The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06
TIPS AND RAPS
 ON LIVE SPORTS

rE' OLEDO has finally and officially
 secured the championship match. All of which bears out state ments to the effect made in this col umn as far back as the first week in April Toledo is easly reached both from Chicago and New York, being an s hour ride from New York and six hours from the Windy City. Then,
 too, it is two and a half hours from Detroit; three hours from Cleveland; five hours from Cincinnati; six hours from Indianapolis; ten hours from Milwaukee; twelve hours from St. Louis; eighteen hours from Kan sas City, and IS hours from Minnea- polls and St. Paul.
 The popula ton of Toledo today, according to figures furnished by the
 Chamber of Commerce there ex- ceeds 100000 It is the most pro-
 gressive community in the Middle west.
 F OE TERRY LEE has at last
 G struck it rich. He is in charge
 of the concessions at the Newark
 ball park and according to all re-
 ports he is making a cleanup. And
 we wish Terry all the luck in the
 world, but no one deserves to make
 IilOIi6y IICIe IIIdu JO6 Joe Has
 thousands of friends in Newark and well liked there.
 Reports in hand today state that
 Joe's biggest day thus far was last
 Sunday when the old Federal League park at Harrison was literally jam med with humanity. Joe will also hold the concessions at the big box ing shows that will be conducted in Newark.
 D ATTLING LEFINSKY has gone.
 ES While he has made up his mind to return to the city of his birth his departure was far from an agreeable
 one for Bat. Before going he admit ted that it is going to be tough for I have learned to love everybody in
 Bridgeport. Maybe some day I will return. Who knows?''
 Levinsby made the trip to PhiIa- delphia today in his high powered Hudson automobile and will reach the Quaker city probably at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Tomorrow night
 Barney will take part in a big boxing benefit at one of the army base hos pitals in New York. Later in the summer he and Danny Morgan, his manager. will leave for France for an extended stay there.
 Within three weeks Levinsky will open a gymnasium in Philadelphia. ! Bat has many friends in Philadelphia and a venture of this kind should prove a good investment There are surely 60 or so boxers in Philadelphia and these have only Philadelphia | Jack O'Briens place at which to train. However, this gym is far from popular with the boys and Barney's
 entry into the field would win him over many first class performers | Walter Cox is moving his horses ! miles in from 2:30 to 2:25. which 1 seems slow as compared with what i the trainers down South are doing | The Dover trainer will be ready, | however, when the bell rings up the 1 opener the first week in July at | Cleveland.
 1 The move for dash races at the l Grand Circuit meetings has run into 1 a snag. The rules provide that races | for distances over a half and less 1 than a mile are irregular. As the i object of these dashes was to provide | a means of livelihood for horses that could not win at a mile. they will ! have to be abandoned until the rules
 are changed Team races offer an alternative proposition.
 The uncertainty that existed for | Poughkeepsie seems not 10 have hurt
 which closed yesterday, and Syra- | 4l