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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
BBADEEN SCORES FIELD GOAL AND TOUCHDOWN
 IN HARD SC3DE9IAGF

New Haven, Sept. 25-Coach Sharpe
 of Yale, gave his first three eleveus
 their first touch of real scrimrnage yestc-day on Yale Field under ideal weather conditions. All of the
 coaches were anxious for an excellent initial scrimmage. but in all tbe
 practice would hardly be considered a
 success from an advanced cleven's
 standpoint The varsity scored twice.
 the first time on 8 drop kick by Bra
 den from the 20 yard line. and then
 on a line plunge by Braden for two
 yards after LarOChe had advanced +ba
 ball from the $ yard line on beau
 uful quarter play.
 Formation for the kickom and
 their running back were practiced for the first fifteen minutes of the after
 noon Braden booted tho ball for the
 varsity, while AIdrick did the punt ing for tho second team and Murphy for the third team. The scrimmage lasted for full twenty minutes, with the second and third teams aIternat-
 inE- Thus the first team had to face
 a fresh eleven throughout the tyyeu-
 ty minute period. This is a favor . ile procedure Of pr. Sharpe. Nothing unusual was uncovered in the scrir1- | "-'l'N A'-l lA0tIS me DeDuIlTTIl l blocking of a kick by Right End AL ! len and nifty tackle by Herbia l hemrton. the former Exeter star. when Inc downed Braden on the 5 yard IInc-
 @opt Callahan witnessed tbo ! scrimmago along with Dr. SharDe and ! olher coaches. He probably will take his place at centre in todav.s practice. The lineup of the first two | teams follows: Left end. Graham. ! Ieft tackle. Munger; left guard. Ha- | mil' center, Acosta; right guard. | Gault; right tackle, Walker; right end, Allen; quarterback, La Roche; | left halfback, Neville; right halrbacly | Weilcs; fullback. Rraden.
 | second Team-Left end, Otis: left | tackle, Calhoun; left guard, Trippe: | center, Moore; right guard, Senner: | right tackle, Dickens; right end ! Reinhardt; quarterback, Kempton. | left halfback, Aldrich; right half ! back, French; fullback, Hanner.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
PRINCETON HAS OVTR
 100 PLANTERS TRVTNE
 FOR FOOTBALL TEAM

Princeton. ". T.. Sept e5----Twcnty- 1ive new men reported to Head Coach Roper yesterday nUE raised tho total number of Tiger candidates t1 more than 100. IF 7Eht tcutativr teams were chosen and ran through simple rnc plays for half an hour. So far how ever. Roper is unwilling tO venture any opinion on tho lineup of tho team that will face Trinity here on October { in the opening contest.
 Tho finst part of the afternoon was devoted to another intensive drill in Fundamentals. Then tho coaches lined up tho men on tho first two s1ua is hnd drilled them in receiving 1dcEoTs. Tackllpg has not boon started as yet. but tho cooler weather and tho dcvpl- opInent of the men seem 10 indicate that scrium0Ee will br on the pro gram for tho lattC- part of this vcnlz.
 The backs prnrIrrd drop kicking and place Kicking. with Murray Lon rie, Clarity, MaCpbce and Funk all showing good form 1TCTlcnahan. son of the present dean, and an old Ex- eter player, also got off some nice drop kicking, Assistant Coach F7tzpa trick Is devotinE great deal Of his time to reaching the ends
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
MIDDEES SHOW MUCH
 I5H'RO a F.AsIGN'F IN THE
 KICKING DEPARTMENT

Annapolis, Sept 25-It is hoped that the Cpcu date of Oct. IS will be filled by either a college or a service football team. Since the Columbia University eleven cannot come here, as desired. the contenders are likely to be either the Quantico Marines or Camp Meade. Since the NIiddies have no real hard contests prior to November, it had been hoped that Columbia would be available.
 The improvement in kicking of the various Navy players Is noteworthy D'nio has been placing stress on this phase Of the work for the past few days and the results are encoura gfng Clark, who has been working in the baCl5Held on "A' Squad has developed % considerable degree of accuracy in drop kicking. Afford working at fullback, is kicking well from place mcnt and in bunting out
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
RUTH BREAKS
 WILLIAMSON'S
 4 BASE RECORD

