The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-19

C EVERAL MEMBERS of the Chi
 cago Cubs, National League
 champions, preceded their teammates to Hot Springs to begin preliminary training for the 1919 championship campaign. Jim Vaughn, the star of the Mitchell pitching staff last season, was the first player to reach the Springs, and four other members will soon follow him. They included Catcher Bill Killefer, Pitch CTS Phil Douglas and George Tyler, and outfielder Dode Paskert. Accord ing to advices from Chicago the play CTS are paying their own expenses az the league forbids any club sending it's players to a training camp before March 23, or one month before the opening of the season. The players will remain at Hot Springs 8 day or two longer and will then go to Chi cago to take the long journey to Pas adena, where the Cubs will train.
 IT FERDINAND SCHUPP is now all I signed up to play with the Giants for the coming season. The Louis vile kid fingered long before signing after receiving his contract, but no alarm was felt because of this, for Ferdie is usually dilatory in such matters and had no complaint to make over the terms offered him. He reports that his valuable left arm Is in good condition and that he ex- poets to regain his old form this year. As Larry Doyle has accepted terms there are now only four regu- lars on the Giants roster who may be classed as hoIdouts, though the case of none is serious. They are Poll Perritt, who has not yet con firmed to McGraw the report that he intends to quit the game; Fred An- derson, Fred Toney and Earl Smith. NY HEN THE CUBS make their ap- w pearance ''on foreign soir' this season they will be much more pleas ing to the eye than they were last summer It will be recalled that last year they were garbed in ugly coi- ored, greasy looking uniforms. but next season the National League champions will cavort around in trim, neat uniforms of navy blue with a light blue trimming. Across the breast will be the word Cubs" inscribed in white letters. and on the left sleeve will be the clubs ins:g- nia a cubs head. In discarding the COlorS worn last summer Fred M1C- cbeu had made a move in the right direction. They are a step nearer to the days when the team was man. aged by Frank Chance. Under tho Peerless Leaders regime the club was considered the neatest looking aggregation in the National League. I UDEING FROM whispered runora ! that reached the writer while in New York the other the Jockey Club is about to make an announcement that will surprise a few folks. Iris said that several jockeys whose work in the saddle last season aroused sus- picion will be refused licenses this year. One of those it is rumored. was warned away from the Empire City track, after he had been openly accused of crookedness. The club has heard that he will apply for rein statement He is one of the many who will be turned down.
 The stewards are to be congratu- lated. Now is the time to aot. Take no chances. Horse racing is just coming back into its own in this country and the least scandal may mean it's death, for there are man marrow minded individual in these diggings just waiting for such Q break-and then, oh, boy the sky will 7.