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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16

''Is there any scandal attached to that defeat?" was the next question.
 Why that is absurd" was the an- swer
 ''Is there any truth to the rumor now being circulated to the effect that the signal referred to called for Ne vile to carry the ball and Braden took it?'
 None whatever"
 Just why did Yale loser"
 Because of loose playing"
 Did you read Jim Braden's state ment to the effect that he might say a few interesting things relative to the setback and particularly to that much criticized play which lost a touchdown and possibly a. victory?"
 T did"
 Have you any comment to offer?"
 T prefer to say nothing"
 Are you trying to make Braden the goat to save another player?"
 ''Absurd!''
 'Ts it true that Braden has been given a raw deal. so to speak?''
 "Absurd!"
 'N1r. Sharpe, Yale had a wealth of football material this year that could have been rounded into a wonderful football machine, didn't she?" Yes" " ny WaSnt [ 1t called on to help?' Yale did have a good team, a won derful eleven, and should have won.' What have you to offer relative to ; the story published in 8 local paper to the effect that better men would be kept out of the Harvard game than would play?" Tt Is untrue- The story to the effect that you were playing favorites,' do you wish to deny that?" Most ernphatically"
 ''If this plan materiaIizes and Tad ] Jones is brought here, you will tender your resignation?' Yes
 You will not demand that your three-year contract be lived up to?"
 NO" 1 It seems to be the opinion of the ! undergraduates that an attempt is be- i ing made to~makA B Braden the goat i It Is q well known fact that Brsden is not as popular as he ought to te with 1 members of the team and those in i charge of the team. The fact that 1 Bra!den is an outspoken chap may ac- count for this. Braden has threatened to "open up"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16
BOXING SHOW
 HERE WAS BIB
 FROSTFO2 CLUB

A small crowd saw the boxing bouts at the Park theatre last night which were promoted by the Interna- tional 4. c. As Joe AIulvihiu brought 6 lot of boxers from Philade phia- not one of those on the card being known to Bridgeport fans, it was fore gone conclusion that the people would not pay money to see the bouts II was estimated that the show was con ducted at a loss of from 1000 to $1,- 500.
 As Bobby Doyle reported with a bandaged ear, he did not take part in the main bout with Bobby Leon ard. Instead, Jimmy Naples was sub stituted. The bout was scheduled to go 12 rounds, but Leonard was grad ually wearing Naples down and Ref cree Terry Lee stopped the affair in the middle of the 11th round For this action he was later criticized by Chairman Dick Howell and Alder man Al Burdick of the Boxing Com mission, who thought Naples should have been allowed to stick it out.
 Leo Stahl, middIeweight champion of the United States Navy, beat Frankie Britton. The latter became so weak from taking StahTs punches that his seconds threw up the sponge in the eighth round. In the first bout Walter Rennie and Joey Nelson, both of Phila deIphia, fought 12 rounds to a draw.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16
How Freak Ball Was
 Driven From League
Mcconnell, Former Yankee Pitcher Was Twirler Wko Qpeered Illegal Deliveries In American Association
 He Used File On Ball During Game

New York. Dec. 16.-Although the York broke up so hurriedly that President Johnson had no chance to take up the question of the spitbau with his colleagues, the National leaguers started to thresh this very matter out and had the conference of the other organization been a little more harmonious some real action in regard to the ultimate abolition of ali freak deIiveri might really have been started
 However, 1t required no protracted conferences or subtle schemes on the part of the managers in the Ameri- can Association to put the splitter, sinner and other abuses completely out of existence. It is a well known fact that in tho American Associa- tion the era of the spitbal finger has long since passed, and perhaps the best explanation of how this pest was finally gotten rid of is given by Joe Tinker, the old Chicago club star and now president of the Colunb us American Association team.
 The sPitbau pitcher has vanished from our midst said Tinker, and while his exile has been generally at tributed to the managerial confer ences, which made this sort of deItv- cry illegal, I believe that the real credit should be rendered to big George Mcconnell.
 You may remember big McCon- nell when he was with the New York Yankees, Mac was as tall as they make 'em in captivity about 6 feet 5 inche., In height-with a side arm splitter that had the opposition des- perate when Mac was working right It was wiIdness that finally drove him out of the American league, into the International and finally the Asso- citation. Well. he came to us, began to go along pretty well and was do- ing fairly efficient work, when one day he came to me and said, Say, Joe, I've got that spitbaH faded to death. How come?' asked him.
 Used the ''FfIe'' Ball.
 Say, I've got the hang of that old emery ball and I can make the old apple talk. Just give me a chance to go into the box today and I'll show the world something
 At that time the way they worked the emery ball was for the pitcher to have a big slab of sand paper or emery paper attached to his belt and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16
OREGON ELEVEN LIGHTER THAN
 HARVARD TEAM

