davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Arizona republican., 1918-01-27
FORSEES SHORTAGE IN TRANSFORMATION
 IN FUTURE
MITCHELL DEALER DECLARES CONDITIONS INDICATE THIS
 SITUATION INEVITABLE

From every quarter of the entire four floors of the exhibits in the Grand Central Palace at the New York automobile SHOW this week comes the report that a passenger car shortage in the near future is inevit- able" is statement from John Tainsh, general sales manager of the Mitchell Motors cornpany, Inc, Ra- cine. Wis.
 Tn talking over the matter with several large manufacturers at the show this week, the one main theme that is upermoSt in their conversa- ton is their cooperation with the gov ernment ilI producing trucks, tractors, ambulances, guns and aeroplane parts. Automobile factories are perhaps bet ter equipped with modern labor saving and time saving machinery than any other industry. Most motor car man. ufacturers have agreed to arrange their passenger car production sched- ule so as not to hinder government work in the slightest degree. This fact taken into consideration with the shortage of help which becomes more acute as time goes on, indicates that passenger car production must and will be curtailed.
 For any one who does not believe in the law of supply and demand, this will be a most concrete example of it's truth; considering the amount of government work the better equipped factories have taken on, the labor shortage, the entrance of the motor car as a means. to more work, which increased the demand over produc- ton, therefore the price naturally will advance While it is true that prices have advanced some during the past year, it is very evident they will go higher in the next six months. Any one who is contemplating the pur- chase of motor car should buy now while the present comparatively low prices prevail.
 There has been considerable con- ment in the Mitchell Motors booth and among the 340 exhibitors, includ- ing makers of cars and motor acces-
 sories as to the present condition ot the market abroad. It is pretty wei
 conceded that anything on four wheels
Arizona republican., 1918-01-27
HOOVERRE AUTO BY KEEPING II IN
 GOOD SHAPE

" HooveriZe' your car-extend war time economy to include the automo- bile and conserve it by keeping it in the pink of condition" is the timely injunction of the branch manager of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company.
 This does not mean" says he that your car must be restricted in its use, but to conserve it's power and useful ness, thereby rendering better service to it's owner Thousaods of motorists this winter are endeavoring to secure the fullest service from their cars, who have never before taken their motoring expense seriously, but in the evolution of the automobile from a pleasure ve- hicle to one of utilitarian usage, these motorists have felt the need of prac- ticing the same economies in their automobile maintenance that they have been compelled to adopt in sup plying their other wants.
 Our observation so far has been that when motorists avail themselves of our service station inspection ser vice they are amply repaid in the eX- tra mileage their tires deliver. It is surprising how many extra miles a | tire will deliver as the result of the | observanVe of few simple rules. And these rules are so easy to put into practice that it is a wonder motorists | do not flock into the service stations | to learn them, instead of requiring so much effort on the part of the manu | lecturers of the tires and the dealer who passes them over the counter to | the motorists.
 | Fully sixty per cent of all the tires used go out of service prematurely be- cause of wheels out of alignment
 brakes working unevenly, and various l other minor causes.
 | 'HooveriZing' your tires does no
 mean that you must restrict your cal
 mileage. On the other hand you car actually increase your tire mileage anc at the same time decrease your tire costs. It is a waste and misuse rather | than continuous use that breaks doWr a tire. Our people have been com pelled to practice economy in the. us' of food, coal, clothing, and othe things that are catalogued as actua necessities, and to these must be added conservation of tires. At this tim when our crude rubber must be trans ported thousands of miles in ship across the Pacific, when these sam ships could render invauable service il transatlantic shipping, it is importan
 that not a pound of it be wasted
 Tt takes but few minutes to hay
 your tires looked over at one of ou
 service stations, and the results il added mileage run all the way from
 hundred miles to several thousan
 miles, according to the condition of tn
 tire when first submitted for inspec ton. We feel that we cannot to strongly urge motorists to use ever available measure to secure maximum mileage from their tires.'
Arizona republican., 1918-01-27