A new worlds batting record was made up at the Polo Grounds yester- day. when Babe Ruth, Boston's su- perIative slugger, boosted his twenty eighth home run of the season high over the right field grand stand into Manhattan Field, which adjoins the Brush Stadium. This smashes the thirty-five year old record made by Ed Williams of Chicago, who was credited with twenty-seven homers In 1884.
 Ruth's glorious smash yesterday was the longest drive ever made at the Polo Grounds. It came in the ninth inning of the second game of a double-header with the Yankees and tied the score at 1 to 1. Bob Shaw key was doing the pitching and he heaved over a slow curve, hoping to fool Ruth as he has done before.
 Ruth stood firmly on his sturdy legs like the Colossus of Rhodes. and, taking a mighty swing at the second ball pitched to him, catapulted the pill for a new altitude and distance record. Several seasons ago Joe Jackson hit a home run over the top of the right field stand but the ball landed on the roof. Ruths bang yesterday cleared the stand by many yards and went over into the weeds in the next lot.
 The Boston mauler not long ago made his twenty-sixth home run al the Polo Grounds, smashing the mod ern home run record made by Buck Freeman. Then 1t was discovered in the dusty archives of the game that Williamson had made twenty-seven in one season. Ruth's mark now sur passes all home run achievements ancient or modern. Ruth got a great reception from the crowd of 5000 or more fans, and throughout the after noon he was hailed with cheers every time he came up to bat
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
BATTLING LAHN SAYS HE DEFEATED FRANKIE
 WILSON IN ELIZABETH

Leo P. Flynn, the New York box ing manager, sends us the follow ing.
 I read in your valuable sheet Frank Wilson's delft in which he says he knocked Battling Lahn down. 5 or times Lahn and Wilson boxed in the city of Elizabeth, N. J. and Lahn defeated Wilson. He is getting into shape to administer Sammy Waltz his third knockout. Gle knocked him out twice). He will be ready for Wilson.
 One more fellow there in Bridge port Is liberal with championships, that Is Toby Owens. I see he has given Red Allen the lightweight championship of the state. Well, where did Pete Hartley lose said title, was he Intoxicated some night and lost it and Toby picked 1t up or just how did Red come by it? Hartley won the referees decision over Bo- gash and knocked out Chick Brown"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
TENDLER BACKS OUT OF MATCH
 WITH LEONARD

New York, Sept. 25-There Is an excellent reason for the belief that Lew Tender, the Philadelphia light weight, who has been hurling chal- lenges at Benny Leonard. is about to execute a movement peculiar to the crawflsh. Tender recently was quoted in Philadelphia pr1Hcation as ex- pressing a willingness to box Leonard at 135 pounds, and it seems likely that Mulvihil, the Connecticut pro- mOter, must have received assurances from the Quaker befsre announcing that the bout would take place in New Haven't. It appears, however. that Leonard and his manager, Billy Gibson, were not taken into the con- fidence of the promoter and Tender Gibson writes as follows:
 Tenders manager has not agreed to meet the champion, and I doubt whether he would consider putting his man in a ring with Leonard He has been blufing for the last six months about wanting a chance at the championship, but despite the handsome offer of $7,5OO fiat for his end, he has ignored the opportunity and has gone on getting publicity on thes trength of his so-caIed chal- lenge to the titleholder.
 This Is the first time in the history of the ring wlEere the champion has challenged the pretending contender. There can be no controversy about the weight question. Ritchie and Welsh and Leonard all fought at 135 pounds at o'clock and this same weight was stipulated in the terms offered Tender.
 Accidentally, this challenge goes for Willie Jackson, who knocked Tender out, and any other boxer who wants a chance at the title Should | Tenders baufing manager fa&I to accept the terms before Oct. l tt will be proof that he Is only hoodwinking the public when he issues his fake | challenge"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
STEWARDS FAIL
 ID DISQUALIFY
 POLLING JOCKEY