Portland, Ore. Dec. I6.-AIthough many Fasteners have the fancy that all the great big giants come out of the broaI and open West, the University of Oregon football team will be outweighed and outdIstanced, in height at least, when it meets the Harvard eleven on New Years Day. Lochtnvar this time will come out of the East to enter the lists at the Pasadena Tournament Of Roses
 The Fisher machine will weigh 2o23 pounds against 1860 for the Oregonians. And if the two teams formed two human towers, the liar ward monument of brawn and mus cle would reach a height of 65 feet II inches, or two inches above the head of the top Oregon player
 But when it comes to age, the coastal battlers have the edge in fig ures. The Il Cambridge Fishermen total 238 years of life, and Coach Huntington's battalion has seen 257 years of Oregon weather. The West ern collegians are much older than their opponents from the Atlantic.
 Jack Desmond at 24 is the oldest man on the Harvard team; but the Westerners have three players who are as old as Jack; two who are one year older, and another who is 2s. Hollies Huntington, the Oregon full back, is the senior member of the holiday battle, and Keith Kane, the 19-year-old, Harvard tackle, Is the baby of the brawl.
 Duke Sedgwick, the Harvard left tackle, is six feet four inches tall and overtops any of the other players on the field by an inch. The shortest player, Vincent Jacobberger, is only five feet seven inches, but he weighs 170 pounds and plays a great game at halfback.
 Two hundred and twenty pounds of beef gives Hubby Clark, liar yards star guard, deciled advan tage m the line over any of the other players. The Iightest man is Lightning Eddie" Casey, who tips the scales at only 155 pounds.
 Harvard's eleven outweighs Oregon six pounds to the man, but it is the Crimson's great poundage from end to end that gives it the call on the enemy. From one extremity of the Crimson line to the other the Can tabrigans outweigh the Oregonians 10 pounds to the man. but when the heavy Harvard ends are taken out ot
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16

the umps seemed powerIess to do anything. But if Mcconnell had a new wrinkle was willing to try anything once. You go in there this after noon." I told him and you're going up against a tough bird. For Big Griner was scheduled to battle Co., lumbus that afternoon and Griner had been making the opposing hitters throw their bats away. If Mac could beat Griner it would be quite a feathc- CT in his cap.
 That afternoon, according to schedule, Mae goes into the box In one hand he carried a stx-inch rasp file with a sharp handle The mo ment the ball was tossed out to him by the umpire he grabs that file, saws away on one side of the ball, threw the file back of the box, where it stuck up in the dirt like 8 spear, then wound up and shot the ball toward the plate. The batsnan swung and the ball hit the dirt.
 Some More Rasping.
 ''The ball was sent back and Mac took up the file again and gave an other savage dig at the horsehids cover. He pitched again and the bat ter missed the ball a mile. Well, I don't want to go into particulars, but the first six men up struck out And perhaps the Columbus fans didn't go wild.
 All that afternoon the other team yelled murder and conferences with the umpire was numerous The game dragged on. but the other bunch were helpless. Mac allowed two scratch hits and when Griner, becoming dis coura ged, practically threw up his hands, the battle became a rout We simply murdered the opposition.
 ''The next day the call went out for the abolition of the emery ball, the splitter and everything like it
 ''I was willing, for it killed of some Of our toughest opponents. I guess every batter in the Association was tickled when the dirge of the freak delivery was sounded.
 But it was Mcconnell that settled My motto Is just go ahead and beat the other fellow at his own game If you feed up your opponents with the same kind Of stuff they're handing you, something is bound to break before long, I'll say, so like wise Griner- No more spitters or eraerys tn the Association"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16
PASADENA WILL
 GREET HAYWARD
 SQUAD WARMLY