dition is likely to exist in this coun- try in the near future. It will be d case of first come first served.
 Brisk buying at the New York show this week is an indicator that the visitors realize what the future may bring by buying now. Owners and the dealers seem to foresee the car shortage and the likelihood of ad- vanced prices
Arizona republican., 1918-01-27

with an engine attached, which win
 perform, is being taxed to the limit. In France, worn out cars that have been in the thick of the battle are be- ing rebuilt. The allies would gladly consume every used car in America today if they could but place their their hands on them. And with the brake of government work to the wheel of former productions this con-
Arizona republican., 1918-01-27

The Goodyear Tire and Rubber com- pany is announcing the following changes in branch managers: MT. P. A. Kerns, formerly manager at Butte
 Montana, has been made manager at Buffalo. N. Y. MT. J. w. Peete, who has been handling government business at Washington, succeeds MT. Kerns at Butte. Mr. F. l.. Morgan has been promoted from assistant manager at Philadelphia to manager of the Cleve- land branch, succeeding F. w. Ham, mond. Mir R. J. Davies, formerly city
Arizona republican., 1918-01-27

salesman at Jacksonville, Florida, is now manager of the Nashville, Tenn, branch, succeeding E. H. Morris, who has entered the federal service
Arizona republican., 1918-01-27
CONSTRUCTION AND UPKEER OF HIGH
 ROADS NEEDED

That the effective conduct of the war demands immediate attention to proper construction and maintenance of the highways of the country is plain statement of fact, asserts FIX
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
BIRTHDAY OF THE A. A. U.

Tomorrow will be the thirty-first birthday of the Amateur Athletic Union, the governing body of anna teur sport in America, as it was on Jan. l, 1888, that the organizat tion was launched. The late James E. Sullivan was the prime mover in the formation of the A. A. U., and was it's first secretary. Harry McMillan. at that time president of the Schuyl- kill Navy Athletic club, was elected the first president, but Sullivan was its leading spirit until his death in September, 1914.
 In the early days of amateur sports in America the New York A. c. was looked upon as the supreme arbiter. It made the laws which the clubs in other cities were bound to follow and was the supreme court of amateur sport. This naturally aroused jeal- ousy and opposition, and in the early sos the National Association of Anna teur Athletes of America came into ! existence. In spite of its name, 1t was almost purely a New York body, and the amateur sportsmen of other | cities did. not take kindly to 1t. In i 1888 the A. A. U. entered the field, and while the old association hung
 on for a little while, and pulled off an American championship meet in
 New York in opposition to the A. A.
 U. championships in Detroit, the New
 Workers quickly realized that they
 would have to climb aboard the A.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
Pete Compton Leads
 American Association

Pete Compton, who finished the 1918 season with the Giants, led the Amer ican Association in batting through the brief campaign waged by that or ganization last summer. Compton, playing with Louisville, took part in only 15 games and smote the pellet at a .S90 clip. Wheeler Johnston, the veteran first sacker, who was recalled by Cleveland, hit .374 in S1 games with Milwaukee and Bruno Betzel, who of late years has divided his time fairly evenly between St. Louis and Indian apolis, compiled an average of .366 in IS games with the Hoosiers. Because of the abbreviated season, the asso- ciaticn teams playing only half of their scheduled number of games, 1t is difficult to pick out a real batting champion Of those who played in two-thirds of the games played by their teams, Carl Cashion of Minne- apolis had the best average, reaching a mark of 346 in 52 games.
 Jay Kirke, who came to the Giants late in the summer. fell below the 300 mark in batting last season for the first time in his diamond career, hit ting only .273 with Louisville. Napo- leon Jajo!e hung up Gn average of .2S2
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
REVIVAL OF AUTO
 RAGING IN U. s.

Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 31.--'Che re- turn of the 300 mile race to the In- dianapolis Speedway means the return of automobile racing as a major sport in America.
 Since the war started in 1914 interest in all sport has Jagged. Auto racing stood up well for year, the 1915 sea- son seeing good competition with for eign cars in action. The next year the sport began to pail on the fans with the growth of speedway racing in many sections, although the race for the championship in which Dario Resta bested the late Johnny Aitken and Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Amer ica's leading ".Ace," served to keep up the interest.
 Indianapolis did not stage a race in 1917 nor this year because the owners of the brick track could not see pa triotism in trying to keep alive the sport when the participants were needed by Uncle Sam to care for and pilot his airplanes, trucks, tractors, and automobiles. Other tracks staged races but melted only local interest. From it's inception in 1911, when
 
 race was staged, the Indianapolis event became the Blue Ribbon of America, replacing the famed Van derbilt Cup of the road race era. In- : dianapolis, in addition to being the i only speedway to successfully stage more than one 800 mile race, has track that tests the driving skill of the pilot. nle brick course, which is familiar to every racing fan, has four curves of slight gradient and four stretches. The curves force the driven to show his skill to stay on the track and the stretches permit sprints for positions which are lacing on the specially constructed bowls where the curves are practically ironed out
 Driving skill and endurance of man and car won every race in Ipdianap- oils over the five century distance. Harroun in 1911 outgeneraled his field; Dawson in 1912 hung on De Palma s flank until the Mercedes weakened; Jules Goux outguessed Terrible Ted dy" Tetzlaf in 1913; Rene Thomas actually drove the late Georges Boil- lot off the track to win with a slower car In 1914; Ralph De Palma outdrove Dario Resta and his speedy Peugeot to win with slower Mercedes in the final 500 of 1915. On any other track the faster cars would have won. For it's sixth 800 mile race Indian apolis will bring out the flower of the worlds racing field. With such a race and a rich purse of $50,O0O divided Iamong the first ten to finish the sea- son is bound to be successful because of the number of cars that will be mace ready for the first major speed event. Many foreign cars are expect ed and several American factories, patrons of the sport in former sea- sons, contemplate a return.
 Since the start of the races hotel accommodations in Indianapolis have increased, but they are likely to be . taxed to the limit this year, with the interest already manifested in the re- : vival event by the fans who drive from 100 to 1000 miles to see the speed merchants gamble for big ! stakes and pay tribute to the vassals
 of the god Mercury.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
IN MEMORIAM

Moro thought be given to the prominent in drifting The natural cut deepso deeply that is impossible to publish the full died service the athletes, college made the
  boXing diamond Murphy his life f. the egreates caus Of a
 BOXING. L. Edward w Kearney Terry McCovern Dick Burge George La Eddie Munroe Clarence Forbes Natty Baldwin, Battling Jim Johnson TerryM Martin, Iatchison
  Plant "sient' Mike Ternan Jack Chappee Pat Tebeau Harry Rcd of Princeton, and *JeTry Murphy.
 TRACK ATHLETICS Sheridan, A Dull *Warren Hobbs Jack Ryan, *Frank R. Walker James Mc- Kenna *Edward J Hussey.
 FOOTBALL. Cochran *Johnny
  B Harold F. Eadie, *Hamil ton Coolidge, *Hobey Baker ~ Svvirnng-*CedI Healey, Henry J. Rowng-Davd Roach GoIf-*Wnlam A. Hockey-Art Chadwick Trotng-Charles Sanders in service.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
WILL BOOST SPORTS.

