by a score
of to 1.
1t was a spirited, scrappy affair and
ran along at 1 and 1 until the eighth
inning, when Demaree, pitching for
the Cancels, walked two men purpose
ly to get Zimmerman for the third out.
Benny Kauff, in centerfeld, yelled a
warning to Demaree that he must
make the Bronx Terror hit at a bad
one. Demaree thought he could
groove one for Heinie, and the tenn
peramental one leaned against it with
might and main, driving in two
runs.
Kauff was madden than a Texas
RATHER over Demaree's indiscretion,
especially as Camel had promised
I. I, 80
Fletcher, the next man up, lifted one
high to Pep Young, in right and
Kauff, racing over, told Young to
drop the easy fly.
Nov toss for the plate and throw
the ball over the fence" said Benny
Young obeyed and the disaster was
complete AS five runs was the total
damage.
Hot Springs, Ark, March 23-The
Brooklyn Dodgers got off with an
easy workout yesterday for the first
time since the club assembled for
training. Manager Wilbert Robin
son called off the usual practice game
and contented himself with stiff
batting and fielding practice for the
athletes.
This was in preparation for the ex-
| hibition game with the Boston Red
| Sox tomorrow at Little Rock. Sec
| ond-string teams from the same clubs
will remain in Little Rock for the
| game Sunday, while the main squads
| battle at Hot Springs.
Manager Robinson named yester-
| dav what is as near a firSt-string team
as he is able to put into the field at
this time. 1t is composed of Daubert,
| O'Mara, Johnson, and O'Rourke in the
| infield; Hickman, Meyers and Mitch
ell in the outfeld; Miller and Kruger,
catchers, and Cheney and Russell
pitchers The injury to Ward makes
| it necessary to use an outdelder on
! the infeld.
!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23
-SpOrtOgPaPhS


will open the season with the Indians.
Fohl, by the way, has a formidable
pitching staff at the training camp.
1t includes Bagby, Stanley Coveleskie,
Coumbe, Morton, Lambeh, Wilkinson
Enzmann and the veteran Robert
Groom.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

The Germans have got to learn that
the war can't be won by chasing
towards that won't fight.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

Matty and Hal Chase have kept in
condition during the winter months in
Redland by playing indoor baseball
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

According to reports sent out from
Boston, Manager Ed Barrows intends
to use Dick Hoblitzel at first Johnny
Evers on second, Everett Scott at short
and Stuffy McInnis at third.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

1t is pretty tough on T. R. that
he can't be over there getting wound
ed like Archie.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23
Song of the Sporting Writer

The game is on officially,
I'm glad-and for this reason:
It's been a job to keep alive
This baseball dope through winters
season.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

Holy Cross will start on it's annual
southern trip Monday next, making
the first stop at Richmond, Va. The
trip will take the Purple farther
south than on any previous year, go
ing through to Raleigh, N. G. Several
new teams will be met for the first
time and Coach Burkett will be we'll
pleased if he can break even on the
trim
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

SWEET PEAS, vIOLETs, TULIPS,
DAFFODILS.
JOHN RECK s. SON.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23
Fistic History

Eight years ago tonight Stanley
ketchell fought one of his last i'm
portant bouts, meeting Frank Klaus
IN Pittsburgh. In the records it ap-
pears as simply a six-round, node
cision affair, but Ketchel came near
er to defeat that night than any 9TH
er time in his career. except his fight
with Jack johnson and his Los Ange-
les bout with Billy Papke.
Klaus was then going at his best
gait, while the Michigan scrapper was
in poor condition. Stanley after
wards alleged that he broke a bone
in one of his hands earaIy in the con-
test. In any event, KetcheI didn't
deserve anything better than a draw
About a month later he fought a,
thrilling six round battle with Sam
Langford in Philadelphia, and more
than held his own with the Tar Baby,
although Sam made him travel at his
best.
These two affairs were the last of
any importance in which Ketchel fig
ured. He knocked out two or three
second-raters after that, and in the
following October was assassinated in
Missouri. -f
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

Eighteen years ago today Frank
Erne defeated Joe Cans in twelve
rounds at New York. This bout be-
tween the little Swiss boxer and the
clever negro was for the lightweight
title, then held by Erne. There was
a great deal of feeling between the
two fighters and their friends and
many young fortunes were wagered
on the issue. Charley White was ref
cree. During the first eight rounds
Cans had the shade, but after that
the Buffalo boy assumed the agrees
sive, and in the twelfth round he
knocked Joe against the ropes. While
trying to escape from this tight po-
sition Cans and Erne actually butted
each other with their heads and
strange to say, the black boy got the
worst of it. One of his eyes was
closed, and declaring that he could
not see, Cans refused to fight any
longer. A couple of years later Cans
met Erne and won the title with a
single punch in the first rounc.
The politicians are slowly waking
up to the fact that the people who are
going to get elected for some years to
come are those that have done some
thing in this war.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-23

Only members of the Cardinals who
have signed their contracts are hav-
ing their Southern training trip ex-
penses paid by the club. Snyder,
Cruise, Smith and Hornsby. who are
holding out, are not on the list of
those who start for the camp.
Ponder, the young pitcher of the
Pirates, who showed up so we'll dur
ing the latter part of the 1917 season,
is now a member of the Aero Squad
ron at Fort SILL Okla.
Dick HoblitzelI has been examined
for a commission in the army and is
with the Boston Red Sox at Hot
Springs now. He will remain with
the club until he is called for duty.
Dopin' 'em will soon be the most
popular of indoor sports. Leaning, of
course, forecasting the results of the
1918 pennant races. Everybody will
be doing it, from the Glass X Y and
z leagues up to the majors. Some of
the dopesters-those who permit their
prophetic words to percolate into the
public press-get paid for doing it.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-06-27
"MoNTANI sEMPER LIBERI"
A MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE
OF WEST VIRGINIA
loatani Semper Liberi.

Is SOP Are the mountaneers always free? VIII they the
things which must be done il they the freedom which
has always been their pride: e. 1918 will the tale
spirit 81 freedom will perish this Little Mountain
that day Then will better days day
and OF West Virginia pledge themselves
SZ8OO0O0 War Savings Stamps But
part o. the pledge they will take They also pledge themselves
and economic help win the In that pledge
road to cory safety for boys there the triumph Of
democracy throughout the world
home Let and remember the and
member the pledge We proud flags proud
boys there 1t show that Nc
Adoo that "A Country Fighting
Country Worth Saving For To my mind there
to what West Virginia will do on the day.
ROBERT L. ARCHER,
War Savings Director for West Virginia.