los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 16.-rhe Tournament of Roses is to Southern California what the Mardi Gras is to New Orleans In fact, it is the only real celebration of any magnitude in this part of the State on that day. Every winter thousands of tourists come to California, and especially to the southern part of the State. It IS the aim of different cities to show them some kind of fiesta, while here and there all cooperate on the Tour nament of Roses. Every chamber Of commerce in Southern California contributes to the support of this celebration.
 The big attraction outside of the football game is a floral parade, the greatest and best of it's kind in the United States, and only rivalled by the great floral parade held at the carnival in Honolulu every February. The parade is 8 wonderful sight when one stops to consider the fact 1t is held in the middle of winter. The floral displays on the various floats and automobiles are really a wonder full sight and attract in the neighbor- hood of 250,O00 people of Pasadena every year.
 The parade starts at 10:3o a. m. and is over about 1880 D. m. After the parade comes the big football game, which starts promptly at 2:30 P. M. Out of that vast crowd there are only 30.OOO people who can see the game, as that is all the stadium here will seat. It Is a wooden struc- ture; the football field is covered with grass, which is just as green here all winter as the lawns in front of the beautiful homes in the East are in the summer.
 The weather is ideal and at no time any colder than the September weather around Boston. Pasadena is a beautiful spot, perhaps the most beautiful in the neighborhood of Los Angeles. The football field is the one on which the Chicago Cubs do their spring training. Up to this year there has been a diamond on the field, but in order to make more seats and bring the stands closer to the play ing field this has been covered over by the stands. From all over Cali fornia will come followers of the football game to see Harvard. There will be big delegations from San Francisco and other cities through out the State.
 Thousands of people will be turn ed away for this game. The ticket sale opens to the public Dec. 26, and it is an assured fact that the first day of the sale will see the whole stadium sold out.
 The prices are going to range from
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16

one dollar to five In past years the coming of the Eastern football eleven has created quite a sensation here, but nothing like the stir that has been started since the announce ment broke that Harvard was com ing.
 The East has not >fared very well in the games they have played here.
 Both Brown and Penn have suffer ed defeat. Some seem to think that they figured the trip to the coast just a vacation, but the eleven that is se- lected to uphold the honors of the West goes at it for all there is in it, and the conditions are no different this year.
 Oregon is tickIed at having been picked to meet Harvard. Populations cut no figure with the boys out here. They think they are as good as Harvard and are conf dent that they have an even chance to win. New Years Day it is going to be slashing game, but the con sensus of opinion is that Harvard will win. This Is not dope, as there is nobody in this part of the country who has seen Oregon in action. They have not played in this part of the 1 State this year.
 Pasadena will not be able to hold the crowd on New Years Day, and Harvard will not lack her supporters There will be many who will pull for Oregon, but not as many as if it l were a California college which Is meeting Harvard.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16

This coming week will undoubtedly tie up the leaders still closer if 1t is possible. Passaic encounters pretty tough opposition in Jersey City, Pat ersOn and AusOn1a, while Jersey City will have it's hands full in playing two games with Bridgeport and one with Ansonia, and as all the clubs have an eye on the first half honors the indications are that the best games of Inc season will be carded from now until the close of the half on Jan. 3, 1920.
 Newark, by reason of its inability to make satisfactory arrangements about the procuring of Q hall suita- bIe for league basketball in time to continue in the first half as well as make up the back games on it's schedule has been dropped for the time being, on Manager AIlison's as surauce that he will have perfected his plans before the beginning of the second half.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16
By ED. HUGHES.
Copyright, 1919. By The Wheeler
 Syndicate, Inc.)