Within two months sports will be boosted In every moving pie ture theatre in the country. In Springfield, H., articles of incor- poration have been filed for the Athletic Film Corporation of Chicago, and the company plans to release one and probably two reels of film every month show ing we'll known players partici- patinS in their respective branches of sport. The first reel is completed and will probably be released next month. If the objects of the promoters are re- alized they plan to take pictures of all sporting events where titles are at stake, with the exception of the ring contests. No fight pictures will be taken, as there is a nationwide law prohibiting them being shown on the screens in this country. Marty McHale, the former American League pitcher, recently sponsored a set of baseball pictures showing the members of the major league clubs ir action on the diamond. They were shown at several Broadway houses and scored a great success.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
INDOOR TRACK MEET.

New York Dec. 31-Corneu, Uni versity of Pennsylvania, Yale ana Dartmouth will be asked to take part ir 9 proposed indoor track and helo carnival to be held in New 1ork tnls winter, according to preliminary plans made public today by Horace Fender, graduate manager of athlet- ics at Dartmouth. It is planned ac- cor0inG to MT. Fender, to have the carnival take the place of the annual intercollegiate relay meet cancelieo because of war conditions.
 A feature of the proposed meet will be new method of scoring. The tlan followed will be that used III the outdoor intercollegiate cham pionship games, with ind1V1dual competition in the various events and team competition for point trophy h the relay games no individual en- tries in the separate events were re- ceived and the college which scored the best average On team basls was adjudged the winner.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
BASEBALL
 SOLONS TO ASSIST IN GAMES REVIVAL
0'Neill May Be Own Sue cessor-S Something Need
 ed to Stimulate Interest.

President Dan O'Neil of the East ern League has called a meeting to be held in Hartford Thursday after noon at 2:3O o'clock.
 It is expected that every club will be represented. Clark P. Lane, pres ident of the American Chain Athletic Association, who owns the local club, along with Jimmy Kelly, the locals manager, will represent the Bridge port club.
 There is some discussion that O'Neill will be deposed as president, but this is considered impossible as O'Neili has built up a powerful com blnation with the aid of Carey of Springfield and Clarkin of Hartford It is said that Moulton of the Provi- dence club Is after the job but there Is not once chance in hundred that he will get 1t.
 The principal object of the meeting is to talk over matters relative to the player limit and also the salary limit. There is also talk that one of the clubs may be dropped and a new one take its place but that is only a ru- nor and there are many of these same sort that precede the meeting of any baseball league.
 The local management is willing to second any movement that promises to revive interest in baseball and this is one thing that is needed very badly. The work or fight order which came in the latter part of last season put many leagues on the fritz hut now that the war is over some thing must be done to stimulate in- terest in the national pastime
 One thing that is sure to have something to do with this is the re- turn of players from the war and although there were not so many that went from the local club still there were some and there are many fans that would rather spend their mor to see a diamond star perform whc helped his country out in time eaof need than one who ducked be- 6chi1d a shipyard job.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
1918 BASEBALL

Baseball had a stormy year and one which reflected little credit on the sport. When the war work or light order went into effect and the game was declared non-essential by the War Department, the season was brought to a close on Sept. l. with the Boston Red Sox winning the pen nant in the American League and the Chicago Cubs capturing the pennant in the National League.
 In a worlds series, held with the consent of the government, the Red Sox beat the Cubs four games to two. but unfortunately the fact which stands out most prominently was dis creditable, as the players held up the fifth game in Boston for more than an hour because they were dissatis- fled with the division of :heir share of the receipts.
 Resentment against the llayers also was aroused because a few jumped to shipyards to avoid bein., called in the draft This condition was great ly exaggerated, but many suffered from the mis .akes of a few. As a matter of fact, the players as a whole were as well represented in the ser ! vice as any other calling. The American League had IA men in I khaki or blue, or 55 per cent, while the National League showed 1O3 men in the service, or 64 per cent. Ty Cobb again headed the batting ! list in the American League with a percentage of 1882, but the official figures for the National League have not yet been compiled and aunounc- ed. According to unofficial figures, Zach Wheat of Brooklyn earned the batting honors by one ten-thous- andth of a point over Eddie Rousb of Cincinnati, the averages being: Wheat, .33496; Roush, .334S6.
 Internal strife also marked the sea. son. The Philadelphia club of the American League refused to abide by a ruling of the National Commission and put itself in contempt of the su- preme court of baseball by carrying the Scott Perry case to the civ; courts. This eventually was with drawn, but the Athletics were neve1 punished.
 Through this ruling John K. TeneI resigned as President of the Nation : al League, and John A. Heydler zva
 elected to succeed him at the annua
 meeting two weeks ago.
 Capt Edward L. Grant, bette
 known as Harvard Eddie" Grant
 long with the Phillies and later witt
 the Giants, was killed in action fl
 France. John c. Cooper, a catche I who had a short trial with the Chi
 cago White Sox, also was killed in tn = service on Sept. 2.
 The minor leagues had a barre
 season and a big majority wound u even before Sept. 1.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
BLUE RIBBONS 10 OPEN SEASON
 HERE ON JAN. 2