New York, Sept. 25-Consistency was not a virtue of the racing stew ards at Aqueduct yesterday. They disqualified Back Bay which finished second in the first race, and proper ly too under a STRICT interpretation of the rule, for swerving over toward the rail inside the last sixteenth pole and then failed to disqualffy Bright Gold, which finished second in the third race, for doing in a more ex- aggerated way exactly the same thing in almost exactly the same place.
 It is impossible to quarrel with the stewards over a question of judge ment. Many did not think that Back Bay was justly disqualified, but that is beyond the point. The horse did cross over sharply in front of Valerie West, the tiring pace maker, and did bump Night Stick, the winner. Un- der the rule, the stewards had no option. A foul was committed that was plain to all. and the rule, un- fortunately, is arbitrary. It leaves no discretion with the stewards as to whether the foul prevented another horse earning a better position in the race.
 But 1t is possible to quarrel with the stewards over their inconsistency in punishing one offense and over looking others which are equally az gravating.
 Hardly a race Is run without some interference. Constant disqualifica- ton for minor infringement would create widespread dissatisfaction. The rule, as now phrased, puts the stew ards in a false position, and invites the inconsistencies concerning which so many complaints were heard at the track yesterday.
 It happens that only the most az gravated cases of foul riding or in reference are recognized, and this no doubt is the best line for the stewards to follow. But, with all respect to their judgment, it was hard to recon cile the disqualification of Back Bay and the overlooking of the same of fense by Bright Gold.
 Tommy Rowan, who had the mount on Back Bay, was not punished by the stewards. w. s. Vosburgh ex- plained that in their opinion the boy was in no way to blame, and their judgment in this respect was con ffrned by all those who watched the race closely, as all could see that the horses neck was bowed in the boys effort to pull him around and pre- vent him swerving over to the rail.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25

Bob F'itzsimmons, in addition to staging his downfall at the hands of Jeff at Coney Island also ac- CompHshed something which has never been euualIed by an American heavy. Bob knocked out Gus Ruhlin and Tom Sharkey, two of the toughest fighting products, within @ period of two weeks, Gus weathering six rounds and the mariner two.
 The greatest fight ever made by a lightweight was at Maspeth just out side of New York City in 1895. That was when George Lavigne, "The Sag inaw Kid" whipped Joe Walcott, the great COlOrcd welterweight, feared even by the best heavyw weights of his day. How the dauntIess little light weight pounded the "Barbadoes
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
YOUNG JENNY HAS
 MADE GOOD RECORD
 IN HIS RING CAREER

Young Lenny, a lightweight of con- siderable skill, will be given place on the card of the Akorn A. c. box ing show at the Casino next Tuesday night. Lenny is a newcomer in this part of the country but is no novice in the ring game. The boy has taken part in l 5 battles and in 12 of these he sent his opponent to dreamland. So it can be seen that he wields a wicked haymaker when he cuts 1t loose.
 Lenny announces that he is after the lightweight championship of the state. He expects to make a good showing at the Akorn show and if he does he will be in line for other bouts in this city. tenny declares he never stalls while in the ring but gives the fans plenty of action for their money. ThesS tactics are what please the spectators and 1t would be a good idea for other boxers to . adopt them
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
REVERSAL OF
 FORM BY WHITE
 SOX THIS YEAR

Chicago. Sept. 25.---When 'Kid'' Gleason succeeded Clarence Rowland as manager of the Chicago Americans and started the 1919 season with the same lineup that finished sixth in the 1918 pennaut race after winning the worlds championship in 1917, few baseball experts figured that the
 White Sox would win the American league flag this season.
 But that is what has happened and the wise ones" are offering all sorts of reasons for the startling reversal
 of form. They say that playing under a new leader was a contributing fac tor. but all agree that perhaps the
 main one was that the players them selves entered the game this season with a renewed confidence following the termination of the world war. Last season a majority of the White Sox were expecting to be called into military service any da-, and this with the classification of baseball as
 non-essentiaI'' was a disturbing sit uatiOn.
 The 1918 White Sox was a team grinding over the pennant road minus
 some of it's main cogs. Joe Jackson, the clubs leading batter this season,
 went into the slipyards after batting .354: Oscar "HaI.py' Felsch, quit the club after playing in B games; Pitcher
 Fabor enlisted in the navy after win ming five of six games, while Pitcher Claude Williams went to work in the shipyards when he had won six and lost four games. The loss of these four players proved staggering blow.
 Added to this loss. Eddie Cicotte, | the veteran right handed and lead | ing pitcher in 1917, was in a slump during the entire season, winning only twelve games and losing nine teen. But it was a different CicOtte l this season.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
HARVARD CANNOT
 GAIN MUCH IN
 SCRUB CONTEST