Is Georges Carpenter the miracle man of the ring? Has he staged a genuine "come back"? Or was the Beckett slaughter an inadequate test of the French idols present day fighting ability? Only a clash with Jack Dempsey or some other first string heavyweight will provide the answers to these questions. But if Georges does subsequently prove, either at the expense of Dempsey or some other American boxer, that he has returned to pre- war fighting formidtbi1ity then we'll have to register him as the one and only Mircale Man of the Ring. His Queensberry exploits will never have been paraIleled by any man in the entire history of the roped arena.
 John L. Sullivan had been out of the ring about three years when he faced James J. Corbett at New Or leans. The mighty Boston Strong Boy, who had filled in his time dis sipating, failed utterly to come
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16

the count the leverage drops TO a five pound advantage.
 In the backfield, however. the liar yard quartet will be two and a half pounds lighter than the average Ore Eon back. Bill Steers, the Oregon quarterback, weighs 1S0 pounds and helps to bring the average above the Crimson quotation. This wizard, who is supposed to rival the famous Casey stands $ feet 2 inches and can punt pass, run and buck the line. as well as direct the team. In age Harvard averages 21 years and Oregon 23.
 And it is with the smashing weight of their backfield that the Western CTS expect to crush the Fisher in vaderg. Two of the backs, Bill Steers and JIolIies Huntington, played on the crack Oregon eleven that de- feated the University of penusylva- mia machine 14 to at the Pasade flower show three years ago. Steers is the f1ashy gentleman that Harvard will have to watch to prevent him from lea ding the WesterneIs to an other victory over the East.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16

SHARPE WILLING ID QUIT IF YALE WANTS JONES;
 COACH SAYS BRADEN DIS0BEyED SIGNAL ON FINAL DOWN IN HARVARD GAME TRYING ATTACK AT CENTER

should he be criticised much more relative to Yale's defeat. He undouGbt- edly knows just why Yale lost, and what he knows would make mighty good reading.
 Well, Jim,'' he was asked, "are you ready to tell a few interesting things?'"
 T have nothing to say---now.''
 Captain Callahan and ''F'ido'' Kemp ton attribute Yale's loss to fumbling. They have no comment to offer on Braden's threat to say "a few things"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16
YANKEES MAY GET
 DETROIT OUTFTELDER

The New York Americans are hoping 10 get a hard hitting out fielder in a trade with Detroit. If the deal by which Detroit is to trade Second Baseman Young to Washington for First Baseman Judge goes through, the Yankees will then offer to give Second Baseman Pratt to Detroit for either HeiIman or FIagstead. Both of these men are 300 hit ters and would strengthen the Yankees where they are weak. Detroit has Cobb, Beach and Shorten for the outfeId and could spare a man easily.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16
VALE WILL INCREASE
 BOWL SEATS IcI 1920

In order 10 proviGe room for the enormous crowd which is ex- Dectcd to attend the XaIe-HaF- yard football game next season t3fe seating capacity of the Bowl will be increased to 6S. soc. The Bowl held Gt 600 for the Prince ton contest last month. If West Point comes to New Haven next season. as the TaIe officials ex- poet. another. big crowd will be attracted 5o the Bowl. From New Faven comes a denial of the story that Capt. Callahan or any rep resentaHve of Yale will go to Seattle during the holidays to - confer with Tad Jones.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16
BOWLING MATCH ATk. OF C. CLUB
 WON DYuEEDLES

Nolan's Needles victory over Don nelly's Diggers in the K of c. Bowl ing league last night brought the for mer up to within one game of the lead. J. Davey was high man for the Needles, with 292, and Garrity, for the Diggers, with 259. The league season will be brought to a close this evening when Nolen's Needles and Broderick's Beauties clash,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16
JIM THORPE KICKED
 55 YARD FIELD GOAL

Jim Thorpe seems 10 grow more wonderful as a football player as the days pass. On a recent Sunday, in a professional game out in Ohio, the mighty Indian kicked a fifty-yard field goal The Canton team found itself matched by an eleven number ing among it's players Cutey Spears the Dartmouth coach; Nash of Rut- gers Peck of Pittsburg, Sutherland of Pittsburg, NIcCIaren of the same college and others. Canton was hard pressed, so in the third period, with a strong wind at his back, Thorpe stepped back and sent the Ieath CT over the bar from fifty-two yeards away.
 J. T. Haxau of Princeton kicked a sixty-five yard field goal against Yale in 1882; J. P. Davidson of Dicken- son scored from the fifty-eight yard mark against Rittsburg in 1905, but those are the only place kicks re- corded in the 1919 football guide that surpass Thorpe's effort.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16
Nolan's Needles,
OAl f5O OI I6-I Z DOuueIly's DfSgers.
465 sos 45s-14S1

