The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-19
BASEBALL SURE TO REMAIN IN
 FAVOR ABROAD
French, Italians and Eng. fish Take Readily to
 Game.

New York. Oct. 19-The popularity of baseball among the allied nations abroad is spreading so rapidly that there is already a demand for simple instructions and rules of the game, printed in foreign languages. To meet these requirements several ex- pert baseball authorities are collab- orating in the preparation of base ball primer which will be distributed in various sections of Europe.
 The pamphlet which will be printed in French, Italian, English and Spanish, will carry the rules of the game in the simplest form. In addition there will be pages of ex- plantations and answer to the Ques- tions which arise among those who are playing their first contests These questions and answers will be print ed both in English and various for eign languages in parallel columns in order that when American and for eIgn players or spectators meet with out being able to speak the language of their opponents or neighbors in the stands, there may be a medium of communication at hand. A glos- sary of technical and baseball terms in all languages is also to be append ed.
 What is probably one of the last of the special baseball wartime con- tracts, which star players insisted the magnates should sign in order to re- tain their services during the days when the Federal league was raiding the major circuits, was spread be- fore the public recently. When Jake Daubert, first baseman of the Brook 1yn Nationals, carried his appeal to the National Commission for the bal ance of his salary due under his in depreciation of his contract, the spe- cial articles in the same were an nounced as follows:
 '"The club agrees to pay the player, for the seasons of 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918, beginning on or about the 14th day of April in each of said years, and ending on or about the 14th day of October, in each of said years, a salary at the rate of Nine Thousand ($9.000) dollars per sea- son. In addition this contract had eliminated from it the paragrap ph known as the n-days' notice -of-re- lease clause, and also had inserted therein the following:
 Tt is further understood and agreed that the services of the party of the second part shall not be re- leased, assigned, traded or transfer red, without the consent of the party of the second part
 It is very doubtful, according to baseball u1agnates if a contract con- taininS similar clauses favorfng the player will receiTe the signature o1 club owners for many years to come An agreement giving a salary of $45,- 900 to an athlete for approximately thirty months work, with an annota tion which makes it impossible tC dispense with his services w1thou the consent of the player, is going to be a rarity, well worth framing fin the future, if the baseball clut owners are to be believed.
 Sport and war were strangely ming. led in the recent Seine swim, the big sport event of the year in Paris. The hero of the race down the Seine through Paris, a distance of abou v Is miles was not the winner bu the man who finished last of the male competitors. He was Charles Nun gesser, the champion aviator wht though still hampered by wounds no yet completely healed his left leg il fact became useless early in the race lpersevered to the end and finished il hours and 4S minutes, receiving { greater welcome frorn" the thousand lining the banks than even the win ner.
 The French are not usually regard ed as an athletic nation but this race torganized every year attracted thir ty-one entries, of whom twenty-eigh started and twenty-two (13 men an g women) finished, without countin the veteran George Paulus, aged 5S the winner of this event in 1905, wh gave an exhibition sw5sns coming i sixth. The winner was George Niche, a gunner in the heavy artillery, who's time was 3 hours minutes. Tn first woman to arrive, Suzann wurtz, came in sixth in hours, 1 minutes, followed by Juliette Gar delle, in 8 hours 21 mtns. Wome took the 18th, 1bths 18th, 2Oth, an f21st places, the last but one being little girI Henrtetts Gardella, onl thirteen years old, who with a handt tcap of half an hour, finished in