The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-25
BIC BASEBALL! SUIT AGAINST
 Q. B. B. IS ON

Washington, Mar. 25. - Trial of the s90,0o0 suit of the Baltimore Federal League baseball club against the National and American Leagues was opened today before Associate Justice Stafford of the District of | Columbia Supreme Court. Chairman Hermann of the National Commits sion, President Bancroft Johnson of the American League and other base ! ball magnates were to testify today.
 Anna polls. Md, Mar. 25-The Ma val Academy fencing team will close its local season Saturday, Harvard having agreed to bring a team here | that day. On April the squad will be in New York for the tournament of the Intercollegiate Fencing Asso- | ciatoR.
 Montreal. Mar. s6.-sohr1er Park. Montreal's great athletic pavilion. the scene of many important boxing bouts and other important sporting events, was ruined by fire today. The l structure. which was of steel frame construction. was valued at s75,oOo. d. Giannini, the newly appointed head coach of the Columbia crews will take i charge today. No rowing practice was scheduled for today, however, ! because of the reception this city is giving the Twenty-Seventh Division
 New York, Mar. 25.-Frank sco- | vile, representing Canfie1d's Academy now leads on the metropolitan three i cushion tournament being held under | the auspices of the American Ana l teur Billiard Association. ScovilIe last night defeated James Cosgrove, 35 to 38. in 64 innings. Scoville's high run was five.
 Pinehurst, \. C., Mar. 25.-Afrs l Dorothy Campbell Hurd, the cham i pion, was defeated in the first match
 round of the Women's North and ] South Golf Championship tournament l yesterday by Miss Sara Fownes Of the
 Oaknont Club, by down on the
 home green.
 Pinehurst, N. C.. Mar. 2B.-A ne1d l of 61 golfers essayed to play their 1 worst holes best, in the tin whistles
 selected holes tournament here yes 1 terday. Major 4. Elliot Ranney of Greenwich, Conn, handicap 6, played
 his 12 worst holes in a net 52, and 1 won the class 4 prize. fncidently talk 1 ing the low gross honors with 39-39-
 7S.
 Albany. Mar. 25.-sena+or Leonard
 ". H. Gibbs of Buffalo, instructor of
 one of the boxing bills before the
 Legislature has received letters from 1 sporting promoters protesting against | the Walker bill which would es- 1 tablish boxing commission and also
 charter the Army, Navy and Civilian
 Board of Boxing Control. One writer
 called it a pig in a poke.'
 Hot Springs, Ark, Mar. z5.-Eom-
 inee, the four-year-old son of Voter.
 which was considered the best horse
 in John Sanford's stable, won the fourth race, the feature here yester-
 day. He showed traces of his best
 form and ran away from a big field
 over the one mile and seventy yard
 route.
 Havana, Cuba, Mar. 25~Jose R.
 Capablanca, Cuba's chess champion.
 and Boris Kosttch, the Serbian ex-
 pert start play tonight in the match at Club de A5esdrez. Dr. Raphael de
 Pasoz, president of the Havana Chess Club, will be referee.
 Augustine, Fla, Mar. 25. - The
 winter championship gohing tourna- l ment of Florida opened yesterday, a field of thirty-four players compet-
 ing at 36 holes medal play. The | scores were rather high as 8. stif
 wind was blowing. H. M. Crane of
 Nassau County Club had the lowest
 score with ST. New York, Mar. 26.-walter Kin
 sella of the Squash Club today chal-
 lenged Jay Gould, worlds court ten
 his champion, to a match for the
 championship. Kinsella is the worlds
 professional squash tennis champion