For Monday night, Dec. 22, The Sportsmen's Club has arranged one of the greatest cards ever planned. The card is as follows: Jack Sharkey vs. Champion Pete Herman; Joe Lynch vs. Joey Fox; Pinky Mitchell vs. Eddie Fitzsimmons; Joe Benjamin vs.- Mickey DonIey; Frank Moran vs. Martin Burke; Slim Brennan will referee.
 Jack Sharkey is the youngster who received the popular newspaper de- cision over Jimmy Wilde, English champion. Pete Herman will sure ly have his hands full when he tackles Jack and he'll be lucky if he secures a win.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-16

Schedule for Week. uesday-J ersey City at Bridge port.
 nesday-Jersey City at Passaic. Thursday-B Bridgeport at Jersey City. Thursday-P at Paterson. Sa5urday-Passaic at Ansonia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-10
Billy Bunny and His Friends

came TO the cave so the Friendly
Brown Bear said. You wait outside
while go in and get my broom. and
after I've swept it out clean and nice
you can come In and eat honey
lollypop-that is. II that ugly old bea'
hasn't eaten them all up. when l was
asleep in the hollow stump"
Well. pretty soon the cave was clean
so the little rabbit hoped inside and
the Friendly Brown Bear went to the
closet, and-vasn't it nice ?-foond
some honey lollypops and peppermint,
candy. So they both had q feast, and
after that the little rabbit said goodoy
and hoped away. and after a while
not so very far. he saw an old friend
If his. Mr.. Reindeer.
"Helloa there little rabbit. Do you
know what happened to me-" Well OF
course, Billy Bunny didn't know. SO ne
didn't say anything. And pretty soon
Mr.. Reindeer said: :.
"On Christmas eve hurt my hoof
AS I was prancing upon the roof
OF a little white house not far from
here.
So ! had to leave the other reindeer
Tn very sorry,' said Billy Bunny,
| "Maybe can heal it." so he opened his
knapsack and took out some lettuce
cold cream and rubbed 1t on the rein
deers hoof. and after that it felt ever
/ so much better"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-10
HAVE We LEARNED OUR LESSON

Uncle Charley had a big razor that
and Butcher" One side Of the big
blade was devoted to making il clear
! that this razor was made in Sheffield,
England, by Wade and Butcher. Every
| body accepted that make OF razor as
| the best in the world-and at that time
! it probably was the best that the aver
age man could procure at the stores.
| But say, fellow, there's a dozen brands
OF American razors now that have any
imported human skinning knife backed
off the strop Americans razors are the
| best on earth.
Then a few yeas ago when old
fellows like you and me began TO look
about for a cracking good shotgun
about all any one had to say was this
is an imported gun. English. German
or Belgian" Greener guns and Lam
caster guns and Wesley Richards and
Purdeys and others sold as high as
! $500 or $1,000. because they were Eng
| lish. They were good guns TOO. And
then arrived Smith and Parker and
| both Of them made an American shot
! gun that could be bought around $50
and that no Purdey az $500 or Greener
| or Lancaster had anything over for
balance or pattern or penetration.
We always could make things as
good or better than any other nations.
The only reason we didn't was that we
wouldn't buy them. We imagined that
| an imported" this or an imported"
that must be better than ours. We
| imagined even that our race horses
| were scrubs until Pierre Lorillard used
some Of his tobacco money to breed
and race horse with and took old 1ri-
ouois over to England and glommed
the English derby against the best in
the world.
The sportsmen found IT out first.
| Probably because they were sportsrnen
and ready to take a chance. We can
do anything that can be done any
where, do it as we'll and better and do
It cheaper in the long run.
We have Just been finding that out
as people It required a war and the
hate that comes with war to teach US
that we can make and buy at home
| everything that can be made and sold
anywhere on earth.
We have begun to learn that Amer
leans can teach as we'll as any nation.
| We used TO send the budding specialist
| to Vienna to be finished, the embryonic
| engineer to Germany, the hidden liter
| airy genius to Oxford.
| 1t all became poppycock hong ago
| but We refused TO know it. We wanted
to send 'em across. We wanted to buy
imported goods" We thought It dis