The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-01
SOCCER MOGuLS
 WILL CLEAR UP
 SUNDAY MUDDLE
Several Important Disputes Will Come Up for Consid-
 eration at Busy Session
By JOE BOOTH.

By JOE BOOTH.
 THE six soccer moguIs of the state, | James Miller, New Haven; John c. i Ross, Bridgeport; Arthur Stead, Bridgeport; George DenhoIm, An sonia; Robert Rae, Bridgeport, and ] the writer, will have a very busy l session on Saturday night when a meeting of both the Cup and Inter national committees will be held in 1 the rooms of the Board of Recrea- 1 ton, 202-2O3 First-Brid geport Ma l tionaI Bank building. at the corner l of Main and State streets. The com 1 mittee will be called upon to settle | the argument that developed at the l Meadows last Sunday when the l Swedish team of this city walked off i the ground owing to a, referees de | cision. The writer as secretary of the 1 State association has notified all par
 ties to be present, including the man l ager of the team who went on the i field on Sunday and persuaded his ] players to withdraw It is expected
 that the committee will take drastic action in the matter and a thorough
 hearing is to be given the case. l The committee will also consider | the fra Cas at New Haven a few weeks
 ago when Faust of the Swedish team i and Dickson of the Winchester
 were ordered off the field for rough play. Arrangements will be made also for the playing of the Spring | Cup competition games which will take six weeks to complete. The committee will make the necessary arrangements for the In 1 ternatonaI games the first of the
 two being scheduled to be played at 1 the Meadows on May II, between the l Swedish and Scottish teams. The se- lection of the former team has been i left to Messrs. Swanson and Peterson 1 Of the local Swedish management. 1 but the committee has to pass on the 1 selection and also to select the Scotch
 team.
 The Babcock and Wilcox team have
 won the New Jersey State Cup com petition for the third season in sue 1 cession, having beaten the Federal 1 Ship soccer team in the final tie last
 Sunday by the score of five goals to
 one at CIarll's Field, Newark, \. J. 1 The result was one of the sensations | of the season as all expected the 1 Federal team to win the game with
 a few goals to spare
 The Clan MacDuffs team have reached the semi-hnaI round of the 1 Royal Nestor Cup competition. 1 Charlie Drinkwater. the burly City i defender who has just returned from overseas. will appear in a Bridgeport l City uniform on Sunday afternoon when the Manchester team will be
 met in the final round of the State
 Cup competition.
 Walter Healy. the Paterson goalie. who used to play with the Bridge | port Rangers team a couple of Sea-
 sons ago, was an interested spectator
 at the Meadows Sunday.
 Percy Hardy, the ex-City player,
 who since his release from the
 Canadian army, has been playing
 with the Merchants Ship soccer
 team of Hartman, Pa, is again in
 town but he cannot play with any of
 the local teams in the cup ties, owing to his having played with team
 since his discharge.
 Sammy Abbott, the Thistle goal
 keeper, was the shining light in the
 NIanchester-Thistle game Sunday ac-
 cording to the Hartford Courant.
 This form speaks well for Abott ap-
 bearing in the International games
 this season..
 There is a report going around the state that Jason Wright, the man ager of the Ansonia basketball team,
 is to organize professional team in Ansonia next season and one that
 will beat anything in the state. We wish Jason the best of luck as the game is dead in that locality, al though there are several good players located there such as Houstan,
 Fisher, Coombes Tidfarsh and A. W. Smith. No doubt he could per suade Sheasby to again don the soc
 cer jersey and knickers as Sheasby a couple of seasons ago was one of the most powerful players in the state. Soccer in France Is becoming as s popular as is it is in England. It
 bids to become the national pastiIne of the Frenchmen. Even before the : war, the French favored the winter t pastime and when the "Johnnies" l entered the country in search of the
 more international honors, they took
 hold of the game with real zest. , The French soldiers are especially I fond of the game and each division
 
 , The goth Corps gave very credita- S ble account of itself when it met the -I1917 champions, "the Associated C Franchise" when the game ended in . l 8 tie But it is among the younger !, l generation that the game is now ,. taking a great hold. There are now , over. 500 soccer teams in Paris alone : and every Sunday there are over 200
 games played each week. It is re-
 ported that over 100000 spectators q witness soccer games in that city f alone every Sunday.
 t The first president of the Connecti- a cut State Football association was r Jason Wright, the present manager 3 of the Ansonia basketball team!
 Secretary Jack Sta mford of the h lBridgeport City team donned'the uni y form again last Sunday but he was = unable to do himself justice owing e to being out of the games long. |