Cambridge, Mass, Sept. 25-Favor- ed with a fine football day and a field in fine condition, the Harvard varsity football team made much progress yesterday. Coach Fisher held the entire practice of the sta dium field, and this included a long and very hard scrimmage between the regulars and the scrubs As yes terday, the second team, so long as it had its best men in the lineup. gave the varsity all the work it could do. Even with Eddie Casey in the backfela and with the heavy plung- ers-NelsOn and Ralph Horween- the regulars coulG make no scores.
 There were some good gains, how ever, and the attack is coming along. The varsity defence was better than on Tuesday. With substitute linemen and backs in the going and with many changes among the subs the varsity managed to get two touch downs and a field goal The touch- downs were scored on end runs, one of forty yards by Freddy Church and the other on a twenty yard romp, also around the scrubs left wing by Humphrey, who was playing quar- ter.
 Ralph Horween kicked the field goal from about the 32 yard line, but his shot would have counted even had he been forty or fifty yards away.
 Clark got into the scrimmage line up with the regulars for the first time, but did not play long. The 1916 substitute is sure to start against Bates. FeIton played quarter to start, as Murray is still on the tender list.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
GIANTS REFUSE DEBT TO PLAY YANKEES IN
 POST SEASON SERIES

New York, Sept. 25-Harry Spar row, business manager of the Yam kees, announced yesterday that there would be no post-season series be- tween the Giants and Yankees.
 President Stoneham of the Giants, in answer to Colonel Ruppert's letter asking the series be played, stated that, in his opinion,- there was no public demand for a series.
 The Yankees will meet the Dodgers in an exhibition game at Ebbet' $ Field on Sunday.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
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CHAMP!01 JACK BRITTON
 10 SECOND FITzSIMMONS
WcItcTWcight Title Holder Will Advise New York Boxer When He Tackles BOgash at Casino Next Tuesday Night.

Jack Britton, weIterweight cham pt0n of tho world, will be in the cor ner of Eddie Fitzsimmons when the New York boy meets Louie Bogash at tho Casino next Tuesday night in the boxing show to be conducted under the auspices of tho Acorn A C. Dan Morgan, who manaEes Fitzsimmons, ss also handling Brtton's affairs and he has arranged to have BrittOn give FItzslramons the benefit of his advice on the night of tho bout
 This bout uaeanse a lot to Bogash. Tine local boy has boen coming fast recently and a victory over such a star as FItzsimmons will givo him great prestige. On the other hand a dcfcat will wipe out BoEash's chances for the lightweight crown.
 Dan NTorgan claims Fitzsimmous Is the best lightweight in tho game to- day. Of course Dan IS no modest violet when it comes to boosting his nvntprs but it must he admitted thnt F1tzsirnmons has a good record Tn fact. he has found difficulty In get ing opponents in his own class and has been force1 to take on welter- weights
 IT Bovash can put Fftzsimmons away he will be In linc for bouts with w1llis Jackson. Low Tender and Johnny Dundee. sam Drivers bower Is a trine slow but is strong Hs m OK and packs a powerful punch in either hand. FItzsimmcu Is the type who stands uu and n-hts and that is just what BuEash likes. So lt should prove fine bout Eo-ash Is train ing faithfully and will hC in prime condition whom the bcn rin-s. That is one good thing about Che local boy. He never dieapnoiuts his friends by lack of condition
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25

Demon from pillar to post for fif- teen rounds is a story that will be told as long as boxing endures.
 To call up the glorious fight past of Gotham is to sound pugdOm's roll of honor. The best men fought their best battles in New York. The in comparable cGovern---' Terrible Ter r,y''---whipped PedIar Palmer, Eng lands greatest bantam, in less than
 a round at TuckOhoe, IS miles from
 Broadway. A little while later Terry annexed his second title, the feather
 weight, by beating the celebrated
 Dixon of New York. Jim Corbett al-
 most won back his title from Jeff at Concy when he outpointed the big fellow for 9 rounds before running
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25