The basketball season in this city will open one week from tonight when the Blue Ribbon team will line up against the fast team representing the Newark Bay shipyard The local team is a little late ill starting this year but as many of his star players were in the service John Leavy thought it would be a better plan to have no team at all than to put team on the floor that could not live up to the reputation that the Blue Ribbons have already made.
 Leavy has not as yet picked his lineup for the season but it is ex- pected that Leavy will pick his team from the following pill chokers:
 Wright, Holman, Dreyfuss, Sedran, Muller, Leonard, Reich, Clinton, and Leonard.
 Any five of these stars will make g. combination that will be hard to beat and it may be seen from the names mentioned that Leavy intends ito spare nothing to put one of the fastest fives in New England in this city.
 Leavy has not as yet made up his schedule for the coming season but it is expected that after the Ribbons get through with the ship workers they will take on the Ansonta and Nor walk teams in the order mentioned. Both these teams are exceedingly fast and they expect to furnish stiff opposition for the local five once it gets under way.
 The Ansonia team is again man. aged by Jason Wright and he is do-, i ing all in his power to place AnaEosj
 on the map as far as basketIk1J concerned.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
LIVE SPORT TIPS

Christy Mathewson will again man age the Cincinnati Reds next year, according to information received from that city. The former Giant pitcher is expected to return from France in few weeks to be dis charged from the army and will at once lay his plans for the coming campaign. Mathewson is very pop ular in Cincinnati, and President Hermann is ready to sign him up as manager as soon as he can be releas- ed from the service. The Reds need a first baseman to take the place of Hal Chase, besides a shortstop and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
WILLIAMS AND TURNER FIGHT
 FAST DRAW

Larry Williams of this city went to Jersey last night and although he fought one of. the greatest battles of his career the hest he could get was a draw with the indian Chief, Clay Turner. No decisior was given by the referee.
 Turner showed himself to be more ever and a whole lot faster than the last time he fought Williams for the U. w. w. drive. In the fourth round Williams rad Turner groggy. but the bell saved him.
 In the fifth round Turner took a sliot at Williams that caught him on the chin and the local man fell put before the count Of four he was up and pounding away at the rejsl;in Warrior.
 Williams had the first four rounds, Turner the fifth, and the other three were even.
 Williams left immediately GOT Philadelphia where he meets Bartley Madden tonight.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-31
HOBBY" BAKER.

The following item is taken from he sporting page of the New Haven Register and is in the form of a tri- nute to the late "Hobey" Baker: Hobey Baker is dead! Another true sport gone. A lad who always played fair Whether he lost or won. Hobey Baker is dead! Not as he wished we know, He often said, If he had to die He'd like to die fighting the foe" Hobey Baker is dead! The words just seem to stun me, Hobey Baker will always be missed By the sporting fraternity. Goodbye, Hobey Baker, With sorrow we say it to you. You were a man amongst men, HobGy Baker with grief we say,
 "Adieu."
 Arthur c. Gottsegen.