Steady and consistent play from the opening days of the season has stamped the Chicago club as the best balanced team in the American League. For a time the Yankees
 flashed to the front from late June until mid-July, but at no time during the leadership of the Huggins clan was there any indication that the Sox would be distanced. On July l the White SOx were 1-2 games behind i the league leaders and this was the widest gap that separated the Comis- key crowd from the top since the sea son opened last April. Seldom has a club held the lead for such a great part of the season as the Sox of 1919 ! have held their lead
 For less than 30 days of the cham l pionship campaign which began on i April g last, the White Sox have been l out of first place Gleason's team won ! five of it's first six games and led the l league at the close of the first week. l Throughout the entire month of May the advantage was maintained and
 after the Decoration Day games the Sox held a four game lead over Cleve- land in second place
 | The White Sox lead the American League in team batting and base run ming, and will compare favorably from l a fielding standpoint with any major i league club of years. In teamwork the club also shines, and there is no ldisputilg the fact that the SOx clearly | Outclassed the other American League pennant chasers in a season when four
 clubs made bids for the leadership af- ter the season was two months old
 The club which Gleason led past the lwire a winper yesterday differs but slightly in the regular lineup from the team which Rowland led home first
 two years ago The difference is on
 the left side of the infield Weaver
 played shgrtstOp in 1917 and NIcMullin
 held down third base. while Risbery
 was Q substitute. This year NIcNullin
 is the substitute infielder, Weaver is
 at third base and Risberg at short
 stop. This infield is as strong a com
 binatiOn as that of two seasons back
 The other regulars -Schalk. Gan
 dn. Eddie Collins, Jackson, FeIsch LleIbOld, and John Collins---are play
 ing the same positions as before Ci- cotte is still the star of the pitching force, but he has a new lieutenant Claude Williams, a southpaw, has succeeded to the place that Urban Faber held in 1917. Faber has had poor season and probably will not be seen in the worlds series Kerr. a newcomer in the majors tRis season,
 ranks next to Cicotte and Williams. I0f the pitchers with the club in 1917 Benz, Wolfgang, and Danforth are gone, and their places are now filled lby Bill James. Grover Lowdermilk and Erskine Mayer.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25

into the K. O. It was the greatest come back ever attempted by a for mer heavyweight title holder. Mccoy exhibited his matChless ring craft in his bouts with Sharkey, AIaher and Tommy Ryan in Knickerbocker's pre- CinCtS.
 And you could go on endlessly re- calling the famous ones who added to the lustre of New York's fistic fame John l.. Sullivan, Cans, Johnson, Frank Erne, Harry Forbes, Tommy West, Kid Carter. Dempsey, the Non pareil Willie Fitzgerald, Langford, Jeannette, Casper Leon, Matthews etc. More power to the International Club if it came within two shades of matching the undying glory of New YOrk's halcyon ring days!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
STEADY PLAY BY WHITE
 SOX GAVE THEM VICTORY
GleaSOn'S Men Made No SenSa-
 tiOnaI SpUrts But Always
 Kept In Touch With Leaders Lineup About Same as 1917.

Chicago, Sept. 25.---For the second time within the space of three years, and the fourth time in the 19 years of American League history, the pen nant in the junior major league goes to the Chicago White Sox. By their victory yesterday over the Browns at Chicago, 6 to 5, the peppery players led by Kid Gleason put themselves in a position where they may lose all the remaining games of the season, while the Cleveland Indians, leading con- tender for the championship, can win all their games without making any change in the relative position of the two clubs.
 The White Sox have four more games to play, one with the Browns and three with the Tigers. The In dians have one more game to play with the Tigers and two with the Browns If the White Sox lose all their remaining games and the In dians win their remaining three, the standinE at the end of the season would be:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
TWO GOLFERS EEAKG
 18th HOLE IN ONE

New York, Sept. 25-A gOIfnS miracle was accomplished ycster- day at the Forest Hills Field club in New Jersey. when George Stewart and Fred SleDpnyeI' halv- cd tIse 18th hole in one. Stewart tocd of first, hitting an iron shot for the hole 1I5 yards away, and watched his ball tr-icl1Ie into the hole. Then Sleppnyer stepped up and drove Of. His laH dropped upon tho green and after a short run clicked agai1Ist the back of the cup and fell tItO the hole for an "cagIe'' one.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
FRANKIE CONTFREY AND
 PETE HARTLEY DRAW

At the Pine Tree A. c. here last night Frankie Conifrey, the fighting fireman of New York, and Pete Hart ley of Derby boxed one of the fastest bouts ever seen in the State of Maine. In the first six rounds Conifrey had the edge while in the last six the Dane was on top. When the bell end ed hosti1ities both men were siugging tt out toe to toe.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25
YOUNG MCCARTHY IS
 LOOKING FOR BOUTS

Young Mccarthy arrived in Bridge port last night and is going to make it his home in the near future. Mo Carthy has fought some of the best boys in his weight, including Soldier Bartfeld, John Burt, Walter Mola and Harry Pierce. He weighs from 14o to 14k-